Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Uyles Mathews
Feb 2, 2013
Uyles C. Mathews, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Via Christi Village. He was 89 years of age. Uyles was born March 31, 1923 in Ponca City, the son of Bennie Mathews and Elva Waters Mathews. He received his education in the Ponca City Public Schools. Uyles married Maxine Nelson on June 13, 1942...

Dennis Page
Feb 1, 2013
Dennis David Page, resident of Broken Arrow and former resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, February 1, 2013 at the Oklahoma Surgical Center in Tulsa. He was 51 years of age. Dennis was born December 12, 1961 in Ponca City, the son of Eli Littlewalker Page and Ruth Josephine Tyndall Page Chama. He attended Roosevelt and Lincoln grade schools,...

Fredi Keith
Jan 25, 2013
Fredi Regina LaFountain Keith of Ponca City died at home on Jan. 25, 2013 from complications of Alzheimers disease. She was born in Ponca City on July 4, 1936 to Fred and Vida LaFountain. She attended Roosevelt Elementary, Ponca City Junior High and graduated from Ponca City High School in 1954 and attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College NOC. She...

Mary Cleghorn-Vann
Jan 19, 2013
Mary E. CleghornVann, resident of Ponca City, passed Saturday, January 19, 2013 in Tulsa. She was 68 years of age. Mary was born July 25, 1944 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Claude Womack and Mildred Cleghorn. She was a member of the OtoeMissouria Eagle Clan. She attended the Ponca City schools and furthered her education in California. She...

Jose Negrete
Jan 18, 2013
Jose Rodriguez Negrete, resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, January 18, 2013 at his home. He was 53 years of age. Jose was born July 1, 1959 in Plainview, Texas, the son of Francisco Romo Negrete and Andrea Rodriguez Negrete. He attended grade school in Lazbuddie, Texas and senior high school in Dinuba, California where he obtained the nickname...

Buddy Griffith
Jan 16, 2013
Buddy Griffith, longtime area resident, passed Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at his home. He was 84 years of age. Buddy was born October 29, 1928 in the Bressie community, the son of Jessie Griffith and Venus Napp Griffith. He also attended school in the Bressie community. He was married to Wanda Wright on October 4, 1952 in Ponca City....

Reagan Smith
Jan 15, 2013
Reagan Ray Smith, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at his home. He was 64 years of age. Reagan was born October 19, 1948 in Ponca City, the son of George Alta Smith and Betty Jean Offill Smith. He attended the Ponca City Schools. He served his country in the United States Army and was...

Joseph Welch
Jan 9, 2013
Joseph Joe Nelson Welch, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at his home. He was 92 years of age. Joe was born December 2, 1920 in Ponca City, the son of Nelson Herbert Ted Welch and Eulailia Ida Pennock Welch. He attended Washington Grade School and Ponca City Jr. and Sr. High school, graduating in...

Hal Hendrickson
Jan 8, 2013
Hal Hendrickson, longtime rural Ponca City resident, passed Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at the Shawn Manor Nursing Center. He was 81 years of age. Hal was born November 30, 1931 at Uncas, Oklahoma, the son of Clifford Wesley Hendrickson and Florence McClung Hendrickson. He attended the Ponca City Public Schools. Hal served his country in the United States Air...

Bobbie Hibbs
Jan 4, 2013
Bobbie Lee Hibbs, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, January 4, 2013 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 87 years of age. Bobbie was born October 23, 1925 in Miami, Oklahoma, the daughter of Joseph Fain Willson and Emilie Kunzer Willson. She was a graduate of Miami High School. She was married to...

Dennie Goddard
Jan 3, 2013
Dennie Eugene Dennis Goddard, resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, January 3, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 64 years of age. Dennis was born August 21, 1948 in Dodge City, Kansas, the only child of Floyd Delbert Goddard and Elsie Cain Goddard. He was a 1966 graduate of Ponca City High School. Dennis had...

Freeman Arkeketa Jr.
Jan 3, 2013
Freeman Arkeketa Jr., former Ponca City resident, died January 3, 2013 in Tulsa. Freeman was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Freeman Arkeketa and Myrtle Roy Arkeketa. He attended school at Chilocco. After leaving school he married and moved to Tulsa where he resided until his death. He is preceded in death by his parents, grandparents, Ed and...

Donna Havens
Jan 1, 2013
Donna P. Havens passed into the comfort of Jesus arms on January 1, 2013 in Tulsa, OK. A long time Ponca City resident she was born in Kaw City, OK on August 5, l930 to Charles Hazel Cassity Parker. She was known as Donna Jo to family and friends growing up. She graduated from Kaw City, then going on...

Dorothy Mahnke
Dec 31, 2012
Dorothy Dot Mae Mahnke, longtime Ponca City resident, died Monday, December 31, 2012 at Ponca City Nursing Center, in Ponca City. She was 85. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, January 5, 2013, at the First Church of God with Pastor Alan Popken, of the First Church of God in Ponca City, presiding. Interment will be...

Lorraine Sigwing
Dec 30, 2012
Lorraine Moore Sigwing, 68, of Red Rock, passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 at her nephew Thomas Beaver McGlaslins residence. Lorraine was born on Dec. 10, 1944 in Pawnee, OK to Johnny and Minnie Mae English Moore, SR. She was a very proud member of the Owl Clan of the OtoeMissouria Tribe. Lorraine grew up in the Red Rock...

Maxine Weaver
Dec 25, 2012
Maxine Weaver, 87, of Ponca City, Passed away on Christmas Day surrounded by her family. Maxine was born in Alma, AR on March 20 1925 to Lewis and Beulah Lamb Walker. Maxine was preceded in death by her parents, sister Lenora CoxStoner, brother Bill Walker and grandsonShannon Weaver. Around 1930 Maxine moved to Ponca City with her family. Received...

Charles Austin
Dec 14, 2012
Charles Lee Austin, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, December 14, 2012 at Via Christi Village. He was 84 years of age. Charles was born March 10, 1928 four miles south of Ponca City, the son of Harold Austin and Bertha Revell Austin. He was raised by Walt Lyons and his mother Bertha. He attended Grainola grade...

Veda Bristow
Dec 14, 2012
Veda Maxine Bristow, 94, passed away on Friday, December 14, 2012 in Humble, TX. Veda was born on August 15, 1918 in Willow Springs, MO to Robert Bruce and Zephae Mae Keeler Malcom. She was a long time resident of Ponca City when she was very young until she moved to Humble, TX in 2008 to live with her...

V.A. Cauthon
Dec 12, 2012
Virgil A. Sam Cauthon, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 85 years of age. Sam was born November 27, 1927 at Vinita, Oklahoma, the third child born to Robert Andrew Cauthon and Minnie Gladys Bell Cauthon. Sam attended schools in Vinita and Pheasant Hill in rural...