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

Steven Sage
Nov 22, 2010
Steven Richard Sage, age 57, Mound City, Kansas died Monday November 22, 2010. He was born at Bloomington, Illinois on August 1, 1953, one of six children of Richard and Pearl (Allen) Sage of LeRoy. He was an Army Vietnam Veteran. He was a musician and a member of the Pleasanton Church of the Nazarene. He is survived by his...

Herman Waldmer
Nov 17, 2010
Herman Waldmer, 86, of Aurora, Missouri died Thursday, November 18, 2010 at Cox South Hospital, Springfield, Missouri. He was born March 7, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacob and Mary Russul Waldmer. At an early age he, his parents and two brothers, spent some time in Latvia, visiting their grandparents. He graduated from Manhattan High School of...

Anita King
Nov 14, 2010
Anita Wu King, age 50 of Linn Valley, Kansas died Sunday November 14, 2010 at Wichita, Kansas. She was born on June 20, 1960 at Mt. Olive, North Carolina the daughter of Eugene and Ruby Cruse Guy. Anita was a caregiver and helped many people in any way she could. Anita was preceded in death by her father. She is...

Paul Long
Nov 7, 2010
Paul L. Long, age 88, passed away on Sunday November 7, 2010 at his home in Mound City, Kansas. He was born on June 20, 1922 in rural Miami County, Kansas the son of Donald and Edna LaRosh Long. He graduated from LaCygne High School in 1941. He was the father of six children. He was a farmer and also...

Glenna Stark
Nov 7, 2010
Glenna R. Stark, age 85 died Sunday November 7 2010, at the Golden Heights Nursing home at Garnett, Kansas. She was born on May 14, 1925 in Mound City, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Eliza Rownd Stark. Glenna enjoyed setting out side watching animals especially birds, squirrels, and her pet turtles. In her later years Glenna enjoyed playing bingo,...

John Mcwilliam
Oct 30, 2010
John "Edwin" McWilliam, age 89, Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday October 30, 2010 at the Residencies in Pleasanton. He was born on the home farm near Pleasanton on December 29, 1920 the son of John and Mabel Shaw McWilliam. He married Imogene Arnold on October 14, 1943 at Pleasanton, Kansas. She preceded him in death. Edwin worked as a farmer and...

Margie Walter
Oct 29, 2010
Margie A. Flanery Walter, age 73, died Friday Ocotber 29, 2010 at the Life Care Center of Osawatomie, Kansas. She was born June 14, 1937 on a farm north of Bucyrus, Kansas to A.T. and Gertrude Portwood Flanery. She has lived within the surrounding area all of her life. She attended one room schools and graduated from Stilwell in 1954....

Jackie Higginbotham
Oct 27, 2010
Jackie Leroy Higginbotham, 64, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died October 27, 2010 at his home. He was born August 24, 1946 in Golden City, Missouri, the son of Walter and Maude William Higginbotham. He married Edna Pearce on December 20, 1963. She preceded him in death on March 20, 2010. Jackie was self employed as a truck driver. Survivors include...

Patricia Pennington
Oct 26, 2010
Patricia Ann Pennington, age 84 of Linn Valley, Kansas died Tuesday October 26, 2010 at her home. She was born November 23, 1925 at Wichita, Kansas the daughter of Chauncey and Ruth Rickard Rucker. She was a graduate of North High School in Wichita, Kansas. She married Robert Pennington on February 22, 1948 at Wichita, Kansas; he preceded her in...

Thomas Brown
Oct 25, 2010
Thomas E. "Tom" Brown, 76, of Mound City, Kansas, died Monday, October 25, 2010 at his home. He was born November 22, 1933 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Harry and Perylie Kelly Brown. He married Loretta Myers on January 1, 1962 at Mound City, Kansas. He was employed at the LaCygne Power Plant prior to his retirement. He...

Betty Longhibler
Oct 23, 2010
Betty Charlotte Rush Longhibler, 92, passed away, Saturday, October 23rd in Greensboro, NC. She was born July 18, 1918 in LaCygne, Kansas, daughter of Amos and Sarah Rush graduating from LaCygne High School in 1936 and from business school in Kansas City in 1938. She married Edward Longhibler of St. Louis in 1943. In 1954 she joined the staff at...

Earnest O'Dell Jr.
Oct 22, 2010
Ernest D. O'Dell, Jr., age 51, of Yorkville, IL, passed away on Friday, October 22, 2010 at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL. He was born on June 5, 1959, in San Diego, CA, the son of Ernest D. and Neva J. (Stillwagon) O'Dell, Sr. Ernie spent many years in the printing industry as a pressman and strived to be...

Eva Atherton
Oct 15, 2010
EVA ATHERTON Eva Isabell Atherton, 88, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Friday, October 15, 2010 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born December 6, 1921 in Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Arthur and Belle Post Plain. She was a graduate of Fulton High School She married Otto Atherton on January 2, 1941. He preceded her on April 5,...

Daniel Green
Oct 11, 2010
Daniel Lee Green was born August 17, 1940, in Columbus, Ohio. He died October 11, 2010, at Mercy Hospital in the Pelliative Care Unit. His wife was at his side. He was preceded in death by his parents Robert and Ellen Mae Lahrmer. He graduated from Bishop Watterson High School in June, 1958. In September 1958, he enlisted in the...

Robeta Miner
Oct 8, 2010
Roberta Joan (Stewart)-Miner, 73, of Fulton, Kansas went home to be with Jesus on Friday October the 8, 2010 at her home. She was born April 16, 1937 in Worland, Kansas to Orville and Mary Stewart. She received her education in Fulton, Kansas. She graduated with the high school class of 1954. She furthered her education at Pittsburg State University...

Donna Marsh
Oct 6, 2010
Donna Sue Marsh, 73, of Mound City, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at her home. She was born December 23, 1936 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Shelby and Ila Soul Marsh. She was preceded in death by her father, one brother, Buford Marsh and three grandchildren, Josh and Bridget Wilson and an infant granddaughter. Survivors include her...

Vivian Myers
Oct 4, 2010
Vivian Myers, 87, of Prescott, Kansas, died Monday, October 4, 2010 at Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born June 3, 1923 in May View, Missouri, the daughter of John and Bessie Huffman Walters. She married Homer G. Myers who preceded her in death on February 27, 1973. Vivian was employed as a nurse's aide for several local...

Martin Springer
Sep 30, 2010
Martin Edward ‘Marty' Springer, age 47, Paola, Kansas went home to the Lord on Thursday September 30, 2010 at Kansas University Medical Center with family and friends at his side. He was born May 13, 1963 at Garnett, Kansas the third child of Edward Lee and Judith Rhoades Springer. Marty worked for O'Donnell & Sons Construction until he started Springer...

Alfred Clay
Sep 27, 2010
Alfred Raymond Clay, age 62, DeSoto, Kansas died Monday September 27, 2010 at Hillside Village in DeSoto. He was born on January 21, 1948 in Blue Mound, Kansas the son of Alfred and Dorothy Makemson Clay. He was employed as a truck driver. In years past, Alfred enjoyed riding his motorcycle and hunting and fishing. He was preceded in death...

Clarence Clayton
Sep 26, 2010
Clarence Ralph Clayton, age 70 of LaCygne, Kansas died Sunday September 26, 2010 at his home. He was born on May 15, 1940 at Fremont Nebraska the son of Alfred and Hazel Drake Clayton. Clarence worked as a crane operator for union 101. Clarence was also a good handy man, enjoyed fishing and loved his family. Survivors include five daughters;...
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