Obituaries
Local Obituaries for La Cygne, Pleasanton, Mound City, & Surrounding Areas
Goldie Andrews
Jan 10, 2008
Goldie May Andrews, 80, of Trading Post, Kansas, died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at The Residencies, Pleasanton, Kansas. She was born April 26, 1927 in Platte City, Missouri, the daughter of Charles Homer and Ida Belle Wisdom Jackson. She married Harold Andrews on March 27, 1948 at Olathe, Kansas. She was baptized in the Marais D'Cygne River. Goldie worked in...
Robert Franklin
Jan 10, 2008
Robert Eugene Franklin, 55, of LaCygne, Kansas died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at his home. He was born October 23, 1952 in Chanute, Kansas, the son of Robert Lee and Frances Ilene Tripp Franklin. He married Cindy Spanier on March 1, 2001. Robert was employed as a heavy equipment operator. He was preceded in death by his parents and one...
Henry Karle
Jan 10, 2008
Henry Joseph "Sonny" Karle, Jr., age 85, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2008 in Mena, Arkansas. He was born in Flushing, New York on October 15, 1922 to the late Henry Joseph Karle, Sr. and the late Marguerite Seaman Karle. He graduated from Great Neck High School in Great Neck, New York, from Winona Teachers College in Winona, Minnesota, and...
Lee Johanning
Jan 8, 2008
Lee "Shirley" Johanning age 78 of Sugar Valley Lakes near Mound City, Kansas died Tuesday January 8, 2008 at her home. Shirley was born on July 27, 1929 at Fort Scott, Kansas the daughter of Warren and Mildred Mosier Anderson. She married Frederick Johanning on August 24, 1947 at Selma, Kansas. She worked for Motorola, in a produce operation and...
William Brown
Jan 7, 2008
William "Bill" Brown, 69, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, January 07, 2008 at Louisburg Health Care, Louisburg, Kansas. He was born July 24, 1938 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Harry and Peryilie Kelley Brown. He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers, Fred, Clinton, Andy, Joe and Clifford Brown and three sisters, Alma Sanders, Evelyn Marmon...
Martha Browning
Jan 6, 2008
Martha "Midge" Browning, 81, of Arma, Kansas, died Sunday, January 6, 2007 at Landmark Hospital, Joplin, Missouri. She was born December 4, 1926 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Alva and Lillian Strong Wilkerson. She married Dale W. Browning on February 28, 1948. He preceded her in death on February 22, 2002. Martha retired from Craw-Kan Telephone Company. She...
Rita Sisson
Jan 4, 2008
Rita West Sisson was born near Farlinville, Kansas on December 28, 1912 to Benjamin and Olive Silsby West. She graduated with honors from Mound City High School and subsequently received her Master of Science degree in education from Kansas State College of Pittsburg. She married Harry Sisson, son of George and Goldie Sisson, of the Wall Street Community, in 1938....
Mabel Ward
Jan 3, 2008
Mabel Ellen Ward a longtime Pleasanton resident passed away January 3, 2008 at Mercy Health Center Fort Scott, Kansas following a short illness. She was born on April 10, 1921 the daughter of Roy and Ethel Bryan Main in rural LaCygne, Kansas. Mabel graduated from Prescott High School and Fort Scott Community College. She then taught school until marrying Howard...
Earnest Mcgee
Dec 29, 2007
Earnest Earl McGee, age 80, Mound City, Kansas died Saturday December 29, 2007 at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born at Blue Mound, Kansas on September 11, 1927 the son of Warren and Elsie Morrell McGee. He graduated from Blue Mound High School and married LaVerne Lamb on June 27, 1948 in the Wall Street Church. Memberships include the...
Amber Wilson
Dec 29, 2007
2007 Neosho Memorial Hospital. She was born at Freeburg, Illinois on August 27, 1922 the daughter of Ernest and Ella Ebel Bauer Kriegeskotte. She married Loren Wilson on November 13, 1945 at Carthage, Missouri. Together they owned and operated Wilson Service in Blue Mound. Amber was a member of the Blue Mound Federated Church and Missionary Society, the Legion Auxillary,...
William Rhodes
Dec 28, 2007
William Major Rhodes, 63, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 28, 2007, doing what he loved best, goose hunting. He was born July 28, 1944 in Shawnee, Kansas, the son of William and Ida Pearl Howard Rhodes. He graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School. Bill owned and operated the Capitol Body shop in Mound City. He had a...
Bobby Story
Dec 28, 2007
Bobby Dean Story, 81, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 28, 2007 at Life Care Center, Osawatomie, Kansas. He was born July 20, 1926 at Crescent, Oklahoma, the son of Samuel and LoRene Wright Story. He was married to Dorothy Wools on November 23, 1949 at Garnett, Kansas. Bobby was a farmer and had also worked for the City...
Edward Shortall
Dec 27, 2007
Edward F. Shortall, 84, of Fontana, Kansas, died December 27, 2007 at his home. He was born September 11, 1923 in Perry, Kansas, the son of Martin and Catherine Doyle Shortall. He moved to Linn County in 1932 and graduated from Pleasanton High School with the class of 1941. He also attended St. Benedict's College for one year. The family...
Seth Swisher
Dec 26, 2007
Seth Sherman Swisher age 47 of LaCygne, Kansas died Wednesday December 26, 2007 at St Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on October 19, 1960 the son of Robert and Josephine Jayne Swisher. He was preceded in death by his mother. He is survived by his father Robert of LaCygne, a son Shawn Swisher and wife Ashley...
Ida Sisson
Dec 25, 2007
Ida Paddock Sisson, 91, of Denison, Texas, formerly of Mound City, Kansas, died December 25, 2007 at her daughter's home in Denison. She was born September 14, 1916 in Linn County, Kansas, the daughter of L. Wilbur and Zelda Stites Dunavan. She married Loren Paddock August 7, 1937. He preceded her in death on April 10, 1990. She later married...
Michael Avery
Dec 24, 2007
Michael Earl Avery, 45, of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, formerly of Prescott, Kansas, died December 24, 2007. He was born July 9, 1962 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Earl and Mary Secrest Avery. He was a graduate of Jayhawk Linn High School and attended Pittsburg State University. He was employed with Mr. Mat Carpet Cleaning. Michael was preceded in...
Lawrence Clark
Dec 24, 2007
Lawrence "Willis" Clark age 88, of Mound City, Kansas died Monday December 24, 2007 at the Prescott Country View. He was born on August 22, 1919 the son of Ernest Daniel and Anna Ellen Cox Clark. Willis married Wilma West on August 22, 1943. She preceded him in death on August 11, 2005. He worked as a farmer and a...
Frances Hanan
Dec 21, 2007
Frances Lee Hanan, 62, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, December 21, 2007 at American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Kansas City, Missouri. She was born December 28, 1944 in LaGrange Arkansas. She married Alfred Hanan on September 19, 1962 at Kansas City, Kansas. She retired from Boeing and she and her husband RV'd for several years before moving to Sugar...
Mary Spencer
Dec 19, 2007
Mary Florence Spencer, 82, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born March 26, 1925 the daughter of Harry and Vetra Bealer Paxtono. Her mother died in childbirth and Mary was raised by James and Ethel Austin. She married Bernard Charles Spencer on March 14, 1948 in Independence, Missouri. He preceded...
Bill Mcclintic
Dec 19, 2007
Bill McClintic, 80, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at his home. He was born June 28, 1927 in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of William and Esther Rogers McClintic. He married Edith Pearl Eastwood Long on November 19, 1994. Billie was a veteran of WWII, serving with the United States Navy. He was employed as a manager in...
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