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

Flossie Wetzel
Nov 26, 2009
Flossie Wetzel, age 90, Hume, Missouri died November 26, 2009. She was born on December 21, 1918 the daughter of Charles and Cara Lee Wetzel. She spent most of her life on a farm North of Hume, Missouri. She was employed as a nurse at the Bates County Hospital for twenty-five years. She was preceded in death by her parents,...

Brock Barber
Nov 26, 2009
Brock Allyn Barber, age 23, of LaCygne, Kansas died Thursday November 26, 2009. He was born on October 8, 1986 at Overland Park, Kansas the son of Samuel and Bobbi Sparks Barber. He graduated from Prairie View High School in 2005 and was currently enrolled at Barton County Community College in the EMT program. Brock was a member of the...

Helen Reece
Nov 23, 2009
Helen Jo Reece, age 66, of Osceola, Missouri passed away Monday November 23, 2009, at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. She was born on March 22, 1943, in Wichita, Kansas to Hazel and Beulah Merriman Dirse. She spent her childhood years in Wichita with her parents, three sisters and two brothers. She graduated form East High School in 1961....

Marena Hannon
Nov 18, 2009
MARENA CATHERINE ARBOGAST HANNON Marena Catherine Arbogast Hannon, 91, of Victoria, Texas, died Wednesday, November 18, 2009. She was born August 30, 1918 in Stockton, Rooks County, Kansas, to the late Ross and Harriet Clark Arbogast. She was a retired employee of Trans World Airlines. Marena and her beloved husband, Don, enjoyed traveling the world. They enjoyed many of their...

Lila Wood
Nov 17, 2009
LILA WOOD Lila Mae Wood, 91, of Prescott, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born March 14, 1918 to Elias & Leona Bradley Bloomfield on a farm east of Prescott. She grew up on the farm and attended schools in the rural area and graduated from Prescott High School in 1935....

Westley Harrison
Nov 16, 2009
Westley Emanuel Harrison age 32, Pleasanton, Kansas died Monday November 16, 2009. He was born on June 8, 1977 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of David Parnell and Melody Mathis. He graduated from Pleasanton High School and Fort Scott Community College. He was preceded in death by his father, David Parnell. He is survived by his mother Melody Berry...

Jimmie Easley
Nov 15, 2009
Jimmie Carl Easley, 66, of Kansas City, Kansas, died Sunday, November 15, 2009 at his home. He was born June 9, 1943 in Wesley, Arkansas, the son of Carl and Lois Calhoun Easley. Jimmie was self employed as an automobile mechanic. Survivors include his mother, Lois Calhoun, one daughter, Lisa Leann Meuchel, a brother, Jerry Easley and one grandchild. Graveside...

Donnie Fultz
Nov 14, 2009
Donnie Lee Fultz, age 68, currently of Mound City, Kansas, native of Pleasanton, Kansas died Saturday November 14, 2009. He was born on December 31, 1940 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Willis and Ethel Graham Fultz. He graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1958 and attended Pittsburg State Teacher's College. He served in the Army National Guard. Donnie...

Anna Carpenter
Nov 9, 2009
Anna Louise Carpenter of Wichita, Kansas died at the Westview Manor of Derby, Kansas November 9, 2009. She had been in failing health for sometime. She was born September 4, 1923, a daughter of Charles Andrew Blake and Sarah Elizabeth (Beasley) Blake. She was raised and educated in Parsons, Kansas. Louise and Charles E. Carpenter were married June 3, 1954....

Danny Russell
Nov 5, 2009
Danny G. Russell, 59, Mound City, Kansas, formerly of Kansas City, MO passed away Thursday, November 5, 2009 at Kansas City Hospice House after a brief battle with cancer. Danny was born October 19, 1950 in Kansas City, MO. He retired from the Kansas City main post office in 2001 when he moved to Mound City. Danny was an Army...

