Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Bessie Ward
Jul 5, 2008
Bessie Margaret Ward, 95, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday, July 5, 2008 at Miami County Medical Center, Paola, Kansas. She was born March 4, 1913 in Prescott, Kansas, the daughter of Charley and Emma Lowdenback Meech. She married William "Bill" Ward on November 22, 1936 at Harrisonville, Missouri. He preceded her in death in 1969. Bessie worked as a seamstress...
Kit Leasure Jr.
Jul 3, 2008
Kit Carson Leasure Jr, 91, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Thursday, July 3, 2008 at his home. He was born October 23, 1916 on the Leasure homestead in Linn County, one of nine children born to Kit Carson Leasure Sr. and Sarah Maude (Patterson) Leasure. He attended Prairie Home Grade School and then LaCygne Rural High School where he graduated in...
Berdine Partney
Jun 30, 2008
Berdine Eloise Partney, 86, Garnett, Ks, died at Golden Heights Living Center on June 30, 2008. She was born on August 16, 1921 and raised on the family farm near Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Lola McCollam. She was baptized on October 1929 and was a life long member of the Community of Christ Church. She graduated from...
Terry Brandl
Jun 26, 2008
Terry Lynne Brandl, age 54, Pleasanton, Kansas died Thursday June 26, 2008 at Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. She was born on October 29, 1953 at Butler, Missouri the daughter of Ira and Darlene O'Rear Conner. She worked for Farmers Insurance for twenty plus years. She married Joseph Brandl on February 20, 1981 at Butler, Missouri. Terry was...
Roy Gillespie
Jun 25, 2008
Roy Dean Gillespie, 48, of Pleasanton, Kansas, went to meet the Lord on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. He was born January 14, 1960 in Ridgeway, Missouri, the son of Darryl and Sharion Baker Gillespie. He was employed as a computer systems troubleshooter for LD&B and had worked for Black & Veatch and had also managed a Diamond Shamrock Station in...
Lillian Ferguson
Jun 22, 2008
Lillian Vivian Ferguson, age 89, loving wife and mother, peacefully passed away on Sunday, June 22, 2008, at her home in LaCygne, Kansas. Vivian was born April 11, 1919, to William Virgil Girten and Elizabeth Ann Gough in Kansas City, Kansas. She was baptized at St. Thomas the Apostle in Kansas City, Kansas on April 20, 1919. She graduated from...
Rozella Mallory
Jun 20, 2008
Rozella A. Mallory, 89, of Ottawa, Kansas, formerly of Prescott, Kansas died Friday, June 20, 2008 at the Plaza Assisted Living in Ottawa, Kansas. She was born July 11, 1919 in Nebraska, the daughter of Elmer and Florence Wilson Mallory. She worked as a waitress until retirement then took care of her parents until their death. Also preceding her in...
Carrie Ross
Jun 18, 2008
Carrie Aldine Ross, 76, of Gardner, Kansas, formerly of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at the Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kansas. She was born November 30, 1931 in Pleasanton, Kansas, the daughter of William and Margaret Elkington New. She married James C. Ross on November 2, 1948. He preceded her in death on September 10, 2003. Carrie had...
Kenneth Spratt
Jun 18, 2008
Kenneth E. Spratt, 98, of Hume, Missouri, died Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. He was born June 10,1 910 in Drexel, Missouri, the son of Walter and Nancy Evans Spratt. He married Minnie E. McKibben on November 10, 1929 at Hume, Missouri. She preceded him in death on July 21, 2001. He...
Robert Harper
Jun 12, 2008
Robert W. Harper, 87, of Overland Park, Kansas died Thursday, June 12, 2008 at Kansas City Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri. He was born July 29, 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of William R. and Lois Glenn Harper. Survivors include three sisters, Helen Nelson, Irene Flattery & Ruth Taylor and one brother, Glenn Harper. Mr. Harper was cremated....
Roy Umphenour
Jun 9, 2008
Roy Elsworth Umphenour, 99, of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday, June 9, 2008 at his home. He was born October 18, 1908 at Pleasanton, Kansas, the son of Harry Jacob and Adah Staton Umphenour. He married Lottie Berneice Kleitz on June 28, 1934. She preceded him in death on October 14, 1994. Roy was a farmer, stockman and cattle trader....
Kathy Davidson
Jun 8, 2008
Kathy Lynn Davidson, 51, of Hume, Missouri, died Sunday, June 8, 2008 at her home. She was born October 17, 1956 in Monmouth, Illinois, the daughter of Earl Thomas and Myrtle Pearl Russell Heatherly. She married Sam Davidson on September 26, 1985. He preceded her in death on September 18, 2004. Kathy was a member of Single Action Shooters Society...
Morris Allen
Jun 6, 2008
Morris Allen age 79, formerly of Linn County, currently of Flemington, Missouri died Friday June 6 at St John's in Springfield, Missouri. Morris was born June 28, 1928 near Newkirk, Oklahoma, the firstborn of McKinley Allen and Inez Beatrice (Adams) Allen. The family later moved to a farm near Mound City, Kansas. He grew up helping his father on that...
Wanda Staton
Jun 3, 2008
Wanda Gale Staton, 74, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born March 4, 1934 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the sixth of eight children born to Foster and Jemmie Easley Weems. She lived in Eureka Springs until the age of 2, when her family moved to Pleasanton, Kansas. On March...
Oakley Albright
May 31, 2008
Oakley Emmett Albright, age 82 of LaCygne, Kansas passed away May 31, 2008 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born March 4, 1926 in York, Nebraska the son of Loyd Alvin and Viola Susan Shook Albright. Oakley married Joann Little October 10, 1954 in Delaware, Oklahoma. Oakley graduated in Pineville, Missouri and served in the US Navy as a...
Eugene Speakes
May 29, 2008
Eugene "Vernon" Speakes, 97, of Prescott, Kansas, died Thursday, May 29, 2008 at the Prescott Countryview Nursing Home. He was born May 12, 1911 in Hume, Missouri, the son of Clyde and Jane Reynolds Speakes. He graduated from Hume High School and attended Pittsburg State Teachers College. He married Mary Rebecca Bell September,1933 at Mound City, Kansas. She preceded him...
Kenneth Dr.
May 29, 2008
Dr. Kenneth "Ken" Jon Stanage, 53, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Thursday May 29, 2008 at his home in LaCygne, Kansas. He was born July 25, 1954 in Lakeville, Indiana, the son of Kenneth and Martha Plummer Stanage. Ken went to Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana where he received his Business Administration Degree, going on to Fort Hays State to receive...
Tex Wills
May 22, 2008
Tex Henry Wills, 78, of Mound City, Kansas, died Thursday, May 22, 2008 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas. He was born December 6, 1929 in Albion, Indiana, the son of Chester and Linnie Jo Hildinger Wills. He married Marjorie Moody on November 17, 1950 in California. He was employed as a union carpenter and was also...
Betty Karle
May 20, 2008
Betty Ruth James Karle Betty Ruth James Karle, age 76, passed away Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Mena, Arkansas. She was born in Pleasanton, Kansas on June 22, 1931 the daughter of Milton P. James and Christina M. Brown James. She was united in marriage to Henry J. Karle on October 18, 1952. He preceded her in death in January...
Clarence Calvin
May 16, 2008
Clarence "Guinie" Calvin, age 91, of LaCygne, Kansas died Friday May 16, 2008 at the Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri. He was born on June 23, 1916 the son of John and Edna Croghan Calvin. He was an Army Veteran of World War II. He married Edna Sherman in March of 1951. She preceded him in death in August of...
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