Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas

Ruby Baker

Mar 18, 2012

Ruby LaVaughn Baker, 98, of Mound City, Kansas, died Sunday, March 18, 2012 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born November 26, 1913 in Parker, Kansas, the daughter of Thomas and Lillie Olive McCarty Cockran. Ruby was a 1933 graduate of Parker High School. She worked for Southwestern Bell in Parker for 7 years. She married Earl...

William Basore

Mar 17, 2012

William Ray, Bill, Basore, age 70 of Miami, Oklahoma formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday March 17, 2012. He was born on January 6, 1942 at Rich Hill, Missouri the son of Claude and Doris Lacy Basore. He graduated from Pleasanton High School. Bill was employed as a truck driver and was a member of the Elks Lodge in Miami....

Evelyn Dale

Mar 17, 2012

Evelyn Marie Dale, 70, of Hume, Missouri died Saturday, March 17, 2012 at her home. She was born July 30, 1941 at St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Forest and Verna Webb McCormick. She graduated from Fulton High School in 1959. On February 28, 1959, she married Lennie Dale and they just celebrated 53 years of marriage. She was a...

Charles Bell

Mar 16, 2012

Charles R. Bell, age 93, Pleasanton, Kansas died Friday March 16, 2012. He was born on November 8, 1918 at Pleasanton the son of Ed and Alice Shadley Bell. He was an Army Veteran of WW II. He married Pauline Hoyt on August 10, 1946 at Fort Scott, Kansas. Together, they ran a dairy operation and raised other livestock. She...

Edith Mcmillan

Mar 14, 2012

Edith Louise McMillan, 86, of Pleasanton, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at Prescott Countryveiw Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born November 20, 1925 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the daughter of William J. and Rubie Bruce Saunders. Edith worked as a teacher in rural western Kansas schools and was a substitute teacher in Tripoli, Libya, when they lived there....

Edith Mcmillan

Mar 14, 2012

Visitation Details

Thursday, March 15th, 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Schneider Funeral Home & Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel

Service Information

Friday, March 16th, 2012 11:00am, Schneider Funeral Home & Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel

Interment Details

Pleasanton Cemetery

Holden Sommer

Mar 11, 2012

Holden Ryan Sommer infant son of Brandon Louis and Haley Renee Morris Sommer came into this life on Sunday March 11, 2012. He blessed his family with his presence for a short time and left them the same day. He was also welcomed by his sister and brother, Blaire LeAnn and Blaine Lucas, maternal grandparents; Steve Morris and Ernie and...

Leo Brownback

Mar 11, 2012

Leo Brownback, son of William H. and Josie Browning Brownback was born June 21, 1914 near Centerville, Kansas. Leo grew up on the family farm southwest of Centerville, helping his loved ones with the many joys of farming. He attended the Oakwood Country School as a young man and enjoyed learning the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. He would...

Reba Weller

Mar 9, 2012

Rebecca (Reba) Florence Weller, 97, passed away Friday morning, March 9, 2012, after a brief illness at the Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, KS. She was born December 10, 1914, in western Bates County, MO, the daughter of Charles and Mila May Blair Keller. Her mother, Mila, died of pneumonia when Reba was only 4 months old. She was raised...

Roxanne Cox

Mar 7, 2012

Roxanne Marie Cox, 56, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born October 23, 1955 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of James D. Walrod Jr. and Rose Marie Carvo Walrod. She was employed as a claims adjuster for Cigna Insurance. Roxanne married Dave Cox on August 4, 1975 at...

Marjorie Wills

Mar 5, 2012

Marjorie Ellen Moody Wills -Passed away in her home in Mound City, KS on March 5, 2012, after a 3 year battle with Congestive Heart Failure and Kidney Failure. Her daughter, Paula and her good friends Christy and Tammy were by her side providing love and comfort at the end of her time with us. Marg was born in Pleasanton,...

Marcella Carlson

Mar 3, 2012

Marcella Mary "Marcy" Carlson, age 87, passed away peacefully on March 3, 2012 twenty days before her 88th birthday. She was born on March 23, 1924 at St. Rosa, Minnesota the daughter of William and Mary Bischoff Zimmerman. She is survived by husband Elwyn "John" Carlson, daughter Patricia Benham, son-in-law Timothy Benham, and Grandsons David, Samuel and Timothy of Enid,...

Rick Querry

Mar 1, 2012

Rick Querry, age 58, Ottawa, Kansas formerly of Parker, Kansas died Thursday March 1, 2012. He was born on March 10, 1953 at Garnett, Kansa s the son of Clyde and Willa Brumley Querry. Rick worked in the oil fields for a short time before he was involved in an auto accident in March of 1974, which left him disabled....

Hazel Jay

Feb 29, 2012

Hazel Leucille "Lucy" Jay, 89, of Altoona, Kansas, formerly of Hume, Missouri, died Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at Wilson Medical Center, Neodesha, Kansas. She was born October 11, 1922 in Hume, Missouri, the daughter of Harley and Willie Ruth Handly Kleitz. Lucille went to grade school in Hume, MO, and Jr. High and High School in Kansas City, MO. She...

Lois Breuel

Feb 27, 2012

Lois Jean Breuel, age 77, Mound City, Kansas died Monday February 27, 2012 at the Prescott Country View. She was born on November 30, 1934 at Parker, Kansas the daughter of Thomas Bert and Evelyn Stringer McCarty. She graduated from Parker High School and attended secretarial school in Wichita. Lois was united in marriage to Don Breuel on February 14,...

Charles Pettijohn

Feb 24, 2012

Charles Ralph Pettijohn, age 77, Blue Mound, Kansas died Friday February 24, 2012 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. He was born on April 5, 1934 at Kansas City, Kansas the son of Ralph and Hycinthia Tebbe Pettijohn. He graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School where he was very active in the FFA program. Charles married Virginia Zacher...

Larry Jackson

Feb 23, 2012

Larry Eugene "Bud" Jackson, 62, of Trading Post, Kansas, died Thursday, February 23, 2012 at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. He was born November 23, 1949 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the son of Glen and Lillie Wurtz Jackson. Larry was a member of the First Christian Church, Pleasanton. He had been employed in construction with KCP&L ....

Virgil Wiedner

Feb 20, 2012

Virgil Lee Wiedner, 81, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, February 20, 2012 at Fort Scott Manor, Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born March 9, 1930 in Walcott, Kansas, the son of Ben and Bertha May Akes Wiedner. On February 18, 1955 he married Margaret Louise Wood at Kansas City, Kansas. He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene,...

Robert Cox

Feb 17, 2012

Robert Sherwood Cox, age 84, of Fort Scott, Kansas, formerly Pleasanton, Kansas died Friday February 17, 2012 at Fort Scott Manor in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born at Pleasanton on March 4, 1927 the son of John Franklin and Barbara Ellen Jackson Cox. He served his country during World War II in the United States Army. He married Virginia...

Ruby Clay

Feb 15, 2012

Ruby Mae Clay, 71, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born July 8, 1940 at Blue Mound, Kansas, the daughter of Theodore and Jessie Rosier Russell. She married Charles Clay on October 29, 1960 at Mound City Kansas. He preceded her in death on July 1, 2006. Ruby...