Obituaries

Claudie Allison

Claudie Allison

Dec 18, 2008

Claudie Winters Allison, 42 year-old rural Vinita resident, passed away on Thursday December 18, 2008. Claudie was born on October 13, 1966 to Wesley Allison and Mary Ann (Grunden) Allison. He graduated from White Oak High School and currently worked for the 4-State Meat Processing Plant in Big Cabin. Claudie and Patti (Bible) Willis were married this past July. Claudie...

Virginia Secor

Virginia Secor

Dec 18, 2008

Virginia M. Secor Obit Virginia Secor age 85 of Disney, ok died Thursday December 18, 2008 in the Claremore Regional Hospital. The daughter of Thomas Rogers and Claudia M. Anderson Rogers, she was born on August 22, 1923 in Springdale, AR. Virginia married James Kenneth Secor on January 9, 1943 in Springdale, AR. And he preceded her in death on...

Margaret Holler

Margaret Holler

Dec 16, 2008

Margaret Jane Holler, 87-year-old Bartlesville resident, passed away Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Margaret Jane Holler was born May 13, 1921 in Bartlesville. She attended schools in Bartlesville and graduated from College High School. Mrs. Holler married Rollie Robert Holler on July 3, 1947 in Bartlesville. The two shared a passion and love for animals and together co-founded the Washington County...

Mildred Johns

Mildred Johns

Dec 15, 2008

Mildred Ada (Lengel) Johns, 87 year old resident of Rosewood Terrace in Vinita, died Monday evening December 15, 2008. She was born June 15, 1921 in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania to Daniel H. H. Lengel and Ada (Bast) Lengel. Mildred graduated from Pottsville High School in 1939, attended the Ford School of Business and attended Pennsylvania State University. She was married...

Katie Link

Katie Link

Dec 13, 2008

Katie Loree Link 83, of Nowata went to be with the Lord at 5:35 a.m. Saturday, December 13, 2008. Katie Loree Stuart was born on December 19, 1924 in Houghton, Kansas to Chester and Ollie (Davis) Stuart. Loree made Nowata her home for the majority of her life. She graduated from Nowata Public Schools. She loved her grandchildren and great...

Robert Weis

Robert Weis

Dec 13, 2008

Robert Edward Weis, son of Edward Oliver Weis and Clara McMillan Weis was born on May 11, 1918 in Donaldson, Arkansas. The family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas and Bob received his early education in the Little Rock schools, and graduated from Little Rock High School in 1935. Along the way Bob earned money by selling the Liberty Magazine, the...

Velma Newman

Velma Newman

Dec 13, 2008

Velma Y. Newman, age 55, died Saturday December 13, 2008 at Craig General Hospital in Vinita. She was born June 19, 1953 in Vinita, OK the daughter of Charles Copeland and Erma (Parks) Copeland. She was reared and educated in Vinita and Lewis, KS. She attended Immanuel Temple in Vinita and worked several years at King Louie in Adair as...

Thomas Cheatham

Thomas Cheatham

Dec 11, 2008

Thomas Wesley Cheatham, 63, of Grove, Oklahoma lost his difficult battle with cancer on December 11, 2008. born June 6, 1945 in Eustis, Florida to Elmer Huey and Ethel Canoy Frier Cheatham, Thomas spent most of his life in Eustis, Florida where he attended Bay Street Baptist Church. Thomas was a United States marine Corps veteran and had a successful...

Gwyndolin Meadows

Gwyndolin Meadows

Dec 9, 2008

Gwyndolin Meadows, 76, of Grove, Oklahoma died at 6:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at Grandwood Sunrise Village in Grove. Gwyndolin was born July 28, 1932 in Webb City, Missouri to Winnett Greene and Ethel Bertha (Merrit) Mahurin. She was the youngest of 12 kids. On May 28, 1948, she married Robert Earl "Bob" Meadows. They moved to Oklahoma City...

Maurine Lightfoot

Maurine Lightfoot

Dec 7, 2008

Maurine Catherine (Darnell) Lightfoot 81 year-old lifetime area resident, died Sunday, December 7, 2008 at the University Village in Tulsa. She was born April 17, 1927 near Vinita to Jess and Effie (Mefford) Darnell. Maurine married Robert R. Lightfoot on March 29, 1945 in Vinita. She had worked for National Trailer Convoy, and was active in the family's ranching operation....

