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

Richard Cox
Jul 22, 2009
Richard Lavon "Rick" Cox, 52, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at Miami County Medical Center, Paola, Kansas. He was born April 13, 1957 in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Robert and Virginia Staton Cox. Rick was employed as a carpenter. He was preceded in death by his mother, one brother, Johnny Cox and one sister, Deanna...

Violet Butler
Jul 22, 2009
Violet Butler age 85 of Linn Valley, Kansas died Wednesday July 22, 2009 at her home. She was born February 23, 1924 in St Louis, Missouri the daughter of William and Lillian Milicen Marshall. She married J.K. Butler on December 2, 1972 he preceded her in death on September 15, 1992. Survivors include a son; John Shelby, two daughters; Barbara...

Deborah Barrett
Jul 21, 2009
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Barrett, age 55 of Linn Valley, Kansas died Tuesday July 21, 2009. She was born at Sapulpa, Oklahoma on May 14, 1954. She was preceded in death by a daughter Julie Thomas and a grandson, Emerson McIntyre. She is survived by her husband Kenneth Barrett of the home, three sons: Steven and Phillip Thomas and Kenneth Barrett;...

Larry Empson
Jul 12, 2009
Larry M. Empson, age 74, of Pleasanton, Kansas died Sunday July 12, 2009 at the Louisburg Care Center. He was born on March 23, 1935 at Concordia, Kansas the son of Jesse and Florence Mottin Empson. He was an Army Veteran. He married Joan Robbins on November 26, 1983. He worked for General Motors and was a member of the...

Mildred Winters
Jul 9, 2009
Mildred Kay Winters age 67, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Thursday, July 9, 2009 at Winterhaven Hospital, in Winterhaven, Florida. She was born January 2, 1942 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Antonio and Mildred Hare Felix. She married Alfred Winters on December 3, 1960 in Kansas City, Kansas. Mildred and Al moved to Pleasanton thirty-one years ago from Kansas...

Ammere Lattie
Jul 8, 2009
Ammere Lattie, 74, of Mound City, Kansas, died Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at Fort Scott Manor Nursing Home, Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born October 22, 1934 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, the daughter of Odus and Lillie Morrow Perkins. She was married to John H. Lattie who preceded her in death on March 3, 1988. She was employed as a...

Ralph Nation
Jul 5, 2009
Ralph Harlan Nation was born January 28, 1926 at Mound City, Kansas the son of Delbert Otis Nation and Bertha Jane Coffeen Nation. He died at his home on Sunday July 5, 2009 following a lengthy battle with cancer. Ralph attended grade school in Linnville and graduated from Mound City High School in 1944. He entered the Air Force and...

Norma Lindsay
Jun 25, 2009
Norma May Lindsay, 78, of Prescott, Kansas, died Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Olathe Medical Center. She was born May 28, 1931 in Pana, Illinois, the daughter of Cecil and Beatrice Presnell Endris. She married Buford W. Lindsay on December 20, 1975. Norma was a member of the Pleasanton VFW Ladies Auxilary and Prescott City Council Member. She was employed...

Clanton Laverack
Jun 23, 2009
Clanton "Tony" Laverack, age 90 of Pleasanton, Kansas died Tuesday June 23, 2009 at Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born on April 29, 1919 at Kansas City, Kansas the son of Walter and Sue Anne Smith Laverack. Tony graduated from Argentine High School and served in WWII with the Untied States Army. He married Edythe Crossley at Liberty, Missouri. Tony...

Perry Biggs
Jun 21, 2009
Perry Alan Biggs age 52, of Mound City, Kansas died Sunday June 21, 2009 at his home. He was born May 22, 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri the son of Edward and Cleora Crump Biggs. He married Pamela Austin on August 22, 1975 at Kansas City, Kansas, and worked as a custom cabinet maker. Perry was preceded in death by...

