Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Richard Whiting
Nov 25, 2012
Richard C. Whiting, 79, passed away Sunday, November 25 at Deaconess Hospital in OKC due to complications from a stroke he suffered in October 2011. Richard aka: Red and RC was born on June 2, 1933 in Lamont, OK to Harry and Doris Umbarger Whiting. Richard grew up in the Lamont area and graduated from Lamont High School. In...
Dorothy Kelsey
Nov 20, 2012
In Loving Memory Dorothy Jean Davis Kelsey died Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 at the Fairview Regional Medical Center, Fairview, Oklahoma. She was 87. She was born September 25th, 1925, at Shidler, Oklahoma, the daughter of John William and Nora Alice Lagenour Davis. Dorothy attended school in Denoya and Shidler, graduating from Shidler High School in 1944. On December 3rd,...
Johnnie Schooley
Nov 20, 2012
Johnnie Wayne Schooley, SR., 61, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 in Sun City Center, FL. Johnnie was born on December 23, 1950 in Stillwater, OK to Junior and Elsa Cook Schooley. Johnnie attended and graduated Ponca City schools. After graduation he enlisted in the US Army and retired as a Staff Sergeant after 23 years of service. Johnnie...
Jay Isham
Nov 13, 2012
Jay Allan Isham, 48 of White Eagle, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in OKC. Jay was born on June 22, 1964 in Pawnee, OK to Richard and Elizabeth Waters Isham. Jay lived most of his life in this area. He was a tile setter. He loved to hunt, fish, go to church and...
Edward Gammon
Nov 7, 2012
Edward Corky Gammon, 77, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 in the Fairfax Nursing Home. Corky was born on Dec. 7, 1934 in Ponca City to Ray Albert and Madgie Lucille Graham Gammon. A lifelong area resident, Corky graduated from Marland High School. He was very active in basketball. He married his high school sweetheart, Patricia...
Sherry Potter
Nov 6, 2012
Sherry C. Potter, 71, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Sherry was born on Nov. 4, 1941 in Seminole, OK to Melvin and Ruby Smith Kitchen. At the age of 4, Sherry moved to Tonkawa, OK. She attended Lincoln Elementary School and Tonkawa High School. While in her freshman year there, she sang in...
Elsa Roberts
Nov 4, 2012
Elsa Mae Roberts, 71, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Ponca City Medical Center. Mae was born on August 26, 1941 in Venus, TX to Erhardt and Ella Johnson Jensen. Mae moved to Ponca City as an infant, graduated Ponca City High School and was a veteran of the US Army serving from Aug 1959...
Zack Martin
Nov 3, 2012
Zack Leon Martin, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, November 3, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 87 years of age. Zack was born October 28, 1925 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, born the fifth and youngest child to Zack and Annie Miller Martin. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven and after...
Diana Phillips
Nov 1, 2012
Diana Ropp Phillips59, of Ponca City, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on November 1, 2012 at her residence. Diana was born on December 3, 1952 in Ponca City. Diana lived her life in the most beautiful place her eyes had seen in the U.S.A., The Smoky Mountains. Diana had worked for many years as a...
Peggy Harris
Oct 31, 2012
Peggy Ann Arkeketa Harris, former resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 31, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 65 years of age. In loving memory of our mother, sister, auntie, niece, grandmother and great grandmother. Peggy was born May 14, 1947 at Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Freeman Roe Arkeketa and Myrtle Roy Arkeketa. She attended the...
Patsy Bales-Owens
Oct 30, 2012
Patsy Ruth BalesOwens, 70, of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at her residence. Patsy was born on December 15, 1941 in Madill, OK to James and Ruth Hensley Bales. Patsy moved to Ponca City with her parents at a very early age. She attended Ponca City Schools, graduating from Ponca City High School. Patsy was raised...
Sarah Walker
Oct 29, 2012
Sarah J. Walker, affectionately known as Jean by some, was born Sarah Jane Harrison on December 6th, 1925 at 39 Iola St, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was the second eldest child of Scipio Harrison and Emma Emily L. Clark Harrison. Sarah J. Walker gracefully endured her illness with tremendous bravery and courage. On Monday, October 29th, 2012, at 12:34...
Janice Tabor-Hinman
Oct 29, 2012
Janice Kay TaborHinman, resident of Ponca City, Oklahoma, passed away Monday, October 29, 2012, at Via Christi St Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, she was 55 years of age. Janice was born on March 18, 1957 in Lebanon, Missouri, the daughter of Edwin Hinman and Juanita Collier Hinman. She attended high school in Denver, Colorado and continued her education...
Melba Warledo
Oct 19, 2012
Melba Jo KentWarledo On the beautiful fall morning of October 19, 2012, Melba Jo KentWarledo, Chedahami Buffalo Woman went to be with the Lord when He called her name. Melba was born to Gail Collier and Nina Lavers Kent on December 15, 1933 in Pawnee, Ok. She was raised in the Red Rock, Oklahoma community and was a proud...
Betty Lickliter
Oct 10, 2012
Betty made the transition peacefully to her heavenly home in the care of her family on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at her home in Ponca City. Betty Elaine was born August 3, 1947, the daughter to Eddie and Clara RutherfordGrimley. Betty graduated from Burbank High School in 1965 then continued her education at Northern Oklahoma College. Betty completed her...
Espedita Ramirez
Oct 9, 2012
Mrs. Espedita Ramirez Fierro of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed from this life on October 9, 2012 in Blackwell, Oklahoma at the age of 86 years. Espedita was born April 19, 1926 in Guadalupe Victoria Durango, MX to her parents Luz and Maria Fierro Berumen. Espedita has resided the last 31 years in Ponca City, Oklahoma, previously in Wichita, KS...
Wilma Harrison
Oct 6, 2012
Wilma Lucille Harrison, passed away Saturday, October 6, 2012 at Via Christi Village. She was 98 years of age. Mrs. Harrison was born December 19, 1913 at Elmer, Oklahoma, the daughter of T.W. Bradley and Alta Thrash Bradley. She was a 1933 graduate of Olustee, Oklahoma High School. She was married to James A. Harrison on July 16, 1934...
Donald Sawyer
Oct 5, 2012
Donald Lee Sawyer, 22 of Ponca City, passed away Friday, October 5, 2012 in Oklahoma City. Donald was born on Jan 5, 1990 in Tacoma, Washington to Donald Ray and Venetia Lila Warrior Sawyer. Donald moved to Ponca City at a very early age and attended Ponca City Schools. He was an Auto Detailer. Donald was preceded in death...
Odell Overland
Oct 3, 2012
Odell Sherwin Overland, 66, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at the VA Medical Center in OKC. Odell was born on October 14, 1945 in Pawnee, OK to William and Helen Waters Overland. Odell was a great man he loved to have fun, play and joke. He enjoyed going to the casino. He was a great...
Lamar Brown
Sep 22, 2012
Lamar Curtis Sunshine Brown, 57, of White Eagle, OK, was called back home on Saturday, September 22, 2012. Curtis was born on May 24, 1955 in Pawnee, OK to Eugene Stanley and Mava Roy Brown, SR. Curtis went to White Eagle School, then to Chilocco Indian School. He worked many years for the Ponca Tribe with O.E.M. He enjoyed...
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