Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Lucy Kemble
Oct 28, 2013
Lucy Kemble, 83, of Ponca City, passed away Monday, October 28, 2013 at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa. Lucy was born on October 29, 1929 in Holdenville, OK to Willie and Ellen Tea Cornell. She was married to Ellsworth Kemble, he passed away in 1996 also preceded in death by her parents and 12 brothers and sisters. She was a...
Fred Knief
Oct 26, 2013
Fred Eric Knief, 80, longtime area farmer, died at Shawn Manor nursing home early Saturday morning, Oct. 26, 2013, following a lengthy illness. Fred was born Jan. 14, 1933, on the family farm in Kay County. He was the eldest son of the late Louis Christian Knief and his wife, Beatrice Emma Robbins Knief. He is survived by one...
Trula Smith
Oct 25, 2013
Trula Burdette Roye Smith, resident of White Eagle, passed Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 65 years of age. Trula was a Ponca Tribal member, Yellow Berry descendent belonging to the Deer Clan. She carried the Indian name of MaZiWah which translated means Little Woman. She was born April 6, 1948 in Pawnee,...
Edward Littlewalker
Oct 21, 2013
Edward Vance Littlewalker, 49, of Tulsa, passed away Monday, October 21, 2013 at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. Edward was born on Dec. 29, 1963 in Pawnee, OK. He had been a longtime resident of Tulsa. He was a general laborer in construction. Wake service will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at Ponca Nazarene Church, 500 S....
Harvey Wright
Oct 21, 2013
Harvey Don Wright, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, October 21, 2013 at his home. He was 76 years of age. Harvey was born September 9, 1937 at Perry, Oklahoma, the son of Orville Wright and Ruby Zoma Payne Wright. He was a graduate of Ponca City High School and served his country in the United States Army. He...
Vonda Hollingsworth
Oct 20, 2013
Vonda M. Hollingsworth, 80, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 at Ponca City Medical Center. Vonda was born on March 7, 1933 in Ponca City to George E. and Beaulah Dougherty Quimby. Vonda grew up in Ponca City and was a graduate of Ponca City High School in 1951. She and Lee Hollingsworth were married on...
Tom Melton
Oct 16, 2013
Ralph TOM Melton, 55, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at his residence. Tom was born on May 14, 1958 in Blackwell, OK to John and Bonnie Martin Melton. Tom started school in Ponca City and finished school in Newkirk. Tom was an avid motocross rider where he enjoyed competing his greatest hobby was mud truck...
John Lickliter
Oct 14, 2013
John Paul Buddha Lickliter, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, October 14, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 32 years of age. John was born July 16, 1981 in Ponca City, the son of William Charles Lickliter and Betty Elaine Rutherford Lickliter. He graduated from Ponca City High School in 2000 and then attended Northern Oklahoma...
Robert Gazaway
Oct 12, 2013
Robert Bear Lyle Gazaway, resident of Ponca City, passed away on October 12, 2013. He was 63 years of age. Robert was born October 25, 1949 in Oklahoma City, the son of Walter Lyle Gazaway and Joanne Elberta Helt Gazaway. He grew up in Ponca City and attended Ponca City High School. He was currently employed by Butler Trucking...
Garth Willaford
Oct 11, 2013
Garth Ray Willaford, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, October 11, 2013. He was 53 years of age. Ray was born November 6, 1959 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the son of John Willaford and Foy L. Elsberry Willaford. He was a 1978 graduate of Ponca City High School. In his early years Ray played the violin in the school...
Millard Winningham
Oct 5, 2013
Millard W. Winningham, 93, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, October 5, 2013 at Ponca City Medical Center. Millard was born August 3, 1920 in Corinth, MS. to Millard and Maude Pounds Winningham. After graduating from high school he joined the he joined the Army Air Force and was given an honorable discharge on February 10, 1946. He was...
Andrea Davis
Oct 2, 2013
Andrea Michelle Davis, 45, of Ardmore, passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at Mercy Health Center in OKC. She was born on February 26, 1968 in Pawnee, OK to Clayton Lewis and Earlene Pettit Ely. She grew up in the Red Rock area where she graduated high school. Andrea was preceded in death by her parents, sisterPamela Renee Bible...
Wayne Fleharty
Oct 1, 2013
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...
Florence Massie
Sep 30, 2013
Our Special Angel, Florence Marie Massie, 83, went to be with the Lord on Monday, September 30, 2013 at Hillcrest Manor in Blackwell, OK. She was born on January 8, 1930 in Washunga, OK to Luelza and Viola McCleary Randolph, where she grew up and went to school until her family moved to Blackwell in 1942. She married Edward...
Marvin Womack Jr.
Sep 27, 2013
Marvin Lee Womack Jr., former resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, September 27, 2013 in the Fayetteville, Arkansas Veterans Hospital after a 3 month battle with cancer. He was 58 years of age. Marvin was born June 11, 1955 in Ponca City, the son of Marvin Womack Sr. and Mary Ann Davis Womack. He received his education in the...
Kenneth Snake
Sep 24, 2013
Kenneth Snake, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, September 24, 2013. He was 67 years of age. He was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and had the Indian name of Taynugahshay. He was also a member of the Ponca Nation Indian Tribe. Kenneth was born July 1, 1946 at White Eagle, the son of Andrew Snake...
Bill Higgins
Sep 23, 2013
Bill Higgins, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, September 23, 2013 in Ponca City. He was 88 years of age. Bill was born May 1, 1925 in Blackburn, Oklahoma, the oldest of 14 children born to Gene Higgins and Eula Cynthia Higgins. Bill served his country in the United States Navy Seabees during World War II. He was...
Lea Behar
Sep 22, 2013
Lea Jeanine Behar, 77, of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on June 17, 1936 in Kiowa, KS to Joseph and Edith Showalter Schnitzer. She was a homemaker and family accountant, member of Philadelphia Church of God where she was active in many church functions. Jeanine...
Robert Epperson
Sep 21, 2013
Robert Byron Bob Epperson, lifelong resident of the Ponca City area, passed Saturday, September 21, 2013 in Edmond, Oklahoma at the age of 72. Bob was born March 6, 1941 at Red Rock, Oklahoma, the son of Robert Taylor Epperson and Alma Lanore Bebe Epperson. He was a graduate of Ponca City High School. He was married to Margaret...
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