Obituaries
Jo Scott
Oct 12, 2006
Jo Anna Lowrey-Scott passed away Thursday, October 12, 2006 at the Claremore Indian Hospital. Jo Anna lived in Coffeyville, Kansas beside her daughter since 2005 but was a long time resident of Lenapah, Oklahoma. Jo Anna was born on August 17, 1917 at Lenapah, Oklahoma. She was raised in the Lenapah area on California Creek. She was the daughter of...

Louis Griggs
Oct 12, 2006
Louis F. Griggs died Thursday October 12, 2006 after a long illness at the Grove Nursing Center. He was 73. Louis was born September 21, 1933 to Louie and Sytha (Colburn) Griggs at Delaware County, Ok. He married Betty Moore January 27, 1960 at Jay, Ok. Louis worked as a Police Officer many years ago for the City of Grove....
David Landers
Oct 10, 2006
David Merrill Landers 56 year-old Vinita resident, died late Tuesday evening October 10, 2006 at the Muskogee Veterans Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born October 12, 1949 in Vinita to Edward and Edna (Pilant) Landers. David served his country during the Vietnam era, in the United States Army from 1969 to 1975. David was a member of...

Clarence Lawson
Oct 10, 2006
Jay, OK - Clarence Vernon Lawson, 80, died early Tuesday morning, October 10, 2006 at Integris Grove General Hospital. Vernon was born October 15, 1925 at Yukon, Oklahoma to Clarence David Lawson and Hazel (Kissick) Lawson. He married Evelyn Mae Roberts on June 11, 1946. Vernon served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. The Lawsons lived in Grove,...
James Sooter, Jr.
Oct 8, 2006
James E Sooter Jr. was born February 1, 1924 in Bluejacket, Oklahoma. He departed this world Sunday, October 08, 2006 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is survived by three children, Jimmie and Lynnda Sooter, Mark and Donna Elliott and Roxie Lawson, six grandchildren and six Great Grandchildren. Other survivors include a brother and his wife, Kenneth and Wynona and their families....

John Jarvis
Oct 8, 2006
Grove, Ok. - John H. Jarvis, 77, died Sunday, October 8, 2006 at Integris Grove General Hospital. John H. Jarvis was born on January 13, 1929 on the family farm in Carlisle, Arkansas to Jeff and Nellie (Gilbert) Jarvis. He served in the Korean War as a Sergeant first class Calvary Army Engineer. He returned home and married Betty Sue...

Howard Carr
Oct 8, 2006
Howard J. Carr Graveside funeral services for Howard Carr will be held 2:00 p.m., Tuesday October 10, 2006, at Memorial Park Cemetery, Nowata, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Home, of Nowata. Howard Jesse Carr was born February 11, 1915, in Centralia, Oklahoma, to John Griffin and Tennessee (Nunnalee) Carr. He passed from this life Sunday, October...

Roy Vann
Oct 7, 2006
Jay, OK - Roy Vann, 71, died Thursday afternoon, October 5, 2006 at Integris Grove General Hospital in Grove, Oklahoma. Roy Vann was born January 30, 1935 at Kenwood, Oklahoma to Cullers Vann and Susie (Wolf) Vann. He grew up in the Kenwood area and was a lifelong resident of Delaware County. Roy was a laborer and handyman, hiring himself...

