Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Bobbie Thomas
Jul 21, 2009
Bobbie Bob Thomas, resident of Ponca City, passed July 21, 2009 at the Newkirk Nursing Center. He was 82. Bobbie was born on October 14, 1926 near Binger, Oklahoma, the son of Norman Thomas and Clesta Fleting Thomas. He was raised on a cotton farm near Binger. His early schooling was in the Binger area schools. He entered the...
Elvus Farrow
Jul 14, 2009
Elvus E.J. Jerry Farrow, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 68. E.J. was born the son of Aven Orel Farrow and Hazel Luciell Peyton Farrow on March 25, 1941 at his home in Cushing, Oklahoma. He grew up in Shidler, Oklahoma and attended Shidler Public schools...
Mary Vann
Jul 13, 2009
Mary E. Vann, 89, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Monday, July 13, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. Mary was born on August 14, 1919 the daughter of Nelson Franklin and Maud Newberry Franklin in Hennepin, Oklahoma. Mary married George Columbus Vann of Cedar, Oklahoma on August 18, 1950 in Newkirk, Oklahoma. She was an active...
Gary Williams
Jul 5, 2009
Gary Robert Williams, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, July 5, 2009. He was 60 years of age. Gary was born January 12, 1949 in Ponca City, the son of Dale B. Williams and Lenetta Mae Lynn Hewitt Williams. He was a 1967 graduate of Ponca City High School and a 1969 graduate of Northern Oklahoma College of...
James Dressen
Jul 4, 2009
James Dale Jim Dressen, lifelong resident of Ponca City passed on Independence Day, July 4, 2009 at his home after a three year courageous battle with cancer. He was 61 years of age. Jim was born April 6, 1948 in Ponca City, the son of Dale Glen Dressen and Ruth Elizabeth Reed Dressen. He attended both Jefferson and Lincoln...
Paul Martin
Jul 3, 2009
Paul Wilton Martin Paul Wilton Martin, resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, July 3, 2009 at the Ponca Medical Center. He was 88. Paul was born May 13, 1921 at Elk City, Oklahoma, the son of Lewis Martin and Mary Deweese Martin. He received his early education in the Elk City and Canute Schools.He was married to Altha Burnham...
Bea Hudson
Jun 26, 2009
Beatrice Bea E. Hudson, resident of Blackwell, Oklahoma passed away on Friday, June 26, 2009 at Hillcrest Manor in Blackwell. She was 91. Beatrice was born the daughter of Herbert Hudson and Thelma M. Pux Hudson on February 19, 1918 in Red Rock, Oklahoma. She attended Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma and then moved to California to start her...
Elmer Townley
Jun 26, 2009
Elmer J.R. Townley, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, June 26, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 79. J.R. was born the son of Elmer Townley and Elsie Rosalie Anderson Townley on March 19, 1930 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He married Doris Hill of Muskogee, Oklahoma on March 19, 1948 in Ponca City and...
Ressie Nelson
Jun 23, 2009
Ressie Kuxhaus Nelson, former resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Sun City, California near her daughters home. She was 92. Ressie was born March 29, 1917 at Okeene, Oklahoma, the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Nusz. She resided in Ponca City from 1953 to 2008. She owned and operated Wimpys and The Pioneer Grill for...
Timothy Arnswald
Jun 23, 2009
Timothy Tim Arnold Arnswald, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, June 23, 2009. He was 43years of age. Tim was born March 17, 1966 in Hollywood, California, the son of Darrell Walter Arnswald and Edlouise Kay Mendenhall Arnswald. He was a 1984 graduate of Ponca City High School. He married Julie Carithers in 1989 and to this union were...
Joe Ball Sr.
Jun 22, 2009
Joe Allen Ball Sr., resident of Blackwell, passed away on Monday June 22, 2009 at the Northwest Specialty Hospital in Enid, Oklahoma. He was 86. Joe was born the son of Otis Lee Ball and Kittie Crain Ball on March 3, 1923 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He grew up in Bartlesville and graduated from Ochelata High School. He enlisted in...
Rita Anderson
Jun 17, 2009
Rita Mary Anderson, resident of Las Vegas, Nevada passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at Nathan Adelson Hospice West in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was 80. Rita was born the daughter of James Flynn and Mabel Stanton Flynn on August 30, 1928 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Rita married George Anderson, the love...
Darrel Davis
Jun 16, 2009
Darrel Davis, Your Friendly OTASCO Man and longtime Ponca City business owner, passed away early Tuesday morning, June 16th, 2009 at his home. Darrel was born on April 21, 1933, in McCurtain, Oklahoma, and moved to Ponca City at the age of ten. When he was sixteen, he began working at OTASCO as a tire buster. After graduating from...
Addenia Donnelly
Jun 14, 2009
Addenia Mozelle Donnelly, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was 74. Addenia was born the daughter of Benjamin Albert Foster and Mellie Marie Kidder Foster on August 2, 1934 in Augusta, Kansas. She married Carl Neil Donnelly on November 1, 1949 in El Dorado, Kansas....
Cindy Crites
Jun 13, 2009
Cindy Carol Crites, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Saturday, June 13, 2009 at her home. She was 58. Cindy was born March 2, 1951 in Ponca City, the daughter of Robert Crites and Elda Valentine Frazier Crites. She received her early education in the Ponca City Schools. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of...
Nellie Zuccaro
Jun 12, 2009
Nellie Warrior Zuccaro went to join in her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on June 12, 2009, after an extended illness. Nellie, E Nee Thah Be, was born to Sylvester Warrior and Violet White Star Warrior on September 29, 1950. Nellie was a member of the Blood Clan of the Poncas and was proud of her heritage. She lived...
Rick Coursey
Jun 12, 2009
Rick Lee Coursey, lifelong resident of Blackwell, Oklahoma passed away on Friday, June 12, 2009 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He was 51. Rick was born the son of Clifford Lloyd Coursey and Peggy Ann Clinton on May 25, 1958 in Blackwell, Oklahoma. He grew up in Blackwell and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1976. He was employed with...
Helen Coon
Jun 6, 2009
Helen Marie Coon, longtime resident of Ponca City, went home to be with her Lord on Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Oklahoma City. She was 72. Helen was born February 4, 1937 in the family home at Hill City, Kansas. She was born to Alva E. Ambrosier and Doris Marie Hendershot Ambrosier. She received her early education in the...
Bobbie Denton
Jun 4, 2009
Bobbie Everett Denton, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Thursday, June 04, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 80. Bobbie was born the son of Earl Brandon Denton and Bertha Kitchel Denton on November 17, 1928 in Shidler, Oklahoma. He attended Shidler Public Schools as well as Shidler Methodist Church. Bobbie enlisted in the Regular...
Tom Short
Jun 3, 2009
Thomas Tom J. Short, went home to be with his Lord and Savior June 3, 2009. Tom was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on April 6, 1922 to Robert and Myrtle Short. At twelve years old his family moved to Seminole. While in school he lettered in track and basketball and earned his Eagle Scout badge. After graduating Pleasant View...
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