Obituaries
Ruth Luginbuel
Mar 26, 2007
Mrs. Ruth Luginbuel, 95 year old well known Vinitan died Monday, March 26 2007 at Craig General Hospital. She had lived for many years in her apartment at the Luginbuel Funeral Home until moving to Heartsworth House and recently to Rosewood Terrace nursing center. Mrs. Luginbuel was born February 5, 1912 in Vinita. Her parents were Carey and Hazel Putnam...
Ralph Hampton
Mar 26, 2007
RALPH GORDON HAMPTON Ralph Gordon Hampton of Bartlesville died Monday March 26, 2007. Ralph was born in Bartlesville on September 3, 1985 to Ricky and Cathy Hampton, and was raised in Dewey, where he attended Dewey public schools. He was a JOAT (Jack Of All Trades) and worked various jobs. Ralph loved to make jokes and have fun. He was...
Dick Wheeler
Mar 26, 2007
Dick Lee Wheeler, 70, formerly of Afton, passed away Monday, March 26, 2007 in Fairfield, OH. Born on Oct. 11, 1936 in Tulsa, to Arthur and Macie (Beatty) Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler was a graduate of Afton High School, retired in 1976 as a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force, where he had a tour in Vietnam. He had lived in...
Frances Branstetter
Mar 25, 2007
Thank you to all of France's Friends. Updated Frances M. Branstetter (Hardesty), 97-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at 10:00 PM, Sunday March 25, 2007 at the Nowata Nursing Center. A Rosary was held at 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, at the Benjamin funeral Home Chapel with Father Michael Cashen officiating. Funeral Mass was held at 10:30 AM Friday, March 30th...
Virgil Pearsall
Mar 25, 2007
Virgil W. Pearsall, 81-year-old Nowata resident passed away Sunday, March 25, 2007 at his home. Virgil W. Pearsall was born July 5, 1925 in Tempes, Colorado to Roy Ellsworth Pearsall and Marietta Reed-Pearsall. Mr. Pearsall attended school at Diamond Point and then Nowata. He received his Honorary Diploma from Nowata High School on October 8, 2001 making him part of...
James Smith
Mar 25, 2007
James "Kenneth" Smith, 95, a resident of Vinita passed away at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, March 25, 2006. He was born on February 18, 1916 to Henry and Ellen (Cauthon) Smith in Bluejacket, OK. Mr. Smith retired from Eastern State Hospital as a Maintenance man. After his retirement he enjoyed farming, yard work and working in his...
Thelma Reed
Mar 25, 2007
Thelma Ruth Odell Reed, age 81, a resident of Bartlesville died Sunday March 25, 2007 at Jane Phillips Medical Center. She was born February 2, 1926 in Broken Arrow, OK the daughter of Charles B. Luster and Goldie M. St. Clair Luster. Thelma was reared and attended a one room school in the community of Sunnyside, east of Broken Arrow....
Nancy Melton
Mar 25, 2007
Nancy Jane Melton of Grove, Ok. died unexpectedly Sunday March 25, 2007 at her home at the age of 63. Nancy was born September 20, 1943 at Harrisburg, IL, daughter of the late Everett Graham and Annis (Chaney) Chesnut. She has lived in the Grove area for over 17 years, moving from Kansas. Nancy was currently a hair stylist at...
Meta Hill
Mar 23, 2007
Grove, OK - Meta Marjorie Hill, 90, died Friday morning, March 23, 2007 at Grove Nursing Center, Grove, Oklahoma. Meta was born January 18, 1917 at Grove to Virgil Foley and Mary Katherine "Kate" (Smith) Foley. She grew up in Grove and was a graduate of Grove High School. In her entire school history, Meta had perfect attendance for all...
Oleta Barnes
Mar 22, 2007
Oleta May Barnes, 80, of Afton, passed away at her home on Thursday, March 22, 2007. Born on Oct. 24, 1926 in Cleora to George Thomas and Margaret Elizabeth (Landrum) Brewster. She married Waldo James Barnes on Sept. 16, 1947 in Vinita. She had lived in the area for the past 36 years. She was a retired School Teacher from...
