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Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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Jeanne Robbins

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

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

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

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...

Roy Long Jr.

Roy Long Jr.

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...

Joe Presson

Joe Presson

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...

Ruth Simpson

Ruth Simpson

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...

Fran Garrison

Fran Garrison

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...

Sue Gregg

Sue Gregg

Sep 27, 2008

Marilyn Sue Gregg, resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, September 27, 2008 at Westminster Village. She was 66. Sue was born November 20, 1941 in McAlester, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles W. Crane and Ruth Whiteing Crane. She was a 1959 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to Delbert Gregg in October of 1960 at...

Jo Wiehle

Jo Wiehle

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...

Linda Delaney

Linda Delaney

Sep 25, 2008

Linda June Delaney, former resident of Ponca City, died Thursday morning, Sept. 25, 2008, in Birmingham, Ala. She was 61. Funeral will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church. Burial will follow at IOOF Cemetery. Service will be officiated by David Frees of St. Luke's Nazarene Church. The family will hold a visitation at Grace Memorial Chapel Monday...

Helena Walkingsky

Helena Walkingsky

Sep 22, 2008

Helena Orpah Primeaux Walkingsky, longtime resident of the Ponca City community, passed away Monday, September 22, 2008 at the Willow Haven Nursing Home in Tonkawa. She was 76. Helena was born July 28, 1932 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Homer Primeaux and Alice Grant Primeaux. She attended the Pawnee and Chilocco Schools. She was married to Charles Paul...

Jonathan Powell

Jonathan Powell

Sep 20, 2008

Jonathan Jon Boy Lane Powell, resident of Ponca City, passed away early Saturday morning on September 20, 2008. He was 15. Jonathan whose name means gift of God was born the son of Elvin Lee Powell and Lysetta Earlene McGill Powell in Ponca City, Oklahoma on October 15, 1992. He attended Kildare Elementary School and was a sophomore at...

Howard Buxton

Howard Buxton

Sep 20, 2008

Howard L. Hoot Buxton, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Saturday, September 20, 2008 in Select Specialty Hospital located in St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa. He was 88. Howard was born April 28, 1920 in Claremore, Oklahoma, the son of Wills P. Buxton and Ida Alice Beathe Buxton. He received his education in the Fairfax schools. As a young man...

Betty Adams

Betty Adams

Sep 19, 2008

Betty Ann Adams, resident of Ponca City, passed away on September 19, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 60. Betty was born the daughter of Jack Odell Hutchison and Helen Marie Riley Hutchison on May 23, 1948 in Fairfax, Oklahoma. She grew up in Fairfax and attended Fairfax Public Schools. On January 22, 1965 she married...

Velma Jones

Velma Jones

Sep 15, 2008

Velma Louise Jones, resident of Ponca City, passed away peacefully on Monday, September 15, 2008 the same day in September her mother died 45 years earlier. She was surrounded by her loving family. Velma was given the name Mii Ma Shin meaning rising moon and was born the daughter of Narcissus Pensoneau and Elizabeth Littlecook Pensoneau Hernandez on January...

Lois Scott

Lois Scott

Sep 13, 2008

Lois Maxine Scott, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, September 13, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 90. Lois was born one of twelve children, July 29, 1918 at Ponca City, the daughter of David Taylor Robins and Myra Alzine Brown Robins. She started attending the First Church of God as a...

Angeline Soudry

Angeline Soudry

Sep 11, 2008

Angeline Angie Kemble Soudry, resident of Midwest City and former Ponca City area resident, passed away Thursday, September 11, 2008 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 54. Angie was born February 26, 1954 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Edmond Steven Kemble and Rita Mae Roy Kemble. She attended the Chilocco Indian School.She was married to Larry Soudry on October...

Lois Keeler

Lois Keeler

Sep 10, 2008

Lois May Keeler, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday morning, September 10, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 86. Lois was born May 18, 1922 in Drumright, Oklahoma, the daughter of Morgan L. Shannon and Dona Mae Henry Shannon. She attended the schools in the Avant and Wolco area. She was married...

Everett Delaney

Everett Delaney

Sep 9, 2008

Everett Louis Duke Delaney, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday morning, September 9, 2008 at his home. He was 63. Everett was born June 17, 1945 in Ponca City, the son of James Aaron Delaney and Gladys Delone Kirchner Delaney. He was a part of the1963 class of Ponca City High School. He was inducted into the...