Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Russell Shupe
Oct 31, 2011
Dr. Russell Dwayne Shupe, 68, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on October 31, 2011. Russell was born on January 14, 1943 in Arkansas City, Kansas the son of Ralph O. and Helen M. Shupe. In 1949 the family moved to Newkirk, Oklahoma where Russell started school on the 1st grade. He graduated from Newkirk...

Don Brunhoeber
Oct 30, 2011
Don Brunhoeber, 89, of Edmond, formerly of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, October 30, 2011 at the Mercy Health Center of Oklahoma City. Don was born on July 12, 1922 in Ponca City to Edward and Leona Wright Brunhoeber. Don Graduated Ponca City High School in 1940 and then went to work for Midwest Creamery and joined the U.S....

Elinor Neese
Oct 27, 2011
Elinor Jean Neese, 84, lifelong resident of Ponca City, Passed away Thursday, October 27, 2011 at her residence. Elinor Neese was born February 9, 1927 in Ponca City to Ernest G. and Freida Hunsaker Hamlin. Elinor was a graduate of Ponca City High School and a homemaker raising four daughters. She was employed as a telephone operator for Citi...

Mike Gallagher
Oct 24, 2011
Mike CHICO Gallagher, 60, of Ponca City, left this world on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 at St. Marys Medical Center in Enid, OK. Chico was born on Dec. 4, 1950 in Ponca City to Glenn Foster and Elaine Margaret Switzer Gallagher. Chico was a POHI graduate, class of 69. He met Patricia Patty Bowhay in 1977, while working at...

Tawn Senseman
Oct 22, 2011
Tawn Eugene Pepsi Man Senseman, resident of Ponca City, Osage County, passed Saturday, October 22, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 57 years of age. Tawn was born November 4, 1953 in Ponca City, the son of Dale Eugene and Viola D. Andersen Senseman. He attended Garfield School and was a graduate of Ponca City High...

Gwen Leake
Oct 20, 2011
Gwen Leake, longtime Ponca City area resident, died Thursday, October 20, 2011 at her home following a short battle with cancer. She was 75 years of age. Gwendolyn Fern Ringgold Leake was born December 11, 1935 to Elsie Lee LongRinggold and Paul Loyt Ringgold in Ponca City. On May 24, 1952 she married JC Leake at the First Baptist...

Wanetta Zink
Oct 19, 2011
Wanetta Lucelle Zink, former resident of the Webb City and Shidler communities, passed Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 86 years of age. Mrs. Zink was born December 8, 1924 in Kansas, the daughter of Thomas Elmer Guffey and Birdie Ruth Thompson Guffey. She was married to Cecil A. Zink on...

Edna Nelson
Oct 8, 2011
Edna Imogene McCune Nelson, 85, of Ponca City, OK, passed away Saturday, October 8, 2011 at Shawn Manor Nursing Home. Jean was born on October 31, 1925 in Ponca City, OK to George and Ethel Wright McCune. Edna grew up in and around the Ponca City area. In 1947, she married Elmer Ray Nelson and to this union, seven...

Rachel Denton
Oct 7, 2011
Rachel Delores Denton, 77, of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, October 7, 2011. Rachel was the youngest of ten children being born on June 20th, 1934 to Wilburn and Maude Lee Bryant Miller in Pampa, Texas. Six weeks after her birth, the family moved to Yoakum, Texas. Rachel graduated from Yoakum High School in May of 1952. Rachel...

Ersa Frost
Oct 5, 2011
Ersa Juanita Roebuck Frost, 92, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 at Shawn Manor Nursing Home in Ponca City. Ersa was born on March 1, 1919, in Dilworth, OK, to Ben and Mary Buell Hahn. When she was five years old the family moved to Tulsa and then to Pawhuska, where she attended school and graduated...

Betty Klinger
Sep 30, 2011
Betty Lou Ball Klinger, 84, of Ponca City, joined her Lord and Savior on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 at Ponca City Medical Center. Betty was born on May 1, 1927 in Ponca City, OK to Maurice A. and Zenola Smith Ball. Betty was a lifelong area resident, was of the Christian Faith and a Graduate of Ponca City High...

Bobby Dowell
Sep 29, 2011
Bobby Joe Dowell, 64, of Ponca City, passed away at his brother Everett Dowells home on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Bobby was born on Jan. 3, 1947 in Ponca City to Jessie Lee Frank and Jennie AugustaStout Dowell. Bobby was a master at carpentry and his favorite hobby was fishing with family. Bobby was preceded in death by his...

Maynard Hinman
Sep 29, 2011
Maynard Hinman, longtime resident of Pawhuska, passed Thursday, September 29, 2011 in Fairfax, Oklahoma. He was 69 years of age. Maynard was born February 10, 1942 in White Eagle, Oklahoma, the son of Roy Hinman and Evalina Barnaby Hinman. He has a Masters degree in Religion from Wesleys University in Batlesville, Oklahoma. Maynard travelled around the United States doing...

Sarah Ray
Sep 23, 2011
On a frigid morning, January 4, 1995 Sarah Virginia Ray danced her way into our life. When she was born, she was whisked away because she was so sick. On September 23, 2011, she was once again whisked away from us. Sarah was a very good baby who seldom cried. She had a soft voice and spoke very quickly...

Jacquelin Sargent
Sep 23, 2011
Jacquelin Jackie R. Sargent, resident of Ponca City, went to be with her Lord and Savior Friday, September 23, 2011 at her home. She was 73 years of age. Jackie was born August 3, 1938 in Yukon, Oklahoma, the daughter of Loyal Baker and Helen Nusz Baker. As a child, she grew up on the family farm in Okeene,...

Todd Hammans
Sep 18, 2011
Todd Alan Hammans, 50, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011 in the Ponca City Medical Center. Todd was born on May 8, 1961 in Ponca City to Robert Lee and Mary Lou Rhodes Hammans. Todd was a lifelong area resident, a carpenter by trade, he was of the Protestant Faith, belonged to Narcotics Anonymous. Todd was...

M.J. Jones
Sep 15, 2011
M.J. Bud Jones, resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 64 years of age. Bud was born August 16, 1947 in Shidler, Oklahoma, the son of Johnny Ivan Jones and Deloris J. Cole Jones. He attended the McCord School and was a 1965 graduate of Ponca City High...

Nancy Snow
Sep 13, 2011
Nancy Sue Curless Snow, 68, of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in the Ponca City Medical Center. Nancy was born on October 23, 1943 in Arkansas City, KS to William E. and Dorothy L Grey Curless. Nancy was retired from CONOCO as a housekeeper, also retired from Albertsons and had been a cosmetologist. Nancy was a...

Michael Sardina
Sep 13, 2011
Michael Phillip Sardina, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 63 years of age. Michael was born February 27, 1948 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Dominic Sardina and Jean Passheim Sardina. He graduated from Dominquez High School in Paramount, California, later attending college at Cerritos, California. He was...

Stanley Smith
Sep 12, 2011
Stanley Allen Smith, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, September 12, 2011 at his home. He was 72 years of age. Mr. Smith was born October 23, 1938 in Blackwell, Oklahoma. He was a graduate of Tonkawa High School. He served his country in the United States Marines and was honorably discharged on May 28, 1962. He then earned...