Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries
Garth Willaford
Oct 11, 2013
Garth Ray Willaford, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, October 11, 2013. He was 53 years of age. Ray was born November 6, 1959 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the son of John Willaford and Foy L. Elsberry Willaford. He was a 1978 graduate of Ponca City High School. In his early years Ray played the violin in the school...
Millard Winningham
Oct 5, 2013
Millard W. Winningham, 93, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, October 5, 2013 at Ponca City Medical Center. Millard was born August 3, 1920 in Corinth, MS. to Millard and Maude Pounds Winningham. After graduating from high school he joined the he joined the Army Air Force and was given an honorable discharge on February 10, 1946. He was...
Andrea Davis
Oct 2, 2013
Andrea Michelle Davis, 45, of Ardmore, passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at Mercy Health Center in OKC. She was born on February 26, 1968 in Pawnee, OK to Clayton Lewis and Earlene Pettit Ely. She grew up in the Red Rock area where she graduated high school. Andrea was preceded in death by her parents, sisterPamela Renee Bible...
Wayne Fleharty
Oct 1, 2013
On October 1, 2014, Wayne Ivan Fleharty, 81, went to be with the Lord, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was at his home in Kaw City, Oklahoma. Wayne was born February 25, 1933 in Old Kaw City, Oklahoma to John Screech and Mary Netty Bowker Fleharty. He grew up in Old Kaw City, and graduated from Kaw...
Florence Massie
Sep 30, 2013
Our Special Angel, Florence Marie Massie, 83, went to be with the Lord on Monday, September 30, 2013 at Hillcrest Manor in Blackwell, OK. She was born on January 8, 1930 in Washunga, OK to Luelza and Viola McCleary Randolph, where she grew up and went to school until her family moved to Blackwell in 1942. She married Edward...
Marvin Womack Jr.
Sep 27, 2013
Marvin Lee Womack Jr., former resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, September 27, 2013 in the Fayetteville, Arkansas Veterans Hospital after a 3 month battle with cancer. He was 58 years of age. Marvin was born June 11, 1955 in Ponca City, the son of Marvin Womack Sr. and Mary Ann Davis Womack. He received his education in the...
Kenneth Snake
Sep 24, 2013
Kenneth Snake, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, September 24, 2013. He was 67 years of age. He was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and had the Indian name of Taynugahshay. He was also a member of the Ponca Nation Indian Tribe. Kenneth was born July 1, 1946 at White Eagle, the son of Andrew Snake...
Bill Higgins
Sep 23, 2013
Bill Higgins, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, September 23, 2013 in Ponca City. He was 88 years of age. Bill was born May 1, 1925 in Blackburn, Oklahoma, the oldest of 14 children born to Gene Higgins and Eula Cynthia Higgins. Bill served his country in the United States Navy Seabees during World War II. He was...
Lea Behar
Sep 22, 2013
Lea Jeanine Behar, 77, of Ponca City, passed away on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on June 17, 1936 in Kiowa, KS to Joseph and Edith Showalter Schnitzer. She was a homemaker and family accountant, member of Philadelphia Church of God where she was active in many church functions. Jeanine...
Robert Epperson
Sep 21, 2013
Robert Byron Bob Epperson, lifelong resident of the Ponca City area, passed Saturday, September 21, 2013 in Edmond, Oklahoma at the age of 72. Bob was born March 6, 1941 at Red Rock, Oklahoma, the son of Robert Taylor Epperson and Alma Lanore Bebe Epperson. He was a graduate of Ponca City High School. He was married to Margaret...
S.D. Sears
Sep 20, 2013
S.D. Sears, 87, of Shidler, OK, went home to be with Jesus on Friday, September 20, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. S.D. was born April 5, 1926 in Webb City, OK to Charles Preston and Leona Clapp Sears. Living in the Webb City and Shidler area most of his life, he attended the Webb City and Shidler...
Wanda Psikal
Sep 20, 2013
Wanda Psikal, longtime Kildare resident, passed away Friday, September 20, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 87 years of age. Wanda was born on December 11, 1925 in Newkirk, Oklahoma to Edgar and Lola Summers Randol. She attended Uncas schools and was a 1943 Ponca City High School graduate. On August 15, 1943 Wanda married Elmer...
Roy Ball
Sep 18, 2013
Roy Ball, longtime resident of the Shidler area, passed Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Fairfax Hospital. He was 97 years of age. Roy was born March 3, 1916 at Fair Play, Missouri, the son of Otis Lee Ball and Kittie Crain Ball. He was a 1936 graduate of Barnsdall High School where he was active in basketball and...
Marvin Williams
Sep 17, 2013
Marvin Wayne Bull Williams, 49, of Ponca City departed this life on September 17, 2013 at Ponca City Nursing and Rehab Center. Bull was born on August 4, 1964 in Shreveport, LA to Mattie Louise Williams and Joe Lewis Cook, Sr. Bull moved to Fairfax, OK at a young age where he attended public schools and played sports. He...
Tracey Hill
Sep 16, 2013
Tracey Sue Hill, 47, of Ponca City, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, September 16, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa after a long and courageous battle with cancer which began in January of 2008. Tracey was born on August 27, 1966 in Media, PA to Joel and Lue Brown Davis. Tracey had lived...
Kenneth Banner
Sep 12, 2013
Kenneth Ken Eugene Banner, affectionately known as Spoon was born May 8, 1966 in Ponca City to Mrs. Ollie Buffington. Ken was the baby boy in this family of three sons. He was a fun loving and caring person who added much joy to his family. Ken spent most of his life in Ponca City where he attended Garfield...
Tyrielle Crawford
Sep 12, 2013
Tyrielle LaDawn Crawford the daughter of Tyrell Crawford and Nicole Starnes was called home to be an angel of the Lord on September 12, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. Tyrielle LaDawn is survived by her mother Nicole and father Tyrell one brother Kian Moore, of the home her grandmother, Jill Robedeaux aunt Laci Starnes and her daughters,...
Joan Kelly
Sep 11, 2013
Joan Kelly, born on a farm in Holdenville, Oklahoma, but a resident of Ponca City for over half a century, passed peacefully of natural causes on Wednesday, September 11th, just two days before her 88th birthday. Her only son, Jimmie Kelly a PoHi graduate, cared for his mother the last several years of her life in Boulder, Colorado. She...
Forrest Boone
Sep 11, 2013
Forrest W. Boone, 88, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at the VA Medical Center in OKC. He was born October 10, 1924, in Kaw City, OK to Walter and Imogene Davis Boone of Kaw City, Oklahoma. Forrest was a World War II veteran survivor of the following campaigns: Dday Omaha Beach, Northern France, Central Germany,...
Novella Graham
Sep 6, 2013
Novella Jeneane Graham, 66, of Ponca City, OK went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, September 6, 2013, at Ponca City Medical Center, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Novella was born in Ponca City, OK on Feb. 2, 1947. She was the youngest daughter of Garnet Oliver and Rosalee Sue Moulton Harris...




