Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Ernest Cox
Sep 27, 2015
Ernest LaVern Cox, age 90, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Sunday, September 27, 2015. He was born at La Cygne, Kansas on March 26, 1925 the son of Byron and Mabel Crisler Cox. He graduated from Parker High School . He served his country during World War II in the United States Navy. He married Dorothy Dunlop on May...
Melvin Lounsbury
Sep 27, 2015
Melvin R. Lounsbury, age 86, Independence, Missouri passed away Sunday, September 27, 2015. He was born at Prescott, Kansas on August 22, 1929 the son of Ray and Marie Ellen Holmes Lounsbury. He graduated from Hume High School. He served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was married to Sarah Mae Arnold. She preceded...
Hazel Wills
Sep 17, 2015
Hazel Fern Wills, age 91, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at the Olathe Good Samaritan. She was born on September 12, 1924 in Worland, Missouri the daughter of Joseph and Stella Phalen Leonard. She grew up in and around Worland and was a member of the Worland Baptist Church. She graduated from Hume High School. Hazel...
Larry Lane
Sep 16, 2015
Larry E. Lane, age 71, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. He was born on March 4, 1944 at Duke, Missouri the son of Claude Ewing and Juanita Blanche Jones Lane. He held many positions during his working career, including time at on base at Ft. Leonardwood as a cab driver, Mound City Vault Co., security guard...
James Mitchell
Sep 6, 2015
James Edgar Mitchell, age 65, Amoret, Missouri passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2015. He was born on September 15, 1949 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of William E. and Leona M. Thomas Mitchell. He worked in the construction industry, as a truck driver, and finally as a security guard. He was a member of the Pleasanton First Baptist...
Dorothy Spillman
Sep 5, 2015
Dorothy J. Spillman, age 93, formerly of Blue Mound, Kansas passed away on Saturday, September 5, 2015 at the Life Care Center in Osawatomie, Kansas. She was born on June 29, 1922 at Bronson, Kansas the daughter of William and Alma Ida Tinsley Johnson. She married Roy Vernon Spillman on August 24, 1938 at Iola, Kansas. He preceded her in...
Nancy Vail
Sep 5, 2015
Nancy Ann Vail, 82, of Amoret, Missouri, passed away on Saturday, September 5, 2015 at Bates County Memorial Hospital. Nancy was born March 31, 1933 in Amoret, Missouri to James Ray and Edna Beatrice (Jacobs) Wisdom. She graduated from Hume High School with the Class of 1951. On April 5, 1954 she married Herschel Leon Vail. Together they raised nine...
Jacqueline Norris
Aug 28, 2015
The loving hand of God has gently cradled our Jackie and taken her to prepare for our glorious reunion in heaven. Jacqueline Sue "Jackie" Harris Norris, age 64, Branson, Missouri and Blue Mound, Linn County, Kansas passed away on Friday, August 28, 2015 at her Branson home due to cancer. She was born on November 2, 1950 at the family...
Delmer Ferguson
Aug 23, 2015
Delmer Herman "Fergy" Ferguson, age 98, passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at his home near La Cygne,Kansas. He was born in Warsaw, Missouri on December 13, 1916. Delmer was the oldest of four children born to Clyde Ferguson and Mildred Cobb. He moved with his parents to Kansas City, Kansas in 1923 and graduated from Argentine High School...
Sherry Conner
Aug 22, 2015
Sherry Sue Conner, age 44, Prescott, Kansas passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2015 at her home. She was born on April 2, 1971 at Kansas City, Kansas the daughter of David and Peggy Ann Kieffer Walters. She attended grade school in Baldwin, Kansas and graduated from Olathe North High School. She married Bryan Conner on August 29, 1998 at...
Carol Boyer
Aug 21, 2015
Carol A. Boyer, age 87, Baldwin, Kansas passed away on Friday, August 21, 2015. She was born on November 2, 1927 at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin the daughter of Paul and Mabel Stoughtenberg Alm. During her working career, she was employed as a bookkeeper in several different businesses. Carol was very active in the Lion's Club, Methodist Church and Hope House....
Sandra Wisdom
Aug 14, 2015
Sandra "Sandy" Fern Wisdom, age 66, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Friday, August 14, 2015 at the Olathe Hospice House. She was born on July 26, 1949 at Lebanon, Missouri the daughter of Hobart and Delia Presley Moore. She worked in nursing homes and home health as a CNA, CMA, and Rehab Aid. She enjoyed putting puzzles together, board...
Phyllis Porter
Aug 13, 2015
Phyllis Dianne Porter, age 67, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2015. She was born on January 22, 1948 at Kansas City, Missouri the daughter of Herchel and Nina Miller King. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Jesse Marie. She is survived by her husband, Don Porter, five daughters: Maria Robinson Vasser,...
Marsha Daves
Aug 10, 2015
Marsha Aileen McGee Daves, age 61, formerly of Linn County, Kansas passed away Monday, August 10, 2015 at her daughter''s home in Frederick, Maryland. She was born on May 30, 1954 at Garnett, Kansas the daughter of Earnest and LaVerne Lamb McGee. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. She then attended Northeastern Oklahoma College. She earned a Bachelor''s Degree...
Lois Carney
Aug 9, 2015
Lois Ann Carney, age 59, Pleasanton, Kansas, formerly of Mound City, Kansas passed away Sunday, August 9, 2015 at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. She was born at Paola, Kansas on January 13, 1956 the daughter of Alva "Shorty" and Marilyn Frank Poole. She graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School in the Class of 1974. She then attended Fort Scott Community...
Nora Wright
Aug 6, 2015
Nora Lee Wright, 77, of Bonner Springs, KS, formerly of Hume, MO, died on Thursday, August 6, 2015. Nora Lee was born July 15, 1938 in Hume, MO to Elmer Lee and Eula (Adams) Wright. She is survived by her sister, Freda Reynolds, of Bonner Springs, KS. Visitation will be Wednesday, August 12, 2015 from 10:00 - 11:00 am at...
Lois Johnston
Aug 4, 2015
Lois "Jean" Johnston, age 86, formerly of Amsterdam, Missouri passed away on Tuesday, August 4, 2015. She was born near Butler, Missouri the daughter of Homer and Agnes McElwain Dixon. She attended school in Amoret, Missouri where she enjoyed playing basketball. She married Clifford LeVaun Johnston on April 3, 1945. He preceded her in death on June 9, 2003. Jean...
Owen Dunavan
Aug 3, 2015
Owen Stites Dunavan, age 88, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Monday, August 3, 2015. He was born on September 20, 1926 at Mound City, Kansas the son of Wilbur and Zelda Stites Dunavan. He graduated from Mound City High School where he was involved in the Livestock Judging Team. He married Julia, "Judy" Murray on November 21, 1944. She...
Edna Lanham
Jul 25, 2015
Edna Grace Lanham, age 92, of the Wall Street Community near Mound City, Kansas passed away on Saturday, July 25, 2015 at the Good Samaritan in Olathe, Kansas. She was born near Mound City on December 27, 1922 the daughter of Thomas Walter and Edna Grace Shaw McGee. Her mother died when she was young. Her father remarried Mary Elizabeth...
Robert Cooper
Jul 13, 2015
Robert (Bob) Cooper died in Chapel Hill, NC after a long illness on July 13 2015 at age 84. Born in Kansas City MO in 1931, the son of Harry and Agnes Bickford Cooper. He moved to Raleigh where his father served as chairman of the music department at Meredith College. He received his BA from Harvard in 1952 and...
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