Obituaries

Apr 26, 2010

Patricia Ann Johnson, 59-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at her home Monday, April 26, 2010. Ms. Johnson was born February 20, 1951 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Otis Brown and Ernestine Virginia Hicks. Ms. Johnson moved to Nowata at the age of 4 where she was raised by her adoptive mother, Mrs. Loretta Alberty. She attended the Lincoln School in Nowata...

Apr 26, 2010

Virginia P. "Jennie" Oakley Virginia Pauline Dowty was born September 6, 1928, near North Miami, Oklahoma. She was the oldest child of Claud Leroy and Jewel Irene (Chambers) Dowty; Jenny started school in 1934 at North Fairview rural school, and over the years attended Willow Creek (near Baxter Springs), and other Ottawa County schools, finishing her education at Commerce and...

Apr 25, 2010

Sue Jane Lay, 68 year old Vinita resident, died Sunday April 25, 2010 at her home surrounded by family. She was born February 1, 1942 in Vinita to Albert and Esther (Chamberlain) Schwartz. Sue married Jim Lay on August 15, 1965. She worked as a secretary in vocational rehabilitation for 36 years, with the Department of Human Services. Sue was...

Apr 22, 2010

Dr. Carlos M. Lajara, age 82, a resident of Bartlesville, died Thursday April 22, 2010 at Bartlesville Care Center. Dr. Lajara is survived by his wife, Lucy Victoria Lajara, three children, Carlos A. Lajara, Odile V. DelGiudice and Dr. Walter Lajara and his wife Deborah, Eight Grandchildren. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Parkinson's Disease...

Apr 20, 2010

Carolyn A. Kirkpatrick, Afton area resident, died early Tuesday morning in Grove at the age of 61 years. She was born on March 28, 1949 in Stafford, Kansas to her parents Charles L. and Kathryn A. (Musil) Ireland. Her lifelong love of animals began by spending summers on a family farm as a child. She graduated from the College of...

Apr 18, 2010

Dorothy June Toliver, 89, of Grove, Oklahoma passed away at Grand Lake Villa on Sunday, April 18, 2010. She was born on December 1, 1920 in Tonganoxie, Kansas to Charles and Dorothy (Brown) Cole. She married Glenn Toliver on September 22, 1940 in Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. Toliver was a homemaker who loved to sew and crochet. She was a...

Apr 17, 2010

Karen Maureen Schaefer, age 59, a resident of Langley, OK died Saturday April 17, 2010 at her home in Langley. She was born April 4, 1951 in Lincoln, Nebraska the daughter of Albert and Joan Bouton Schaefer. Karen was a member of the Seventy Day Adventist Church and was a dietician working at Adventist hospitals in Phoenix, AZ and Shawnee...

Apr 16, 2010

Betty Irene Walker, 85, a resident of Grove passed away at Integris Grove General Hospital on Friday, April 16, 2010. She was born in Leo, Indiana on December 11, 1924 to Elmer and Orpha (Van Zile) Akey. Betty graduated from Leo High School in Leo Indiana. She married her love of sixty-five years Dale Walker on March 17, 1945 in...

Apr 15, 2010

Fredrick "Fred" Eugene Wolfe Fred Wolfe age 84 of Grove, OK died Thursday April 15, 2010 at the Grand Lake Villa in Grove, OK. The son of Rosco Wolfe and Adelia Anna Matthew Wolfe, he was born on February 6, 1926 in Joplin, MO. Fred married Wanda Lee Colson in August of 1947 in Miami, OK. They were members of...

Apr 15, 2010

Evah Lois Sturm, former Bartlesville resident and widow of Paul Sturm, died April 15, 2010, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after a brief illness. Mrs. Sturm, 91, was born at Enid, Oklahoma to Earl and Helen Young. She graduated from Stillwater High School and attended Oklahoma State University majoring in Home Economics. On May 28, 1939, she married Paul Sturm in...

Apr 15, 2010

DeWitt Richard Ballard, 77-year-old former Nowata resident passed away Thursday, April 15, 2010 at the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, Kansas. Mr. Ballard was born January 13, 1933 in Nowata, Oklahoma to Jack Ballard and Delva Mae McMains-Ballard. He attended schools in Nowata where he played quarterback for the Ironmen football team and graduated with the Class of 1952....

Apr 14, 2010

Kirk G. McGee, 48, a former resident of Grove passed away in Jay, Oklahoma on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. He was born on August 7, 1961 in El Dorado, Kansas to George G. and Oleta K. (Flinn) McGee. Mr. McGee worked for Boeing Aircraft as a site director; Kirk had worked for Boeing for thirty-one years. He graduated from Grove...

Apr 13, 2010

Mary Joyce Henderson Mary Joyce Henderson, age 72 of Grove, OK, died Tuesday April 13, 2010, at her home in Grove, OK. The daughter of Leroy Ing and Rosie Mae Baggerman Ing, she was born on December 25, 1937 in Hedley, TX. Mary Joyce married Harold Henderson on August 12, 1956 in Hale Center, TX. She taught school in Sunray...

Apr 13, 2010

Vada Margarette Robinson, 89-year-old Nowata resident, passed away Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. Mrs. Robinson was born February 21, 1921 in rural Nowata County, Oklahoma to James Layfette Inman and Ethel Evelyn Tatum-Inman. Mrs. Robinson grew up and attended schools in the Diamond Point and Bugscuffle area. Mrs. Robinson married Herbert Lee Robinson on...

Apr 12, 2010

Robert Kennedy, 81, a resident of Grove passed away at Betty Ann Nursing Center on Monday, April 12, 2010. Robert was born on June 24, 1928. Services are Thursday, April 15, 2010 with Chaplain Lonnie Sanders officiating. Memorial Services are under the direction of the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home of Grove. Friends and family may leave online condolences at www.honoringmemories.com.

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Apr 12, 2010

Rose Mary Coppedge, age 84, a resident of Vinita died Monday April 12, 2010 at OSU Medical Center in Tulsa. She was born February 4, 1926 in Vinita the daughter of Glenn Corlett and Cathrine Chandler Corlett. She was raised and educated in Vinita graduating from Vinita High School and attended NSU at Tahlequah. Rose was a nursing assistant and...

Apr 11, 2010

Murial Denney Murial Denney age 62 of Grove, OK, died Sunday April 11, 2010 in the Integris Grove General Hospital. The daughter of Joseph Lemon and Ruth Cadue Lemon, she was born on April 17, 1947 in Perry, OK. While living in Perry she was disabled in an accident in 1980. After that she was moved to Norman Nursing home...

Apr 11, 2010

Walter Leonard "Buss" Simmons, 95 year old Vinita resident, died Sunday, April 11, 2010 at the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born January 1, 1915 in Strang to Mack Cloud and Bertha Louvina (Holt) Simmons. Buss married Lelah Mae Mozell Kay on November 26, 1936, she preceded him in death on February 4, 2003, later Buss was married...

Apr 10, 2010

Cleo O. Pattison, 91, born October 9, 1918 in Chelsea,OK, passed away April 10. 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cleo was raised and educated in Northeast Oklahoma. He was a combat veteran of WW2, retired from Douglas Aircraft CO. (Boeing CO). He was an active member and leader of The Church of God Holiness in Nowata, OK and Coweta, OK. In...

Apr 9, 2010

John Edward Downing Obit John downing age 78 of Grove, OK died Friday April 9, 2010 at the Integris Grove General Hospital in Grove, OK. The son of Charley and Lillie Downing, he was born on January 30, 1932 in Grove, OK. John married Dorothy Mosby on July 2, 1956 in Miami, OK. She died on March 25, 2010. John...