Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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Neal Long
Dec 4, 2014
Neal R. Long, 90, of Ponca City, passed away Thursday December 4, 2014 at Ponca City Medical Center. Neal was born on August 19, 1924 in Kaw City to Christopher Columbus and Olive Alma Anderson Long. He grew up on a farm near Newkirk, OK. He and Ivonya Mae Spurgeon were married on June 18, 1949 in Newkirk. Ivonya...
Wilfred Steenburgh
Dec 2, 2014
Wilfred Rudy Steenburgh, better known to most as Papa Bill, lost his battle with cancer on the evening of December 2, 2014 at the age of 67. He was a truck driver by trade and belonged to the Teamsters Union, which he retired from in 2001. As part of a musical family he was instilled with a great love...
Theodore Rhodd
Nov 30, 2014
Theodore Bear Rhodd, 51, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday 11302014 at Ponca City Medical Center. He was born on October 24, 1963 in Pawnee, OK to Peter P. and Lillian F. Adair Rhodd. He was the 2nd eldest son. Bear had a passion and great love for fishing and hunting. He loved to blast his favorite tunes on...
Barbara Burdick
Nov 26, 2014
Barbara Jean Burdick, former resident of Ponca City and current resident of Cushing, Oklahoma, passed away Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the Stillwater Medical Center. She was 61 years of age. Barbara was born February 25, 1953 in Ponca City, the daughter of Aubrey Goddard and Dorothy Stong Goddard. She attended Ponca City Public Schools and Bartlesville Nursing School....
Wahaneta Hodges
Nov 24, 2014
H. Wahaneta Hodges, longtime resident of Shidler, passed away Monday, November 24, 2014 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She had reached the age of 99 years, 9 months and 23 days. Wahaneta was born February 2, 1915 in Marietta, Ohio, the daughter of John Boyd Casto and Ella Hazel C. Smith Casto. She moved with her...
Marlyn Ronan
Nov 22, 2014
Marlyn Juanita Cooper Ronan, 81, longtime Ponca City resident, died Saturday evening, November 22, 2014 in Via Christi Nursing Home. The daughter of Walter Henry Cooper and Esther Juanita Maxwell, Marlyn was born on October 3, 1933, in Ronan, Montana. She is the youngest of thirteen children. After graduating from Ronan High School, Marlyn attended Bible College in Saskatchewan,...
Bessie Grace
Nov 18, 2014
Bessie Lopeman Newman Grace was born to Virgil F. and Cleo Cox Lopeman on November 19, 1935 in Ponca City, OK. At the age of 9 months she moved with her family to Tonkawa, OK. She attended Tonkawa schools and graduated from Tonkawa High School in 1953. Following her graduation she went to work for the Southwestern Bell Telephone...
Bobby Westmoreland
Nov 17, 2014
Bob Westmoreland, a lifelong resident of Ponca City, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, at Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 88. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at Grace Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Larry B. Metzger, pastor of Ponca City First Christian Church presiding. Bob was born Sept. 7, 1926,...
Muriel Cartlidge
Nov 13, 2014
Muriel Jean Cartlidge, resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday morning, November 13, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 76 years old. Muriel was born June 13, 1938 to Argus Leo Osborne and Eva Estes Long Osborne Sasnett. She was the oldest of Evas eight children and a 1956 graduate of McAlester High School. She was married...
Amelia Johnson
Nov 8, 2014
Amelia Louise Johnson died Saturday, November 8th, in Enid, Okla., at the age of 67. She was born in Blackwell, Okla. to Isaiah and Frances Wilson Williams, the youngest of three children. Amelia is survived by her husband of 38 years, Wendell Johnson of Enid her mother, Frances Williams of Enid her four daughters: Cynthia Walker, of Allen, Tx....
Fern Smith
Nov 5, 2014
Fern Ellen Smith received her eternal reward of life with Jesus in heaven on Wednesday evening, November 5th, 2014 at the age of 72 here in Ponca City. She was born July 18th, 1942 to Louis and Beatrice nee Robbins Knief. She was a faithful member at First Lutheran Church of Ponca City all her life. It was there...
Ruth West
Oct 27, 2014
Ruth Lorraine Brown West was born on Cowskin Prairie near Grove, Oklahoma on August 4, 1923. She passed away on October 27, 2014 in Evans,Colorado in the Gray Cara West group home where she was so blessed to reside. Her parents, George Richard Brown and Elva Lentz Brown, were proud of Georges Cherokee Indian heritage, and Ruth was the...
Roberta Phillips
Oct 26, 2014
Roberta Sue Buffalohead Phillips, passed Sunday, October 26, 2014 at her home in Newkirk. She was 71 years of age. Roberta was born April 26, 1943 at Washunga, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert Buffalohead and Henrietta DeLano Buffalohead. She grew up in Webb City and was raised by her maternal grandparents John and Clara Downs. She was a 1961...
Lynden Younge
Oct 25, 2014
Lynden Clay Younge, 55, of Morrison, OK, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2014 in Tulsa, OK. Born on June 7, 1959 in San Francisco, CA to Llewellyn and Leora Zimmerman Younge. He came to Oklahoma at a very early age and graduated Red Rock High School. He was a construction worker by trade. He loved his family with all...
Dr. Brown
Oct 23, 2014
Dr. Q. Harold Brown, DDS, 84, of Ponca City, passed away on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at his residence. He was born on Jan. 12, 1930 in Clovis, NM to Horace and Lola White Brown. He was preceded in death by his parents his brother, Gerald Brown his sister, Betty Armstrong and granddaughter, Miranda Brown. Survivors include his sons...
Lucinda Morris
Oct 22, 2014
Lucinda A. Cindy Morris, 72, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at Ponca City Medical Center. Cindy was born on April 18, 1942 in Ponca City, OK to Iden and Billie Harris Ward. Cindy grew up in the Ponca City area, graduate of Ponca City High School. She and Billy Morris were married on July 8,...
Virgil Adams
Oct 14, 2014
Virgil Lee Adams, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at his home. He was 55 years of age. Virgil was born November 16, 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Carl W. Adams and Greta Marie Brown Adams. He was a 1977 graduate of Red Rock High School and then attended Indian Meridian VoTech School...
Nora Higginbotham
Oct 13, 2014
LaVerne Higginbotham, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed October 13, 2014 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 86 years of age. LaVerne was born May 25, 1928 in Ponca City, the daughter of Paul Martin Irwin and Grace Edith Collins Irwin. She was a graduate of Ponca City High School. She had worked as a...
Sandra Haight
Oct 13, 2014
Sandra Irene Hinman Haight, 55, of Ponca City, passed away Monday, October 13, 2014 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sandra was born on Nov. 10, 1958 in Pawnee, OK to Samuel Hinman and Wanda Youker. Sandra was a lifelong area resident, graduating from Marland high School. She was an avid fan of OU and the Dallas Cowboys where NO ONE said...
Warren Rivers
Oct 9, 2014
Warren Telford Rivers, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, October 9, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 72 years of age. Warren was born February 2, 1942 in Ponca City, the son of Eugene E. Rivers and Delma Elizabeth Young Rivers. He attended the Ponca City Public Schools and was a 1961 graduate of Ponca...
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