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

Josephine Emert

Dec 28, 2017

Service Information

Friday, January 5th, 2018 1:30pm, Fort Scott National Cemetery

Interment Details

Fort Scott National Cemetery

Robert Cox

Dec 25, 2017

Robert Jeffrey Cox, age 73, Linn Valley, Kansas passed away on December 25, 2017 at the Miami County Medical Center. He was born on January 5, 1944 at Leon, Iowa the son of James and Maxine Bigley Cox. He worked as a meat cutter most of his life. He had a wholesale meat supply business in the Kansas City Metro...

Kathryn Eckland

Dec 24, 2017

Kathryn Eckland, age 71, formerly of Sugar Valley Lakes near Mound City, Kansas passed away on Sunday, December 24, 2017 at Menorah Medical Center. Kathy was born June 16, 1946 in St. Paul Minnesota to Anthony and Hazel Cloutier Cullen. She married Gary Eckland on October 26, 1968 in Watertown, South Dakota. He preceded her in death on May 10,...

Berniece Ross

Dec 21, 2017

Berniece Ross, age 94, of Blue Mound, Kansas passed away on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at Miami County Medical Center. She was born at Mapleton, Kansas on June 28, 1923 the daughter of Ervin A. and Jessie V. Casteel Gillmore. She graduated from Blue Mound High School. She married Verne " Shorty" Ross on October 3, 1941. Together they had...

Robert Ruiz

Dec 20, 2017

Robert, "Bobby" Aguilera Ruiz, age 62, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at his home in Pleasanton. He was born on January 11, 1955 at Kansas City, Missouri the son of Santo Macias and Josephine Aguilera Ruiz. He worked as a nuclear medical technician at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He married his long time companion...

Clifford Mckee

Dec 12, 2017

Clifford McKee, age 31, Iola, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born to Tina McKee on April 3, 1986 at Joplin, Missouri. He was currently employed at Tina''s Place working in several capacities. Cliff was a talented tile layer and artist. He liked to fish and hang out...

Roy Stroup

Dec 12, 2017

Roy A. Stroup, age 94, Fontana, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Aberdeen Village in Olathe, Kansas. He was born on November 23, 1923 at Cadmus, Kansas the son of Cornelius Vaughn and Iva Pearl McMichael Stroup. He graduated from Parker High School. Roy married Vivian Boettcher on May 15, 1948. She preceded him in death on...

Oral Finkenbinder

Dec 5, 2017

Oral Victor "Vic" Finkenbinder, age 70, Spring Hill, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at his home holding his wife''s hand. Vic was born December 28, 1946 to Bryce and Virginia Giffin Finkenbinder in Gas, Kansas. He married Vicki Riebe of Girard, Kansas on September 28, 1968. To this union, one son, Vernon, was born. Victor graduated from...

Suzan Dean

Dec 3, 2017

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Terry Nash

Nov 30, 2017

Terry Joe Nash, age 40, Fontana, Kansas passed away on Thursday, November 30, 2017. He was born on January 24, 1977 at Paola, Kansas the son of George and Mary Major Nash. He graduated from Prairie View High School in the Class of 1995. He then attended Fort Scott Community College. Terry enjoyed all things outdoors. He collected rocks, hunted...

Nancy Reed

Nov 29, 2017

Nancy Jean Reed, age 77, La Cygne, Kansas passed away on Wednesday November 29, 2017 at Promise Hospital of Overland Park. She was born at Madison, Iowa on June 22, 1940 the daughter of Harry H. and Charlotte Emily Miller Weaver. She was married to Kenneth Reed on August 18, 1970. He preceded her in death on January 21, 2010....

Roger Scott

Nov 23, 2017

Roger E. Scott, La Cygne, Kansas passed away November 23, 2017 in Olathe, Kansas. Roger was born March 12, 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri to Raymond and Mary Barnett Scott. Roger was proud to be a Boilermaker and was a member of Local 83. He had also belonged to the Teamsters and Laborers Unions. He enjoyed taking care of the...

Debbie Mangold

Nov 22, 2017

Debbie Mangold, age 62, of Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on November 22, 2017 at her home after an eight year battle with frontal temporal dementia. She was born on January 12, 1955 at Paola, Kansas the daughter of B.E. and Mary Allman Baxter. Debbie grew up in the Fontana, Kansas area and graduated from Prairie View High School in the...

Dorothy Davidson

Nov 18, 2017

Dorothy L. Davidson, age 98, of Blue Mound, Kansas passed Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Richmond Health Care and Rehab. She was born on February 23, 1919 at Galesburg, Kansas the daughter of Fred and Anna Hodgden Fouts. She was married to Alva Davidson on February 29, 1936. He preceded her in death on November 8, 2001. She was also...

Rosalee Annis

Nov 17, 2017

RosaLee Annis, age 92, of Mound City, Kansas passed away at her home on Friday, November 17, 2017. RosaLee was born August 27, 1925, the daughter of Berl Forest and Edna Jane Heintzman Harris in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1945, she married Charles Peter Annis in California, they later moved to Kansas City. Upon leaving Kansas City, they built a...

Truman Coleman

Nov 5, 2017

Truman Lee Papo Coleman, age 71, of Mound City, Kansas passed away on Sunday, November 5, 2017 at his home, surrounded by his family. He was born on November 5, 1946 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Howard and Lavon Clayton Coleman. He married Judy Burkhead on August 6, 1965. She preceded him in death on February 28, 2014....

Nina Hodgson

Nov 3, 2017

Nina Lea Hodgson, 101, of Mound City, Kansas, died Friday, November 3, 2017 at the Life Care Center in Osawatomie, Kansas. She was born August 23, 1916 near Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Lochia Hart Pugsley. She was married to Gerald C. Hodgson on January 20, 1938 at Ottawa, Kansas. They had a farm near Kincaid, Kansas until...

Robert Morris

Oct 28, 2017

Robert "Bob" E. Morris of Blue Mound passed away October 28, 2017 in his home. He was born September 3, 1947 in Brookfield, Missouri to Ira and Mildred Morris. He married Della in March of 1979 and together they shared their passion for OTR driving. After retiring in 1997, and never one to let the grass grow under his feet,...

Georgia Crisler

Oct 13, 2017

Georgia Louise Crisler, 95, of La Cygne, passed away on Friday, October 13, 2017 at Rosewood Health and Rehabilitation Center, Independence, Missouri. Louise was born February 16, 1922 in Flues, Colorado to Arthur Leonard and Ruth Elizabeth (Hensley) Conley. She attended schools in Colorado, Fairview, and graduated from Parker High School. On June 6, 1940 Louise married her childhood sweetheart...

Dorothy Coffeen

Oct 11, 2017

Dorothy C. Coffeen, age 100, Mound City, Kansas passed away on Wednesday October 11, 2017 at Prescott Country View. She was born on February 27, 1917 at Boicourt, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Nellie Johnson Clearwater. She married Glenn Coffeen on November 17, 1934. He preceded her in death in June of 1966. Dorothy was a seamstress, and ran...