Obituaries
Eula Sanford
Dec 30, 2009
Eula Anita Sanford, Grove resident, died peacefully at home on Wednesday December 30, 2009 at the age of 72. She was born on February 20, 1937 to her parents, Carl and Alice (Craton) Cromer in Sarcoxie, Missouri. Eula married the love of her life, Walter Sanford, on March 7, 1962 in Gainesville, Texas. Walter and Eula moved many times during...
Gidget Cryer-Guess
Dec 29, 2009
Gidget Marie Guess, 35, of Kansas, Oklahoma, died December 29, 2009 at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital. She was born December 24, 1974, and lived most of her life in the Siloam Springs area. She was employed by Simmons Industries in Siloam Springs. She married Charley Guess on November 30, 2009 in Miami, Oklahoma. Survivors include her husband, Charley, of the...
Maci Glenn
Dec 28, 2009
Maci Jayn Glenn, infant daughter of Bria Simpson and Foster Glenn went to be God's angel on December 28, 2009. Maci is survived by her parents Bria Simpson and Foster Glenn of Bartlesville, maternal grandparents Charlie and Tracy Clark of Bartlesville, paternal grandparents Alvin and Carolyn Evans of Bartlesville, 1 aunt Sara Talbott, 3 uncles Kris Talbott, Tyler Glenn, and...
Gary Vanpielt
Dec 27, 2009
Gary Lee VanPielt, Bernice resident, died accidentally early Sunday morning December 27, 2009 at the age of 55. Gary was born on May 28, 1954 in Pittsburgh, Kansas to his parents Clyde and June (McCorkle) VanPielt. He grew up in the Pittsburgh area where he graduated from high school and Pitt State University. Gary worked as a self-employed construction contractor....
Josephine Bullock
Dec 27, 2009
Josephine L. Bullock, age 86, a resident of Vinita died Sunday, December 27, 2009 at Rosewood Terrace. She was born February 5, 1923 in Ketchum, OK to Leroy and Amanda (Kirkendoll) Hardrick. The family moved to Vinita in 1932 where she was raised and received her education graduating from Attucks High School. Josephine was a member of the United Missionary...
Jeanann West
Dec 27, 2009
On Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 4:40p.m., our baby went to heaven due to a car accident. Jeanann Marie West was born February 5, 1995 in Bartlesville to Wayne West and Amy Lawrence-West. She was a student in the 7th grade at Cordell. She loved to listen to music and sing. She wrote poems and loved to shop. All who...
Ludie Hitchcock
Dec 26, 2009
Ludie Emma (Dilday) Hitchcock passed away quietly on December 26, 2009 at Forrest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey, Oklahoma. She was born December 1, 1915, in Clarksburg, Tennessee to Sheridan Elwood and Visie Ann (Petty) Dilday. Her family moved to Oklahoma in 1918 and she attended elementary schools in Broken Arrow and Pawhuska. In 1930, the family moved to Bartlesville....

