Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries
Marcena Headman
Mar 27, 2012
Marcena Joy MiGahShoThey Headman, 56, of Ponca City, OK, passed away, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at the Purcell Municipal Hospital in Purcell, OK. Born on January 24, 1956 in Pawnee, OK to Isaac and Patricia Collins Headman. Granddaughter of Kenneth and Katherine Headman and William and Martha Collins. Marcena was a descendant of the ThiXiDah clan of the Ponca...
Donald Coats
Mar 26, 2012
Donald W. Coats, resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday, March 26, 2012 at his home. He was 91 years of age. Donald was born October 26, 1920, on a farm near Tyrone, Oklahoma. He was born the tenth of eleven siblings to James Fredrick Fred Coats and Olive Rebekah Newman Coats. Don was the grandson of William Henry...
Leroy Rackley
Mar 24, 2012
Leroy Rackley, 64 of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed away, of cancer, on Saturday, March 24th in Lolo, Montana, at the home of his daughter Tonya. Leroy was born on May 9th, 1947, in Russellville, Arkansas to Alice PaulineBohannon and Rayburn Paul Rackley. He graduated from Guthrie High School in Guthrie, Oklahoma and attended Central State College in Edmond, Oklahoma....
Betty Tilton
Mar 22, 2012
Betty Marie Tilton, 81, formerly of Ark City, KS, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Santee, CA. Betty was born on February 26, 1931 in Ponca City, OK to Ted and Effie Robins Burns. Betty was married to Richard Tilton on Dec. 31, 1954 in Tijuana, Mexico. Betty had been an Administrative Assistant in the airline industry. He...
Doug Pappan
Mar 16, 2012
Doug Lynn Pappan Doug Lynn Pappan, resident of Ponca City, Oklahoma, passed away March 16, 2012 in Ponca City at the age of 60 years. Doug was born December 19, 1951 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the son of Margie Boxley and Jimmie Pappan. He and Katye married July 2, 1984. Doug was a member of the Local Fire Fighters....
Christopher Tsosie
Mar 9, 2012
Christopher Jon Tsosie, 28, of Claremore, OK passed away Friday, March 9, 2012 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Born on April 20, 1983 in Claremore to Larry Jon and Pauline Rochelle Atkins Tsosie. Christopher graduated in 2002 from Will Rogers High School in Tulsa. Christopher was currently a student at Bacone College where he was going to...
Betty Ward
Mar 6, 2012
Betty Lou Trayler Ward, former resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, March 6, 2012 in Allen, Texas. She was 84 years of age. Betty was born April 5, 1927 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, the daughter of Ethridge Trayler and Marjorie Ewing Trayler. She was a 1944 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to William A....
Scott Garrett
Mar 6, 2012
Scott Williams Garrett Scott Williams Garrett, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at his home. He was 85 years of age. Scott was born November 5, 1926 in Ponca City, the son of Herbert Amos Garrett and Flora L. Williams Garrett. He attended the Ponca City Schools. He served his country in the United...
Dezmond Arkeketa
Feb 22, 2012
Dezmond James Arkeketa, 7 month old son of Bill and Laurie Clinton Arkeketa passed Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Dezmond was born July 29, 2011 in Ponca City. He is survived by his parents, William Bill Arkeketa and Laurie Clinton Arkeketa one sister, Aaliyah, of the home maternal grandparents, Jon and Genie Burns of Spring, Texas paternal grandparents, Bennett and...
Lila Welch
Feb 19, 2012
Lila Mae Welch, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, February 19, 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 84 years of age. Lila was born July 14, 1927 in rural Ponca City, the daughter of John Leonard Stalman and Anna Francis May Stalman. She was a 1944 graduate of St. Marys Catholic School of Ponca...
Kirk Allen
Feb 19, 2012
Kirk Stanley Allen, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, February 19, 2012 at his home. He was 55 years of age. Kirk was born April 6, 1956 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Kerns Allen and Betty Young Allen. He was a graduate of Ponca City High School and had earned an Associate Degree from Northern Oklahoma...
Paul Delodge
Feb 17, 2012
Paul Sunday DeLodge, 76, of Ponca City, passed away Friday, February 17, 2012 at Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Paul was born on March 13, 1935 in White Eagle, OK to Logan and Nancy Lucy Big Snake DeLodge. Paul was a lifelong area resident and member of St. Marys Catholic Church. Paul graduated from St. Marys Catholic High...
Betty Blubaugh
Feb 15, 2012
Betty L. Blubaugh, longtime resident of the Bressie community, passed away Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at her home near Clearwater, Kansas. She was 86 years of age. Betty was born January 19, 1926 at Bressie, Oklahoma, the daughter of Vern Anderson and Elzina LeRoy Anderson. She attended the Teirney grade school and was a 1943 graduate of Marland High...
William Moore
Feb 12, 2012
William Andrew Bill Moore, 71, passed away Sunday February 12, 2012 at Ponce City Medical Center. Bill was born March 11, 1940 in Guthrie, Oklahoma to Matthew and Estella Williams Moore. Bill, as he was known by his friends, was the third child of seven children born of this union. Two brothers, Embert and John preceded him in death....
Marvin Stout
Feb 12, 2012
Marvin Carl Stout,85, resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012 at his home. The service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, February 17, 2012 at the Osage Heights Baptist Church with Pastor Harold Hutchins, officiating. Burial will follow at Longwood Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. Marvin was born on Saturday,...
Susie Epperly
Feb 10, 2012
Susie M. Epperly, resident of Fairfax, passed away Friday, February 10, 2012 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. She was 73 years of age. Susie was born May 10, 1938 at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Thomas Edwards and Cleda Pickett Edwards. She received her education in the Blackwell, Oklahoma Schools. She was of the Baptist faith and her...
Ruby Johnston
Feb 6, 2012
Ruby Glea Johnston, 81, died at home on February 6th, 2012 with her husband and a son at her side. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Lynn Smith. Born Ruby Glea Smith on April 19, 1930 at Norwich, Kansas. She was the daughter of Bruce and Mildred Coffman Smith. She attended grade school through high...
James Fite
Feb 3, 2012
James Clifford Cliff Fite, longtime area minister, passed away Friday, February 03, 2012 at Via Christi Village at the age of 85 years. Cliff was born July 17, 1926 at Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of John Earl Fite and Lyda Murrell Fite. He attended Yeager, Oklahoma schools and was a graduate of Dewar, Oklahoma High School. He received his...
Mary Lewis
Jan 31, 2012
Mary Nell Wilkerson Lewis, longtime resident of Marland, passed away Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 94 years of age. Nell was born July 24, 1917 at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, the daughter of Daniel Wilkerson and Lottie Mae Wadley Wilkerson. She attended school at Bradley, Oklahoma and Ponca City. After graduation she attended...




