Obituaries
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...
David Vernon
Mar 14, 2010
David L. Vernon obit David L. Vernon age 68 of Claremore, died Sunday March 14, 2010, in the Claremore Regional Hospital, The son of Lenard and Josie Templeton Vernon, he was born on June 29, 1941 in Denver, Colorado. As a child, the Vernon family moved from Mentone, Alabama to California where they picked peaches, potatoes, and fruit. David later...
Carl Miller
Mar 10, 2010
Carl E. Miller, age 81, of Grand Point, Vinita, OK, died Tuesday March 9, 2010. Carl was born in Strerling, OK on April 21, 1928 to Myron and Eva Miller. Carl married Ruby Jewel Lewis on August 30, 1950 in Eureka Springs, AR. After serving in the Armed Forces, he returned to the Miami area and worked at BF Goodrich...
Linda Maples
Mar 10, 2010
Linda Maples Obit Linda Maples age 62 of Grove, OK died Wednesday March 10, 2010 at the Integris General Hospital. The daughter of Phillip and Ethel Stoner Miller, she was born on June 21, 1947 in Miami, OK. Linda married Johnnie Leonard Maples on July 18, 1985. She graduated from Miami High School in 1965 and Attended Beauty College. Linda...

Kristi Friedman
Mar 8, 2010
Kristi Dee (Smith) Friedman, 55, a former resident of Grove passed away in Mesa, Arizona at her home on Monday, March 8, 2010. She was born February 5, 1955 in Jasper, Missouri to Lee Ellis and Delores Miriam (Williams) Smith. Her husband Allen Friedman survives of the home. Graveside services will be on Sunday, April 4, 2010 at the Olympus...
Colten Gooding
Mar 8, 2010
Jay, OK - Colten Wade Gooding, 21, died Monday, March 8, 2010 in Afton, Oklahoma. He was born on February 25, 1989 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Stoney and Marla (Mann) Gooding. Colten worked as a builder and lived all his life in the Jay area. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, riding steers and horses and raising roosters. Survivors include his parents,...

Waunita Fair
Mar 8, 2010
Waunita Fair, 87 was welcomed home by her Savior on Monday, March 8, 2010 in Oklahoma City. Waunita was born on November 14, 1922 in Alluwe, OK. She had resided in Mustang for the last 9 years. Prior to moving to Mustang she lived in Nowata with her husband Gene Fair where they were co-owners of Sooner Ford. He preceded...