Thomas Allen Spainhoward - 04-21-1946 to 10-23-2014 - Oct. 29, 2014
Thomas Allen Spainhoward, 68, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, at St. Luke’s Hospital. He was born April 21, 1946, in Savonburg, Kan., to Virgil and Verna Oxford Spainhoward. He was the youngest of three children. Tom spent his childhood years in Uniontown, Kan., graduating...[More]
Ormonde Beltz - 08-30-1923 to 10-25-2014 - Oct. 29, 2014
Ormonde Richard Frank Beltz, 91, of Fort Scott, passed away Saturday evening, Oct. 25, 2014 at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 30, 1923 in Newman Grove, Neb., the son of August and Cordula Willamine (Pose) Beltz. He was the second of six children, and a life-long member of the...[More]
Linda Ann Smith 06-03-1946 to 10-23-2014 - Oct. 29, 2014
Linda Ann Smith, 68, of Bryan, Texas, formerly of Spring Hill, Kan., and Linn and Miami Counties died Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 in Houston, Texas.Linda was born June 3, 1946 in Sutherland, Neb., the third child of four to Louis Claudie and Evelyn Eileen (Glendenning) Jackson.When Linda was six years old,...[More]
Dorothy Lucille Dunlop-Cox - 05-16-1928 to 10-12-2014 - Oct. 15, 2014
Dorothy Lucille Dunlop-Cox, 86, of La Cygne, Kan., went to be with her Lord Sunday morning, Oct. 12, 2014, comforted by her husband, son and daughter by her side. Dorothy was born May 16, 1928, at Somerset, Kan., the daughter of Walter W. and Nellie May Long-Dunlop, the second of six children.Her childhood...[More]
William Sherman ‘Bill’ McCoy - 06-07-1933 to 10-13-2014 - Oct. 15, 2014
William Sherman “Bill” McCoy, age 81, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. He was born at Linnville, Kan., on June 7, 1933, the son of Harold and Viola Elrod McCoy. He graduated from Mound City High School. He served his country in the United States Army. Bill worked in...[More]
Idabelle Ostrum - 01-04-1925 to 08-02-2014 - Oct. 15, 2014
Ostrum (Bradley), Idabelle - 89, died suddenly Aug. 2, 2014 in Austin, Texas, during a short hospital stay. She was born Jan. 4, 1925 in Topeka, Kan., the second child and only daughter of Aubrey J. and Neta Bernice (Davis) Bradley. She lived in Rock Creek, Kan., until 1926 when the family moved to Blue...[More]
Olen Dale Callahan - 08-20-1926 to 10-08-2014 - Oct. 15, 2014
Olen Dale Callahan, age 88, was born Aug. 20, 1926, in Henry County, Mo., the son of Marion L. and Vianna E. (Wallace) Callahan. He passed away Oct. 8, 2014, at the Country View Nursing Home, Prescott, Kan. The family moved to Linn County, Kan., in 1938 and Olen attended Antioch School and Pleasanton...[More]
Harold Mooney Jr. - 04-03-1924 to 09-30-2014 - Oct. 15, 2014
Harold Mooney Jr., 90, of La Cygne, Kan., the son of Harold and Mabel Hahn Mooney, died Sept. 30, 2014, at the Louisburg Healthcare Center. He was born April 3, 1924 on the family farm northeast of La Cygne in rural Linn County, Kan. His first eight years of school he attended New Home, a one-room school...[More]
Paul Martin Jr. - 04-15-1930 to 09-30-2014 - Oct. 8, 2014
Paul Martin Jr., 84, of Pleasanton, Kan., and formerly of Gardner, Kan., passed away Sept. 30, 2014, at Olathe Medical Center.Funeral services were Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, at Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner, Kan., 913-856-7111. Burial with Military Honors followed at Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens in Olathe, Kan....[More]
Glen Doyle Odaffer - 12-27-1970 to 09-20-2014 - Oct. 8, 2014
Glen Doyle Odaffer, 43, of Excelsior Springs, Mo., arrived in heaven on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, at Kansas City, Mo., following a motorcycle accident. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett, Kan. Memorial contributions...[More]