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

Bertha Persons
Jan 17, 2010
Bertha Mae Persons, age 99 of LaCygne, Kansas died Sunday January 17, 2010 at the North Point Skilled Nursing Facility at Paola, Kansas. She was born on September 21, 1910 at Worland, Missouri the daughter of James and Linnie Turpen Scrogham. Bertha started teaching in the mid 1930's in Boicourt, Kansas. She married James "Percy" Persons on October 21, 1937...

Rose Walrod
Jan 15, 2010
Rose Marie Walrod, age 88 a resident of Pleasanton, Kansas died Friday January 15, 2010 at the Prescott Country View Nursing home at Prescott, Kansas. She was born January 13, 1922 in Yakima Washington Rose married James D. Walrod Jr. on June 3, 1942, he preceded her in death on August 29, 2001, also preceding her in death is a...

Betty Ginther
Jan 9, 2010
Betty Ginther age 65 of Fulton, Kansas died Saturday January 9, 2010 at Mt Carmel Medical Center. She was born December 15, 1944 at Stockton, Missouri the daughter of Ray and Jaunita Anderson Hollandsworth. She married Garland Ginther on July 31, 1988. She was preceded in death by a sister Dixie LeeMasters. She is survived by her husband Garland of...

Beulah Miller
Jan 7, 2010
Beulah Catherine Miller age 89 of LaCygne, Kansas died Thursday January 7, 2010 at North Point Skilled Nursing Facility in Paola, Kansas. She was born on February 15, 1920 at Canova, South Dakota the daughter of Elsworth T. and Anna Bell Lime Marquis. She attended grade school in the Sunnyridge District and graduated from LaCygne High School in 1938. She...

Stacey Furse Jr.
Jan 6, 2010
Stacey Alexander Furse Jr., age 74 passed away on January 6, 2010, at his home near Mound City, Kansas. Stacey was born at the original Furse family home on April 3, 1935, the son of Stacey Alexander and Ruth May Ellis Furse. He was a 1952 graduate of Mound City High School. He married Barbara Jean Croan on October 21,...

Georgia Stuckey
Jan 6, 2010
Georgia Edna Stuckey, 96, of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel, Pleasanton, Kansas. Contributions are suggested to the Pleasanton Nazarene Church. Interment will be in Pleasanton Cemetery. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.coffelschneider.com....

Betty Lindsey
Dec 30, 2009
BETTY LINDSEY 1925-2009 Betty Lindsey, a long time resident of the LaCygne area, passed away December 30, 2009 at her farm east of LaCygne. Betty, the daughter of Emile and Carol Apor, was born in Los Angeles, California November 18,1925. She graduated from Occidental College and joined the accounting department of Lockheed Aircraft following graduation. It was here, at Lockheed,...

Jean Ross
Dec 27, 2009
Jean Marie Ross, 82, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Sunday, December 27, 2009 at Centerpoint Medical Center, Independence, Missouri. She was born September 13, 1927 in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Robert and Margaret VanNatta Coffelt. She graduated from Corvallis High School with the class of 1945. She married John Cahill in 1945 and to this union two children were...

Dale Potter
Dec 27, 2009
Dale Potter, age 89 of Prescott, Kansas formerly of Linn Valley, Kansas died Sunday December 27, 2009 at the Prescott Country View Nursing Home Prescott, Kansas. He was born on April 17, 1920 at Wichita, Kansas the son of George and Hada Finuf Potter. Dale worked for the Kansas Department of Grain Inspectors as a Scale Mechanic Grain Inspector; he...

Ophelia Elledge
Dec 26, 2009
Ophelia Marie Elledge, 96, of Hume, Missouri, died Saturday, December 26, 2009 at Prescott Countryview Nursing Home, Prescott, Kansas. She was born August 25, 1913 in Metz, Missouri, the daughter of John and Josephine Ransom Long. She graduated from Metz High School. On January 9, 1932, she married Noel Elledge. He preceded her in death on March 20, 1989. She...

