Obituaries from September 2018

Mary Helen Green, age 85, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday morning, Sept. 4, 2018, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born June 8, 1933, in Callao, Mo., the daughter of Floyd and Crystal Blackburn Ham. She graduated from Arcadia high school with the class of 1951. ...

Thomas R. "Tom" Wilcox, 86 of Fort Scott, Kan., formerly of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. He was born, Wednesday, March 9, 1932 in Cadmus, Kan., the eldest son of James Russell and Meredith Zelma Perry Wilcox. He graduated from Parker Rural High School with the class of 1950. ...

Leon Staton, age 93, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Friday Sept. 7, 2018. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial in the Pleasanton Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Chapel. Contributions are suggested to the Pleasanton First Christian Church or the Wounded Warrior Project, in care of Schneider Funeral Home, P.O. Box 525, Pleasanton, KS 66075...

Daniel Ernest Hall, age 45 of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at Mercy Hospital following a battle with cancer. Danny was born in Fort Scott on April 29, 1973, to Ernest Hall and Patricia Goltra Hall. He married Amanda Cowen on Nov. ...

Carlene Marie Kruger Rinehart, 82, formerly of Fort Scott, more recently of Rusk, Texas, passed away at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas. She was born Jan. 19, 1936 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Carl William and Mary Inez Shinn Kruger. She married Edward Cale Rinehart April 20, 1953 in Platt City, Mo. He preceded her in death Aug. 29, 2012...

Mary Alice Foulk, resident of Winfield, Mo., died Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, at her home. Graveside services for Mary Alice Foulk will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, in the Sheffield Cemetery, Arcadia, Kan. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Thursday at the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, KS...

Claire Marie Weston, 90, of Girard, Kan., formerly of Walnut, Kan., died at 6:24 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 in the Girard Medical Center. Claire was born Dec. 4, 1927 at Walnut, Kan., a daughter of Charles and Bertha (Shively) Kennedy. She grew up in the Walnut area and graduated from Walnut High School. She worked at Police Brothers Grocery Store in Walnut...

Mrs. Gwen (Mantooth) Hill Kennedy, age 89, of Wheatland, Mo., formerly of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Sept. 13, 2018 at Hermitage Nursing & Rehab, Hermitage, Mo. She was born May 24, 1929 at Anaheim, Calif., to William Boyce Mantooth and Hazle Celesta (Koger) Mantooth. She had been a plant manager at Key Industries at Fort Scott, Kan., and Hermitage, Mo., from 1977-1996...

Mildred “Millie” Harris, 97, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept. 8 at her home, Laurel Place in Port Angeles, Wash. Mildred was born in Redfield, Kan., to Herbert and Hazel (Eisenbrandt) Elbrader. After meeting Forrest Harris during a community dance at age 15, they were later married on Aug. 29, 1937, in Nevada, Mo. They went on to have two children, Kenneth and Linda, a few years later...

Karen Kay (Stuffings) Ahlemann of Overland Park, Kan., passed away peacefully on Sept. 13, 2018 at the age of 77. Visitation will be Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018 3 to 5 p.m. at Porter Funeral Home, 8535 Monrovia, Lenexa, Kan. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at Littell Cemetery outside Pleasanton, Kan...

Curtis Allen Wayne Peters, age 27, Pleasanton, Kan., died Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel followed by a procession to Stegge Lake where a service will be held. Contributions are suggested to the Curtis Peters Memorial Fund. Online condolences for the family can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com...

Larry D. Capehart age 79 of LaCygne, Kan., passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at his home under hospice care after a long year of battling cancer. Funeral service will be 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in the Jingo Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon to service at the Chapel. Contributions are suggested to Mercy Hospice. Online condolences for the family can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com...

Louis Herbert Gray passed away in the comfort of his home in St. Augustine, Fla., on Sept. 8, 2018. He was born on April 26, 1937 in Fort Scott, Kan., to the late Alvin and Bertha Gray. He married the love of his life, the late Judith A. Gray in 1970; they shared 45 wonderful years of marriage together. He proudly served his country for 20 years and retired as a first class petty officer from the United States Navy in 1976 from Norfolk Naval Station...

Lindsey Lewis, age 31 of Fort Scott, Kan., who resided in Dallas, Texas, passed away on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 of an unexpected aortic dissection. She was born on June 21, 1987, in Springfield, Mo., the daughter of Jerry and Kitty Mullane Lewis. Lindsey was a 2005 graduate of Fort Scott High School before attending Washington University in Saint Louis and then finishing her bachelor’s degree in political science and history at the University of Kansas. ...

Jimmie Lee Young, age 77, a resident of Palmetto, Fla., peacefully passed on Sept. 1, 2018, surrounded by his family. He was born March 12, 1941, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Franklin Dee (FD) and Era Lucile Young. He was the grandson of James (Jim) and Bertha Batten; Leland and Thelma Young...

Gerald Lee "Jerry" Yost, Sr., age 73, of the Tangle Wood Lake Community near La Cygne, Kan., passed away on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. He served his country in the United States Army. Funeral service will be 3 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Visitation will be held from 2 p.m. to service time. The family suggests contributions to Disabled American Veterans, in care of Schneider Funeral Home, P.O. Box 525, Pleasanton, KS 66075...

Thelma Wynona Vann, age 93, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. She was born April 23, 1925, in Harding, Kan., the daughter of Johnson and Agnes Willard Vann. She attended Forest Dale School through eighth grade. ...

William Dee Eastwood, age 90, a resident of rural Bronson, Kan., passed away Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, at the Guest Home Estates in Ft. Scott, Kan. He was born Oct. 1, 1927, in Allen County, Kan., the son of Henry Edward Eastwood and Esther Marie Jackson Eastwood. ...

Ida “Fay” Smith passed away at Brookdale Senior Living, Great Bend, on Sept. 26, 2018. She was born May 29, 1925, at Protection, Kan., the daughter of Roy and Mary (Huff) Toothaker. She graduated from Protection High School in 1943. She then went to Wesely Hospital School of Nursing in Wichita, Kan., where she graduated as a registered nurse in 1947. She then graduated from Kansas State University in 1948...

David Lee Hornaday, 86, passed away Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, at his home in Moreno Valley, Calif. Funeral services will be a week from this Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, at the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home with burial following at the Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends beginning at 1 p.m. prior to service time on Saturday. Condolences may be submitted to the online guestbook at konantz-cheney.com...