Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Esther Bolding
Nov 22, 2008
Esther Grace Bolding, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, November 22, 2008 at her home. She was 87. Esther was born May 28, 1921 in Ponca City, the daughter of John Henry Buser and Doris Anna Heinze Buser. She was a 1939 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to Lloyd K. Smith on August...

Lauren Simmons
Nov 21, 2008
Lauren Junior Shorty Simmons, resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, November 21, 2008 at Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 76. Lauren was born the son of Lauren J. Simmons, Sr. and Henrietta Olston Simmons on April 24, 1932 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He served in the Korean War with the Ponca City 45th Division. After...

Luther West
Nov 21, 2008
Luther Romines West, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2008 at Westminster Village. He was 87. Luther was born the son of Frank Everett West and Louise Romines West on February 15, 1921 in Raymondville, Missouri. In 1927, the family moved to Oklahoma and Luther attended and then graduated from Ponca City High School in...

Louise Gawhega
Nov 18, 2008
Louise Gawhega, resident of Ponca City, died Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. She was 70. Louise was born the daughter of Sidney PooreHorse and Jeanette Primeaux PooreHorse on February 4, 1938 in Pawnee, Oklahoma at Pawnee Indian Hospital. She was reared and educated in Marland, Oklahoma. She graduated from Marland High School and then...

Logan Leroy
Nov 10, 2008
The precious life of our relative, Logan Henry LeRoy passed on to our Heavenly paradise on November 10, 2008 in Oklahoma City. He was 48. Logan was born March 25, 1960 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Henry Logan and Evelyn Snake LeRoy. Logan attended the McKinley Elementary School and East Jr. High School of Ponca City before attending...

Raymond Bivin
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...

Hope Sober
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...

Evelyn Newman
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...

Donald Davis
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...

Anita Himbury
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...

Neil Brown
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...

Margaret Chappell
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...

Thelma Buffalohead
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...

Zelma Cauthon
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...

Jeanne Robbins
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...

Cameron Page
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....

Oneita Gargiulo
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...

Alvin Holmes
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...