Obituaries

Ponca City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ponca City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

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James Bennett

James Bennett

Apr 13, 2011

James Lloyd Bennett, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 90 years of age. James was born January 28, 1921 in Cleburne, Texas, the son of Franklin M. Bennett and Arline Lloyd Bennett. He was a graduate of Cleveland, Oklahoma High School. James served his country in the...

Dana Fisher

Dana Fisher

Apr 12, 2011

Dana John Keith Fisher, resident of Cushing, Oklahoma and former resident of Ponca City, passed Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at the Cushing Regional Hospital. He was 62 years of age. Dana was born April 12, 1949 in Ponca City, the son of Harold Fisher Jr. and Fern Thompson Fisher. He was a member of the Buffalo Clan of the...

Darlene Couture

Darlene Couture

Apr 11, 2011

Darlene Rae Couture, resident of Blackwell, passed Monday, April 11, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 66 years of age. Darlene was born December 15, 1944 in Yakima, Washington, the daughter of Joe and Maxine Brandt. She was employed as a Registered Nurse, retiring in 2006. She served her country in the United States Army and...

Marcia Courtney

Marcia Courtney

Apr 8, 2011

Marcia Lea Courtney, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, April 8, 2011 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 70 years of age. Marcia was born February 15, 1941, the daughter of the late Senator Roy E. Grantham and Martha Elizabeth Young Grantham. She was a 1959 graduate of Ponca City High School. She attended...

Pamela Howell

Pamela Howell

Apr 4, 2011

Pamela Kay Howell, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, April 4, 2011 at her home. She was 60 years of age. Pamela was born September 13, 1950 at Grove, Oklahoma, the daughter of Doc Caudill and Dovie Lea Hanna Caudill. She received her early education in the Ponca City Schools. She lived for some time in Wayne, Michigan before...

John Stewart

John Stewart

Apr 4, 2011

John Paul Jay Steward, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, April 4, 2011 at his home. He was 83 years of age. Jay was born December 29, 1927 in Nocona, Texas, the son of Leonard and Lota Pemberton Stewart. He attended the Nocona area schools. He was married to Lena Corkey Brewer on July 21, 1963 at Pampa,...

Dicie Jones

Dicie Jones

Apr 4, 2011

Dicie L. Jones, resident of Ponca City, passed Monday, April 4, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. She was 72 years of age. Dicie was born March 21, 1939 in Blue Mountain, Arkansas, the daughter of Jessie Isaac Goldman and Anna Marie Capps Goldman. She was married to John Silas in 1957. She later married Larry Fisher in...

Dolores Kimmel

Dolores Kimmel

Apr 3, 2011

Dolores B. Kimmel, resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, April 3, 2011 at the Via Christi Village. She was 81. Dolores was born December 23, 1929 at Dunkerton, Iowa, the daughter of Mathias J. Ortner and Margaret Loretta Brown Ortner. She attended the Dunkerton Schools and later taught school in the area. She was a member of St. Marys...

Hugh Griffin

Hugh Griffin

Apr 1, 2011

Hugh D. Griff Griffin Hugh D. Griff Griffin, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, April 1, 2011 at the Sterling House in Ponca City. He was 91 years of age. Griff was born January 19, 1920 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, the son of Mark Eugene Griffin and Montana Saunders Griffin. While growing up he helped his parents operate...

Charlotte Tellier

Charlotte Tellier

Mar 29, 2011

Charlotte Ann Tellier, former Kaw City resident, passed Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at her home in Yukon, Oklahoma. She was 76 years of age. Charlotte was born April 4, 1934 in a farm house Northeast of Ponca City, the daughter of George Raymond Lane and Edith Bush Lane. She was a 1952 graduate of Kaw City High School. She...

Steve Keller

Steve Keller

Mar 25, 2011

Steve Keller, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed Friday, March 25, 2011 at his home to be with his Lord and Savior. He was 73. Steve was born February 19, 1938 at Ponca City, the son of Fred Keller and Gladys Small Keller. His childhood was in the Sand Hills of Kansas and in Montana before moving back to...

Betty Cassity

Betty Cassity

Mar 24, 2011

Betty Cassity of Ponca City passed away March 24, 2011 following a period of declining health. She was 89 years of age. Betty Cassity was born July 9, 1921 on a farm in Osage County, near Ralston, where her parents, James and Olive Matthews, made their living. As a girl she moved with her family to Ponca City where...

Douglas Mcginty

Douglas Mcginty

Mar 21, 2011

Douglas M. McGinty, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Monday, March 21, 2011 at the Ponca City Medical Center. He was 68 years of age. Douglas was born April 1, 1942 in Ponca City, the son of Chester Franklin McGinty and Gracie Dora Cranford McGinty. He attended the Ponca City Public Schools. He entered the United States Army...

William Miller

William Miller

Mar 19, 2011

William Miller died at 5:09 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at Kindred South in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was 86. Funeral arrangements are pending with Grace Memorial Chapel in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Leroy Moxley

Leroy Moxley

Mar 17, 2011

Virgil Leroy Lee Moxley, 64, of Ponca City, Oklahoma and member of the Marland Community, died late Thursday evening March 17, 2011 in his home with his wife and children by his side. Lee was born November 9, 1946 in Ponca City to Roy and Virginia Hill Moxley. He was raised in Kaw City and graduated from Kaw City...

Alice Lightfoot

Alice Lightfoot

Mar 12, 2011

Alice Louise Lightfoot, 83, of Ponca City, Oklahoma died at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at her home following a long illness. Alice was born January 16, 1928 at Shawnee, Oklahoma to Jesse M. and Rose E. Young Hooten. On December 1, 1945 she married Joseph B. Lightfoot in Crosby County, Texas. They enjoyed 65 wonderful years...

Alma Dooley

Alma Dooley

Mar 10, 2011

Alma Re Dooley, longtime resident of Ponca City, passed away Thursday morning, March 10, 2011 at the Ponca City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 83 years of age. Alma was born February 29, 1928 in the Big Bend community West of Ralston, Oklahoma. Her parents were William Hutchison and Nancy Hamby Hutchison. She was a 1946 graduate of...

Sandra Bales

Sandra Bales

Mar 6, 2011

Sandra Lee Bales, resident of Ponca City, passed away Sunday, March 6, 2011 at her home. She was 62 years of age. Sandra was born January 18, 1949 in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Clarence Briley Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Osborn Briley. She had lived with her family in Dayton, Ohio prior to moving to Vinita, Oklahoma where she...

Viola Reynolds

Viola Reynolds

Mar 5, 2011

Viola Reynolds passed away from this life of March 5, 2011 at the Integris Blackwell Hospital after a short illness. Viola was born on April 7, 1920, the daughter of Vernon S. Spencer and Ethel Jordan Spencer. She grew up in the Oilton and Drumright area and received her education in the Oilton and Drumright school systems, graduating from...