Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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James Harbeson
Feb 19, 2011
James H. Harbeson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 86 years of age. James was born January 19, 1925 at Red Eagle, Oklahoma, the son of Rex Joseph Harbeson and Laura Mae Shelton Harbeson. He attended the Webb City and Shidler schools, graduating from...

Hugh Rouse
Feb 17, 2011
Hugh Frederick Fred Rouse, former resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Oklahoma City. He was 85 years of age. Hugh was born December 4, 1925 at New Hanover, North Carolina, the son of J.F. Rouse and Eva Waters Rouse. He was married to Velma Jean Rouse on January 6, 1945 at Ada, Oklahoma. The...

Sundance Warrior Jr.
Feb 17, 2011
Funeral services 2 p.m. Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Ponca Indian Baptist Church. Burial in the Ponca Tribal Cemetery. Survived by his parents, Sundance Warrior Sr. and Joy Roy.

Amanda Clinton
Feb 17, 2011
Amanda Lee Clinton, 72 year resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2011 at her home. She was 77 years of age. Amanda was born May 3, 1933 in Oklahoma City, the daughter of Joe and Valda Johnson. She attended Roosevelt, Ponca City Jr. and Sr. High School. She was married to Don Clinton on August 12,...

Chris Mcceary
Feb 17, 2011
Christine Chris McCeary, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was 56 years of age. Chris was born March 4, 1954 at Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of K.C. Smith and Ruth Lucille Yandell Smith. She was a 1972 graduate of Fairfax High School. She then earned an...

Cathy Strain
Feb 16, 2011
Cathy Ann Gonterman Strain, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 55 years of age. Cathy was born August 24, 1955 in Ponca City, the daughter of Everett Gonterman and Sharon Bradley Gonterman. She was a 1974 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to...

Maisie Cranford
Feb 15, 2011
Maisie Gewndoline Cranford, resident of Ponca City, passed February 15, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 78. Maisie was born November 30, 1932 at South EndonSea, England, the daughter of William Preston and Ethel LangleyPreston. She graduated from high school in Oxford, England. She had been employed as a hospital worker while in England. She moved...

Lorrine Burnett
Feb 14, 2011
Lorrine Burnett, resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday morning, February 14, 2011 at the Integris Blackwell Regional Hospital. She was 84 years of age. Lorrine was born June 19, 1926 at Denoya, Oklahoma, the daughter of T.C. Burrus and Ella Mae Wren Burrus. She was a 1945 graduate of Burbank High School where she excelled at basketball. She...

Terri Wickens
Feb 12, 2011
Terri JoDel Wickens, resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, February 12, 2011 at her home. She was 47 years of age. Terri was born March 8, 1963 in Ponca City, the daughter of Guy Marlar and Saundra Kay Ray. She was a 1982 graduate of Jones, Oklahoma High School. Her enjoyments included spending time with her daughter, growing...

Peggy Mayo
Feb 12, 2011
Peggy Ann Mayo, lifelong resident of Ponca City, died at her home early Saturday morning, February 12, 2011 after a lengthy illness. She was 72 years of age. Peggy was born July 29, 1938 at Mesa, Arizona, the daughter of Harold Don Rudolph and Nita Merle Nelson Rudolph. She was married to Harland Lee Mayo in 1954 and to...

Lucille Harrah
Feb 11, 2011
Lucille Ann Harrah, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday morning, February 11, 2011 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 91 years of age. Lucille was born November 10, 1919 at Okarche, Oklahoma, the daughter of Henry M. Lodes and Catherine Wiewel Lodes. She was a graduate of the Holy Trinity Catholic School in Okarche....

Florence Cole
Feb 7, 2011
Florence Calls Him Cole, longtime resident of the Ponca City area, passed away Monday morning, February 7, 2011 at her home in Ponca City. She was 83 years of age. Her given Indian name was GlaydatheyXa which means stubborn hawk. Florence was born April 9, 1927 on the family homestead on the Yellow Berry allotment of the Bressie community....

Tammy Swopes
Feb 6, 2011
Tonya Kay Tammy Caudill Swopes joined her heavenly father on February 6, 2011. Tammy was born October 18, 1961 to Rita Nelson Caudill and Charles Jim Caudill in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Tammy graduated from Ponca City High School in 1979 where she was very active as a cheerleader and an excellent student. She also worked at the Poncan Theater...

Donald Ross
Feb 4, 2011
Don Ross, age 71, went into the arms of Jesus on Friday, February 4, 2011. He is now free of pain after almost eight years of battling cancer. Don was born July 25, 1939, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Don was the seventh of nine children born to John and Zelma Withers Ross. Don received his education in Shidler, Oklahoma,...

Nellie Waddle
Feb 3, 2011
Nellie Joan Stanley Waddle, died in the loving arms of her husband, Herb Waddle on his 80th birthday, February 3, 2011 in their home in Kaw City. She was 74 years of age. Joan was born May 9th, 1936 in Catsby, Oklahoma, the eighth child born to Oscar J. Stanley and Jessie L Barrett Stanley. Joan grew up in...

Albert Walters
Feb 1, 2011
Albert Alvin Walters, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at his home. He was 80 years of age. Albert was born February 14, 1930 in the Eastern part of Oklahoma, the son of Paul Walters and Ellen Hubbard. At the age of 17 Albert moved to Oregon where he began employment as a logger. In the...

Sue Juckes
Jan 30, 2011
Frances Sue Juckes was born on April 2nd, 1936. Sue was the daughter of Carrie Temple Brown and Austin Howard Schofield. The oldest of three children she had one brother, Paul Howard Schofield and a sister Edith Gertrude Schofield Finch. Though most people thought Sue was too forceful a presence to die, she did pass away on January 30th,...

Billie Winkelman
Jan 29, 2011
Billie Maxine Winkelman, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, January 29, 2011 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. She was 74 year of age. Billie was born June 2, 1936 in Ponca City, the daughter of Russell Brown and Elsie Day Brown. She attended the Ponca City Schools and completed nursing school through the then St. Josephs...