Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Edward Umphenour
Dec 9, 2012
Edward Lee Umphenour, age 90, of Pleasanton, Kansas, passed away on Sunday December 9, 2012 at Prescott Country View. He was born on July 27, 1922 at Pleasanton, the son of Walter and Anna Belle Ralph Umphenour. He was a Pleasanton High School Class of 1941 graduate. He married Katherine Dunavan on Dec. 24, 1942 near his parent''s hill top...
Melvin Tuyl
Nov 30, 2012
The angels welcomed Dennis home to be with his Lord on November 30, 2012 after a long, brave battle with cancer. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa on January 29, 1953 to Melvin Dean and Arlene Johnston Van Tuyl. He moved with his parents to Kansas City, Missouri in 1955. In 1960, he moved to Shawnee Mission. He attended...
Donald Crooks
Nov 27, 2012
Donald Harold Crooks, age 83 of Mound City, Kansas died Tuesday November 27, 2012 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home at Prescott, Kansas. He was born on August 19, 1929 at Kansas City, Missouri the son of Harold and Beulah Hodge Crooks. He married Lennie Hill on February 21, 1952 at Shawnee, Kansas. Donald worked as a farmer, a...
Donald Crooks
Nov 27, 2012
Donald Harold Crooks, age 83 of Mound City, Kansas died Tuesday November 27, 2012 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home at Prescott, Kansas. He was born on August 19, 1929 at Kansas City, Missouri the son of Harold and Beulah Hodge Crooks. He married Lennie Hill on February 21, 1952 at Shawnee, Kansas. Donald worked as a farmer, a...
Ione Potter
Nov 26, 2012
Ione H George Potter, 91, Linn County resident passed away on November 26, 2012 at St Luke''s South in Overland Park, KS. She was born on March 9, 1921 to Frederick and Lutie McNutt Hanson at Semans Saskatchewan, Canada . She graduated from Osage City High School, received her Bachelor''s Degree from Pittsburg State Teacher''s College and Masters from Kansas...
James Daniel
Nov 25, 2012
James Leroy Daniel, Mound City, Kansas passed away Sunday, November 25, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born on March 13, 1941 at Mound City, Kansas the son of James and Alta Wakefield Daniel. He graduated from Pleasanton High School Class of 1959. He served his country in the United States Navy. Leroy worked for Kansas City Power...
Mary Laudan
Nov 24, 2012
Mary Virginia Laudan, age 84, a former Linn County resident, passed away Saturday November 24, 2012 at the Presbyterian Manor in Kansas City, Kansas. She was born February 21, 1928 at Sioux City, Iowa the daughter of John Curtis and Bessie May Huffman Walters. She worked at nursing homes providing housekeeping and care. She was preceded in death a son...
Austin Studdard
Nov 22, 2012
Austin Daniel Richard Studdard passed away Thursday November 22, 2012 at the Miami County Medical Center. He was born on May 18, 1927 near Mountain Home, Arkansas the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Otten Studdard. He served his country in the Army Air Corp from 1946-1947. He was proud to have served his country. He attended Assembly of God Churches....
Wanda Wier
Nov 21, 2012
Wanda Pauline Merriman Wier, age 91of LaCygne, Kansas passed away on Wednesday November 21, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born North of Mound City in the Linnville Community, October 14th, 1921 to Dirse Hazel and Dollie May (Stokes) Merriman, she was the fifth child of seven children. She married Clarence Atwell Wier, December 22nd, 1939. She is...
Charles Reynolds
Nov 21, 2012
Charles Timothy "Tim" Reynolds, age 68, Fort Scott, Kansas, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Wednesday November 21, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. Tim was born March 21, 1944 at Camp Wheeler in Macon, Georgia the son of Charles Russell and Georgia Grace Perkins Reynolds. He graduated from DeSoto, Kansas High School and attended Fort Scott Community College on...
