Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries
Joe Brown
Jan 1, 2012
Joe Douglas Brown, resident of the McCord community, passed away Sunday, January 1, 2012 at his home. He was 64 years of age. Joe was born April 29, 1947 at Ponca City, the son of Kenneth George Brown and Thelma Pauline McGuckin Brown. He was a 1965 graduate of Lamont High School. He was married to Nancy Lee Naaden...
Pearl Vickers
Dec 31, 2011
Pearl E. Vickers, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, December 31, 2011 in Ponca City. She was 91 years of age. Pearl was born March 28, 1920 at Willow Springs, Missouri, the daughter of Robert Bruce Malcom and Zephae Mae Keeler Malcom. She was a 1938 graduate of Ponca City High School. She was married to Joe...
Thurman Buffalohead
Dec 30, 2011
Thurman Buffalohead, longtime resident of the Ponca City area went to be with his Lord on Friday, December 30, 2011 at his home. He was 89 years of age. Mr. Buffalohead was born April 8, 1922 at Ponca City, the son of Pete Buffalohead and Nettie Littledance Buffalohead. His early education was received in the Ponca City Public Schools....
Albert Higgins
Dec 30, 2011
Albert Dewayne Higgins, resident of rural Ponca City, passed away Friday, December 30, 2011 at his home. He was 49 years of age. Albert was born October 21, 1962 in Ponca City, the son of Curtis Higgins and Violet Seward Higgins. He attended the Ponca City Schools. His enjoyments included fishing, hunting and guitar playing. He is survived by...
Doris Carlisle
Dec 29, 2011
Doris Christine Carlisle, longtime resident of Grainola, passed away Thursday, December 29, 2011 at the Fairfax Hospital. She was 74 years of age. Christine was born June 16, 1937 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Herman Anderson and Ida Mills Anderson. She was a member of the Citizen Pottawatomi Nation. She moved with her family to Denoya at...
Myron Milner
Dec 27, 2011
Goodbye my friend. Myron Henry Milner, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2011 in Ponca City. He was 63 years of age. Myron was born August 25, 1948 in Japan, the son of Obie Eldridge Milner and Veta Marguarite Hibbs Milner. His father was a member of the WWII Flying Tigers and died in a...
Kimberly Hamilton
Dec 27, 2011
Kimberly Denise Hamilton, resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 40 years of age. Kim was born February 14, 1971 at Hope, Arkansas, the daughter of Joyce Hamilton. She received her early education in the Syracuse, Kansas, Dodge City, Kansas and Hope, Arkansas schools. She was a member of...
Lloyd Mains
Dec 27, 2011
Lloyd Andrew Mains, 65, of Shidler, passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at his residence. Lloyd was born on January 16, 1946 in Shidler to Lloyd Weldon and Bernice Brown Mains. Lloyd was a 1964 graduate of Shidler High School. He then attended OSU Okmulgee becoming a diesel mechanic. He ran a hay hauling business in 196869 following...
Ruby Anderson
Dec 25, 2011
Ruby Wallace Anderson, 95, longtime resident of Ponca City, died at her home on December 25, 2011. Ruby Maxine Scott was born on March 16, 1916, at Windyville, Missouri to Calvin and Bessie Brackley Scott. She moved with the family to Ceres, Oklahoma at the age of one. She attended rural Long View School in Noble County and graduated...
Bessie Mcclelland
Dec 22, 2011
Bessie BETH Veda Shaw Crain McClelland, 85, passed away Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 at her residence surrounded by her family. Beth was born on October 29, 1926 in Pawnee to William and Rose Shirley Shaw. Beth was a lifelong area resident. A longtime member of Faith Tabernacle Church where she ran the food closet for many many years. She...
Kenneth Vassar
Dec 20, 2011
Kenneth Eugene Vassar, born February 22nd, 1932 in Tulsa, Oklahoma died December 20th, 2011. Kenneth was very proud that his father, Orville E. Vassar, was a cowboy at the 101 ranch where Kenneths grandparents resided and worked for the Miller Brothers. It was there that his father met his mother, Ethel Francis Levings. At an early age his family...
Caroline Tapp
Dec 17, 2011
Caroline LeClair Tapp, 70, of Ponca City, passed away Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 at Ponca City Regional Hospital. Caroline was born on March 5, 1941 in Pawnee, OK to Hugh and Rosa Blueback LeClair. She was a descendent of the Yellowberry Clan of Ponca Nation. Caroline lived her life around Ponca City and was a nurses aide. She married...
Jesse Vaden Jr.
Dec 16, 2011
Jesse Lee Vaden Jr., longtime resident of Shidler, passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 as a result of an automobile accident. He was 80 years of age. Jesse was born August 3, 1931 in Slick, Oklahoma, the son of Jesse Lee Vaden Sr. and Lola Viola Weaver Vaden. He attended Webb City Elementary School and Shidler High School. He...
Mae Vaden
Dec 16, 2011
N. Mae Vaden, longtime resident of Shidler, passed Friday, December 16, 2011 as a result of an automobile accident. She was 72 years of age. Mae was born January 23, 1939 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Elwood Chouteau and Louise Werneke Chouteau. She attended school at Washunga and was very proud of her Native American Kaw heritage. She...
Ala Wilson
Dec 15, 2011
Pamala Rae Pam Wilson, longtime resident of Ponca City, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Thursday, December 15, 2011 at her home surronded by her loving family and friends. She was 49 years of age. Pam was born January 9, 1962 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the daughter of Raymond R. Rankins and Gwen Burkhart Rankins. She...
George Whitehorn
Dec 13, 2011
George was born November 4, 1964, in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Calvin Douglas No Ear and Claudia Brown No Ear. He was taken to be with the Lord on December 13, 2011, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He was 47 years of age. Joey grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was a graduate of Edison High School before attending Northeastern State in...
Barbara Willison
Dec 12, 2011
She was called Betty Lee as a child by her brothers who had a hard time saying Barbara and would become known as Betty for the rest of her life. She went to be with our Lord in the morning on December 12, 2011, being welcomed into heaven by her son Jerry Leo. Betty was born in Atlanta, Kansas...
Jazzabella Melius
Dec 7, 2011
Jazzabella Grace Melius infant daughter of Ashley Heflin and Justin Melius began her struggle of life November 23, 2011 and with the support of her family and friends went to be with our Lord on December 7, 2011. She is survived by siblings Julian and Jozalynn Melius. Grandparents, Cindy Heflin, R.J. Melius, Michael and Denisa Watts. Aunts Brittney and...
Marvin Wilson
Dec 4, 2011
Marvin Nash Wilson, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 at the Shawn Manor Nursing Center at the age of 96. Marvin was born February 3, 1915 in Liberal, Kansas to Walter and Nellie Wilson. He joined Groendyke at age 23 in Beaver, Oklahoma. He later transferred to Ponca City where he owned his own...
Coolidge Campbell
Nov 25, 2011
Coolidge Campbell, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, November 25, 2011 at his home. He was 86 years of age. Coolidge was born August 20, 1925 in Rocky, Arkansas in Freedom Township of Polk County, the son of Herbert Eugene Campbell and Kitty Adison Campbell. He was delivered by his grandfather, Dr. Cirus Anderson Campbell, the doctor for...