Minnie Foreman
Mar 21, 2007
Colcord, OK - Minnie "Deg" Foreman, 85, died Wednesday afternoon, March 21, 2007 at Integris Grove General Hospital in Grove, Oklahoma. Minnie was born August 10, 1921 in Delaware County, Oklahoma to Rufus Sixkiller and Jennie (Owens) Sixkiller. She and Lee Foreman were married 53 years ago. "Deg" was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking for her family and she was...
Isaac Youngbird
Mar 20, 2007
Isaac Youngbird of Twin Oaks, Ok. died Tuesday March 20, 2007 at the Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital at Siloam Springs, Ar. He was 48. Isaac was born August 21, 1958 to Thomas and Dorothy (Teehee) Youngbird at Tahlequah, Ok. He went to school at Kansas, Ok. He worked various jobs, and enjoyed to cut wood, fish and hunt. Isaac was...
Kathleen Meyer
Mar 20, 2007
Kathleen P. Meyer, a resident of Massapequa Park, New York, passed away suddenly on March 20, 2007. Kathy grew up in Massapequa, graduated from Massapequa High School and received her B.A. degree from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She was devoted to her family, friends and insured's, from being a State Farm Insurance agent. She has a...
Betty Wobker
Mar 20, 2007
Mrs. Betty (Ensch) Wobker, daughter of an early Bartlesville family, died Tuesday, March 20, 2007 in Redmond, Washington. She was 88. Betty was born in Bartlesville on Friday, December 13, 1918, and often joked that Friday the 13th was actually quite a lucky day. The fourth of five children of Thomas and Nell Ensch, her father owned Ensch Plumbing. Betty...
Charles North
Mar 19, 2007
Charles Thomas "Tom" North Obituary Grove, OK - Charles Thomas "Tom" North, 86, died Monday, March 19, 2007 at Integris Grove General Hospital, Grove, Oklahoma. Tom was born August 20, 1920 at Southwest City, Missouri, to James North and Martha Anderson. He married his wife Patricia on September 15, 1969 at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tom and Patricia had two children,...
Irma Fowler
Mar 18, 2007
Grove, OK - Irma Loetta Fowler, 86, passed away Sunday, March 18, 2007 at Grove Nursing Center, Grove, Oklahoma. Irma, the only daughter of Phillip and Carrie (Zink) Klopf, was born August 20, 1920 at Pleasant Valley Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. On April 25, 1940, she and Herman Beyer were married at Woodbine, Illinois. She and John Archie Fowler...
Wallace Eastman
Mar 18, 2007
Eucha, OK - Wallace Clarence "Wally" Eastman, 84, died Saturday, March 18, 2007 at the Claremore Veterans Center, Claremore, Oklahoma. Wally was born August 18, 1922 at Escondido, California to George and Lydia Eastman. He grew up in southern California and graduated from Hemet High School. He married Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Spohn on June 12, 1942 at San Jacinto, California....
Willie Taylor
Mar 17, 2007
Willie B. Taylor, 92, of Vinita, passed away Saturday, March 17, 2007 in the Miami Nursing Center. Born on March 17, 1915 in Bluejacket, OK to James T. and Anna (Marlin) Taylor. Willie was a General Laborer for Vinita Hay and Grain, lived in the Bluejacket-Vinita area all his life and had attended Emmanuel Temple. He was preceded in death...
Lawrence Wyckoff
Mar 16, 2007
Lawrence Edward "Sonny" Wyckoff, 66-year-old Wann resident, passed away at 8:30p.m., Friday, March 16, 2007 at his home. Sonny Wyckoff was born December 25, 1940 in Lenapah, Oklahoma to Willliam E. Wyckoff and Jewell Collies-Wyckoff. He grew up and attended schools in Lenapah. Mr. Wyckoff served his country in the United States Army. After his service, Mr. Wyckoff later became...
Joe Brown
Mar 16, 2007
Joe E. Brown, 82 of Disney, passed away Friday, March 16, 2007 at Jane Phillips Memorial Hospital in Bartlesville. He was born on Feb. 10, 1925 in Sallisaw, OK to James McNeil and Queenie (Duffield) Brown. Joe was a real estate developer and a Loving Father. The family moved to Pryor, OK in the late 1920's and then to Disney...
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