Edith Wade
Nov 12, 2012
Edith P. Wade, age 90, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Monday November 12, 2012. She was born on January 18, 1923 at La Cygne, Kansas the daughter of Frank B. and Mattie H. Dum Rogers. She graduated from La Cygne High School. She married Paul Wade on October 4, 1941. He preceded her in death on April 4, 2011....
Ethel Courtois
Nov 11, 2012
Mildred Courtois, 91, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Sunday, November 11, 2012 at the Bates County Memorial Hospital, Butler, Missouri. She was born January 26, 1921 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the daughter of W. Mack and Ethel Cleda Cross Holmes. She married William Courtois on December 25, 1938. He preceded her in death on August 10, 1979. Mildred worked for the Levy''s...
Melvin Umphenour
Nov 9, 2012
Melvin Walter Umphenour died at his home in Cerritos, California on November 9, 2012. He was born to Walter and AnnaBelle Ralph Umphenour on June 3, 1925 at their home in Pleasanton, Kansas. He graduated from Pleasanton High School and attended Fort Scott JUCO for one year. Then, he entered the Army in 1944, serving in the 242nd Infantry as...
Linda Pieratt-Dinardo
Nov 8, 2012
Linda Pieratt Di Nardo passed away Thursday, November 8th , 2012 at her home in Bedford, Texas. She was born on June 17, 1953 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Shirley W. Ellis and the Late Harley H. Pieratt. To quote Linda, she was the oldest and the greatest granddaughter of the late John and Ruby Wilkerson and the...
Helen Birch
Nov 6, 2012
Helen Beatrice Birch, age 90, formerly of LaCygne, Kansas passed away on Tuesday November 6, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born at Rosedale, Kansas on August 26, 1922 the daughter of Fred and Beatrice Mae Briscoe Hilsenbeck. She was active in the LaCygne Senior Citizen Center and the Congregate Meals Program. She was preceded in death by...
Ella Mayhugh
Nov 5, 2012
Josephine Mayhugh, age 103 of Prescott, Kansas died Monday November 5, 2012 at the Prescott, Country View Nursing Home. She was born on August 29, 1909 at Merced, California the daughter of James and Cora Hopkins Walrod. Josephine married Artie Mayhugh on October 19, 1927; he preceded her in death in July of 1976. She worked as a homemaker raising...
Dixie Marshall
Nov 2, 2012
Dixie Lee Marshall, age 73, Independence, Missouri passed away on Friday November 2, 2012 at Truman Medical Center Lakewood. She was born on February 14, 1939 at Bensenville, Illinois the daughter of Owen and Kathelyna Lonzo Sawyer. She married Gary Marshall on July 20, 1974 at Independence, Missouri. She worked as an executive secretary for Foster Porter Insurance and Hammond...
Shirley Stanbrough
Nov 1, 2012
Shirley Lou Stanbrough, age 68 of Kansas City, Missouri died Thursday November 1, 2012 at Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee''s Summit, Missouri. She was born on February 8, 1944 at Mound City, Kansas the daughter of Elwood and Armintha Towle Stanbrough. Shirley graduated from Kansas State College of Pittsburg in Pittsburg, Kansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education....
Patrick Faulkner
Oct 26, 2012
Patrick "Pat" Faulkner, age 46, of Mound City, Kansas passed away Friday October 26, 2012. He was born on December 21, 1965 in Orange County, California the son of Bobby Lee and Velva Mavis Halbach Faulkner. Pat graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School in 1984. He was a talented athlete, participating in football, track and baseball. He designed basements for...
Billy Hurt
Oct 23, 2012
Billy Witter Hurt age 81, of the New Lancaster area died Tuesday October 23, 2012 at his home. He was born on May 4, 1931 in Miami County, Kansas the son of Thomas and Ada Witter Hurt. He married Lois Evelyn Price on July 30, 1950; she preceded him in death on December 9, 1994. Billy worked his whole life...
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