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

Ray Gaston
Apr 20, 2010
Ray Eugene Gaston, age 77 died April 20, 2010 at his home in Amsterdam, Missouri. He was born October 31, 1932 at Rosedale, Kansas the son of George and Ossie Allen Gaston. He was a United States Veteran serving in the Navy and Army. Ray married Helen DeBoard on April 19, 1951 at Kansas City, Missouri; she preceded him in...

Edna Russell
Apr 18, 2010
Edna Mae Russell, age 97 of Prescott, Kansas, formerly of Kansas City, Missouri passed away Sunday, April 18, 2010 at the Mercy Hospital at Fort Scott, Kansas. Edna had lived at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home since 2001. She was born September 24, 1912 in Vernon County, Missouri the daughter of Ray and Lucy Anderson. She married Malcolm G....

Flo Masoner
Apr 13, 2010
Flo Maxine Masoner, age 90, of Mound City, Kansas died Tuesday April 13, 2010 at Prescott Country View in Prescott, Kansas. She was born March 2, 1920 at Blue Mound, Kansas the daughter of Lester Marion and Rose Cassida Krull. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. She was married to William James "Bill" Masoner on November 2, 1940 at...

Jean Rittenhouse
Apr 7, 2010
Jean Ann Rittenhouse, 67, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at Kansas City, Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri. She was born September 10, 1942 in Pittsburg, Kansas, the daughter of Wayne Jones Sr and Delores Shafer Jones. She was a union welder and had the distinction of being the first woman hired by Kansas City Power and Light...

Douglas Mcgown
Apr 2, 2010
Douglas E. McGown, age 52, Mound City, Kansas died Friday April 2, 2010 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. He was born on October 25, 1957 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Gilbert and Carolyn Peery McGown. He graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School in 1975. He married Rhonda Signer on March 20, 1982. He...

Cecil Brown
Mar 31, 2010
Cecil Dale Brown, age 78 of Blue Mound, Kansas died Wednesday March 31, 2010 at his home. He was born on March 30, 1932 in Kainsville, Missouri the son of Herschel and Marie Wright Brown. Dale Married Lynn Brownlow on July 7, 1979 in Colorado, he worked as a heavy equipment operator and was a member of the Union #9,...

Radford Barr
Mar 29, 2010
Radford Linzy Barr, 84, of Mound City, Kansas, died Monday, March 29, 2010 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born January 5, 1926 in Iberia, Missouri, the son of William and Cora Kelsey Barr. Radford served his country during World War II with the United States Army, receiving the Purple Heart. He was married to Bonnie Blankenship...

Hazel Weber
Mar 25, 2010
Hazel Lorene Weber, age 73, of Linn Valley, Kansas died Thursday March 25, 2010 at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She was born on March 3, 1937 at Foster, Missouri the daughter of Edward and Nettie Wetzel Briscoe. She married Robert Weber on June 4, 1977 at Mission, Kansas. She was employed before retirement as a secretary at Yellow...

Linda Slater
Mar 23, 2010
Linda Louise Slater, 45, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Tuesday, March 23, 2010. She was born December 1, 1964 at Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Francis Mack and Edna Wallace Probasco. She graduated from Pleasanton High School , class of 1983. On August 8, 1986, she married John Slater. Linda enjoyed her cats and birds and loved roses. She was...

John Barnes
Mar 21, 2010
John Eldon Barnes, age 82, Mound City, Kansas died Sunday March 21, 2010. He was born on December 19, 1927 near Centerville, Kansas the son of John Robert and Martha Ellen Burkhead Barnes. He graduated from Mound City High School in the Class of 1945. He married Helen Hendrix on July 23, 1950 at the Federated Church in Mound City....

Edna Higginbotham
Mar 20, 2010
Edna Faye Higginbotham, age 62 of Blue Mound, Kansas died Saturday March 20, 2010 at her home in Blue Mound, Kansas. She was born on June 7, 1947 at Waynesville, Missouri, the daughter of Ray and Beulah Brock Pearce. She married Jack Higginbotham on December 20, 1963 at Morris, Kansas. Edna was a devoted house wife, loving mother and grandmother....

Julie Fleming
Mar 17, 2010
Julie Marie Fleming, 43, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, March 17, 2010. She was born November 25, 1966 in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Fleming Sr. and Jewell Rhoades Fleming. She graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1985 and was a graduate of Fort Scott Cosmetology School. She worked for a number of years in Pleasanton as a beautician....

Sheila Mcintier
Mar 5, 2010
Sheila Marie McIntier, 62, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Friday, March 5, 2010 at her home. She was born November 6, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Arthur and Marie D'hondt Bennett. She was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include one son, Kyle Martin Jr. of Sedalia, Missouri; three daughters, Ginger Soliz of Arkansas City, Kansas, Sherri...

Harry Bergman
Mar 4, 2010
Harry T. Bergman, age 93 of LaCygne, Kansas died Thursday March 4, 2010 at the Paola North Point Skilled Nursing Facility. He was born on October 29, 1916 at LaCygne, Kansas the son of Henry and Stella Boyd Bergman. Harry was a WWII Veteran serving his country with the United States Army. He married Evelyn Nellsch on August 10, 1938...

Barbara Richards
Mar 2, 2010
Barbara Jean Richards, age 64 of Pleasanton, Kansas died Tuesday March 2, 2010 at the Mercy Health Center at Fort Scott Kansas. Barbara was born on September 11, 1945 at Randolph County, Missouri the daughter of Roy and Flossie Freeman Moore. She married Frank Richards on December 24, 1992. She was preceded in death by a brother; George. Survivors include...

Tammy Elam
Feb 15, 2010
Tammy Lee Stuteville-Elam, age 43, of Lacygne, Kansas died Monday February 15, 2010. She was born on May 1, 1966 at Kansas City, Kansas the daughter of Bernie and Judy Willett Stuteville, who survive of LaCygne. She is also survived by a daughter Summer Guzman of LaCygne, a step daughter Nicki Elam of Shell Knob, Missouri, a step son Jacob...

Stanley Giles
Feb 10, 2010
Stanley Lee Giles, age 69, of Linn Valley, Kansas died Wednesday February 10, 2010. He was born on January 17, 1941 at Muskegon, Michigan the son of Melvel and Marth Zuidema Giles. He graduated from Santa Cruz Valley High School in Casa Grande, Arizona. He was an Air Force Veteran. He married Fran Watson on April 17, 1965 in Phoenix,...

Glenn Smith
Feb 5, 2010
Glenn LeRoy Smith, age 68, Mound City, Kansas died Friday February 5, 2010 at Olathe Medical Center. He was born on February 9, 1941 the son of Ira and Iva Reynolds Smith. He started grade school attending the Farlinville School. He finished grade and high in Mound City, graduating from Mound City High School in 1959. He worked as a...

Wanda Ross
Feb 1, 2010
Wanda June Ross, 89, of Fort Scott, Kansas, formerly of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Monday, February 01, 2010 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born July 27, 1920 in Centerville, Kansas, the daughter of Arthur and Mabel Zimmerman Richards. She was a 1938 graduate of Parker High School. On January 27, 1947, she married Floyd Ross. He...

Bettie Boyles
Jan 31, 2010
Bettie Lenora Boyles, 66, of Rich Hill, Missouri, died Sunday, January 31, 2010 at her home. She was born April 26, 1943 in Delight, Arkansas, the daughter of Rufus and Verlin Smith Hickey. She married Leslie Boyles on August 11, 1970. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leslie, two sons; Phillip and Richard Kesterson, a sister, Bobbie Moses...
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