Albert Cole, Jr.

Jan 15, 2015

Funeral Services 2:00 p.m. Sunday, January 18, 2015 Ponca Indian Full Gospel Church. Pastor Raymond Rector officiating

Service Funeral Services Ponca Indian Full Gospel Church S. Pleasantview Road White Eagle, OK  74601 Sunday, January 18, 2015 2:00 p.m. Cemetery Ponca Tribal Cemetery White Eagle, OK  74601

Cody Branch

Jan 14, 2015

Cody Christopher Branch, 28, of Ponca City passed away on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 in Ponca City at the age of 28 years and 24 days. Cody was born on December 21, 1986 in Arkansas City, KS to Christopher and Donna Branch. He moved to Newkirk during his childhood where he lived with his grandparents Martin and Charolette Branch....

Peggy Bowen

Jan 14, 2015

Peggy Ann Smith Bowen, beloved mother, grandmother, artist and lifelong rancher, died Jan. 14, 2015 in Tulsa after a brief illness. The Burbank, Oklahoma, resident, known to many friends as "Miss Peggy of the prairie," was 76. A native of Seminole, Oklahoma, she was born on February 9, 1938 to Raymond Lee and Florence Ann (Ware) Smith. After graduating...

Murry Rodman

Jan 8, 2015

No local services are planned at this time.

Robert Irwin

Jan 6, 2015

Robert "Bob" Paul Irwin passed away at ManorCare Nursing Home in Tulsa, OK on January 6, 2015, one day before his 90th birthday. A service to celebrate his life will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at Grace Memorial Chapel with Rev Rick Hughes officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery under the...

Sheree Counselor

Dec 25, 2014

Sheree Louise Counselor, resident of Ponca City, passed away Christmas Day, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 57 years of age. Sheree was born January 30, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Donald Edwin Wedell and Evangeline Littledance Wedell. She was a graduate of Augusta, Kansas High School and attended culinary school and votech...

Nicholas Hilton

Dec 25, 2014

Nicholas "Nick" Jay Hilton passed from this life on Thursday, December 25, 2014 at Via Christi Saint Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Nick was born at the Naval Air Station Agana, Island of Guam on May 25, 1960 to Norman and Betty (Livingston) Hilton. Nick graduated in 1978 from Ponca City High School, was a member of Chorale and...

Chloe Lewis

Dec 18, 2014

Chloe E. Lewis, 91, of Ponca City, departed this life on December 18, 2014, in Ponca City, to enter the arms of our Lord and Savior. Chloe was born on May 6, 1923 in Curry County, NM to James and Susie Burnham Miller. She had married Charlie Slim Lewis in 1939 and they had four sons Bill, Bobby, Jim...

Charles Hays, Jr

Dec 11, 2014

Charles Ray Hays, Jr., 88, was born in Boulder, Colorado on June 22, 1926. He departed this life in Ponca City, Oklahoma on December 11, 2014. He attended the Colorado School for the Deaf in Colorado Springs, Colorado until 1944, and graduated from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf in 1947 with a specialty in baking and manual training....

Tony Dunham

Dec 10, 2014

Our beloved, Tony Charles Dunham, resident of Ponca City, went home to be with his Savior on December 10, 2014, at the age of 59. He passed away at his home surrounded by family and loved ones. Tony was born in Wichita, KS on June 20, 1955 to Charles and Coleen Dunham. The family moved back to Red Rock,...

Arly Leclair

Dec 5, 2014

Arly Ryan LeClair passed away at his home on Friday, December 5, 2014. He had reached the age of 29 years. He was born on May 30, 1985 in Ponca City and was the youngest child of Arlington W. LeClair and Eleanor HairyBack LeClair. Visitation will be at the OtoeMissouria Cultural Center on December 9, 2014. Prayer services will...

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...