Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
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Jess Gates
Apr 12, 2009
Jess Phillip Gates passed away Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009. Surrounded by close family, he left this world where he came into it. In the Big Bend. On the family farm. His favorite place on earth. He was 85. Jess was born on July 31, 1923, the fifth of 12 children born to Edmund Gates and Mamie Tripp Gates....
Charles Haight
Apr 10, 2009
Charles W. Haight Charles W. Charlie Haight, resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, April 10, 2009 in Oklahoma City after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 61. Charlie was born September 21, 1947 in Alva, Oklahoma, the son of Charles Francis Haight and Bessie Eveleyne Walker Haight. He attended the Watonga, Oklahoma schools. Charlie entered in the...
Fred Hurst
Apr 6, 2009
Fred Milton Hurst, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday, April 6, 2009 in Oklahoma City. He was 87. Fred was born January 29, 1922 in Chandler, Oklahoma, the son of Milt Augustus Hurst and Hannah Marilla Fast Hurst. He was a 1942 graduate of Chandler High School where he was an all-state football player. Fred was inducted...
Carlos Burgess
Apr 5, 2009
Carlos Eugene Burgess, resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, April 5, 2009 at his home. He was 50 years of age. Carlos was born August 5, 1958 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He was a 1976 graduate of Bartlesville College High School. He then completed training as an auto mechanic at Okmulgee Tech. Carlos was married to Rose Miller on April...
Ruth Fruits
Apr 5, 2009
Ruth Marie Fruits, longtime resident of Kaw City, passed away on Sunday, April 05, 2009 at Baptist Integris Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was 85. Ruth was born the daughter of Donald Vane Tebow and Catherine Miller Tebow on September 10, 1923 in Enid, Oklahoma. She grew up in Lamont, Oklahoma on the family farm. On April 18,...
Gambler Martinez
Apr 1, 2009
Gambler Gami Susan Martinez, resident of Norman, Oklahoma passed away on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at the OU Medical Center. She was 46. Gambler was born the daughter of Clarence Romine and Marilyn Louise LeRoy Standsblack on July 19, 1962 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. She grew up in Ponca City and attended Ponca City Public Schools. Gambler had many enjoyments....
Ruby Jackson
Mar 29, 2009
Ruby Elene Jackson, resident of Fairfax, passed away at Fairfax Manor Nursing Home on Sunday, March 29, 2009. She was 89. Ruby was born the daughter of Harley Hyder and Pearlee Grissom Hyder on January 12, 1920 in Avilla, Missouri. She grew up in Missouri and later married Howard William Jackson on March 3, 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri....
Edward Him Sr.
Mar 28, 2009
Edward Calls Him Sr., member of the Ponca Tribe with the Indian name of Gee-Bom-bi, made his final journey Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 10 a.m. surrounded by his family and friends. He was 56. Edward, also known as Fast Eddie, was born March 29, 1952 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of the Rev. George Calls Him Sr. and...
Lisa Mason
Mar 25, 2009
Lisa G. Mason, resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at her home. She was 51. Lisa was born June 23, 1957 in Anderson, Indiana, the daughter of Roe W. and Barbara Wilson. She received her education in the Anderson Schools. She moved to Oklahoma City in October of 1981 and was employed with the Rainbo...
Harold Cavett
Mar 25, 2009
Harold Ray Cavett, resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at his home. He was 72. Harold was born April 30, 1936 in Ponca City, the son of Howard B. Cavett and Muriel Odum Cavett. He was a 1954 graduate of Ponca City High School. He entered the United States Navy on July 2, 1954 and...
Marilyn Payne
Mar 22, 2009
Marilyn Kay Payne, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, March 22, 2009 at her home. She was 63. Marilyn was born January 4, 1946 in Ponca City, the daughter of Wesley Burright and Rosamond Summers Burright. She received her early education in the Ponca City Schools. She was married to Jim Payne on October 30, 1962 in...
Thomas Terry Iii
Mar 20, 2009
Thomas Daniel Terry III, resident of Ponca City passed away on Friday, March 20, 2009 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was 28. Thomas was born the son of Thomas Daniel Terry, Jr. and Delores DeLodge Terry in Claremore, Oklahoma on May 12, 1980. He attended Ponca City High School and graduated in 2000. While in high school,...
Gene Sullivan
Mar 20, 2009
E. Eugene Gene Sullivan, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, March 20, 2009 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. He was 86. Gene was born the son of John Woody Sullivan and Mariah Adeline Baker Sullivan on June 3, 1922 in Darwin, Oklahoma. He grew up in Darwin and attended high school in Atoka until he...
Brenda Smith
Mar 19, 2009
Brenda Joyce Smith, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Thursday, March 19, 2009 in Marland, Oklahoma. She was 58. Brenda was born the daughter of John Franklin Smith and Lena Big Goose Smith on February 6, 1951 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. She graduated from Chilocco Indian School in 1969. She later attended Haskell Indian College where she studied secretarial...
Ruth Knight
Mar 19, 2009
Ruth J. Knight, resident of Ponca City and former resident of Ralston, Oklahoma, passed away Thursday morning, March 19, 2009 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 85. Ruth was born April 19, 1923 in Geuda Springs, Kansas, the daughter of Robert James Prochaska and Lovina Catherine Wehr Prochaska. Her earliest education was received in the...
Ollie Pendergraft
Mar 15, 2009
Ollie Eugene Pendergraft, Jr., resident of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio. He was 53. Ollie was born the son of Ollie Pendergraft, Sr. and Velma Kay Johnson Pendergraft on July 8, 1955 in Fort Ruker, Alabama. He grew up mostly in Enid, Oklahoma but traveled quite a bit while...
Dennis Jones
Mar 6, 2009
Dennis Mike Michael Jones, member of the Ponca Tribe and resident of Stillwater, Oklahoma passed away on Friday, March 6, 2009 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 69. Mike was born the son of Lee Otis Jones and Velma Louise Pensoneau Jones on April 23, 1939 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He graduated from Chilocco Indian School in...
Will Hardiman Sr.
Mar 1, 2009
Will L. Hardiman Sr., resident of Ponca City, went home to Glory on Sunday, March 1, 2009. He was 46. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 9, 2009 at the Power House of Faith Church, 114 North Oak. Pastor J.R. Thompson will preside over the service with a dinner to be served at the J.R....
Melvin Butler
Feb 28, 2009
Melvin Ray Butler, resident of Newkirk, passed away Saturday, February 28, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 65. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Grace Memorial Chapel, Ponca City, with Pastor Charley Hudspeth of the First Assembly of God Church in Newkirk, presiding. Interment will follow in the Kaw...
Luverne Wrolstad
Feb 25, 2009
Luverne Olaf Wrolstad, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away, Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 78. Luverne was born October 13, 1930 in North Dakota to Mabel Wrolstad. He received his early education in North Dakota. He loved playing basketball and football in high school. Luverne served in the United States Army...
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