Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Clarence Cook
Feb 11, 2010
Clarence Wayne Sonny Cook, former resident of Ponca City, passed on February 11, 2010 in Midwest City, Oklahoma. He was 90. Sonny was born April 9, 1919 in Ponca City, the son of Arthur Calvin Cook and Bertha Ethrel Summers Cook. He grew up working on his fathers ranch in Osage County. He was a graduate of Burbank High...

Emma Austin
Feb 3, 2010
Emma Austin, resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 87. Emma was born July 10, 1922 in Pineville, Missouri, the daughter of Ralph Johnson and Myrtle Wylie Johnson. She graduated from Pineville High School in 1939 and later attended Neosho, Missouri Junior College. She was married...

Charlotte Hutson
Feb 2, 2010
Charlotte Chloe Hutson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at her home. She was 76. Charlotte was born September 16, 1933 in Great Bend, Kansas, the daughter of Milo Smith and Doris Stultz Smith. She moved with her family to the Ponca City area at a young age where she received her early education....

Ramona Wright
Jan 28, 2010
Ramona L. Wright, Shidler area resident since 1953, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at her home. She was 81 years of age. Ramona was born on August 30, 1928 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma to Neal Clark Panther and Viney A. Tannahill Panther. She grew up in Pawhuska. She married Harley Ray Wright on March 6, 1952 in Clovis,...

Dawn Sloss
Jan 26, 2010
Dawn Marie Kemble Sloss, former resident of White Eagle, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2010 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 80 years of age. Dawn was born December 19, 1929 at White Eagle, Oklahoma, the daughter of William Kemble and Mary Horsechief Kemble. She attended the White Eagle Schools. She was married to John Sloss in May of 1949...

Hattie Leyda
Jan 25, 2010
Hattie Marie Libbey Leyda, longtime resident of Westminster Village, passed Monday morning, January 25, 2010 at Westminster Village. She was 102 years of age. Hattie was born April 7, 1907 in the Eureka Springs, Arkansas area, the second of six children born to Joel Harrison Libbey and Stella May Bridgeman Libbey. At age 12 her mother died leaving her...

Harrison Roy
Jan 22, 2010
Harrison Emery Roy, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday evening, January 22, 2010 in Wichita, Kansas. He was 61. Harrison was born January 3, 1949 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Emery Roy and Georgia Winifred Cries for Ribs Roy. He attended the Ponca City Schools. He was married to Molly Tannehill in 1982. Roy was a member...

Sarah Kihega
Jan 21, 2010
Sarah Skye Kihega, a 23 year old OtoeMissouria tribal member passed this life to be with her beloved relatives on Thursday, January 21, 2010 in Mescalero, New Mexico. Greeting her in glory are grandfather, Alfred Skye, brother Richard White, grandparents Richard and Bernice Saunders Kihega and uncle Roger Lee Kihega. She is from the following families: White Cloud, Arkeketa,...

Verna Rhoades
Jan 15, 2010
Verna Frances Rhoades, longtime resident of Marland, passed away on Friday, January 15, 2010 at her home. She was 90 years old. Frances was born June 19, 1919 in Agra, Oklahoma to Charles H. Hindes and Minnie M. Trammel Hindes. She was raised in Ripley, Oklahoma. Frances married Winfrey Windy Daniel Rhoades on February 26, 1938 in Monte Vista,...

Naomi Eagle
Jan 5, 2010
Naomi Mae Eagle, Ponca City resident, passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 71. Naomi was born on February 7, 1938 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Hugh Eagle and Hattie McDonald. She was a member of the Ponca Tribe Blood Clan Thexhida and also a past Ponca Princess. She was a...

Marino Leonetti
Jan 3, 2010
Greg Leonetti, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 59. Marino Gregory Leonetti was born on August 18, 1950 in Los Angeles, California to Marino Eugene Leonetti and Patricia L. Peterson Leonetti. He graduated from Valley High School in Santa Ana, California. After serving in the United...

Jesse Brown
Dec 29, 2009
Jesse Brown, resident of rural Osage County, passed Tuesday, December 29, 2009 in Oklahoma City. He was 46. Jesse was born July 19, 1963 in Ponca City, the son of Leonard Fred Brown and Edna May Morgan Brown. He was a 1981 graduate of Ponca City High School. He was employed as a maintenance electrician with Air Systems Components...

Ed Morris
Dec 28, 2009
Ed Morris, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, December 28, 2009 at his home. He was 75. Ed was born March 30, 1934 at Ninnekah, Oklahoma, the youngest of 13 children born to Clyde Morris and Minnie Boswell Morris. He was a 1952 graduate of Bradley, Oklahoma High School. He was married to Lucinda Ward on July 8,...

Mary Dodson
Dec 10, 2009
Mary Catherine Cathy Dodson, former Ponca City resident, passed away on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at Grace Living Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She was 81 years old. Cathy was born on January 23, 1928 in Webb City, Oklahoma to William Leonard Cearley and Ecta Oma Murrell Cearley. She attended Shidler Public Schools and graduated with the class of 1941....

Teresa Pantel-Harvey
Dec 2, 2009
Teresa Ann Pantel-Harvey, former resident of the Ponca City community, passed away Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at the Lawton Indian Hospital. She was 54. Teresa was born October 22, 1955 at Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Frank Pantel and Elizabeth Brave Pantel and was raised by her grandparents, Albert and Edith Waters. Teresa grew up in the Bo-Dock community...

Alan Blueback
Nov 27, 2009
Alan Lee Blueback, White Eagle resident, passed away on Friday, November 27, 2009 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 57 years old. Alan was born on May 4, 1952 to Eugene Brown and Sylvenia Blueback in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He married Catherine Louise Garriott on February 10, 1994 at the Ponca Indian Methodist Church. Alan had many...

Laura Kerr-Smith
Nov 27, 2009
Laura Kerr-Smith was born July 17, 1928 in Hamilton, Kansas, attending Hamilton schools. She passed away on November 27, 2009 in Wheeler, Texas, at the age of 81 years, 4 months and 10 days. She married Joe M. Kerr on October 18, 1946. He preceded her in death on October 1, 1982. She was employed by Scat Communication and...

Margaret Miller
Nov 24, 2009
Margaret E. Miller, resident of Ponca City, passed on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 78 years of age. Margaret was born February 17, 1931 at Two Egg, Florida, the only child of John Eugene Duce and Maxie Griffin Duce. She attended and graduated from Marianna, Florida schools. She was married to Francis...

Jerry Johnson
Nov 21, 2009
Jerry Lee Johnson, resident of Ponca City, passed Saturday, November 21, 2009 at his home. He was 70 years of age. Jerry was born October 24, 1939 at Rifle, Colorado, the son of Howard P. Johnson and Lucille DeChant Johnson. He attended schools in Rifle, Colorado. He was married to Barbara Jean DuVall in the early 1960s. The couple...

Vera Mcclelland
Nov 21, 2009
Vera H. McClelland, resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, November 21, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 75 years of age. Vera was born January 7, 1934 in rural Depew, Oklahoma, the daughter of William Thompson and Opal Wheeler Thompson. She attended the Depew Schools. She was married to Marvin McClelland in 1989 with the couple...