Obituaries

Carol Speer

Carol Speer

Dec 23, 2011

Carol Lea Speer, a 72 year old lifetime Bluejacket resident died Friday December 23, 2011 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Miami. Carol was born at home in Bluejacket on April 5, 1939 to Hughie and Juanita Wallace Berry. Carol was raised and received her education graduating from Bluejacket High School in 1957. She was united in marriage to the...

Helen Daniels

Helen Daniels

Dec 20, 2011

Helen Mary Daniels, age 100, passed away Tuesday, December 20, 2011 in Altamonte Springs, Florida. She was born June 9, 1911 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Mary (Kruczek) Hamerla and Kazimirz Hamerla. Helen married Carl Edward Daniels, Sr. on April 15, 1928 in Nowata, Oklahoma. They grew their family with a son, Carl, Jr. in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Helen attended St. John...

Thelma Randall

Thelma Randall

Dec 18, 2011

Born in Counsel Grove, Kansas, December 11, 1922 to Arthur William Woods and Myrtle Mae (Pierce) Woods; she resided there until she was one year old. In 1923, the family relocated to Lenapah, Oklahoma and lived there until Thelma was 4 years old. Her brother, George Wesley was born in 1924 and a second brother, Arthur Wayne was born November...

Blaine Snyder

Blaine Snyder

Dec 17, 2011

Blaine B. Snyder: born March 9, 1932 passed Dec. 17, 2011 at the age of 79. Blaine was born in Winfield Kansas to Ralph & Omeda Snyder. He grew up in and around the Cedarvale and Sedan Ks. area, graduated from Cedarvale High then joined the Air Force. After he returned home he married and has 3 children working in...

Kenneth Harrison

Kenneth Harrison

Dec 16, 2011

Kenneth Lee Harrison of Grove, Oklahoma, age 65, passed away Friday, December 16, 2011 at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Kenneth was born on January 5, 1946 in Miami, Oklahoma to Leta Mae (Fields) and Kenneth Scott Harrison. He spent most of his first eight years of school in Texas as his father was stationed there in the...

Donzella Cochran

Donzella Cochran

Dec 16, 2011

Donzella Cochran was born April 27, 1930 in Old Eucha to Dewey and Minnie Soldier-Teehee. Donzella passed away on December 16, 2011 at her home. She is preceded in death by her parents Dewey and Minnie Teehee, two sisters, Juanita Daugherty and Margie Runabout and three brothers, Houston Teehee, John Teehee, and Franklin Teehee. She is preceded in death by...

John Seals

John Seals

Dec 15, 2011

John W. Seals, 68, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma died Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center, Bartlesville. John Wesley Seals was born September 6, 1943 in Bartlesville, OK the son of Bill and Juanita (Hobart) Seals. John grew up and received his education in Bartlesville, graduating with the Bartlesville High School Senior class of 1961. On April 13,...

Bernice Spalding

Bernice Spalding

Dec 14, 2011

Bernice Ialene "Bea" Spalding, age 102, of Dewey, Oklahoma passed away December 14, 2011. Bea was born in Andover, New York on July 4, 1909 to John and Ruth Barrett. In 1912, she moved with her family to Dewey, where she received her education. Bea married Harold F. Spalding in 1930. She and Harold raised their six children in Dewey....

John Parker

John Parker

Dec 13, 2011

John Meeks Parker, 85 year old Vinita resident, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on December 13, 2011 at the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Claremore. He was born on November 30, 1926 in Waurika, Oklahoma the third son of Columbus W. and Molly (Meeks) Parker. In 1944, at the age of 17 just a junior in...

Diane Mathis

Diane Mathis

Dec 13, 2011

Diane (Bowen) Mathis, a resident of Grove passed away at a Tahlequah Hospital. She was sixty-one. Diane was born on August 7, 1950 in Miami, Oklahoma to E.O. "Huck" Bowen and Zelma Ballew. Diane loved looking out for others. She also enjoyed oil painting, animals. Her husband Terry Leon Mathis preceded Diane in death in November of 2009, a sister...

