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Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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Charles Austin

Charles Austin

Dec 14, 2012

Charles Lee Austin, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, December 14, 2012 at Via Christi Village. He was 84 years of age. Charles was born March 10, 1928 four miles south of Ponca City, the son of Harold Austin and Bertha Revell Austin. He was raised by Walt Lyons and his mother Bertha. He attended Grainola grade...

Veda Bristow

Veda Bristow

Dec 14, 2012

Veda Maxine Bristow, 94, passed away on Friday, December 14, 2012 in Humble, TX. Veda was born on August 15, 1918 in Willow Springs, MO to Robert Bruce and Zephae Mae Keeler Malcom. She was a long time resident of Ponca City when she was very young until she moved to Humble, TX in 2008 to live with her...

V.A. Cauthon

V.A. Cauthon

Dec 12, 2012

Virgil A. Sam Cauthon, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 85 years of age. Sam was born November 27, 1927 at Vinita, Oklahoma, the third child born to Robert Andrew Cauthon and Minnie Gladys Bell Cauthon. Sam attended schools in Vinita and Pheasant Hill in rural...

Helen Orcutt

Helen Orcutt

Dec 2, 2012

Helen Marie Orcutt, former resident of Shidler, passed away Sunday, December 2, 2012 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 85 years of age. Helen was born December 9, 1926 in Shidler, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles Edwin Reynolds and Jewell Fears Reynolds. Her mother passed away when Helen was three years of age, and she...

Buster Golay

Buster Golay

Dec 2, 2012

Buster Wayne Golay, longtime resident of Ponca City, sadly passed away on his birthday, Sunday, December 2, 2012 in Wichita, Kansas. He was 74 years of day. Buster was born December 2, 1938 in Ponca City, the son of Charles Barton Golay and Minnie Mae Brown Golay. He attended school through the 10th grade at Orlando, Oklahoma, graduating from...

Bill Pelts

Bill Pelts

Nov 26, 2012

I.H. Bill Pelts, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday, November 26, 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 81 years of age. Bill was born June 25, 1931 in Oklahoma City, the son of Vernon Riggs and Anna Cloninger Riggs. He was a 1949 graduate of Red Rock High School, later earning his bachelors degree...

Richard Whiting

Richard Whiting

Nov 25, 2012

Richard C. Whiting, 79, passed away Sunday, November 25 at Deaconess Hospital in OKC due to complications from a stroke he suffered in October 2011. Richard aka: Red and RC was born on June 2, 1933 in Lamont, OK to Harry and Doris Umbarger Whiting. Richard grew up in the Lamont area and graduated from Lamont High School. In...

Dorothy Kelsey

Dorothy Kelsey

Nov 20, 2012

In Loving Memory Dorothy Jean Davis Kelsey died Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 at the Fairview Regional Medical Center, Fairview, Oklahoma. She was 87. She was born September 25th, 1925, at Shidler, Oklahoma, the daughter of John William and Nora Alice Lagenour Davis. Dorothy attended school in Denoya and Shidler, graduating from Shidler High School in 1944. On December 3rd,...

Johnnie Schooley

Johnnie Schooley

Nov 20, 2012

Johnnie Wayne Schooley, SR., 61, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 in Sun City Center, FL. Johnnie was born on December 23, 1950 in Stillwater, OK to Junior and Elsa Cook Schooley. Johnnie attended and graduated Ponca City schools. After graduation he enlisted in the US Army and retired as a Staff Sergeant after 23 years of service. Johnnie...

Jay Isham

Jay Isham

Nov 13, 2012

Jay Allan Isham, 48 of White Eagle, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in OKC. Jay was born on June 22, 1964 in Pawnee, OK to Richard and Elizabeth Waters Isham. Jay lived most of his life in this area. He was a tile setter. He loved to hunt, fish, go to church and...

Edward Gammon

Edward Gammon

Nov 7, 2012

Edward Corky Gammon, 77, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 in the Fairfax Nursing Home. Corky was born on Dec. 7, 1934 in Ponca City to Ray Albert and Madgie Lucille Graham Gammon. A lifelong area resident, Corky graduated from Marland High School. He was very active in basketball. He married his high school sweetheart, Patricia...

Sherry Potter

Sherry Potter

Nov 6, 2012

Sherry C. Potter, 71, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Sherry was born on Nov. 4, 1941 in Seminole, OK to Melvin and Ruby Smith Kitchen. At the age of 4, Sherry moved to Tonkawa, OK. She attended Lincoln Elementary School and Tonkawa High School. While in her freshman year there, she sang in...

Elsa Roberts

Elsa Roberts

Nov 4, 2012

Elsa Mae Roberts, 71, of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Ponca City Medical Center. Mae was born on August 26, 1941 in Venus, TX to Erhardt and Ella Johnson Jensen. Mae moved to Ponca City as an infant, graduated Ponca City High School and was a veteran of the US Army serving from Aug 1959...

Zack Martin

Zack Martin

Nov 3, 2012

Zack Leon Martin, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, November 3, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 87 years of age. Zack was born October 28, 1925 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, born the fifth and youngest child to Zack and Annie Miller Martin. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven and after...

Diana Phillips

Diana Phillips

Nov 1, 2012

Diana Ropp Phillips59, of Ponca City, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on November 1, 2012 at her residence. Diana was born on December 3, 1952 in Ponca City. Diana lived her life in the most beautiful place her eyes had seen in the U.S.A., The Smoky Mountains. Diana had worked for many years as a...

Peggy Harris

Peggy Harris

Oct 31, 2012

Peggy Ann Arkeketa Harris, former resident of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, October 31, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 65 years of age. In loving memory of our mother, sister, auntie, niece, grandmother and great grandmother. Peggy was born May 14, 1947 at Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Freeman Roe Arkeketa and Myrtle Roy Arkeketa. She attended the...

Patsy Bales-Owens

Patsy Bales-Owens

Oct 30, 2012

Patsy Ruth BalesOwens, 70, of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at her residence. Patsy was born on December 15, 1941 in Madill, OK to James and Ruth Hensley Bales. Patsy moved to Ponca City with her parents at a very early age. She attended Ponca City Schools, graduating from Ponca City High School. Patsy was raised...

Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker

Oct 29, 2012

Sarah J. Walker, affectionately known as Jean by some, was born Sarah Jane Harrison on December 6th, 1925 at 39 Iola St, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was the second eldest child of Scipio Harrison and Emma Emily L. Clark Harrison. Sarah J. Walker gracefully endured her illness with tremendous bravery and courage. On Monday, October 29th, 2012, at 12:34...

Janice Tabor-Hinman

Janice Tabor-Hinman

Oct 29, 2012

Janice Kay TaborHinman, resident of Ponca City, Oklahoma, passed away Monday, October 29, 2012, at Via Christi St Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, she was 55 years of age. Janice was born on March 18, 1957 in Lebanon, Missouri, the daughter of Edwin Hinman and Juanita Collier Hinman. She attended high school in Denver, Colorado and continued her education...

Melba Warledo

Melba Warledo

Oct 19, 2012

Melba Jo KentWarledo On the beautiful fall morning of October 19, 2012, Melba Jo KentWarledo, Chedahami Buffalo Woman went to be with the Lord when He called her name. Melba was born to Gail Collier and Nina Lavers Kent on December 15, 1933 in Pawnee, Ok. She was raised in the Red Rock, Oklahoma community and was a proud...