Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
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Nora Higginbotham
Oct 13, 2014
LaVerne Higginbotham, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed October 13, 2014 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 86 years of age. LaVerne was born May 25, 1928 in Ponca City, the daughter of Paul Martin Irwin and Grace Edith Collins Irwin. She was a graduate of Ponca City High School. She had worked as a...
Warren Rivers
Oct 9, 2014
Warren Telford Rivers, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, October 9, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 72 years of age. Warren was born February 2, 1942 in Ponca City, the son of Eugene E. Rivers and Delma Elizabeth Young Rivers. He attended the Ponca City Public Schools and was a 1961 graduate of Ponca...
Louise Wilson
Oct 5, 2014
Louise E. Knight Wilson Louise E. Knight Wilson, longtime Ponca City resident, passed Sunday, October 5, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 93 years of age. Louise was born June 1, 1921 in Alton, Missouri, the daughter of W. B. Palmer and Auttie Ellen Hunter Palmer. She attended grammar school in Birch Tree, Missouri, then schools...
James Deel
Oct 5, 2014
James W. Deel, 71, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, October 5, 2014 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. James was born on June 16, 1943 in Holdenville, OK to Wilson and Lucille Bryer Deel. He grew up in the Holdenville area and graduated from Holdenville High School and then enlisted in the US Army. He graduated from OSU...
Irene Davis
Oct 2, 2014
Irene M. Davis, longtime Ponca City resident, passed Thursday, October 2, 2014 at her home. She was 77 years of age. Irene was born July 3, 1937 in Osage County, the daughter of Lawrence Elmer Lauver and Grace Elizabeth Fowler Lauver. She attended grade school at Peters School, middle school in Burbank and high school in Ponca City. She...
Pansy Rockett
Oct 2, 2014
Pansy Pauline Rockett, 80, Ponca City, passed away October 2, 2014. She was born June 20, 1934, to KC and Lavena Walton Oliver in Blanchard, OK. Pansy married Lowell A. Rockett on July 15, 1950. Pansy was an accomplished artist and loved quilting. Pansy also enjoyed sharing her faith by teaching Bible truths about the blessings the earth and...
Wayne Fleharty
Oct 1, 2014
On October 1, 2014, Wayne Ivan Fleharty, 81, went to be with the Lord, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was at his home in Kaw City, Oklahoma. Wayne was born February 25, 1933 in Old Kaw City, Oklahoma to John Screech and Mary Netty Bowker Fleharty. He grew up in Old Kaw City, and graduated from Kaw...
Kenneth Carpenter
Sep 30, 2014
Funeral Arrangements are pending with ChristianWay Funeral Home of Pine Bluff, AR. 8705362800.
Gerald Fish
Sep 26, 2014
Gerald Chester Fish, 72, of Shidler, Oklahoma, passed away Sept 26, 2014 at his home. Gerald was born on March 4, 1942 in Alton, Illinois, to Chester Leon and Evelyn Rose Kneevers Fish. Gerald lived for 22 years in the Shidler area. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He is survived by his first wife Marcia...
Thomas Ackerson
Sep 21, 2014
Thomas Duane Ackerson passed away at his home on Sunday, September 21, 2014 in his 60th year. Tom was born on February 22, 1954 in Alliance, OH to George Oval and Bertdell Harvey Ackerson. He was a loving husband, Father and Grandfather. He was a veteran of the US Army serving from 19711972 during Vietnam. After his honorable discharge...
Kieth Hambleton
Sep 14, 2014
Kieth DeWayne Hambleton, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, September 14, 2014 at his home, with his loving family by his side. He was 76 years of age. Kieth was born July 4, 1938 in Ponca City, the son of Gerald Kieth Hambleton and Winifred Biby Hambleton. At the age of 10 he began working for his dad...
Mark Taylor
Sep 12, 2014
Mark Allen Taylor, resident of Ponca City, passed September 12, 2014 at his home. He was 46 years of age. Mark was born June 30, 1968 in Ponca City, the son of William Douglas Taylor and Gloria Jean Keeler Taylor. He attended the Ponca City schools. He was a welder by trade and had been employed with Mertz Corp....
William Crowder
Sep 8, 2014
William Allan Crowder passed unto the Lord on Sept 8, 2014, with family by his side, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. William Bill is survived by Brother Dale Crowder and five children, Bart Allan Crowder, Barry Don Crowder, Kurt Allan Crowder, Cassandra Kay Hammond, and Kyle Evan Crowder. Thirteen surviving grandchildren include: Sydney Crowder, Lauren Crowder, Corbin Crowder, Destiny Crowder,...
Sandra Whiting
Sep 5, 2014
Sandra Kay Whiting, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, September 5, 2014 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. She was 75 year of age. Sandra was born May 8, 1939 in Ponca City, the only child born to Arless Parker and Mildred Irene Johnson Parker. She was a 1957 graduate of Ponca City High School and...
Leroy Dilbeck
Aug 31, 2014
Leroy William Dilbeck, 85, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, August 31, 2014 at his residence. Leroy was born on August 9, 1929 in Roosevelt, OK to William Penn and Mattie Elsie Newport Dilbeck. Leroy entered the US Marine Corp on June 20, 1947 and was honorably discharged on June 19, 1950. He was married in 1951 and had...
Ruth Bennett
Aug 27, 2014
Ruth M. Bennett, longtime resident of Shidler, passed Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in Bartlesville. She was 86 year of age. Ruth was born December 9, 1927 in Webb City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Columbus C.B. Hutsell and Ora E. Williamson Hutsell. She received her education in the Webb City and Oklahoma City Schools. She was married to Henry Edward...
Donald Gamble
Aug 24, 2014
Donald B. Gamble, resident of Tonkawa, passed Sunday, August 24, 2014 at his home, surrounded by loving family. He was 67 years of age. Don was born January 18, 1947 in Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Albert E. Gamble and Mildred Brown Gamble. He was raised in Aston, Pennsylvania where he graduated from Sun Valley High School in 1964....
Elva Gardner
Aug 16, 2014
Elva Lea Simanek Gardner, 83, of Ponca City, passed away on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at Ponca City Medical Center. Elva Lea was born on October 5, 1930 at her Grandma Downings house in Medford, OK to Stanley Frank and Ruth N. Downing Simanek. Elva Lea attended 1st grade in a country school on the Red River, 2nd grade...
Brandy Pursley
Aug 14, 2014
Brandy Nicole Jester Pursley, passed away Thursday, August 14, 2014 in Modesto, CA at the young age of 31. Brandy was born on September 20, 1982 in Ponca City to Mark Jarita Hopkins Jester. She was a 2001 graduate of Ponca City High School. In 2004, Brandy was blessed with the greatest gift of all, a beautiful baby girl...
Brandi Torres
Aug 12, 2014
Brandi DeAnn Torres, Lifelong Ponca City resident was called home to the Heavenly Father on Tue. August 12th 2014, she was 34 Brandi was born November 4th, 1979 to Brennan Montgomery and Cheryl Jordan Montgomery in Ponca City. Brandi attended Garfield Elementary and Roosevelt Elementary, She graduated from Ponca City High School in 1998. Brandi was married to Jose...
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