Obituaries
Dean Murrow
Apr 3, 2010
Dean L Murrow, "Jiggs" of Grove, Oklahoma, died on April 3, 2010 at his home on Grand Lake. He was surrounded by his family following a short but courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Dean was born on January 21, 1923 to Lottie and Harry Murrow. Dean attended Phillips University for a year prior to serving as a Naval officer in...
James Lee
Apr 3, 2010
James Arthur Lee, 62, a resident of Delaware County passed away at his home on Saturday, April 3, 2010. He was born on August 28, 1947 in Los Angeles, California to Leonard Wilbur and Hazel Maxine (Robitaille) Lee. Mr. Lee worked at installing machinery for factories. While in the United States Army he was a Gunner on a Helicopter. He...
George Hicks
Apr 3, 2010
George William Hicks, age 66, died Saturday April 3, 2010 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born May 14, 1943 in Mountainburg, Arkansas the son of Raymond Hicks and Myrtle Purdue Hicks. The family moved to Bristow, OK, then in 1946 they moved to Langley where he started school, and later moving to the Jay area where George...
Paul Vestal
Mar 31, 2010
Paul Edward Vestal, Sr., age 81, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma September 11, 1928 left this earth to be with his Savior March 31, 2010. A long-time Tulsa attorney, Paul most recently served as the Grove City Prosecutor where he lived for the past 15 years. He graduated from Union Consolidated School in 1946 and the University of Tulsa School of...
George Copeland
Mar 30, 2010
George Wilkerson Copeland, age 74 of Vinita, died Tuesday, March 30, 2010. George was born in Vinita on October 23, 1935, the son of Wilkinson Soloman Copeland and Flora Mae (Culver) Copeland. He loved to fish, watch westerns, and play his guitar. He worked as a roofer for several years. George is survived by two daughters Teresa and Karen Copeland...
Dakota Sweet
Mar 30, 2010
Dakota Lea Sweet, sixteen year old resident of the Ketchum area died Wednesday March 30, 2011. Dakota was born March 3, 1995 in Tulsa, OK to Brenda Sweet and Fred Helm. The family moved to the area in 2000 from Tulsa and was attending school at Ketchum. He was a member of the Cleora Baptist and First Southern Baptist Church...
Kimsey Wade
Mar 30, 2010
Kimsey C. Wade, long time Vinita resident, went to join friends and family in his heavenly home on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. He was born in Hominy, OK, October 7, 1952 to M. E. and Catherine Wade. He received his diploma from Hominy High School in 1970. He graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, with a BS in Political...
Don Harp
Mar 30, 2010
Dr. Don Stanley Harp, age 87, died March 28th, 2010 at his > home in Oklahoma City. He was born July 28, 1922 on a farm > northwest of Vinita, OK, near Estella, to Thomas B. and > Katie Ruth Sensenbaugh Harp. He was the youngest boy of 15 > children - seven boys and eight girls. He graduated from...
Paul Lyons
Mar 28, 2010
Paul Lyons, 67, a resident of Grove passed away at Grand Lake Villa on Sunday, March 28, 2010. He was born on March 7, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. Services are pending with the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home.
Carl Jones
Mar 27, 2010
JONES, CARL W., 93, died on March 27, 2010 at his home on Briarwood in Bartlesville, OK. Carl was born August 9, 1916, in Austin, TX, to parents William S. and Louise Jones. He graduated from Austin High School in 1933 and from the University of Texas in 1937. His Texas National Guard unit was mobilized in July of 1940,...
James Jay
Mar 27, 2010
James Edgar "Big Daddy" Jay, 67 year-old Cleora (The Coves) resident, died Saturday afternoon, at the St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin. He was born May 7, 1942 in Grayson County, Texas to Ody Edgar and Veda Ruth (Clark) Jay. James served his country in Vietnam, in the United States Air Force. He married Linda Jean Park on January...
Dorothy Downing
Mar 25, 2010
Dorothy Mae (Mosby) Downing, age 69, died on March 25, 2010 at her residence in Jay, Oklahoma. The daughter of Lester and Viola (Wasmer) Mosby, was born on April 3, 1940 in Las Animas, Colorado. Dorothy enjoyed cooking, sewing clothes, camping and when she was able, playing the piano. She was a member of the Souls Harbor Church in Jay,...
Katherine Latchum
Mar 25, 2010
Katherine Andersen Latchum, age 93, a resident of Bartlesville, died Thursday March 25, 2010 at her home. Katherine was born November 6, 1916 in Council Bluffs, Iowa to John M. and Norrah Stork Andersen. The family moved to Tulsa in 1920, where she attended school, graduating from Central High School in 1934. She married John Wesley Latchum in 1940. He...
Willie Smith
Mar 24, 2010
Willie Doris Smith, lifetime Grove resident died Wednesday evening March 24, 2010 at a Grove nursing home at the age of 88 years old. She was born to her parents Robert Clyde and Jessie Pearl (Jones) Smith on June 26, 1921 in Dodge, Oklahoma. She attended and graduated from Dodge and Grove schools. Willie worked for many years as a...
Josephine Cheek
Mar 23, 2010
Josephine Cheek, 85, a resident of Grove passed away at Integris Grove General Hospital on Tuesday March 23, 2010. Mrs. Cheek was born on August 15, 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri to Harvey Dewey Oller and Della Ann (Connett) Oller Brown. Josephine worked as a homemaker all her life. That was evident in all of the crafts that she created,...
Joshua Herndon
Mar 21, 2010
Joshua Gene Sharp-Herndon, Colcord resident died Sunday March 21, 2010 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas at the age of 18 years old. Joshua was born to his parents Daniel Sharp and Marilyn Herndon on September 12, 1991. Joshua attended school in Kansas, Oklahoma and was scheduled to graduate in May. He loved to play video games and draw, as well as...
Mary Downey
Mar 21, 2010
Mary Kathryn Downey Mary Kathryn Downey, 89, passed away at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma on Sunday, March 21, 2010. She was born on February 2, 1921 in Nowata, OK the daughter of John and Ara (Clarkson) Pendelton. She had been a member of the First Christian Church of Nowata, OK. She was a graduate of Oklahoma University. She married...
Sue Tucker
Mar 21, 2010
Sue Anne Tucker, 75-year-old Houston resident, passed away Sunday, March 21, 2010 at the Park Plaza Hospital in Houston. Mrs. Tucker was born July 4, 1934 in Whittenburg, TX to James H. Hensley, Sr. and Thelma Anna Lawrence-Hensley. A graveside funeral service for Mrs. Tucker will be held at 9:00a.m., Monday, March 29, 2010 in the Memorial Park Cemetery in...
John Woodard
Mar 18, 2010
John "Dick" Woodard, age 74, died Thursday March 18, 2010 at his home with all of his children at his bedside. He was born June 22, 1935 in Vinita the son of Sam and Lillie (Odell) Woodard. Dick attended Sacred Hearth Catholic Academy in Vinita and was a butcher in Vinita when he was young. He and Dixie Bogle were...
Bonnie Kidd
Mar 14, 2010
Bonnie M. Kidd, 83, a resident of Jay passed away at Integris Grove General Hospital on Sunday, March 14, 2010. She was born on May 13, 1924 to William H. and Alta May (Skaggs) Dickinson. She was a farmer in the area most all of her life. Mrs. Kidd was preceded in death by her mother and father, W M...
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