Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
David Yates
May 22, 2013
David Lee Yates, age 66, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Wednesday May 22, 2013. He was born at Tullohoma, Tennessee the son of John and Murriell Walter Yates. The family moved to Kansas when David was six months old. He graduated from Greeley High School in the Class of 1965. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Miller...
Devon Morris
May 20, 2013
Devon Michell Morris, age 20, LaCygne, Kansas passed away on Monday May 20, 2013 as the result of an ATV accident. She was born on December 8, 1992 at Olathe, Kansas the daughter of Daniel and Donna Lanzrath Morris. She graduated from Prairie View High School Class of 2011. She enjoyed playing basketball while in high school. She was currently...
Marjorie Frank
May 17, 2013
Marjorie Nadine Frank, age 81, LaCygne, Kansas passed away on Friday May 17, 2013 at North Point Skilled Nursing. She was born on November 13, 1931 at Boicourt, Kansas the daughter of Harland Burdett and Audrey Frances White McGinnis. She graduated from LaCygne High School in 1949. She married Leonard Frank in September of 1951. He preceded her in death...
Gary Frye
May 17, 2013
Gary Landon Frye, age 48 of Nevada, Missouri died Friday May 17, 2013 at his home. He was born on July 28, 1964 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Gary and Nancy Riley Frye. Gary had worked at the Nevada State Hospital in Nevada. He enjoyed watching the Kansas City, Chiefs, riding four wheelers, Cooking and Golfing. He was...
Berniece Johnson
May 9, 2013
Berniece Johnson, 91, of Chanute, KS, passed away Thursday, May 9, 2013. She was born on December 9, 1921 in Altoona, Kansas the daughter of Walter Bradford and Marie Wiltse . Berniece received her cosmetology license from Independence Cosmetology School. She married Mark H. Johnson on May 9, 1942 in Independence, KS She owned and operated her own beauty shop...
Diana Bush
May 8, 2013
Diana Sue Bush, age 62, Mound City, Kansas passed away Wednesday May 8, 2013 as the result of a motor vehicle accident. She was born on August 28, 1950 at Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Edward and Ruby Farris Bush. She was a member of the Mound City First Baptist Church, enjoyed reading and sewing. Her greatest love was spending...
Elizabeth Gilkison
Apr 30, 2013
Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Gilkison, 97, a resident of rural Centerville, Kan., died Tuesday morning, April 30, 2013 at Country View Nursing Home in Prescott, Kan. Betty was born Feb. 4, 1916 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph Leo and Marie O'Connell Bartley. She was a student at St. Ursula Academy through elementary and high school...
Thomas Robinson
Apr 29, 2013
T.V. Robinson, age 87, Pleasanton, Kansas formerly of Nevada, Missouri died Monday April 29, 2013. He was born on May 22, 1925 at Nevada, Missouri the son of Allen and Hazel Stauffer Robinson. He worked as a pipefitter and was a home builder. He was married to Colleen Sweet. She preceded him in death in 2003. Also preceding him was...
Lee Callahan
Apr 21, 2013
Lee Callahan, age 81, long time resident of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Sunday April 21, 2013. He was born in Deepwater, Missouri on September 19, 1931the son of Marion and Vianna E. Wallace Callahan. He married Mary Ann Chadwick on August 24, 1951 at Great Bend, Kansas. To this union six children were born. Lee started his working career...
Norbert Rupprecht
Apr 18, 2013
Norbert Kurt "Norb" Rupprecht, age 65, Fort Scott, Kansas passed away on Thursday April 18, 2013. He was born on April 29, 1947 in Hamburg, Germany the son of Kurt George and Rita H. Meltzian Rupprecht. He was a United States Marine Corp Veteran. He married Schery Walrod on July 8, 1977 in, Fort Scott, Kansas. Norb had worked as...
Myra Gunn
Apr 18, 2013
Myra Edith Gunn, age 90, died Thursday April 18, 2013 at the Willow Lane Nursing home in Butler, Missouri. She was born on November 27, 1922 at Lamar, Missouri. She married Robert Lee Miller to this union four children were born, she then married Frank Gunn he preceded her in death. She owned and operated the Tip Toe Café and...
Jimmy Fleming
Apr 17, 2013
Jimmy Ray Fleming, age 70 of La Cygne, died April 17, 2013 at the Life Care Nursing Home in Osawatomie. Jim was born 3 ½ miles east of Amoret , MO on July 20, 1942 the sixth child of Earl and Nellie Bishop Fleming. He grew up around Amoret and the Bates County area. Jim worked for Tom Daniels and...
Charles Stark
Apr 17, 2013
Charles Benjamin "Benny" Stark, age 80, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Wednesday April 17, 2013. He was born on October 14, 1932 at Boicourt, Kansas the son of William and Edna Sherman Stark. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War on the submarine, USS Cusk. He married Avalee Purvis on April 20, 1954. She preceded...
Gary Coffman Jr.
Apr 7, 2013
Gary Francis Coffman Jr. "Chip", age 51, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Sunday April 7, 2013. He was born on January 15, 1962 at Steubenville, Ohio the son of Gary Francis Coffman and Mary Beth Grigsby Coffman. He graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School in the Class of 1980. He attended Fort Scott Community College where he earned an Associate's Degree....
Dorothy Debrick
Apr 6, 2013
Dorothy Grace Debrick peacefully ascended to heaven on April 6, 2013 at Delmar Gardens of Overland Park. She was born August 4, 1918, the oldest child of Carl and Irene Westphal. She was reunited with her husband Roy E. Debrick, two brothers Henry and Cliff Westphal, three sisters, Anne Ducate, Florence Henderson and Betty Delisa . She leaves behind a...
Loretta Mason
Apr 4, 2013
Loretta Mae Mason was born September 7, 1924 in Mulberry, Kansas to Samuel George Schilling and Aleeta Ollie Harper Schilling. She passed away, April 4, 2013 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home. She was preceded in death by her parents and her son Sammy Carl Brooks, and two sisters; Ethel Frankum and Shirley Jean Cortner. Loretta is survived by...
Bettie Kennedy
Mar 31, 2013
Bettie Jo Kennedy, age 85, of Adrian, Missouri, formerly of LaCygne, Kansas passed away on Sunday March 31, 2013. She was born on November 25, 1927 at Springer, New Mexico the daughter of Joel and Ora Clanton Tilton. She married Kenneth Kennedy on September 13, 1946. He preceded her in death on January 25, 1995. Bettie worked as a homemaker,...
Allen Tribby
Mar 24, 2013
Allen Tribby, 93, La Cygne, passed away Sunday, March 24, 2013, in his home. Allen was born June 14, 1919, in Lisle, MO. He was the first of five children of Albert and Wilma Stoker Tribby. He was baptized into Christ in 1939, in the old original Christian Church in La Cygne along with eight other young people from the...
Morgan Johnson
Mar 24, 2013
Morgan Dean Johnson, age 52, Pleasanton, Kansas died Sunday March 24, 2013. He was born on October 6, 1960 at Ft. Scott, Kansas the son of John and Carol Weems Johnson. He graduated in the Class of 1979 from Pleasanton High School where he excelled as a talented athlete. Morgan had worked in auto sales for many years. He was...
Gordon Haggard
Mar 22, 2013
Gordon Richard Haggard, age 84, of Linn Valley, Kansas died Friday March 22, 2013 at the Hoeger House in Olathe, Kansas. He was born on April 13, 1928 at Kansas City, Kansas the son of Harwood and Elizabeth Hill Haggard. Gordon was a veteran serving his country with the United States Army during WWII. He married Virginia Dillman on June...
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