Obituaries

Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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Martha Bolz

Martha Bolz

May 10, 2013

Martha Lee Bolz Martha Lee Bolz, longtime Shidler area resident, passed Friday, May 10, 2013 in Bartlesville. She was 71 years of age. Martha was born May 1, 1942 in Bassett, Texas, the daughter of Wesley Conway Roach and Mittie ArDella Tinsley Roach. She attended James Bowie High School in Simms, Texas. She was married to Chester Lee Bolz...

Tony Francis

Tony Francis

May 8, 2013

Tony Francis, resident of Red Rock, passed Wednesday, May 08, 2013 at St. Marys Regional Medical Center in Enid. He was 67 years of age. Tony was born May 9, 1945 in Eufaula, Oklahoma, the son of John Francis and Minnie Polk Francis. He attended school at Haskell Institute High School in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating in 1963. He earned...

Lois Eaton

Lois Eaton

Apr 30, 2013

Lois Dee DEEDLE Eaton, 91, of Tonkawa, went to meet her Lord on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2013 at the Willow Haven Nursing Home in Tonkawa. She was born on March 31, 1922 in Foraker, OK to Dee and Goldie Mae Bridges Martin. Lois was the third daughter of eight children. The family moved to Blackland, which is now...

Eva Center

Eva Center

Apr 28, 2013

Eva Mae Center, 77, of Shidler, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. Eva Mae was born on May 30, 1935 in Little Chief, Oklahoma to George Frederick and Nora Martha Ann Stoops Crain. She and Bobby Gene Center were married on December 24, 1952. To this union,...

Mary Krow

Mary Krow

Apr 27, 2013

Mary Vandesteene Krow, former resident of Otisville, Michigan and current resident of Ralston, Oklahoma, passed Saturday, April 27, 2013 at her home in the arms of her husband. She was 56 years of age. Mary was born February 18, 1957 in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of Robert K. Vandesteene and Maureen J. Morrow Vandesteene. She graduated from LakeVille High...

Johnny Rogers

Johnny Rogers

Apr 26, 2013

Johnny Ray Rogers, resident of Ponca City, passed unexpectedly, Friday, April 26, 2013. He was 34 years of age. Johnny was born November 3, 1978 in Huntsville, Texas, the son of Randy DeWayne Rogers and Jenny Shidler Rogers. His father died when Johnny was a young infant and was then raised and adopted by Bobby Lee Buckner. Johnny attended...

Virginia Grider

Virginia Grider

Apr 25, 2013

Virginia Lee Grider, resident of the McCord community, passed Thursday, April 25, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 70 years of age. Virginia was born July 3, 1942 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert Martin and Pearline Neal Martin. She grew up at several locations around the state of Oklahoma as her father was a...

Guy Thomas, Sr

Guy Thomas, Sr

Apr 21, 2013

Guy Lee Thomas, Sr., 52, passed away Sunday in Mississippi. Funeral Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2013 at White Eagle United Methodist Church. Burial to follow in the Ponca Tribal Cemetery.

Jerye Gauger

Jerye Gauger

Apr 21, 2013

Jerye Gauger, longtime area resident of the Braden community, passed Sunday, April 21, 2013 in Tulsa. She was 88 years of age. Jerye was born May 6, 1924 in Clinton, Oklahoma, the daughter of George W. Smith and Eva Bredy Smith. She was a graduate of Medicine Lodge, Kansas High School. She was married to Ray Gauger on April...

Jessica Balman

Jessica Balman

Apr 20, 2013

Jessica Balman, 40, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, April 20, 2013 at Red Rock, OK. Jessica was born on July 25, 1972 in Tulsa, OK to Joseph and Tommie Lang Elliott. Jessica grew up in the Ponca City area graduating Ponca City High School in 1990. She then went to Northern Oklahoma College and received an Associates degree...

Tennyson Overland

Tennyson Overland

Apr 19, 2013

Tennyson John Overland, 73, of Ponca City, passed away Friday, April 19, 2013 in OKC. Born on October 8, 1939 in Pawnee, OK to William and Helen Waters Overland. He was a lifelong area resident, veteran of the U.S. Army and member of the Ponca Indian United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, sisterAnna Mae,...

Imelda Willett

Imelda Willett

Apr 17, 2013

Services are pending.

Julian Thompson

Julian Thompson

Apr 16, 2013

Julian Ray Butch Thompson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center when he decided it was time to be with his Lord and Savior after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 67 years of age. Butch was born November 12, 1945 at Ponca City, the son of Joseph Ray...

Glenn Griffith

Glenn Griffith

Apr 11, 2013

Glenn A. Griffith, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, April 11, 2013 at his home. He was 95 years of age. Glenn was born May 15, 1917 in a dugout at Bliss, Oklahoma, the son of Ira Griffith and Minta Stice Griffith. He attended the Marland Public Schools. He was married to Edna Mae Wilkins on May 30,...

Roger Abel

Roger Abel

Apr 11, 2013

Roger Dean Abel, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, April 11, 2013 in Tulsa. He was 67 years of age. Roger was born March 26, 1946 in Okemah, Oklahoma, the son of Clifford Abel and Evelyn Crews Abel. He moved with his family to Ponca City where he started the third grade. He graduated from Ponca City High...

Everett Rinehart

Everett Rinehart

Apr 11, 2013

Everett E. Rinehart, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 67 years of age. Everett was born March 24, 1946 in Ponca City, the son of Harold Erwin Rinehart and Mary O. West Rinehart. He was a 1964 graduate of Ponca City High School and attended Northern Oklahoma...

Jay Warner, Jr.

Jay Warner, Jr.

Apr 9, 2013

Jay M. Warner, 88, of Ponca City, went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Jay M. Warner Jr. was born October 1st, 1924 to Jay M. and Carrie Belt Warner in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He served his country in the US Army during World War II from 19431945....

Christine Holmes

Christine Holmes

Apr 6, 2013

Christine E. Holmes, 80, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, April 6, 2013 in Wellington, KS. Christine was born on February 17, 1933 in Tahlequah, OK. She and William Bill Holmes were married on April 26, 1950 in Tahlequah. Bill passed away on February 21, 2009. They moved to Ponca City in 1953, she was of the Baptist Faith,...

Miles Seward

Miles Seward

Apr 3, 2013

Miles Albert Seward Miles Albert Seward, resident of Ponca City, passed Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at his home in the Osage. He was 70 years of age. Miles was born February 7, 1943 at Oilton, Oklahoma, Creek County, the son of Albert John Seward and Cleo Inez Jones Seward. His early education was in the Middle Enterprise School East...

Noble Mears Sr.

Noble Mears Sr.

Mar 26, 2013

Noble Bruce Mears Sr., longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 93 years of age. Noble was born January 30, 1920 in a log cabin at Caney, Oklahoma. He was the son of Thomas Murphy Mears and Lela Janetta Beall Mears. He received his early education...