Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries
Kay Smith
Feb 16, 2014
Katherine Kay Smith, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, February 16, 2014 at the Sterling House Assisted Living Center. She was 74 years of age. Kay was born May 24, 1939 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Glendale Thurber and Reba Overman Thurber. She attended elementary and high school at Pawnee she attended Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri...
Doris Kent
Feb 15, 2014
Doris Kent, 69, of Morrison, passed away Saturday, February 15, 2014 at the Enid Senior Care in Enid, OK. Doris was born on January 24, 1945 in Pawnee, OK to Woolsey and Emily No Ear Green Kent. Doris was a lifelong area resident of the Morrison area. She graduated Chilocco Indian School where she had been The Homecoming Queen....
Ilene Mcmillin
Feb 7, 2014
Ilene K. McMillin, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, February 7, 2014 in Oklahoma City. She was 83 years of age. Ilene was born October 17, 1930 in Ponca City, the daughter of Jay Kelley and Daisy May Moreland Kelley. She was a 1949 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to Melbourne Harve McMillin on...
Joseph Lightfoot
Feb 1, 2014
Joseph Bennard Lightfoot, 96, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at Via Christi Village in Ponca City, OK. Joseph was born on Sept. 9, 1917 in Banty, OK to Joseph Kelley and Elizabeth McPherson Lightfoot. He and Alice Hooten were married on Dec. 1, 1945 in Crosby County, TX. He was retired from the USAF as...
Leamon Mcdaniel
Jan 23, 2014
Leamon Lee McDaniel, resident of Ponca City, went home to be with God on January 23, 2014. Leamon was born October 23, 1935 in Dothan, Barbour County, Alabama, the son of Bruce McDaniel and Ethel Peterson McDaniel. He attended the Dothan area schools. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dothan and his enjoyments included fishing...
Evelyn Huddleston
Jan 21, 2014
Evelyn Blanche Huddleston, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at the Via Christi Village Nursing Center, one day shy of her 85th birthday. Evelyn was born January 22, 1929 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of James Cundell and Dora Daisy Beck Cundell. She was a 1948 graduate of Ponca City High School. She married Walter...
Elena Hawkins
Jan 17, 2014
Wynne Elena Hawkins, 82, formerly of Ponca City, passed away on Friday, January 17, 2014 at Gulfside Hospice in Zephyrhills, Florida. Elena was born in Walters, Oklahoma on March 10, 1931 to Mylor Estep and Nettie Jones Estep. Elena moved from Ponca City to Zephyrhills, FL in May of 2012 and resided at Westbrooke Manor. Elena retired from GHR...
Frank Burdick
Jan 16, 2014
Frank David Burdick, 74, of Pawhuska, passed away Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 at St. John Medical of Tulsa. Frank was born on July 23, 1939 in Iola, KS to Lewis Samuel and Alpha Audrey Eckler Burdick. Frank was a Veteran of the US Army he was a welder, awesome father that loved his family. He and Christine Baker were...
Donna Kelsey
Jan 16, 2014
Donna Mae Kelsey left this life at age 90 on January 16, 2014 in Ponca City, OK to be with her Lord and Savior. She was born on April 4, 1923, in Burbank, Oklahoma, in an old 2story house which she called the old big house. Donna was the 2nd child born to Arthur and Susan Mae Butler Jacques....
Patricia Shreck
Jan 14, 2014
Patricia Ann Shreck, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 80 years of age. Pat was born March 24, 1933 at Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Lloyd B. Newman and Evelyn Panther McCool Newman. She was a member of the Kaw Nation and was given an Indian name...
Jean Clapp
Jan 14, 2014
Jean Clapp, 89, of Ponca City, passed away, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at Ponca City Nursing Rehab Center. Jean was daughter of Clara Bonner, born on November 28, 1924 in Haileyville, OK. Jean moved to Ponca City in the 1950s with her daughter, Sharon. She owned and operated several restaurants including, Jeans, Jeans 2, Dick Runts, Corner Burger and...
Linda Hays
Jan 8, 2014
Linda Mae Miner Hays, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Wednesday, January 8, 2014 in Ponca City. She was 60 years of age. Linda was born July 19, 1953 in Clinton, Oklahoma, the daughter of William Leroy Miner and Veta Mae Harris Miner Holmes. She was a 1971 graduate of Ponca City High School and completed cosmetology school at...
Dr. Taylor
Jan 6, 2014
Dr. James Gary Taylor, retired Ponca City veterinarian, went to be with the Lord on Monday, January 6, 2014, after a long battle with cancer. He was surrounded by many family members at his home. Gary was born Sept. 24, 1944, in Harrisburg, AR, son of Mary and Raymond Taylor. He grew up in Imboden, AR and graduated from...
Margie Sisco
Jan 6, 2014
Margie Louise Sisco, of Ponca City, Ok passed away on January 6th 2014 at the age of 78. Louise passed suddenly at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in OKC due to complications from a heart attack. The funeral will be held Thursday, January 9th at 3:00p.m at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Burial will follow at...
Yolanda Petty
Jan 2, 2014
Yolanda Antoinette Petty, 89, of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 ay Ponca City Medical Center. Yolanda was born on May 5, 1924 in Ponca City to Anthony and Flossie Running After ArrowKnight. She was a homemaker, attended White Eagle Schools and finished her education in Kansas City, KS. She was married to William H. Petty on...
David Sanderfer
Dec 31, 2013
David Marshall Sanderfer David was born January 14, 1919 in Blue Mountain, Arkansas to Jesse Martin and Emma Adeline Sawyer Sanderfer. He passed from this life on December 31, 2013 in the Ponca City Nursing Home at the age of 94, just 14 days prior to his 95thbirthday. He married Myrtle Hurn on April 16, 1941 in Danville, Arkansas....
Rev. Haynes
Dec 28, 2013
Reverend Elza B. Haynes, a lifetime resident of Ponca City, OK went home to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Saturday, December 28, 2013 while at his home. He was eightyfour 84 years of age. Elza was born May 18, 1929 in Ponca City to Willie and Olene Owens Haynes. He was the third of 12...
Kara Mitchell
Dec 27, 2013
Kara Beth Mitchell, 9, was suddenly called into the arms of the Lord on December 27, 2013 at her home in Blackwell, OK surrounded by her family. Kara was born on April 9th, 2004 in Stillwater, OK to John and Rachel Mitchell Guilfoyle. Throughout Karas short time on this earth she made a lasting impact on the lives of...
Joyce Warren
Dec 24, 2013
Joyce C. Warren, 73, of Ponca City, OK, passed away Dec. 24, 2013 at Ponca City Nursing and Rehab. Joyce was born on January 17, 1940 in Crozet, VA to Randolph and Virginia James Sandridge. Joyce grew up in Washington, D.C., graduating from Chamberlain H.S. in 1958. She married Joseph Rawlings on January 25, 1958. To this union, 3...
Judy Baker
Dec 20, 2013
Judy Christene Scott Baker, 66, of Blackwell, OK, passed away on December 20, 2013 in Blackwell. Judy was born on September 19, 1947 in Fairfax, OK to Castner Paul and Vera LaVada Adkins Scott. Judy lived in Ponca City most of her life until she moved to Blackwell 6 years ago. Judy graduated Ponca City High School in 1967....