Donald Edens, Sr
Oct 6, 2006
Pryor, OK - Donald Jack Edens, Sr., 75, died Friday night, October 6, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Don was born January 15, 1931 at Tulsa to Vernon Jack Edens and Susie (McDermott) Edens. Don grew up in Tulsa and graduated high school there. He served his country as a member of the U.S. Navy, serving in post-World...
Arthie Gilmore
Oct 5, 2006
Arthie Gilmore 80 year-old long time Big Cabin resident, died late Thursday evening, October 5, 2006 at the Craig General Hospital in Vinita. Arthie was born December 18, 1925 in French, New Mexico to Arthur and Mamie (Fowler) Arning. She was married to Joe E. Gilmore who preceded her in death on September 15, 1986. Arthie and Joe had a...
Dr. Crissman
Oct 4, 2006
Dr. Ellison M. Crissman, 91, of Vinita, passed away Wed. Oct. 4, 2006 at Rosewood Terrace in Vinita. Born on Sept. 27, 1915 in St. John, Kansas to Glen and Sarah (Peats) Crissman. Dr. Crissman was a retired Chiropractor and had lived in Blackwell, OK. Member of Rotary, Oklahoma Chiropractic Assn. and a member of Emmanuel Temple Church. He and...
Carl Benigar
Oct 3, 2006
Carl E. Benigar Carl Edwin Benigar was born May 1, 1924, in Skiatook, Oklahoma, to Bert A. and Emma E. (Leedy) Benigar. He died Tuesday, October 03, 2006, in the Claremore Veterans Center, after reaching 82 years, 5 months, and 2 days. Mr. Benigar attended Collinsville schools. He worked with his father on a 120 acre farm from 1939 to...
Dorothy Walker
Oct 1, 2006
Dorothy Mae Jane Walker 66 year-old Ketchum area resident died Sunday October 1, 2006 in Tulsa. She was born September 30, 1940 in Vian, Oklahoma to Ermel David and Lois B. (Cantrell) Hendrix. Dorothy married Carl Thomas Walker on December 7, 1956 in Tulsa. They made their home in Pryor for many years, before moving to the Ketchum area 13...
Barbara Jackson
Oct 1, 2006
Barbara J. Jackson, age 54, a resident of Bartlesville died Sunday October 1, 2006 at St. John Hospital in Tulsa. She was born July 12, 1952 in Neodesha, Kansas the daughter of Virgil Willard and Hazel June Blevins Willard. She was raised and received her formal education in the area of Independence, KA. She and Bobby Jackson were married November...

Mary Booton
Sep 29, 2006
Mary Elizabeth Gilbert Booton, age 104, passed away peacefully Friday, September 29, 2006. She was born January 14, 1902, in Armstrong County, Texas, to Lucien Green Gilbert and Tabitha Gertrude (Campbell) Gilbert. She attended Christian College in Columbia, Missouri. In February 1939, she married Floyd E. Booton, a native of Craig County. Mr. Booton was in the insurance business in...
Donald Rigdon
Sep 28, 2006
Donald L. "Don" Rigdon, 79-year-old Tulsa resident, passed away at 10:00a.m., Thursday, September 28, 2006 at his home. Donald L. Rigdon was born June 15, 1927 in Scott's Bluff, Nebraska to homer Rigdon and Esther Wilhemina Oberlander-Rigdon. Mr. Rigdon graduated from Nowata High School and then entered the United States Navy. Mr. Rigdon served as a signal man aboard an...
Audrey Bolton
Sep 28, 2006
Audrey Eileen Bolton, 79, of Oklahoma City, passed away Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 in Oklahoma City. Born on June 21, 1927 in Cardin, OK to Paul James and Clara Edna (Baker) Dorsey. Mrs. Bolton had lived in the OKC area since 1967 and retired as a Ward Clerk for Mercy Hospital in OKC. Survivors are her children; James L. Bolton...
Delbert Flanders
Sep 28, 2006
Delbert Bishop Flanders, 73, of Vinita, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 in Tulsa. Born on Aug. 19, 1933 in Centralia, OK to Delbert and Clara(Costley) Flanders. Delbert grew up in the Centralia area. He served in the US Army from May 1953 until May 1955. After the military, Delbert moved to California where he was a House Builder,...

Mozella Bales
Sep 26, 2006
Mozella Marie Bales Grove, Oklahoma Mozella Marie Bales, age 66 died Tuesday, September 26, 2006 in Grove, OK. Mozella was born on March 02, 1940 to Cornsilk and Sallie Mae (Big Acorn) Proctor. She was a devout Christian woman with many friends. Early in Mozella's life she was a preacher, and she enjoyed singing and playing the guitar. Mozella thought...
Bernard Weintrub
Sep 25, 2006
Bernard Weintrub, 88, of Bartlesville passed away at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, Ok on Monday, September 25, 2006. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 27, 2006, in The Colonial Chapel of the Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home with Rabbi Charles Sherman of Temple Israel of Tulsa, OK officiating. Military honors for Mr. Weintrub will be...