Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Debra Blackwell
Aug 31, 2009
Debra Ann Blackwell, resident of Shidler, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2009 at home surrounded by her loving family. She was 59. Debra was born the daughter of Calvin Gene Parker and Mary Ellen Parks Parker on June 5, 1950 in Hays, Kansas. She attended Guymon Schools and graduated from Shidler Public Schools in 1968. Debra was a...
Margaret Haley
Aug 29, 2009
Margaret Adelia Bassett Haley, resident of the Red Rock area, passed Saturday, August 29, 2009 in Oklahoma City. She was 69. Margaret was born June 22, 1940 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Joe Bassett and Genevieve Littlecrow Bassett. She received her early education in the Red Rock Schools. She had been employed with the Otoe-Missouria Tribal maintenance department...
Ethel Jorgenson
Aug 23, 2009
Ethel Geneva Jorgenson, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at her home. She was 86. Ethel was born the daughter of Leonard Arthur Maphet and Mille Madeline Decker Maphet in Enid, Oklahoma on September 22, 1922. She grew up in Enid and graduated from Enid High School in 1940. Ethel married Burnell D. Jorgenson...
Dale Battles
Aug 10, 2009
Dale Flynn Battles, longtime resident of Shidler, passed away on Monday, August 10, 2009 at his home. He was 86. Dale was born September 25, 1922 in LaCrosse, Arkansas, the son of Earl Battle and Alta Flynn Battle. He attended the Melbourne, Arkansas area schools. He was married to Allene Thompson on November 24, 1942 in Dewey, Oklahoma. Dale...
Edna Woodall
Aug 7, 2009
Edna Mae Woodall, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, August 7, 2009 at Shawn Manor Nursing Home. She was 88. Edna was born the daughter of E.H. Pete Hunt and Minnie Faye Porter Hunt on February 27, 1921 in Covington, Oklahoma. She attended school in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Edna later married George Ezekiel Woodall Sr. on March 4,...
Elsie Frame
Aug 6, 2009
Elsie Mae Frame, Ponca City Resident, passed away on Thursday, August 6, 2009 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehab Center. She was 89. Elsie was born the daughter of James Wright and Jessie Elizabeth Terwilleger Wright on March 13, 1920 in Osage County near the 9-Mile corner in Oklahoma. She grew up in Osage County and attended Braden...
James Black
Jul 30, 2009
James Wayne Black, former resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, July 30, 2009 in Norman, Oklahoma. He was 86. James was born September 19, 1922 in Garber, Oklahoma, the son of Jesse James Black and Zona D. Burton Black. He was a 1940 graduate of Kingfisher High School. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Reola Fern McFadden...
Helen Dunham
Jul 30, 2009
Helen Coleen Dunham, longtime resident of the Red Rock and Ponca City area, passed Thursday, July 30, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 75. Coleen was born August 30, 1933 in rural Ponca City, the daughter of Herbert Hayes and Gladys Faye Winchell Hayes. She was a graduate of Red Rock High School. She married Charles...
Donna Laramie
Jul 29, 2009
Donna Lynn Laramie, former resident of Ponca City, passed Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Midwest City. She was 60. Donna was born February 26, 1949 in Lucedale, Mississippi, the daughter of DeVaugh Dale Lemke and Bonnie Ruth Naylor Lemke. Her early schooling was received in the Ponca City Public Schools and she graduated from Del City High School. She...
Sarah Cook
Jul 28, 2009
Ponca City resident Sarah Elizabeth Cook, affectionately known as Sarah Beth, entered into the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 in Oklahoma City. She was 30. Sarah was born January 1, 1979 in Ponca City, the first baby of the New Year. She was the daughter of Chris Cook and Sara Jane...
Francine Mendoza
Jul 26, 2009
Francine Dyahne Little Deer Mendoza, resident of Ponca City, went to be with our Lord on Sunday, July 26, 2009. She was 30 years old. Francine was born on April 20, 1979 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Darlene Harjo. She was the granddaughter of Edward Pensoneau and Harriet Collins Pensoneau. She grew up in Ponca City and attended Riverside...
Charles Dunham
Jul 23, 2009
Charles Ray Charlie Dunham, longtime resident of the Red Rock and Ponca City area, passed Thursday, July 23, 2009 in Ponca City. He was 77. Charles was born June 4, 1932 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the son of V.R. Dunham and Lura L. Roberts Dunham. He was a 1950 graduate of Red Rock High School. He married Helen Coleen Hayes...
Clay Donelson
Jul 21, 2009
C.E. Clay Donelson, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, July 21, 2009. He was 49. Clay was born February 9, 1960 in Ponca City, the son of R.L. Donelson and Fannie Beartrack Donelson. He attended the Burbank Elementary School, the Fairfax Middle School and Ponca City High School. He had served on the Grayhorse Dance Committee. Clay was very...
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...




