Obituaries

Samuel Parks
Dec 29, 2010
Saumuel Leroy Parks, 83 year old Vinita resident died Wednesday December 29, 1010 at Rosewood Terrace in Vinita. He was born March 4, 1927 at Strang, OK the son of Samuel Parks Jr. and Judy Rattlingourd Parks. Sam was a life area resident of the Spavinaw Strang area and was of the Baptist Faith. He enjoyed being visiting, helping and...
Ezelle Cochrane
Dec 29, 2010
Ezell Cochrane It is with great sadness that we announce that our beloved and loving mother, Ezell Cochrane, passed away after a short illness on December 29, 2010 at the age of 93. Ezell will be remembered by all who knew her as a beacon of warmth, graciousness, fun, and positivity. She was spunky and smart and sweet and sassy...

Merrill Reynolds
Dec 28, 2010
Merrill J. Reynolds, 86, passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2010, in Vinita, OK. Born July 5, 1924, he was preceded in death by Gladys and Ross Reynolds (parents) and Lyndell (brother) of Carrollton, Illinois. He was a retired geologist. He graduated from Carrollton High School, served our country as a proud member of the U.S. Navy during WWII and graduated...

Leona Lee
Dec 28, 2010
Service Details
Monday, January 3rd, 2011 2:00pm, First Baptist Church - Dewey
Interment Details
Dewey Cemetery
Terry Woods
Dec 27, 2010
Terry Lee Woods, 53 year old resident of Disney, died Monday, December 27, 2010 at the St. John's Hospital in Tulsa. He was born October 17, 1957 to Willis D. and Dorothy M. (Carpenter) Woods. He served his country during the Vietnam War, in the U. S. Navy. He had worked as a roofer. Terry married Tamara Marie Skelly on...

Barry Hoover
Dec 25, 2010
Barry Allen Hoover Graveside funeral services for Barry Allen Hoover will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 29, 2010, at the Nowata Memorial Park cemetery with Allan Walker officiating. Barry Allen Hoover was born November 16, 1947, in New Castle, Indiana, to Harold J. and Donna (Dudley) Hoover. He died on December 25, 2010, in Nowata, after reaching 63...
Bill Stevens
Dec 25, 2010
Bill was born on November 29, 1925, in Greeley, Colorado. He was the son of Roy Stevens and Lusena (Miller) Stevens and attended Nowata High school. Bill was a WWII vet. He enlisted in the United States Navy in January of 1945, and served aboard the USS Munda Bay CVE-104 baby flat-top aircraft carrier as a Watertender Second Class. The...
Johnnie Wiedower
Dec 25, 2010
Johnnie Ed Wiedower, 81 year old lifetime Vinita area resident, died December 25, 2010 at Rosewood Terrace in Vinita. He was born June 20, 1929 in Vinita, to John H. and Minnie C. (Zimmerman) Wiedower. Johnnie married LoveVanna Heater on August 30, 1950, in Vinita; She preceded him in death on July 11, 2007. He worked as a rural mail...
Shirley Reed
Dec 25, 2010
Shirley "Geraldine" Reed, age 87, of Vinita, OK died Saturday December 25, 2010 at her home. She was born February 18, 1923 in Pawhuska, OK the daughter of K.W. Bruce and Lenora Callahan Bruce. She was raised and received her formal education at Pawhuska. She and Joe M. Reed were united in marriage in Miami, OK and moved to Vinita...
Harmon Allen
Dec 25, 2010
Harmon Benson Allen, a former Tulsa lawyer passed on Saturday, Dec. 25th at 2010 following an extended illness. Mr. Allen was born on Oct. 24,1934 in Colcord Oklahoma to Ray Benson and Gertrude Hyde Allen. He spent his childhood there and attended Mt Hermon church as a young man. Harmon graduated Jay H. S. in 1952 and went on to...

Babs
Dec 23, 2010
Sidney, NE - Babs Lea (Rush) Pulliam, 39, died Thursday, December 23, 2010 in Sidney, Nebraska. She was born on March 24, 1971 in Miami, Oklahoma to Larry and Linda (Roberson) Rush. Babs was a graduate of Grove High School in 1989. She married Dean Pulliam in May, 2006 in Miami, OK. Babs enjoyed taking pictures, playing with her dogs...
Mildred Harriger
Dec 23, 2010
Mildred Harringer, 81 year old, Grove, Oklahoma resident passed away Thursday December 23, 2010 following an extended illness. Mildred was born on November 24, 1929 in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Frand Earnhardt and Florence Ellen (Grissom) Earnhardt. Mildred married Max Harringer on November 22, 1952. She was an avid painter and enjoyed fishing and playing cards as well as dancing, but...
Wilma Banks
Dec 22, 2010
Mrs. Banks was born the daughter of John F. Richardson and Emma (Robbinson) Richardson on July 30, 1922 in Sapulpa, Ok. She was raised and educated in Sapulpa and graduated from Sapulpa High School. Wilma was united in marriage with James D. (J.D.) Banks on October 3. 1941 in Sapulpa, Ok. Mr. Banks was then enlisted in the United States...
James Macdonald
Dec 22, 2010
James Edward MacDonald, son of Archie and Ruth (Lennen) MacDonald, was born June 26, 1939 in Kansas City, Kansas. He was adopted as an infant and grew up in McPherson, Kansas. At the age of 69, Jim was fortunate enough to locate his birth mother and meet his two half-sisters and half-brother (Naomi, Mary and Paul) in Idaho. Family was...

Beverly Rowand
Dec 22, 2010
Beverly Rowand, 56 year old, Afton, Oklahoma area resident passed away Wednesday December 22, 2010. Beverly was born on May 22, 1954 in French Camp, California to Adolfus and Georgia (Hendren) Potter. Beverly graduated from high school in Linden, California, and harvested walnuts before working in a candy store as a clerk and later a manger. She married Ross Rowand...
Lillie Garner
Dec 22, 2010
Lillie "Lorene" Garner a ninety year old resident of Grove passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at her home. She was born on April 23, 1920 in Coweta, Oklahoma to Wesley Newton and Lily Virginia Morris . Mrs. Garner was a homemaker loved her family and an avid follower of her grandkids ballgames and livestock shows. She enjoyed crosswords,...
Cleo Collins
Dec 21, 2010
Cleo Harold "Ted" Collins, 91 year old, lifetime area resident, passed away Tuesday, Decmeber 21, 2010, at his "home away from home" for the past 6 ½ years, the Claremore Veterans Center in Claremore, Oklahoma. Ted was born on April 20, 1919 in Craig County (Banzet), Oklahoma, to George Dewey and Emma Augusta (Bradbury) Collins. He was married to Dorothy...
Jackie Tiry
Dec 20, 2010
Jackie Ray Tiry, 54, went to heaven to be with the Lord on December 20, 2010 at their home. He was born October 6, 1954 at Coffeyville, KS, the son of Earl Shaw and Margaret Royer. Jack worked hard all his life to support his family. He was well known for the T-6 buildings he built for people all over....
Lorene Worden
Dec 19, 2010
Lorene L. Worden, age 82, of Grove, Okla., passed away on Sunday December 19, 2010 at St. John's Hospital, following an illness. Lorene was born on February 27, 1928 in Stella, Mo., the daughter of the late William and Jewel Doty. She was a former resident of Joplin, moving to Grove in 1986. She was a homemaker. She was a...