Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Todd Rutledge
Feb 26, 2011
Todd Ryan Rutledge, resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Ponca City. He was 24 years of age. Todd was born May 7, 1986 at Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the son of Dennis Wayne Rutledge and Barbara Sue Nykerk Rutledge. He was a 2004 graduate of VanBuren, Arkansas High School. Todd was employed as a boilermaker for...
Ernest Lewis
Feb 26, 2011
Ernest Ernie Lewis, resident of Kildare, passed away Saturday, February 26, 2011 at his winter home in Harlingen, Texas. He was 75 years of age. Ernie was born September 12, 1935 in Ponca City, the fifth of ten children born to Dorr and Opal Watson Lewis. He was raised on the family homestead claimed in the Oklahoma Land Run...
Mildred Adams
Feb 25, 2011
Mildred Neill Keating Adams passed away Friday, February 25, 2011 at the age of 95. Mildred was born March 29, 1915 on a farm west of Hamilton, Kansas to John Neill and Alma Boydston Neill. She graduated from rural District 89 grade school and in 1933 from Hamilton High School. She was married to Robert J. Keating. Two children...
Betty Pollard
Feb 22, 2011
Betty Pollard, long time resident of Ponca City died Tuesday, February 22nd in Oklahoma City. She was 92. Betty was a devoted daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. Her family always came first. Bettys faith was the other cornerstone of her life. She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church for over forty years where she served in many...
Edith Hurst
Feb 22, 2011
Edith Hurst, loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great, great grandmother died February 22, 2011. Edith was born November 11, 1916 to Henry Clay Dixon and Mary Zone Kittie McCamant Dixon ten miles east of Marland in the Tearney Community, attending elementary school through the 8th grade and later Marland High School. On May 30, 1936 Edith married...
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....




