Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Jess Morris
Aug 3, 2013
Jess LaRue Morris, resident of Ponca City, passed Saturday, August 3, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 73 years of age. Jess was born June 15, 1940 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Joseph LaRue Morris and Mae Wood Morris. He attended school at Burbank, Oklahoma. He was married to Lorena Suggs on September 12, 1959...

Charles Johnston
Jul 31, 2013
Charles Edward Johnston, longtime resident of Grainola, passed Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in Stillwater, at the home of his daughter. He was 92 years of age. Charles was born September 16, 1920 in Grainola, the son of Charles Jefferson Johnston and Awilda Cecil Bowhay Johnston. He was a 1939 graduate of Grainola High School. He furthered his education at...

Paige Mcdonald
Jul 26, 2013
Paige L. McDonald aka Chief died at the age of 70 in his home in Morrison, OK. Friday, July 26, 2013. Paige was born June 5, 1943 in Pawnee, OK. His parents were John McDonald and Eva Surritte and step father Harry Childs. Paige worked offshore for CD Wireline as a wireline specialist. Paige was called upon often and...

Helen Rhodes
Jul 24, 2013
Helen Faye Rhodes, 93, of Shidler, passed away Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at Fairfax Manor. Helen was born on July 25, 1919 in Gracemont, OK to Henry E. and Lora Beaty Bertling. She was the 5th Daughter born. She grew up in Gray Horse and in 1938 graduated from Fairfax High School. On February 28, 1939, she was married...

Earlene Roach
Jul 19, 2013
Earlene Russell Roach, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, July 19, 2013 at Via Christi Village Nursing Center. She was 92 years of age. Earlene was born January 19, 1921 in Quinton, Oklahoma, the daughter of William Earl Russell and Sarah Etta Glenn Russell. She was a 1938 graduate of Quinton High School. She was a 1941 graduate...

Willard Kizer
Jul 18, 2013
Willard F. Boe Kizer The children of Willard Franklin Boe Kizer would like to inform his remaining family, friends, and acquaintances of their fathers passing on Thursday, July 18, 2013 at the age of 97. Willard Boe was born on December 13, 1915 in Ponca City, the son of Charles and Alta May Martin Kizer. Boe grew up on...

Florine Terry
Jul 16, 2013
Florine Lucille Terry, 85, of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at Ponca City Medical Center. Florine was born on January 31, 1928 in Kaw City, Oklahoma to Bert and Anna Krulic Fleharty. She grew up in Kaw City and attended Kaw City High School. She worked many years in the restaurant and nursing business. Florine was...

Cynthia Motley
Jul 12, 2013
Cynthia Cindy Tickel Motley passed away unexpectedly at Ponca City Medical Center on Friday, July 12, 2013. Cindy was born in Liberal, Kansas, November 8, 1956 to Marland and Edna Copp Tickel She grew up in Arkansas City Kansas and graduated from Ark City High School. She attended college in Tonkawa Oklahoma. She moved to Ponca City in 1974,...

Roxie Schrader
Jul 11, 2013
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 at The Cedars in McPherson, KS, Roxie J. Schrader, 95, of Ponca City, OK, was greeted in heaven by Jesus and the many friends and family who had passed on before her. Roxie was born September 9, 1917 to Bill and Blanche Gentry Blackburn on her mothers Cherokee Indian allotment near Vinita, Ok. Roxie...

Elizabeth Goodman
Jul 6, 2013
Elizabeth V. Blueback Goodman, longtime Marland resident, passed Saturday, July 6, 2013 at the Integris Blackwell Regional Hospital. She was 73 years of age. Elizabeth was born December 1, 1939 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Garry Blueback and Martha Fireshaker Blueback. She was a member of the Ponca Tribe Nikapasna Clan. She attended Haskell Institute High School. She...

Betty Link
Jul 5, 2013
Betty L. Link, 83, of Ponca City, passed away on July 5, 2013 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Betty was born on March 28, 1930 on a farm near Little River, KS to Floyd and Edna Johnson Hendershot. Betty was the next to the youngest of four children. A longtime resident of Ponca City, she spent...

Barbara Miller
Jul 2, 2013
Barbara Anne Miller, a longtime resident of Ponca City, died in her home in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. She was an attorney who focused her practice on bankruptcy law and was a founding member at the firm at Miller Miller Law Office PLLC, and formerly a partner at Miller Law Office at 120 N. Second St.,...

Jim Lawson
Jun 28, 2013
Jim Lawson, 77, of Ponca City, OK, passed away Friday evening at his home. Jim was born on April 5, 1936 in Tryon, OK to Charles Handford and Rosa Mae Thompson Lawson. Jim was a member of the graduating class of 1955 of Wellington High School, Wellington, KS. He was married to Judith Jacobs on November 6, 1955 in...

Clifford Walkingsky, Jr.
Jun 24, 2013
Clifford Walkingsky, Jr., 57, of Ponca City, passed away Monday, June 24, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, KS. Clifford was born on July 8, 1955 in Ponca City to Clifford and Mollie Kent Walkingsky. Clifford was a lifelong area resident, graduating from Ponca City High School in 1973. He worked for 7 Clans Bingo and had been...

Jack Round
Jun 23, 2013
Gods angels swooped down and ever so gently lifted Jack Round from his bed of pain and misery on Sunday, June 23, 2013 to be with His Son in paradise. Jack was born on January 2, 1930 in Ponca City, the son of Bernice Stingley Round and Edward D. Round. He lived in Ponca City all his life until...

James Lane
Jun 23, 2013
James B. Lane, 67, Longtime Ponca resident died Sunday June 23, 2013. Jim was born on May 9, 1946 in Ponca City to J.C. and Mary Jean Lechtenberg Lane. He grew up in Ponca City. Jim joined the Army and served his country honorably in Vietnam. After leaving the Army Jim worked for Smith International and retired after over...

Mike Newland
Jun 21, 2013
Charles Michael Mike Newland, resident of Blackwell Oklahoma, died Friday evening June 21, 2013 in the company of his family. He was 59 years old. Mike was born January 2, 1954 in New Orleans Louisiana, the son of Harold Eugene Newland of Ponca City and Judy Irene Gates Newland of Garland Texas. Attended school in Garland Texas, married and...

Marion Cerre
Jun 20, 2013
Marion Ella Cerre, longtime resident of the White Eagle community, passed Thursday, June 20, 2013 at her home. She was 91 years of age. Marion was born August 11, 1921 at White Eagle, the daughter of Daniel McDugan and Alfreida Others McDugan. She attended schools at White Eagle and Carlisle. Until just recently she was a very active member...

Angela Hein
Jun 18, 2013
Angela Helena Hein, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 85 years of age. Angela was born July 3, 1927 in Whittemore, Iowa, the daughter of Michael J. Thul and Clara Dahlhauser Thul. She moved to the Blackwell, Oklahoma in 1945 where she was employed as a telephone...