Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Phyllis Manley
May 7, 2014
Phyllis Elaine Manley, longtime Ponca City, Oklahoma resident, passed away Wednesday, May 07, 2014, at Shawn Manor Nursing Home. She was 81. She was born August 4, 1932, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Thomas Leroy Johnson and Vesta Crystal McCracken Johnson. She attended Garfield Elementary School, East Junior High School, and Ponca City Senior High...

Joseph Reed
May 6, 2014
J.P. Ray Reed, at the age of 86, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on May 6, 2014, surrounded by his family. Joseph P. Reed was born on Jan. 3, 1928. The son of Homer Vena Smith Reed in Hominy, Oklahoma. J.P. met his future wife, Dorothy Sisson, at the age of 15 when they both...

Nettie Cox
May 1, 2014
Nettie May Nelson Cox, 94, of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Guthrie, OK. Nettie was born on October 14, 1919 in Deary, Idaho to Sameo Swan and Zula Maud Scott Nelson. When she was 1 year old, they moved to a farm near Ames, OK. She attended all her 12 years of school at Ames...

Joanna Moneymaker
May 1, 2014
Joanna Lee Moneymaker, resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, May 1, 2014, at Ponca City Medical Center from complications of pneumonia. Joanna was born on September 7, 1929 to Charley and Ollie Anderson in Ponca City. Joanna graduated in 1948 from Ponca City Senior High School. In 1950, Joanna met Buddy G. Moneymaker at the Poncan Theatre where...

Lance Carney
May 1, 2014
Lance Christian Carney, 67, of Anadarko, passed away, Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Lawton, OK. He was born on March 22, 1947 in Pawnee to Leona Big Goose. Lance attended Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore, OK and Haskell College in Lawrence, KS. He served in the US Air Force from 19651969. He completed his working career as a truck...

Rudy Primeaux
Apr 30, 2014
Graveside services will be 10 am, Sunday, May 4, 2014 at Ponca Tribal Cemetery, White Eagle, OK

James Mensch
Apr 28, 2014
James A. Mensch, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, April 28, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 75 years of age. James was born June 22, 1938 in West Fork, Arkansas, the son of John and Alvinia Johnson Mensch. He was a 1955 graduate of Siloam Springs, Arkansas High School where he was a catcher...

Alvin Collins
Apr 23, 2014
Alvin Dale Collins, 68, of Kaw City, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in OKC. Born on July 7, 1945 in Wichita, Kansas to Wilbur and Irene Inscho Collins. Alvin was raised in the Wichita area and graduated from the East High School. He was a tool machinist for Boeing Aircraft. He had lived...

Julia Cerre
Apr 16, 2014
Julia Ann Cerre, 64, of Ponca City, passed away peacefully on April 16, 2014 at her home. Julia was born on July 12, 1949 in Pawnee, OK to Mitchell and Dora Fire Shaker Cerre. Julia was the baby of 6 brothers and sisters. Julia loved being with her family the most. She enjoyed spending every moment she could with...

Elizabeth Goodno
Apr 15, 2014
Elizabeth Marie Sober Goodno, 33, of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, April 15, 2014 in Wichita, KS. Elizabeth was born on May 16, 1980 in Ponca City to David and Sarah Bennett Sober. Growing up in the Marland area, she graduated from Frontier High School in 1998. She attended cosmetology school and worked for J.C. Penney Salon. She became...

Helen Watson
Apr 14, 2014
Helen Odell Watson, of Ponca City, went to her heavenly home on Monday, April 14, 2014 at Via Christi Village. She was 92 years of age. Odell was born on October 19, 1921, in Mena, Arkansas, the daughter of James Hermon Shirley and Olive Lee Stokes Shirley. She graduated from Mena High School in 1940 and went to work...

Hazel Riggs
Apr 13, 2014
Hazel O. Riggs went to be with the Lord to receive her reward on Sunday, April 13, 2014, Palm Sunday. Hazel was born to John and Julie Hutson in Drumright, Oklahoma on January 14, 1934. She lived in Ponca City most of her life. Hazel was a longtime member of Faith Tabernacle Church. She was married to Mike Riggs...

Irene Clair
Apr 13, 2014
Irene M. Le Clair, 57, of Ponca City, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. Irene was born on June 5, 1956 in Ponca City to Antoine and Marie Buffalohead Le Clair. Irenes hobbies included making Gods eyes, putting beads on stuffed animals, liked playing casino and making...

Johnnie French
Apr 11, 2014
Johnnie Eugene French, resident of Ponca City, passed April 11, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. He was 66 years of age. Johnnie was born November 12, 1947 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, the son of Lester and Mable French. He attended school in Ponca City and served his country in the Vietnam War. He was a member of United States Army Company...

George Eubank
Apr 10, 2014
George David Dave Eubank, of Ponca City, OK, died at home surrounded by loving family on April 10, 2014. He was 79. George was born October 1, 1934 in Texarkana, TX, the son of George and Lois Eubank. He married Virginia Harrison on February 18, 1956 and together they had two sons, David George Eubank and Jeffrey Harrison Eubank....

Otta Beck
Apr 6, 2014
Otta Lea Beck, resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, April 6, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 92 years of age. Otta Lea was born September 30, 1921 in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the daughter of Otis and Ethel Davis McDaniel. At the age of 2 years she moved with her family to Three Sands, Oklahoma, south of...

Patsy Larue
Apr 3, 2014
Patsy Leona Wilson LaRue, 72, of Ponca City, passed away on Thursday, April 3, 2014 at her home. Patsy was born on January 1, 1942 in Ralston, OK to Riley and Cora Goad Wilson. She grew up in Osage County and graduated from Ralston High School. She married Larry LaRue on November 10, 1959 in Fairfax, OK. She had...

Vesta Gates
Apr 2, 2014
Vesta Ilene Woodward Gates, longtime Big Bend, Ralston area resident, passed away April 2, 2014 in Tulsa. Surrounded by close family, she left this world during her favorite season, springtime. She was 86. Vesta was born on September 30, 1927 in Deer, Arkansas, the fourth of 12 children born to John Woodward and Lillie Belle Adams Woodward. She moved...

Gary Morgan
Mar 31, 2014
Gary Eugene Morgan, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, March 31, 2014 in Wichita, Kansas. He was 65 years of age. Gary was born May 1, 1948 in Woodward, Oklahoma, the son of Floyd and Greta Goddard Morgan. He was a 1966 graduate of Woodward High School and then attended the University of Central Oklahoma. He married Brenda Sue...