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

Julia Gorman
Dec 16, 2011
Julie Ann Gorman, age 74 of Mound City, Kansas died Friday December 16, 2011 at the Shawnee Mission Medical Center. She was born on April 27, 1937 on a Farm east of Prescott, Kansas the daughter of Roland and Mildred Miller Gorman. Julia was a life time member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mound City, Kansas. She was...

Ester Teeter
Dec 10, 2011
Ester Jane Teeter, age 93, Mound City, Kansas passed away December 10, 2011 at the Prescott Country View. She was born November 8, 1918 at Mound City the daughter of Leo B. and Edna E. Hahn Scott. She worked as a school teacher, as a cook at Arbogast Dari Curl, and in the Linn County Clerk's office. She was a...

Virginia Mccammon
Dec 5, 2011
Virginia Rose McCammon, 85, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, December 05, 2011 at her home. She was born April 10, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Mathias B. and Bertha Marty Kroeger. She married Gene McCammon on August 14, 1986. He preceded her in death on June 25, 1988. Virginia worked as a cook at the Tip Toe...

Murriell Wilson
Dec 1, 2011
Murriell Yates Wilson, age 93, of Garnett, Kansas died Thursday December 1, 2011 at the Anderson County Hospital Long Term Care. She was born July 12, 1918 the daughter of Mary Elizabeth and Charles Cooke Walter. She graduated from Kincaid High School. She married John Hardin Yates. To this union three children were born, David, Jane and Claron. John preceded...

Ruth Massey
Nov 26, 2011
Ruth Irene Massey, age 87, of LaCygne, Kansas died Saturday November 26, 2011 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born May 4, 1924 at Moran, Kansas the daughter of Moyne and Bessie Smith Knapp. She worked in the mail order department at Montgomery Ward for thirty-six years before retiring in 1981. Ruth was married to Roy...

Daryl Jones
Nov 25, 2011
Daryl Dean Jones, age 75, Mound City, Kansas died Friday November 25, 2011 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. He was born on June 6, 1936 at Kansas City, Missouri the son of Daniel R. and Margaret Herren Jones. He worked as a laborer in the construction industry. Daryl was preceded in death by a sister, Danice Bigelow....

Darline Laws
Nov 25, 2011
Darline Lois Laws, age 84, LaCygne, Kansas passed away Friday November 25, 2011 at the Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri. She was born on August 28, 1927 at Teagarden, Oklahoma the daughter of Orie and Esther Crabb Nokes. She was married to John Laws who preceded her in death in December of 2000. Darline worked as a...

Roy Purvis
Nov 20, 2011
Roy Arthur Purvis, age 64, Mound City, Kansas died Sunday November 20, 2011 at his home. He was born on May 26, 1947 at Paola, Kansas the son of Charles Arthur and Doris Hunziker Purvis. He graduated from Mound City High School in 1965. Roy was an Army Veteran serving his country in Vietnam. He married Suzanne Myers on August...

Lola Mcqueen
Nov 19, 2011
Lola Lois McQueen age 93, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday November 19, 2011 at the Olathe Medical Center at Olathe, Kansas. She was born on April 13, 1918 at Pittsburg, Kansas the daughter of Jesse and Naomi Folsom Mitchell. She married Oliver McQueen on November 24, 1934 at Kansas City, Kansas he preceded her in death on March 5, 1987....

Robert Godard
Nov 14, 2011
Robert Lee Godard, 79, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, November 14, 2011 at Kansas City Hospice House. He was born December 24, 1931 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Edmond and Hulda Toeneboehn Godard. Bob graduated from Turner High School. He married Phyllis Frary and to this union three children were born, Joseph, Jeffrey and Patricia. He later married...

Dennis Clay
Nov 11, 2011
Dennis L. Clay, age 54, DeSoto, Kansas died Friday November 11, 2011 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born on October 29, 1957 at Olathe, the son of Alfred F. and Dorothy Makemson Clay. He was most recently employed as a truck driver. He was an Army Veteran. Survivors include a daughter Julie Roberson and grandson Ayden Roberson, and...

Doris Henesey
Nov 1, 2011
Doris L. Henesey, 93, of Mound City, KS passed away at the Olathe Medical Center Tuesday, November 1st, 2011. She was born November 21st, 1917 to Robert R. and Levah Campbell Boyd in Blue Mound, KS.She was preceded in death by her husband Orval K. Henesey who died November 14, 1973; one great grandson, a brother Robert B. Boyd and...

Harley Dunsworth
Nov 1, 2011
HARLEY DUNSWORTH Harley Elbert Dunsworth, 87 of Mound City, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at his home. He was born May 13, 1924 in Pappinsville, Missouri, the son of John and Margaret Martin Dunsworth. He was a graduate of Mound City High School. He was employed for a number of years as an auto mechanic with Cox Motor Company...

Clarence Adams
Oct 29, 2011
Clarence Whitten Adams, 92, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas. He was born March 12, 1919 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the son of Homer Harrison and Kittie Mae Whitten Adams. He was a farmer, worked for Frisco Railroad and employed with Farmers & Merchants Bank for 32 years. Clarence graduated from Pleasanton High...

Minda Clay
Oct 29, 2011
Minda Sue Clay, age 61, passed away on Saturday October 29, 2011 at the Manor Care in Overland Park, Kansas. She was born on February 26, 1950 at Kansas City, Kansas the daughter of Howard and Evelyn Beacham McDaniel. She married Henry Clay on August 31, 1979. To this union, two daughters were born. Minda Sue enjoyed reading, fishing and...

Ethel Makemson
Oct 27, 2011
ETHEL MAKEMSON Ethel Alice "Susie" Makemson, 93, of Prescott, Kansas, died Thursday, October 27, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born October 10, 1918 in Mound City, Kansas, the daughter of James E. and Emma Leona Cummins Thomas. She married Emmett Makemson on November 25, 1936 at Mound City, Kansas. He preceded her in death on...

Robert Moore
Oct 21, 2011
Dollie Elizabeth Moore, age 65 and Robert Lee Moore, age 59, husband and wife of Hume, Missouri died Friday October 21, 2011 as the result of an automobile accident. Dollie was born on March 23, 1946, at LaFayette, County, Missouri the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Casto Stockdall. She worked as a homemaker. Bob was born on January 29, 1952...

Dollie Moore
Oct 21, 2011
Dollie Elizabeth Moore, age 65 and Robert Lee Moore, age 59, husband and wife of Hume, Missouri died Friday October 21, 2011 as the result of an automobile accident. Dollie was born on March 23, 1946, at LaFayette, County, Missouri the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Casto Stockdall. She worked as a homemaker. Bob was born on January 29, 1952...

Samuel Hargrove
Oct 15, 2011
Samuel James Hargrove, age 20, Mound City, Kansas died Saturday October 15, 2011. He was born December 29, 1990 at Kansas City, Kansas the son of James Benjamin Hargrove and Lu Ann Matheney. Sam graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School Class of 2009. He was currently attending Johnson County Community College studying computer engineering, and was also a member of...

Edward Shomaker
Oct 12, 2011
Edward Dale "Eddie" Shomaker, 68, of Mound City, Kansas died Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at his home. He was born June 27, 1943 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Ellsworth Leroy and Catherine Laverne Skinner Shomaker. Eddie was self-employed as a truck driver. He enjoyed woodworking, fishing and hunting and working on cars. He was preceded in death by...
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