Lois Wisdom
Jun 17, 2009
Lois Wisdom, 64, of Hume, Missouri died Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at her home. She was born March 12, 1945 in Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Dale and Helen Kleitz Bradley. She was a graduate of Pleasanton High School. On August 17, 1963, she married Charley Wisdom at the Mound City, Kansas. She worked for Braemoor's, Casey's in Pleasanton and...

Peggy Grigsby
Jun 14, 2009
Peggy Carol Grigsby age 66, of LaCygne, Kansas, died Sunday June 14, 2009 at the Miami Medical Center in Paola, Kansas. She was born August 30, 1942 in Louisa, Kentucky to Carl Edward and Columbia Burton Wilson. On January 27, 1962 Peggy married Walter Grigsby at the Stanley Community Church in Stanley, Kansas. Peggy is preceded in death by her...

Eldon Terry
Jun 13, 2009
Eldon "Jiggs" Terry, age 70, Olathe, Kansas died Saturday June 13, 2009. He was born on November 30, 1938 at LaCygne, Kansas the son of Harold Clayton and Donnalee Veda Mielke Terry. He graduated from LaCygne High School in 1956. He was an Army Veteran for two years, one month, and twenty-six days. He was married to Glenda Showalter on...

Larry Reppert
Jun 7, 2009
Larry Lee Reppert age 59, of Mound City, Kansas died Sunday June 7, 2009 at his home. Larry was born August 8, 1949 in Kansas City, Kansas to Fred and Patricia Kliner Reppert. He was a graduate of Argentine High School. Larry was preceded in death by his father Fred Reppert, and one sister Kathy Houck. He was survived by...

Patricia Fillpot
May 29, 2009
Patricia Evelyn "Pat" Fillpot, age 70, of Hume, Missouri died Friday May 29, 2009 at the Nevada Regional Medical Center. She was born in California on July 15, 1938 the daughter of Clem and Alice Jenkins O'Rear. She married Oscar Fillpot on October 12, 1957 at Kansas City, Missouri. She was most recently employed as the Hume City Clerk. Previously,...

Thelma Eaves
May 27, 2009
Thelma Eaves, age 67 of Pleasanton, Kansas died Wednesday May 27, 2009 at Mercy Health Center at Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born on May 28, 1941 at Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Ben and Eva Culbertson Avey. She was married to Harry Eaves who preceded her in death. She is also preceded in death by a Brother Bennie Avey....

Edward Synovec
May 27, 2009
Edward Synovec, age 74, of Amoret, Missouri died Wednesday May 27, 2009 at the St Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on February 8, 1935 at Pierce Nebraska the son of Edward Jr and Minnie Klusman Synovec. He married Velma Bolen in 1954. He worked as a carpenter and truck driver and was a member of...

Mila Herrmann
May 26, 2009
Mila "Frances" Herrmann, age 92, of Blue Mound, Kansas died Tuesday May 26, 2009 at the Louisburg Care Center in Louisburg, Kansas. She was born February 19, 1917 in Centerville, Kansas the daughter of Harry and Maude Hime Chaney. She graduated from Blue Mound High School, Fort Scott Community College and received her teaching certificate from Emporia State Teacher's College....

Alice Murrow
May 20, 2009
Alice May Murrow, 90, of Ottawa, Kansas, formerly of Blue Mound, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at the Ottawa Retirement Village. She was born November 30, 1918 in Centerville, Kansas, the daughter of William and Effie Jenks Ross. She was married to Gordon Murrow on May 26, 1936 at Iola, Kansas. He preceded her in death on August 7,...

Larry Rabeneck
May 17, 2009
Larry Rabeneck age 65 of Blue Mound, Kansas died Sunday May 17, 2009 at his home. He was born November 27, 1943 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas the son of Malvern and Maylene Ratcliff Rabeneck. He married Sharon Abshier on April 7, 1966 at Corning, Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1967 with a bachelor degree in Electrical...
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