Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries
Royce Baker
Sep 6, 2008
Royce Baker, longtime Shidler and Ponca City area resident, passed away Saturday, September 6, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 84. Royce was born March 24, 1924 in Weir, Kansas, the son of John Stewart Baker and Hazel Williams Baker. He was married to Verla Moore on December 3, 1944 in Illinois. He was employed some...
Ronald Wilson
Sep 5, 2008
Ronald Wayne Wilson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, September 5, 2008 in New Port Richey, Florida. He was 71. Ronald was born September 15, 1936 in Ponca City, the son of Coyd James Wilson and Lamona House Wilson. Ronald attended Roosevelt School prior to his graduation from Ponca City High School in 1955. He was married...
Etheleen Eagle
Sep 4, 2008
Etheleen Mae Eagle, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed away at her home on Thursday, September 4, 2008. She was 28. Etheleen was born the daughter of Frannie Arlene Littlewalker Eagle and Marcus Manuel Eagle on August 21, 1980 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. She grew up in Ponca City and went to Ponca City Schools and attended Ponca Indian...
Hania Slavin
Sep 3, 2008
For many months, the family anxiously prepared for Hanias arrival. They had hopes, dreams and wishes for their baby boy who was loved before anyone had even seen him. Hania Slade Slavin, infant son born to Casey Don Slavin and Tiffany Shae Lindenman Slavin went to be in the Lords loving care on September 3, 2008. He is survived...
Lester Mathes
Sep 1, 2008
Lester W. Mathes, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Monday, September 1, 2008 at his home after an extended illness. He was 79. Lester was born the son of John and Bessie Mathes on December 17, 1928 on the Big V Ranch of Marland, Oklahoma where he began school. The family moved to Ponca City in 1934, where...
Jack Dye
Aug 29, 2008
Dale J. Jack Dye, resident of Ponca City, passed away at Shawn Manor Nursing Home Friday, August 29, 2008, at the age of 84. Jack was born May 22, 1924 to Roscoe E. Kate E. Dye in Rago, KS at home with his Grandmother, Minnie Mae Dye as the midwife. Jack met Grace Seigh in Pennsylvania during World War...
Jonnis Mckee
Aug 29, 2008
Jonnis E. McKee, longtime Ponca City resident, passed away Friday, August 29, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 63. Jonnis was born March 21, 1945 in Ponca City, the son of William Alfred McKee and Annie Mae Williams McKee. He attended the Ponca City Schools. He was married to Carrol Anderson on October 28, 1962 at...
Vernon Arrington
Aug 28, 2008
Vernon Richard Arrington, longtime resident of Ponca City passed away Thursday, August 28, 2008 at his home. He was 82. Vernon was born September 2, 1925 in Webb City, Oklahoma, the son of John Richard Arrington and Emma Weigert Arrington. Vernon was a graduate of Webb City High School. He served his country in the United States Army and...
Thomas Edwards
Aug 27, 2008
Thomas James Edwards, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. He was 68. Thomas was born the son of Thomas Buffington Edwards and Cleta Belle Pickett Edwards on June 30, 1940 in Bristow, Oklahoma. He grew up in Blackwell, Oklahoma and then moved to Wichita, Kansas where he...
Mary Cargill
Aug 26, 2008
Mary Lou Cargill, long time resident of Shidler, passed away on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at her home surrounded by her family. She was 57. Mary was born the daughter of William Harold Chandler and Mary Jo Chandler Carter on June 5, 1951 in Lexington, Oklahoma. She grew up in Lexington and later attended Central State University in Edmond,...
Clara Williams
Aug 22, 2008
Clara Maggie Ptarmigan Brown Williams, resident of Ponca City, passed away in her home with her family on August 22, 2008 after an extended illness. She was 74. Visitation will be held at Grace Memorial Chapel, 2016 North 14th Street, Ponca City, Ok. on Monday, August 25th from 5 to 7 pm with a graveside service to be held...
Howard Murray
Aug 21, 2008
Howard R. Murray, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, August 21, 2008 at the Blackwell Regional Hospital. He was 92. Howard was born December 4, 1915 at Rhea, Oklahoma, the son of Orville Murray and Clara Davis Murray. He was a graduate of Ringwood High School. He was married to Mary Esther Watson in the late 1930s....
Tom Bachar Jr.
Aug 17, 2008
Tom Bachar Jr., resident of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed away on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 70. Tom was born the son of Thomas Leon Bachar and Ethel Ida Miller Bachar on January 18, 1938 in Celina, Ohio. He attended Celina High School, and then worked for his dad until...
Herbert Fortney
Aug 16, 2008
Herbert Lincoln Fortney, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 75. Herbert was born the son of James Otis Fortney Sr. and Irene Jeanette Smith Fortney on October 23, 1932 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He grew up in Oklahoma and attended schools in Nelagoney and Pawhuska. He...
Edward Bennett
Aug 14, 2008
Edward Ed Leroy Bennett, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Thursday, August 14, 2008 at Willow Haven Nursing Home in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. He was 78. Ed was born to James Ethan Bennett and Rosie Whitehead Bennett on November 9, 1929 in Blackwell, Oklahoma. He grew up in Tonkawa, Oklahoma and in his early teens he began his first...
Linda Ledbetter
Aug 13, 2008
Linda Lou Ledbetter, resident of Blackwell, passed away on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 67. Linda was born the daughter of Melvin Arthur and Louise Francis Hose Harvey on August 4, 1941 in Williamsport, Indiana. She grew up in Attica, Indiana and graduated from Sheldon High School in Sheldon, Illinois....
Bertha Abrahamson
Aug 13, 2008
Bertha Littlecook Abrahamson, resident of Oklahoma City, passed away on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at Baptist Integris Regional Hospital in Oklahoma City due to complications from burns she sustained in a fire. She was 53. Bertha was born the daughter of Moran Littlecook and Inez Clark Littlecook on November 1, 1954 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. She grew up in Ponca...
Vera Rogers
Aug 6, 2008
Vera Rogers, resident of Ponca City, passed away on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 76. Vera was born to Clarence Horace Hall and Clara Alice Richmond Hall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At the age of four, she moved to Arkansas and grew up just north of Van Buren, Arkansas and graduated from...
Francis King
Aug 6, 2008
Francis Frank King, Sr., resident of Oklahoma City, passed away on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at his home. He was 59. Francis was born the son of Funston Browning King and Jennie Belvin Kemble King on May 7, 1949 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He grew up in Marland, Oklahoma and attended Marland Public Schools. He moved to Oklahoma City...
Timothy Roberts
Aug 6, 2008
Timothy Harold Roberts Timothy Harold Roberts, resident of Shidler, passed away Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at his home. He was 35. Tim was born October 1, 1972 in Ponca City, the son of Ken Roberts and Phylis Taylor Roberts. He attended Burbank elementary school and was a 1990 graduate of Shidler High School where he was active in basketball....




