Obituaries

Eloise Hunter

Feb 17, 2007

Eloise Glenn Hunter Obituary Grove, OK - Eloise Glenn Hunter, 96, died Monday, February 19, 2006 at Integris Grove Hospital, Grove, Oklahoma. Eloise was born January 30, 1911 at Lawson, Missouri, to David and Sally (Sherman) Glenn. She lived in Grove since November of 2005, moving to Grove from Ozark, Missouri. Survivors include her daughter, Sally and Jerry Robertson of...

Frank Marling

Feb 17, 2007

Frank L. Marling passed away Saturday morning February 17th, 2007. He was 89 years old. Frank was born in Cameron W.V. December 27th, 1917. Frank resided in Bartlesville for 50 years before retiring to the farm near Ketchum, OK. In 1980. He was a veteran of WWII, (Seabees Unit). Frank was active in A.A. for 40 + years as a...

Carla Winget

Feb 16, 2007

Carla Marie Winget, 44-year-old Bartlesville resident, passed away Friday, February 16, 2007 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Carla Marie Winget was born March 23, 1962 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to David Head and Shirley Barger-Head. She grew up in Bartlesville and attended the College High School in Bartlesville. Ms. Winget loved playing backgammon and spent a great deal...

Charles Daugherty

Feb 16, 2007

Jay, Oklahoma Charles "Kurt" Daugherty Kurt Daugherty of Jay, Ok. died Friday February 16, 2007 at the Freeman Health Care at Joplin, Mo. He was 72. Kurt was born March 12, 1934 to Charley and Iva (Turner) Daugherty in Delaware County, Oklahoma. He worked at the Jay Public Schools for over 20 years. He was a great baseball player, playing...

Gertrude Stafford

Feb 16, 2007

Gertrude "Trudy" L. Stafford, 90, formerly of Vinita, passed away on Friday at the Methodist Hospital of Mansfield, Texas. Born on May 29, 1916 in Vinita to Arthur Newton and Blanche Ellen (Calton) Justus. She moved to Arizona as a child and married Ernest Stafford on May 31, 1945 in New Mexico. They lived in the Dowagiac and Niles, MI...

Edith Smernoff

Feb 15, 2007

Edith Smernoff Obituary Grove, OK - Edith Bertha Smernoff, 79, died Thursday, February 15, 2006 at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Edith was born July 20, 1927 at Wichita, Kansas to Fred and Rose (Freund) Gegen. She lived in Grove for one year, moving to Grove from Harper, Kansas. She enjoyed participating in craft shows. She also enjoyed spending...

Camden Ward

Feb 15, 2007

Service Details

Monday, February 19th, 2007 10:00am, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home - Grove

Loretta Busse

Feb 15, 2007

Loretta V. Busse, 81, a former resident of Vinita passed away at Sherwood Manor in Tulsa, OK. She was born February 7, 1926 in Morris, OK to Leon and May Ella (Ledbetter) Busse. Mrs. Busse moved to Vinita over ten years ago from Okmulgee, OK. Mrs. Busse worked for Cinch until her retirement in 1982. Survivors include her children one...

Quint Ditmore

Feb 15, 2007

Grove, OK - Quint B. Ditmore, 93, died Wednesday evening, February 14, 2007 at his home in Honey Creek Retirement Village in Grove, Ok. "Q.B." was born June 25, 1913 in Dumont, Texas to Robert Lee Ditmore and Jesse (Rogers) Ditmore. He moved from Texas to Red Rock, Oklahoma via covered wagon at an early age. Q.B. lived many places,...

Roger Montgomery

Feb 14, 2007

Roger Michael "Mike" Montgomery, 55 year old Nowata resident passed away Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at the St. John Medical Center in Tulsa after a six month battle with leukemia. Mike Montgomery was born March 14, 1951 in Kermit, Texas to Roger William Montgomery and Wilma Lucille "Lucy" Newhouse-Montgomery. Mike attended and graduated from Nowata Schools. He went on to...