Katherine Morrell
Nov 2, 2009
Katherine "Dorene" Morrell, 76, of Fort Scott, Kansas, formerly of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Monday, November 2, 2009 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott. She was born August 15, 1933 in Richards, Missouri, the daughter of James and Mamie Taiclet Kramer. She married Charles Morrell on November 28, 1951 at Fort Scott, Kansas. He preceded her in death on October...

Marjory Black
Oct 29, 2009
Marjory Elizabeth Black, 91, of Denver, Colorado, formerly of Pleasanton and Kansas City, Kansas, died Thursday, October 29, 2009 at Berkley Manor Care Facility, Denver, Colorado. She was born March 3, 1918 in Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of William and Noma Gilmore Umphenour. She was a graduate of Pleasanton High School. She married Eddie Black on August 11, 1938 at...

Judith Smith
Oct 29, 2009
Judith Lee Smith, 72, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Thursday, October 29, 2009 at her home. She was born September 27, 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri the daughter of Arnold and Clara Hough Deane. She married Marvin Smith on June 6, 1964 at Kansas City, Missouri. He preceded her in death on August 7, 1997. Judith worked in the cafeteria in...

Marilyn Bearly-Cook
Oct 28, 2009
Marilyn Kay Bearly-Cook, 61, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Mound City, Kansas, died October 28, 2009. She was born October 30, 1947 in Mound City, Kansas, the daughter of Marion Adams and Alice Fern Ellington Bearly She graduated from Mound City High School in 1965. Marilyn was an executive secretary for British Caldonia Airlines prior to her retirement. Survivors include...

Vera Cain
Oct 23, 2009
Vera Marie Cain, age 74 of Pleasanton, Kansas died Friday October 23, 2009 at the Golden Living Center in Smithville, Missouri. She was born on January 10, 1935 in Stella, Missouri the daughter of Rev. Frank and Ruby Patton Linton. She was preceded in death by husbands Lynn Scott in 1959 and Raymond Cain in 2007. Vera was a homemaker...

Frank Rhynerson
Oct 13, 2009
Frank Rhynerson, age 73, LaCygne, Kansas died Tuesday October 13, 2009. Mr Rhynerson has been cremated. Frank Rhynerson Jr. of LaCygne, Kansas passed away October 13, 2009 at Saint Luke's Hospital. Frank was the sixth son of Frank Rhynerson Sr. and Nannie May Driskell Rhynerson Cox. He was born on January 16, 1936 on a farm near LaCygne, Kansas. He...

Gerald Bogan
Oct 8, 2009
GERALD BOGAN Gerald Dean Bogan 68, of Hume, Missouri died Thursday, October 8, 2009 at his home. He was born May 28, 1941 at Hume, Missouri, the son of Carl and Novella Boston Bogan. Gerald was raised in the Hume & Metz area. After the 8th grade he worked for his great uncle in Leavenworth, Kansas. At 19 years of...

Kenneth Wood
Oct 4, 2009
Kenneth "Kenny", or Peanut, Wood, age 53, of Hume, Missouri died Sunday October 4, 2009. He was born on March 21, 1956 at Fort Scott, Kansas the son of Vergil and Delma Brown Wood. He graduated from Jayhawk Linn High School. He worked as a carpenter and also raised cattle. He married Vicki Lord on December 29, 1989 at the...

Gary Franklin
Oct 2, 2009
Remembrances and Tribute Gary Wayne Franklin, 68, born to Earl B and Mildred B Spillman Franklin on December 27, 1940 at Rural Hume. Gary passed away October 2, 2009 at Meadowbrook Hospital, Gardner, KS from complications of lung cancer. He attended Hume schools all 12 years graduating in 1958. Gary proudly served in the Army from February 17, 1959 being...

Al Nichols
Oct 1, 2009
Alfred "Al" William Nichols, 84, of Prescott, Kansas, died Thursday, October 1, 2009 at Prescott Country View Nursing Home. He was born May 9, 1925, the son of Ray Edwin and Bertha Mae Clay Nichols. He married Fern Maske on August 5, 1944 at Independence, Kansas. Al was employed with P&M Coal Company, retiring in 1988. He also worked as...
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