Olivia Sanders

Olivia Sanders

Dec 13, 2011

Funeral services for Olivia W. Sanders will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, December 19, 2011 at the Benjamin Funeral Service Chapel with Rev. Prady Thimmaiah officiating. Interment will follow at Sanders Cemetery. Olivia Sanders, 88, passed from this life on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at her home in Nowata. She was born on June 8, 1923 in Fairmount, West Virginia....

Barbara Hinton

Barbara Hinton

Dec 12, 2011

Barbara Ann (Cearley) Hinton, 73, Grove resident, died December 12, 2011 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born June 19, 1938 in Big Cabin, Oklahoma to her parents, Charles Starr and Sylvia Agnes (Braggs) Cearley. Barbara attended Big Cabin schools. She married the love of her life, Clifford J. Hinton on September 17, 1955 in Big Cabin....

Lois Bishop

Lois Bishop

Dec 12, 2011

Lois Bishop passed away at Southwest Regional Medical Center in Tulsa on Monday, December 12, 2011 at the age of sixty-four. She was born on May 19, 1947 in Grove, Oklahoma to W.H. and Neoma (Beamer) Benge. Lois Graduated from Grove High School with the Class of 1965. Mrs. Bishop married Raymond Bishop on March 1, 1968 at the First...

Claude Carpenter

Claude Carpenter

Dec 11, 2011

Claude Leon Carpenter, 90 years old, Grove, Oklahoma resident, passed away Sunday December 11, 2011. Claude was born on September 18, 1921 in Montgomery County, Kansas to Orville Carpenter and Bessie Webber, Claude joined the United States Marine Corps after high school and served his country during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Claude enjoyed baseball, fishing, and spending...

Louise Tweedy

Louise Tweedy

Dec 10, 2011

(Emeline) Louise (Tasker) Tweedy Louise Tweedy died Saturday evening, December 10, 2011, at City Hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas, after a 9-year journey with Alzheimer's disease. Funeral services for Emeline Louise Tweedy, 89, will be held Saturday, December 17, 2011, at 11:00 a.m. at the First Christian Church in Tyro, Kansas, with David Bycroft officiating. Burial will be at Fawn Creek...

William Watkins

William Watkins

Dec 10, 2011

William Aaron Watkins, 53 year old Grove, Oklahoma resident passed away Saturday December 10, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, following a sudden illness. Aaron was born on December 19, 1957 in Hanford, California to Lester Watkins and Sue Sullivan. Aaron moved to the Grove area seven years ago and was a bus driver for Grove Public School. He was a tinkerer...

Lucille Good

Lucille Good

Dec 10, 2011

Lucille Harvena Good, 90 year old Grove resident, passed away Saturday December 10, 2011 in Grove, Oklahoma. Lucille was born on October 10, 1921 in Booneville, Missouri to Carl and Elsie (Tudor) Mock. She married Roy Good on November 10, 1942 in Olathe, Kansas. Lucille worked as a cook for Grove Public Schools for several years and later at Lakemary...

Frank Northrup

Frank Northrup

Dec 10, 2011

Frank Stanley Northrup, 91 year old Grove resident passed away Saturday December 10, 2011 at Integris Grove Hospital. Frank was born on July 18, 1920 in Hopewell, New Jersey to William and Marian (Erickson) Northrup. He graduated from Belmont High School in Los Angeles, California in 1938. Frank was a Police Sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department. He served...

Jerry Wilson

Jerry Wilson

Dec 10, 2011

Jerry Don Wilson, 65 year old Vinita resident died Saturday December 10, 2011 at his home. He was born December 2, 1946 in Prague, OK the son of Aaron Elgar Wilson and Wilma Thelma Johnson Wilson. The family moved to Vinita from Tulsa where he was a float operator at Ford Glass Plant. He was raised and educated in Tulsa...

Ernest Dewees

Ernest Dewees

Dec 10, 2011

Ernest Jim Dewees, 84 year old Vinita resident died Saturday December 10, 2011 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born Sentinel, Oklahoma the son of Ernest Jim Dewees and Mable Mc Natt Dewees. He was raised and graduated high school in EL Monte, California then moved to Vinita from Pasadena, CA in 1959. He opened Vinita brake and...

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