Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Lance Leslie Sears
Jul 23, 2025
Lance Leslie Sears, age 87, Hume, Missouri passed away on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. He was born on July 3, 1938 in Pleasanton, Kansas the son of Leslie and Sybil Simmons Sears. He graduated from Hume High School in the class of 1956. Lance was united in marriage to SharonGordon on November 19, 1960. He was a member of the...
Keith Allen Nash
Jul 21, 2025
Keith Allen Nash, age 66, La Cygne, Kansas passed away Monday, July 21, 2025. He was born on January 12, 1959 in Kansas City, Kansas the son of George Keith and Mary Major Nash. He worked as a union carpenter. He raised many different varieties of pigeons, and enjoyed coon hunting, playing poker and fishing. He was preceded by his...
Maurice Russell McDaniel
Jul 20, 2025
Maurice Russell McDaniel, age 73, passed from this life on July 20, 2025 in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born on November 5, 1951 in Leon, Iowa the son of Bennie and Alta Dale McDaniel. He grew up on a farm near Davis City, Iowa and graduated from Lamoni High School in the Class of 1969. Maurice was tormented by...
Jean Driskell
Jul 18, 2025
Jean Driskell, age 82, formerly of La Cygne, Kansas passed away Friday, July 18, 2025. She was born on March 22, 1943 in Paola, Kansas the daughter of George and Florence Hougland Royer. She graduated from La Cygne Rural High School. Jean was united in marriage to Gary Driskell on June 19, 1965. He preceded her in death on July...
Burton Clyde Brownback
Jul 13, 2025
Burton Clyde Brownback, age 72, Tri-Ko resident in Osawatomie, Kansas passed away Sunday, July 13, 2025. He was born on May 21, 1953 in Kansas City, Missouri the son of Clyde and Shirley Drake Brownback. He graduated from Prairie View High School in the Class of 1972. He worked for the Garnett Furniture Factory for twenty years before moving to...
Ruth Ann Antrim
Jul 7, 2025
Ruth Ann Antrim, formerly Hueston, passed away July 2025 after bravely battling cancer for many years. Ruth Ann was 74 years old. She lived and worked in the Mound City and Fort Scott, Kansas areas her entire life. She was the daughter of Kenneth and Marie Hueston. Born on May 21, 1951. She attended school in Mapleton, Fulton, and finally...
Kelly Kehl
Jun 28, 2025
Kelly Kehl, age 87, of Mound City, Kansas passed away Saturday, June 28, 2025 at his rural Mound City home. Kelly was born March 25, 1938 south of Parker, Kansas to Keith (Tom) Emerson Kehl and Helen Edith (Giffin) Kehl. Kelly attended elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas before the family moved to Blue Mound, Kansas in 1946. He worked in...
Lincoln James Bruns
Jun 23, 2025
For reasons we will never understand, Lincoln James Bruns, son of Tyler Bruns and Jessie Carr, was taken from this life on June 23, 2025. He leaves his mother and father and a sister, Bristol Bruns, paternal grandparents, John and Amy Bruns, maternal grandparent, John Carr, paternal uncles Jaret and Dalton Bruns, and maternal aunts and uncles, Wyatt Carr, Josie...
Richard "Dick" Smith
Jun 22, 2025
Richard “Dick” Smith, age 83 formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away in Olathe, Kansas on Sunday, June 22, 2025. He was born the son of Charles Dixon and Gertrude (Bristow) Smith on April 18, 1942 in Butler, Missouri. He graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1960 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in auto tech from Pittsburg State...
Helen Maxine Wright
Jun 19, 2025
Helen Maxine Wright, age 86, formerly of Blue Mound, Kansas passed away at her home in Abbyville, Kansas on Thursday, June 19, 2025. She was born the only daughter of Charles E. and Thelma Gertrude (Gross) Loy on May 28, 1939, in Kansas City, Missouri. She married Lee Wright on December 30, 1978, he preceded her in death in 2023....
Charles Edwin Sutterby
Jun 19, 2025
Charles Edwin Sutterby, age 73, of Blue Mound, Kansas, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, June 19, 2025—just one day before his 74th birthday.
Born on June 20, 1951, in Colony, Kansas, Charles was the son of George Calvin and Rosa Jane (Wilson) Sutterby. He was a proud graduate of Blue Mound High School and went on to attend...
Jackie Hewitt
Jun 18, 2025
Jackie Junior "Jack" Hewitt, 89, Friendship, Tennessee, died peacefully with his loving wife by his side, Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Jack was born July 17,1935 in Miami County, Kansas to the late Fletcher Merle and Velma Rogers Hewitt.He was a truck driver, veteran of the United States Army and a member of Friendship United...
Maxine Breuel
Jun 7, 2025
Maxine Breuel, age 98, Mound City, Kansas passed away Saturday, June 7, 2025. She was born on November 20, 1926 in Mound City, Kansas the daughter of Stacey and Ruth Ellis Furse. She graduated from Mound City High School in the Class of 1943. She then received Bachelor's Degree in chemistry from Pittsburg State University in 1947. Maxine married Bob...
Shirley Jean Obermeier
Jun 3, 2025
Shirley Obermeier went to be with her Lord and Savior, June 3, 2025. She was born June 28, 1942, in Paola to Emery Chester and Ruby Irene Smith Flesher. She graduated from Louisburg High School in 1960. She was married to Roger "Carl" Obermeier on June 12, 1960. To this union they had a son, Roger Jr and a daughter,...
Richard Henderson
Jun 1, 2025
Richard Paul Henderson, age 74, of Blue Mound, Kansas, passed away Sunday, June 1, 2025. He was born on July 26, 1950 in Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Charles and Lidea Morris Henderson. After graduating high school, Rich joined the United States Navy serving during the Vietnam War. He was united in marriage to Gail Martin. To this union,...
Dixie Kathleen Wilkerson
May 30, 2025
Dixie Kathleen Bradley Wilkerson, age 85, Independence, Missouri, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away Friday, May 30, 2025. She was born on October 15, 1939 in Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Sadie Cantwell Bradley. She graduated from Pleasanton High School. Dixie was united in marriage to her high school sweetheart, Ken Wilkerson on December 22, 1957. The couple...
Gary Ray Johnson
May 28, 2025
Gary Ray Johnson, age 90 of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on May 28, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born the son of John Harms Johnson Jr, and Ella Naomi Nighswonger-Johnson on March 10, 1935 in Viola, Kansas. Gary graduated from Bronaugh high school in 1953 and joined the United States Air Force. After being discharged from the Air...
Rees Lyle Shattuck
May 26, 2025
Rees Lyle Shattuck, age 93, Prescott, Kansas passed away, Monday May 26, 2025. He was born on August 31, 1931 in Boicourt, Kansas the son of Rees Wilbur and Lulu Elizabeth Black Shattuck. He served his country in the United States Army. He was united in marriage to Louise McIntyre on June 12, 1951. She preceded him in death on...
Zachary Eldon White
Apr 29, 2025
Zachary Eldon White, 32, of Mound City, Kansas died on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. He was born on June 12, 1992 in Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Roger and Jessica Smith White. He graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School in the Class of 2010. He then received his electrician certification from Fort Hays Technical School. He was currently employed...
Ira Johnathan Robinson
Apr 26, 2025
Ira Johnathan "Sonny" Robinson, age 81, Mapleton, Kansas passed away Saturday, April 26, 2025. He was born on April 10, 1944 in Kansas City, Kansas the son of Ira and Naomi Askren Robinson. He was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers Local #2 and retired from Acme Sign Company. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother,...
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