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

Winfred Holt
May 30, 2010
Winfred Herschel Holt, age 90 of Farlinville, Kansas died Sunday May 30, 2010 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home at Prescott, Kansas. He was born on May 1, 1920 at Farlinville, Kansas the son of George and Mary Norris Holt. Winfred was a WWII veteran serving his country with the Untied States Army. He married Maxine Harold on September...

Richard Shomaker
May 22, 2010
Richard Dean Shomaker, age 62 of Mound City, Kansas died Saturday May 22, 2010 at the Saint Francis Hospital at Wichita, Kansas. He was born on January 12, 1948 at Kansas City, Kansas the son of Ellsworth Leroy and Catherine Laverne Skinner Shomaker. Richard was a veteran serving in the Vietnam War with the United States Army; he retired from...

Ray Anderson
May 19, 2010
Ray Edward Anderson Husband, Father, Brother, Uncle, Grandpa, Friend, and much more, Ray was born at home in a small town of Boicourt, Kansas outside of La Cygne on December 30, 1943, the son of Clarence and Lula Morris Anderson. Ray attended Boicourt Grade School and graduated from LaCygne High School in 1962. He was a loving source of support...

Jenabelle James
May 19, 2010
Mrs. Jenabelle (Jan) James, age 70, of LaCygne Kansas, formerly of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, May 19, 2010 after a courageous fight with cancer at home surrounded by her family. Jan is survived by her husband Robert of the home, a daughter Donna Cowden and husband Gary, of Kansas City, MO, Granddaughter Brianne Murphy and husband Tyson, of...

Forrest Virgin
May 19, 2010
Forrest Edwin Virgin, 95, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born April 20, 1915 at Boicourt, Kansas, the son of George R. and Lela E. Wier Virgin. He married Margie Sherman on June 5, 1946 at Lenexa, Kansas. She preceded him in death in 1978. Forrest was employed with...

Margaret Marcus
May 17, 2010
Margaret Marrietta Marcus, age 56 of LaCygne, Kansas died Monday May 17, 2010 at her home. She was born on November 12, 1956 at Kansas City, the daughter of Fred and Margaret Penney Marcus. She was proceeded in death by her parents, four brothers; Fred Marcus, Francis Marcus, Paul Marcus, and Robert Taggart. Survivors include a son; Frank Allen, two...

Alberta Murray
May 17, 2010
Alberta Bell Murray, 85, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, May 17, 2010 at Lakeview Village, Lenexa, Kansas. She was born June 8, 1924 in Mound City, Kansas, the daughter of Thomas B. and Irene Hewitt New. Alberta graduated from Mound City High School and began working for AAA which later became the ASCS office in Mound City and she then...
Anna Davis
May 14, 2010
Anna Louise (McRae) Davis, age 69, went to go be with the Lord on Friday, 5/14/2010 at St. Joseph via Christi Hospital, Wichita, KS. She was born 3/31/1941 outside of Mound City, KS in the Wesley Chapel neighborhood to the late Walter Earl (W.E.) McRae and Elma May (Paddock) McRae. She graduated from Mound City High School, Mound City Kansas...

Edith Gorman
May 12, 2010
Edith Charmian Gorman, age 89 of Mound City, Kansas passed away Wednesday May 12, 2010 at Fort Scott Manor at Fort Scott, Kansas. Edith was born in Mound City, Kansas on April 9, 1921, the daughter of Gus and Grace Good Warzel. The family later moved to Fort Scott, Kansas where Edith spent most of her life until her marriage...

Maxine Henty
May 8, 2010
Maxine Lyon Henty, born December 26, 1933, passed away May 8, 2010. Beloved wife of Joseph; mother of Lisa (David) Brooks, Liz (Craig) Travis, John (Molly) Lyon; stepmother of Joi (Bill) Goodbread, Jeff (Brenda) Henty; grandmother of Amanda (Jake) Wade, James (Nicole) Brooks, Elizabeth Brooks, Tyler and Kristen Travis, Jake and Nate Henty; great grandmother of Jenna, Joshua and Allyson...

Dennis Gibbs
May 6, 2010
Dennis "D.C." Chancellor Gibbs, 23, of Nevada, Missouri, died Thursday, May 6, 2010. He was born November 4, 1986 in Merriam, Kansas, the son of Dennis and Lora Ann Dilley Gibbs. He was a 2005 graduate of Fort Scott High School and was self-employed in sales. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Xzandra Ann Marie Gibbs who died...

Marvin Cole
May 3, 2010
Marvin Wilbert Cole, age 93, LaCygne, Kansas died Monday May 3, 2010 at Life Care Center in Osawatomie, Kansas. He was born on August 5, 1916 at Paola, Kansas the son of Pete and Clara Loftis Cole. He married Alta Bergman on April 1, 1936 at Paola, Kansas. He worked as a car man for the Missouri Pacific Railroad before...

Norma Bowman
Apr 29, 2010
Norma Henry Bowman, age 72 of Mound City, Kansas died Thursday April 29, 2010 at her home at Mound City. Services will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday May 2, 2010 at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Pleasanton, Kansas. Visitation will be held from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Saturday May 1, 2010 at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Pleasanton, Kansas. The...

Cathy Pettey
Apr 25, 2010
Cathy Jean Pettey, age 48, of Fort Scott, Kansas died Sunday April 25, 2010 at the Freeman Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri. She was born on January 20, 1962 at Fullerton, California the daughter of Abel and Laura Yanez Castillo. She is survived by her parents, fiance Edwin Cowan, two daughters, Kristen and Marie Pettey, two brothers, Steve and John...

Cecil Gaston
Apr 25, 2010
Cecil Leroy Gaston, 89, of Amoret, Missouri, died Sunday, April 25, 2010 at the Bates County Memorial Hospital, Butler, Missouri. He was born June 9, 1920 in Foster, Missouri, the son of George W. and Alpha Marie Clark Gaston. He married Dorothy Lorene McCoy on December 24, 1941. She survives of the home. He was a veteran of World War...

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...
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