Leota Punches

Leota Punches

Dec 5, 2008

Leota Faye Punches, age 86, died Friday December 5, 2008 in Tulsa, Ok. Leota Faye (Sears) Punches was born in Bartlesville. OK the eldest daughter of Leona (Clapp) and Preston Sears on March 10, 1922. In 1924 she moved with her parents and grandparents by covered wagon to Osage County in Lyman, OK. In 1925 her parents moved the house...

Douglas Records

Douglas Records

Dec 5, 2008

Douglas "Doug" Neal Records, a fifty year old Rural Grove resident passed away on Friday, December 5, 2008. He was born on June 28, 1958 in Neosho, MO to Frank and Mary Naomi (Crossley) Records. Mr. Records graduated from Grove High School; he was a life long dairy farmer in this area. He likes to work on old cars and...

Lawanda Tanner

Lawanda Tanner

Dec 3, 2008

Lawanda Jean "Baby Girl" Tanner, age 36, a resident of Jay, OK died December 3, 2008 at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. She was born July 26, 1972 in Gravette, AR the daughter of Jess Mouse and Christine Grass Mouse. She was a lifetime resident of the area where she attending Jay Public School's, and attended Piney Baptist Church....

Pauline Lentz

Pauline Lentz

Nov 30, 2008

Pauline Spicer Lentz, 88, died November 30, 2008 at Integris Grove General Hospital. She was born January 13, 1920 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. She attended high school in Grove, Oklahoma and college in Lawrence, Kansas at Haskell Indian College, She was married in 1937 to Guy Eldon Lentz, who attended Oklahoma A&M College (now OSU). The couple moved to Burbank, California...

Tammie Vermillion

Tammie Vermillion

Nov 30, 2008

Tammie Lynn Vermillion a forty-three year old Grove resident passed away at the Integris Grove General Hospital on Sunday, November 30, 2008. Tammie was born on August 20, 1965 in Albany, New York. Mrs. Vermillion worked as a certified nurses aid, she also went to cosmetology school before she became a photographer in Joplin, Missouri. After moving to Grove she...

Floyd Felton

Floyd Felton

Nov 30, 2008

Floyd (Babe) Everett Felton, 79, of Lenapah, OK passed away Sunday, November 30, 2008 at his home. He was born to Clifford O. and Myrtle Mae (Payton) Felton on November 24, 1929 in Coffeyville, Kansas. He attended school at Snow Creek. Floyd married Geraldine Drum in 1949; she preceded him in death in 2006. Floyd married Wanda Mae Driskill in...

Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Watson

Nov 28, 2008

Rebecca "Becky" Mae Watson, 50, passed away at her home on Friday, November 28, 2008. Becky was born to Buck and Lena Mae (Jackman) Watson on July 13, 1958 in Miami, Oklahoma. She attained her BS from Oklahoma State University and then her master's degree from Northeastern State University. She worked as a youth director during her college years in...

Lettie Waldo

Lettie Waldo

Nov 27, 2008

Lettie Irene Waldo a fifty year old Grove resident passed away at her home on Thursday, November 27, 2008. She was born on December 28, 1957 in Kremmling, Colorado to George and Sylvia (Rhodes) Riley. Mrs. Waldo graduated from Grove High School and worked as an office manager in the carpet business. She was a business woman, an executive and...

Cleo Jones

Cleo Jones

Nov 23, 2008

Cleo D. Jones, 71, of Disney, Oklahoma died at 12:22 a.m., Sunday, November 23, 2008 at Integris Grove General Hospital in Grove, Oklahoma. Cleo was born September 2, 1937 in Lake Providence, Louisiana to Henry Harrison and Rena Marie (Matthews) DeWitt. On March 27, 1976, Cleo married Lewis W. Jones at the First Baptist Church in Shawnee, Oklahoma. While in...

Jean Blevins

Jean Blevins

Nov 23, 2008

Rev. Jean C. Blevins, age 76, a resident of Disney died Tuesday September 23, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. She was born May 8, 2008 in Texas the daughter of Travis and Astella Curtis. She moved to the She was reared and educated in Pryor, OK . Jean was a minister in the Pentecostal Church serving several Churches....

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