Nov 5, 2008

Raymond L. Bivin, resident of Shidler, died Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at his home. He was 78 years of age. Raymond was born on November 27, 1929, in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Ferrel C. and Margaret E. Dewitt Bivin. The family moved to Shidler when he was two years old, where he graduated from Shidler High School in...

Nov 5, 2008

Nancy Hope Sober, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at Westminster Village. She was 83. Hope was born January 4, 1925 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Tom Smith and Mai M. Carter Smith. She was inducted into the United States Navy on July 3, 1945 and served as a Navy Wave as a...

Nov 4, 2008

Donald Claude Davis, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 72. Don was born August 21, 1936 in Ponca City, the son of Cole Thomas Davis and Sophie Cobb Davis. He was a 1954 graduate of Ponca City High School and in that same year...

Nov 4, 2008

Evelyn M. Newman, lifelong resident of Ponca City community, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2008 in Stillwater. She was 93. Evelyn was born December 10, 1914 in Ponca City, the daughter of Michael Seigler and Emma Deda Seigler. She attended the Ponca City Schools. She was married to Lloyd V. Newman on November 22, 1945 in Ponca City. She...

Nov 2, 2008

Margaret Anita Ray Himbury, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was 85. Anita was born the daughter of Charles Arthur Ray Sr. and Orka Bell Ray on July 31, 1923 in Pittsburg, Kansas. She grew up in Pittsburg, Kansas, and graduated from Pittsburg High School...

Oct 30, 2008

Oct 30, 2008

Neil Brown, resident of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed away on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at his home surrounded by his beloved family. He was 76. Neil was born the son of Gordon Azuriah Brown and Edna Ellen Shreve Brown on March 21, 1932 in Enid, Oklahoma. He grew up in Covington, Oklahoma and graduated from Covington High School in...

Oct 27, 2008

Margaret Delorous Bonner Chappell, resident of Newkirk, formerly of Shidler, OK, passed away on October 27, 2008 at the age of 86 years old at the Newkirk Nursing Center. Born February 7, 1922 to Katie Mae Auld Bonner and Clarence F. Bonner in the old town of Dilworth, Oklahoma. She received her education in the Dilworth Schools, where she...

Oct 26, 2008

Thelma R. Buffalohead, longtime resident of the Ponca City area, passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 85. Thelma was born December 26, 1922 near Ponca City, the daughter of Thomas Roy and Lizzie Makes Cloud Roy. She received her education in the Pawnee Schools. She was married to Thurman Buffalohead on...

Oct 26, 2008

Oct 20, 2008

Zelma Irene Sneed Cauthon, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Monday, October 20, 2008. She was 77. Zelma was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma to Tom and Lillian Lola Brown Sneed on May 20, 1931. She attended Lone Chimney Grade School and Pawnee High School. She met Virgil Sam Cauthon in Pawnee, Oklahoma and they were married on February...

Oct 20, 2008

Emma Jane Jeannie Robbins, resident of Marland, Oklahoma passed away on Monday, October 20, 2008 at her home surrounded by family. She was 71. Jeannie was born the daughter of Harry Menkhoff and Jessie Elizabeth Mercer Menkhoff in Liverpool, Ohio on March 30, 1937. On September 20, 1955 she married Bill Robbins in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and to this...

Oct 17, 2008

Cameron Kamoo Page, resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma passed away on Friday, October 17, 2008 at St. Anthonys Hospital surrounded by his family. He was 57. Cameron was born the son of Virgil Page and Nellie Bonnie Kent McElroy on January 30, 1951 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He grew up in Ponca City, Oklahoma and graduated from Concho Indian School....

Oct 15, 2008

Oneita Underwood Gargiulo, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. She was 88. Oneita was born to Thomas Lee Underwood and Betsy Beulla Patterson Underwood on January 27, 1920 in Talihina, Oklahoma. Oneita married Anthony Angelo Gargiulo on October 27, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York where the couple made their home. She was employed as...

Oct 14, 2008

Alvin A.C. Calhoun Holmes Jr., resident of Ponca City, passed away on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 84. Alvin was born on November 16, 1923 to Alvin Calhoun Holmes Sr. and Alpha Ward Pugh Holmes in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A.C. served in the United States Army in Germany during WWII and...

Oct 11, 2008

Roy James Long Jr., resident of Shidler, passed away Saturday, October 11, 2008 at St. Anthonys Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was 84. Roy was born April 22, 1924 in Pershing, Oklahoma, the son of Roy James Long Sr. and Johnnie Mabel Sigler Long. He was a graduate of Nowata High School. Immediately after high school, in May of...

Oct 2, 2008

Joe Lynn Presson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday morning, October 2, 2008 at the Integris Blackwell Regional Hospital. He was 72. Joe was born November 25, 1935 in Ponca City, the son of Charles Presson and Imogene Strouse Presson. He was a 1954 graduate of Ponca City High School. Joe entered the United States Army on...

Oct 1, 2008

Ruth Warrior Simpson, resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 1, 2008 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 72. Ruth was born February 24, 1936 on the Ponca Indian Reservation, the daughter of Amos Mitchell Warrior and Irene LeClair Warrior. She was a 1955 graduate of Ponca City High School and was the first person in Ponca City High...

Sep 30, 2008

Fran Garrison, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 80. Fran was born on January 25, 1928 in Ponca City, the daughter of Guy Lane and Bessie Edmiston Lane. She attended Ponca City schools and after graduation, art school in Kansas City. She married Jeff Garrison on...

Sep 27, 2008

Jo Celestine Swanson Wiehle, longtime rural Ralston resident, passed away Saturday, September 27, 2008 at her home. She was 82. Jo was born January 17, 1926 in Kaw City, the daughter of Joseph Newton Newt Swanson and Maudie Fronkier Swanson. She moved with her family as a child to the Little Chief community and was a graduate of Fairfax...