Gayle Towry
Dec 25, 2009
Gayle Edwin Towry, Grove resident, died at his home Friday morning December 25, 2009 at the age of 78 years. Gayle was born on June 1, 1931 in Bartlesville, OK to his parents, Bill G. Towry and Myrtle (Wohlford) Towry. He graduated from Rogers High School in Tulsa. After graduation, Gayle served his country in the US Army. Gayle had...
Billy Hartford
Dec 23, 2009
Billy "Bill" Raymond Hartford, 82, a resident of Grove passed away on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at the Integris Grove General Hospital. He was born on November 16, 1927 in Frederick, South Dakota to Lester Elisha and Philladell Rose (Skinner) Hartford. Bill joined the United States Navy during World War II before his honorable discharge. He married his love Joan...
Derick Arneecher
Dec 23, 2009
Derick Robert Arneecher, Grove resident, died December 23, 2009 in Grove, OK at the age of 22. Derick was born to his parents Teri (Bauer) Midgett and Kenny Arneecher in Claremore on October 2, 1987. Derick attended Grove public schools. He played football and baseball, wrestled as young boy. He played ball for the Grove Dirty Birds who won a...
Chase Jeffries
Dec 23, 2009
Brendan "Chase" Jeffries Campbell, age 21 of Grove, Oklahoma was called to heaven on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 resulting from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Chase began his journey on January 23, 1988 in Miami, Oklahoma. He was a life long resident of the Grove area and employed by Sequoyah Enterprises in Grove. Chase enjoyed playing X Box, reading,...
Priscilla Wilkins
Dec 20, 2009
Priscilla Elaine Wilkins, 64 passed away on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. She was the beloved wife for 30 years of Calvin Wilkins, of White Oak, Oklahoma, and the daughter of Roy B. and Mildred L. (Bales) Robertson. Priscilla was born on May 19, 1945 in Dewey, Oklahoma and spent her early years in...
Ruth Scott
Dec 20, 2009
Ruth Myers Scott passed away December 20, 2009, in Claremore, OK. She was born March 28, 1916, to Stella and Frank Myers in Childers, OK, grew up in the Childers area in rural Nowata County and graduated from Childers High School. She married Loyd Urvin (Scotty) Scott. They made their home in the Nowata and Delaware communities, while raising their...

Bob Davenport
Dec 20, 2009
Bob Davenport, age 89 of Bernice, died Sunday, December 20, 2009 at his home. Bob was born in Porum, Oklahoma on July 29, 1920, the son of Lewis and Jessie (Rosenbaum) Davenport. He graduated school from Sacred Heart Academy in Vinita. On February 13, 1942 he was united in marriage to Madge Edwards in Boise, Idaho. That same year, he...
Edna Coulston
Dec 19, 2009
Edna Lee Coulston, age 94 of Langley, died Saturday, December 19, 2009. She was born in Tecumseh, Oklahoma on July 29, 1915, the daughter of Leslie and Luella (Shaw) Booton. She attended her earlier years of school in Tecumseh, but graduated Valedictorian of her class from Strang. On January 8, 1933 she was united in marriage to Frosty Coulston and...

Charles Mabe
Dec 19, 2009
Charles T. Mabe, 62-year-old Nowata resident, passed away Saturday, December 19, 2009 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Hospital Center, Nowata, Oklahoma. Charles was born January 10, 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Charles Edward and Rose (Goad) Mabe. On February 7, 1968, he married Nancy Bunner in Higginsville, Missouri. He worked as a laborer for the Oklahoma State Highway Department. Charles...
Loella Woolman
Dec 18, 2009
Loella (Lody) Woolman, 81-year-old Nowata resident, passed away Friday, December 18, 2009 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Lody was born January 10, 1928 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Edgar and Bertha (Dye) Farrar. She was raised by her aunt and uncle, Ethel and George Smith. She was Valedictorian of her high school class in 1947. On November 27,...

Flora Faubion
Dec 17, 2009
Flora Lorene Faubion, 87-year-old Durant resident, passed away Thursday morning at the Medical Center of Southeast Oklahoma in Durant. Mrs. Faubion was born August 18, 1922 in Arcola, Missouri to Ernest and Susie Metcalf. On July 17, 1939, she married Claude Henry Faubion, Sr. in Lamar, Missouri. The two lived in the Alluwe area in the 40's and 50's where...
Gwenyth Frazier
Dec 14, 2009
Gwenyth Lee Frazier, age 76 of Adair, passed away Monday, December 14, 2009. She was born in rural Craig County on July 27, 1933, the youngest child of 8, to Charlie and Arizona Marker. She attended grade school in Pensacola and finished at Ketchum High School, graduating in 1951. She worked at Eastern State Hospital until she married Tommy Frazier...
William Kirkham
Dec 14, 2009
William Edward Kirkham, 80, a resident of Jay passed away at his home on Monday, December 14, 2009. He was born on November 15, 1929 in Boggstown, Indiana to John and Margaret (Kynes) Kirkham. He worked in construction as a carpenter after being in the United States Army where he was honorably discharged as a Corporal. Bill was preceded in...