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Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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Helen Taylor

Helen Taylor

May 4, 2012

Helen Adeline Taylor, former resident of Ponca City, passed away May 4, 2012 in Oklahoma City. She was 91 years of age. Helen was born March 16, 1921 in Cushing, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ottie F. Taylor and Clara Elizabeth Acker Taylor. She moved with her parents to Ponca City in 1930. She was a 1940 graduate of Ponca...

Andrew Snake Jr.

Andrew Snake Jr.

May 2, 2012

Andrew Snake Jr., former resident of Ponca City and current resident of Shawnee, Oklahoma, passed away Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Oklahoma City. He was 70 years of age. Andrew was born July 5, 1941 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Andrew Snake Sr. and Pauline McClellan Snake. Andrew was an enrolled member of both the SacnFax Nation and...

Donna Wolfe

Donna Wolfe

Apr 30, 2012

Donna Mae Wolfe, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Monday, April 30, 2012 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of liver failure after a short illness. She was 77 years of age. Donna was born June 29, 1934 in Alva, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ben Frieden and Grace Broce Frieden. She...

Suzanne Eagle

Suzanne Eagle

Apr 26, 2012

Suzanne Laura Makes Cry White Eagle, 77, of Ponca City, passed away Thursday, April 26, 2012 at Ponca City Medical Center. Suzanne was born on October 1, 1934 in Ponca City to Albert and Beatrice Pappan Makes Cry, Sr. Suzanne attended Union and Ponca City Schools graduating from Ponca City High School in 1954. Suzanne was married to George...

Betty Vandaveer

Betty Vandaveer

Apr 16, 2012

Betty Rose Secrest Compton Vandaveer, 77, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, sister and friend, of Blackwell, passed away peacefully Monday, April 16, 2012 at OSU Medical Center of Tulsa. Betty Rose was born on March 28, 1935 IN Wichita, KS. She was preceded in death by her parents Carl and Margie Secrest Bryant. Betty Rose grew up in the...

Zaiden Brownell

Zaiden Brownell

Apr 11, 2012

Zaiden Justice Bryan Brownell was born December 15, 2011 and died April 11, 2012. Our little angel went to be with Jesus we will miss him. We loved him so much. Survivors include his parents, Zacheus and Louran Lowder Brownell brother, Zacheus Brownell sister, Zariah Brownell maternal grandparents, Dyanne and Bryan Lowder paternal grandparents, Delicia Chavez and great grandparents,...

George Childs Ii

George Childs Ii

Apr 10, 2012

George Murphy Childs II, member of the OtoeMissouria Indian Tribe and resident of Red Rock, passed away Tuesday, April 10, 2012. He was 36 years of age. George was born December 14, 1975 in Ponca City, the son of Roy and Jolavon Butler Childs. He was a graduate of the Sequoyah Indian School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He had been...

Bernice Davis

Bernice Davis

Apr 10, 2012

Bernice Arrow Davis, former Ponca City area resident, passed away Tuesday, April 10, 2012 in Hobart, Oklahoma. She was 85 years of age. Bernice was born August 14, 1926 at White Eagle, the daughter of Leona Roughface and the granddaughter of Leonard and Leota Biggoose. She attended the Pawnee Indian School and Haskell Indian School where she was active...

Sena Jones

Sena Jones

Apr 10, 2012

Sena M. Jones, resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 76 years of age. Sena was born May 7, 1935 at Coffeyville, Kansas, the daughter of Bailey L. King and Violet May Cobb King. She moved with her family to Pawhuska, Oklahoma where she attended school....

Ralph Barker

Ralph Barker

Apr 8, 2012

Ralph Elwood Barker, longtime Ponca City resident, died April 8, 2012, at his home. He was 87. Born March 27, 1925, at home in Silas Creek, Ashe County, NC, he was the son of George Winfield Barker and Marylou Della McClure Barker. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in the Worship...

Randy Wilson

Randy Wilson

Apr 4, 2012

Randy Wayne Wilson, 49, of Ponca City, passed away Wednesday, April 4 2012 at the Ponca City Medical Center. Randy was born on May 19, 1962 in Ponca City to Dewey and Evelyn HARRIS Wilson. Randy attended the Ponca City Schools and was a 1980 Graduate of Ponca City High School, he was married to Pam Rankins on June...

Robert Page

Robert Page

Mar 31, 2012

Robert M. Robby Page, former resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Oklahoma City. He was 57 years of age. Robert was born March 15, 1955 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Nathaniel Page Sr. and Ann Constance LeClair Page. He attended East Jr. High, Marland, Chilocco and Helena schools. He was married to Imalda...

Charles Denoya

Charles Denoya

Mar 30, 2012

Charles F. DeNoya, resident of Ponca City, passed away Friday, March 30, 2012 in Oklahoma City. He was 61 years of age. Charles was born July 12, 1950 in Ponca City, the son of Marcus Franklin Sonny DeNoya and Helen Gertrude Morris DeNoya. He was a 1969 graduate of Ponca City High School. He was employed as a custodian...

Allen Clark

Allen Clark

Mar 29, 2012

Allen Wayne Clark, resident of Ponca City passed Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Ponca City. He was 59 years of age. Allen was born May 30, 1952 in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Harland Crandall and Agnes Knudsen. He studied Psychology at Northern Oklahoma CollegeTonkawa and Northwestern State University in Alva. He was married to Elaine Rioux in 1978....

Kelly Keith

Kelly Keith

Mar 28, 2012

Kelly Kevin Keith, 53, of Ponca City, died suddenly at home on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. He was born on August 27, 1958 to Fredi and T.R Tom Keith, Jr. He was the oldest of four children and attended Garfield Elementary, East Jr. High, and graduated from PoHi in 1976. He attended Oklahoma State University majoring in Mechanical Engineering,...

Marcena Headman

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

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

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

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

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....