June 17, 2025

Linn County News

Published June 18, 2025

Windfred Allen DeMott, age 84, resident of Bronaugh, Mo., died Saturday June 7, 2025, at the home. He was born Sept. 15, 1940, in Mound City, Kan., and his parents were Clyde Vernon DeMott and Alice Rosemond (Jackman) DeMott. He attended Mound City High School. He had worked at the Hydraulic Cement Plant in Ft. Scott, the Bourbon County Barn as a shop foreman, the City of Ft. Scott with the equipment maintenance dept., Bill’s Coal Co., in Garland, Kan., and a few of the local rock quarry companies in Fort Scott.

He enjoyed restoring and parading his antique tractors. He attended many local festivals with his tractor collection. His 1937 vintage McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor was the featured tractor in the Pioneer Harvest Fiesta in 1994. In his later years, he spent his time spoiling the cows and feeding the chickens on the farm in Bronaugh.

His family included three children, a son, Allen DeMott, Fort Scott, and two daughters, Sheryl Crawley, Overland Park, Kan., and Shelly DeMott, Peculiar, Mo.; his friend for over thirty years, Carol (Griffiths) Claflin of Bronaugh; ten grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Delton DeMott, Peck, Kan., and Roger DeMott, La Cygne, Kan. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Cleta Fern Stump.

The family will receive friends for a celebration of life from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday June 21, at the Cheney Witt Carriage House, 301 S. Main St, in Fort Scott.

Interment will follow at the Woodland Cemetery in Mound City, Kan., at 2:30 p.m. for those who would like to attend. In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to the Pioneer Harvest Fiesta and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, PO Box 347, 201 S. Main, Ft. Scott, Kan. 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to them online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.