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Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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Bobbie Hibbs

Bobbie Hibbs

Jan 4, 2013

Bobbie Lee Hibbs, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, January 4, 2013 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 87 years of age. Bobbie was born October 23, 1925 in Miami, Oklahoma, the daughter of Joseph Fain Willson and Emilie Kunzer Willson. She was a graduate of Miami High School. She was married to...

Dennie Goddard

Dennie Goddard

Jan 3, 2013

Dennie Eugene Dennis Goddard, resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, January 3, 2013 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 64 years of age. Dennis was born August 21, 1948 in Dodge City, Kansas, the only child of Floyd Delbert Goddard and Elsie Cain Goddard. He was a 1966 graduate of Ponca City High School. Dennis had...

Freeman Arkeketa Jr.

Freeman Arkeketa Jr.

Jan 3, 2013

Freeman Arkeketa Jr., former Ponca City resident, died January 3, 2013 in Tulsa. Freeman was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Freeman Arkeketa and Myrtle Roy Arkeketa. He attended school at Chilocco. After leaving school he married and moved to Tulsa where he resided until his death. He is preceded in death by his parents, grandparents, Ed and...

Donna Havens

Donna Havens

Jan 1, 2013

Donna P. Havens passed into the comfort of Jesus arms on January 1, 2013 in Tulsa, OK. A long time Ponca City resident she was born in Kaw City, OK on August 5, l930 to Charles Hazel Cassity Parker. She was known as Donna Jo to family and friends growing up. She graduated from Kaw City, then going on...

Dorothy Mahnke

Dorothy Mahnke

Dec 31, 2012

Dorothy Dot Mae Mahnke, longtime Ponca City resident, died Monday, December 31, 2012 at Ponca City Nursing Center, in Ponca City. She was 85. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, January 5, 2013, at the First Church of God with Pastor Alan Popken, of the First Church of God in Ponca City, presiding. Interment will be...

Lorraine Sigwing

Lorraine Sigwing

Dec 30, 2012

Lorraine Moore Sigwing, 68, of Red Rock, passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 at her nephew Thomas Beaver McGlaslins residence. Lorraine was born on Dec. 10, 1944 in Pawnee, OK to Johnny and Minnie Mae English Moore, SR. She was a very proud member of the Owl Clan of the OtoeMissouria Tribe. Lorraine grew up in the Red Rock...

Maxine Weaver

Maxine Weaver

Dec 25, 2012

Maxine Weaver, 87, of Ponca City, Passed away on Christmas Day surrounded by her family. Maxine was born in Alma, AR on March 20 1925 to Lewis and Beulah Lamb Walker. Maxine was preceded in death by her parents, sister Lenora CoxStoner, brother Bill Walker and grandsonShannon Weaver. Around 1930 Maxine moved to Ponca City with her family. Received...

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...