Danny Bishop

Feb 13, 2007

Danny Allen Bishop, 38 year old former Jay resident, died as a result of injuries from a pedestrian/vehicle accident on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 in Pickens County, South Carolina. He was born on October 16, 1968 to Linda Tyner and Jake Bishop in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Jay High School in May of 1986. That summer he moved...

Newatha Gurley

Feb 12, 2007

Newatha Virginia Gurley Obituary Grove, OK - Newatha Virginia Gurley, 86, died Monday, February 12, 2007 at Grand Lake Villa in Grove, Oklahoma. Newatha was born March 16, 1920 in Delaware County, Oklahoma to Houston and Bertha (Crawford) Qualatte. She married Edd Gurley on July 16, 1938. Mr. Gurley preceded his wife in death in 1993. Newatha was a homemaker,...

William Hanna Jr.

Feb 12, 2007

William "Bill" Robert Hanna Jr., 89, passed away on Monday, February 12, 2007 at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa. Bill was born in Dewey, Oklahoma to William R. Hanna Sr. and Lula Winifred Bowman. He was raised and educated in the Dewey area. Bill entered active military service, with the United States Army during World War II serving in the European...

Pearl Thompson

Feb 11, 2007

Pearl Mary Thompson, 86, of Miami, OK, passed away Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007 in Joplin, MO. Born on June 28, 1920 in Ft. Gibson, OK to Harry J. and Anna Lee (Jackson) Foreman. She was a lifelong area resident, member of Long Assembly of God Church in Miami and was retired as a Psychiatric Aide at Eastern State Hospital in...

Walter Hart

Feb 10, 2007

Walter Burton Hart was born in San Antonio, Texas, July 2, 1916, to Walter B. and Mae (Smith) Hart. He passed from this life Saturday, February 10, 2007, in Collinsville, Oklahoma. He was 90 years old. Mr. Hart attended school in Arkansas and on November 30, 1935 he married Alpha Neel. In 1936 they moved to Alluwe, and in 1941...

Amy Miller

Feb 9, 2007

Grove, OK - Amy LaVaughn Miller, 72, died Friday night, February 9, 2007 at Freeman Hospital Skilled Nursing Unit, Joplin, Missouri. LaVaughn was born September 23, 1934 near Swedeborg, Missouri to Everett Carr and Josie (Blackson) Carr. She married Leonard C. Miller on August 4, 1955. Mr. Miller preceded his wife in death on December 31, 1993. LaVaughn was a...

Henry Malone

Feb 9, 2007

Henry Ray Malone, 63 year old Nowata resident, and former Nowata Mayor, died at his home in Nowata Friday, February 9, 2007. He was born June 18, 1943, in Pryor, Oklahoma to James Edgar and Adalaide (Pool) Malone. He graduated from Chelsea High School and continued his education at the University of Oklahoma. On March 21, 1969 he married Kathy...

Velma Yarbrough

Feb 9, 2007

Velma Nan Yarbrough, 91, formerly of Pryor, passed away Friday Feb. 9, 2007 in Santa Anna, CA. Born on January 18, 1916 near Havana, AR to Samuel and Laura (Yandell) Gist. She moved to Shawnee in 1917 and was married to James Ross Bailey on Feb. 2, 1936. In 1937, their only child, Jackie Nan was born. They then moved...

Arthur Mathias

Feb 8, 2007

Grove, OK - Arthur Roosevelt Mathias, Jr., 83, died Thursday morning, February 8, 2007 at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Art, or "Lucky" as he was known to family and friends, was born August 28, 1923 at Stafford, Kansas to Arthur Roosevelt Mathias, Sr. and Laura Etta (West) Mathias. Art grew up in Stafford and joined the U.S. Navy after...

George Pullen Sr.

Feb 8, 2007

George William Pullen Sr. was born April 1, 1943, to Kenneth Lyal and Leona Lorine (Anders) Pullen, in Tahlequah. He passed from this life February 8, 2007, in Nowata. He was 63. George attended Webster High School in Tulsa. On August 16, 1993, he married Debbie Briggs in Bartlesville. They have made their home in Nowata since. Mr. Pullen was...