Larry Morgan
Dec 21, 2009
Larry Franklin Morgan, age 67 of LaCygne, Kansas died Monday December 21, 2009 at his home. He was born on November 18, 1942 in Iowa Falls, Iowa the son of Herman and Elenor Duncan Morgan. He worked in the construction industry as an operator and carpenter. He was a member of the Operator's Union and the Carpenter's Union. He married...

Thomas Whitten
Dec 17, 2009
After a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, Thomas Allen Whitten Sr., peacefully took the hand of Jesus, and entered his eternal home Thursday, December 17, 2009. Tom was born on February 23, 1943 at Butler, Missouri the son of Thomas Lee and Dorothy Cleo Zwahlen Whitten. He graduated from Hume High School in 1961. He married Barbara Killion and to...

Charles Courtois
Dec 13, 2009
CHARLES "CHUCK" COURTOIS Charles Fredrick "Chuck" Courtois, 91, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Sunday, December 13, 2009. Services will be held at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at the First Baptist Church, Pleasanton, Kansas. Visitation will be from 6-8 PM, Tuesday at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel, Pleasanton. Contributions are suggested to the Harry Hynes Hospice or First Baptist Church of Pleasanton....

Oscar Holway
Dec 11, 2009
Oscar Holway III age 80 of Blue Mound, Kansas died Friday December 11, 2009 at Prescott Country View Nursing Home Prescott, Kansas. He was born on October 14, 1929 at Worcester, Massachusetts the son of Oscar and Katharine Dennison Holway II. He earned his Bachelors in Business from American International College in Massachusetts, and worked and retired form Sprint as...

Bill Hamilton
Dec 8, 2009
William Earl "Bill" Hamilton, 64, of Mound City, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at his home. He was born April 17, 1945 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the son of Rees and Evelyn Marie Gatlin Hamilton. Bill graduated from Pleasanton High School Class of 1963. He served his country with the United States Army from 1964 until his retirement in...
Billy Miller
Dec 7, 2009
Billy Joe Miller, 33, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Monday, December 7, 2009 as the result of an automobile accident. He was born December 1, 1976 in Butler, Missouri, the son of Jimmie Miller Sr. & Rose Mundell Miller. He was employed as a carpenter. He was preceded in death by one brother, Dale Miller. Survivors include his parents; Jimmie &...

Reba Ayers
Dec 6, 2009
Reba Maxine Ayers, age 95, lifelong Linn County resident, died Sunday December 6, 2009 at Prescott Country View. She was born on April 27, 1914 at Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Roe and Cora M. Sewright Henderson. She was married to Chester Barton Ayers who preceded her in death in March of 1958. She was also preceded in death by...

Joe Jones
Dec 6, 2009
Joe Gary Jones Joe Gary Jones, age 62, of Pleasanton, Kansas. passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2009 after a 2 year struggle with cancer, Joe was born November 23, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, the third child born to Harry Delbert Jones and Thelma Adalene Larson. He was married to Vicki Callia in 1967 and two children, Jeff and...

Esther Wilson
Dec 2, 2009
Esther C. Wilson, LaCygne, Kansas formerly of Kansas City, Kansas died December 3, 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband Lewis and two sons, Lewis Jr and Lee Roy. She is survived by two sons, Bill Wilson and Bertha of Mercedes, Texas, and Jim Wilson and Henrietta of Overland Park, Kansas. Graveside memorial services will be held 2...

Jerald Simons
Nov 28, 2009
Jerald Ray Simons, age 72, Mound City, Kansas died November 28, 2009. He was born on October 29, 1937 at Arcadia, Kansas the son of Ora and Nellie Reynolds Simons. He married Lois Jennings on October 21, 1956. During his working days, Jerald owned and operated Mound City Vault Company, Simons Backhoe Service and was the caretaker of the Mound...
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