Obituaries
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...
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,...
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...

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...

Walter Hudnall
Sep 25, 2006
Walter Edmond Hudnall Walter Edmond Hudnall was born November 19, 1919, near Enid, Oklahoma, to Walter and Hermina Hudnall. He passed from this life Monday, September 25, 2006, at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. He was 86 years old. In 1947 he married Mary Jane Sutliff in Tulsa. He was a punch press engineer and retired from McDonald Douglas....
Geneva Hobbs
Sep 25, 2006
HOBBS, Geneva Ann Clayton - Age 84, passed away September 25, 2006, in Nashville, TN. Preceded in death by her loving husband, William H. (Bill) Hobbs in 1982. Mrs. Hobbs, a direct descendant of Nancy Ward, Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, was born in Chelsea, Oklahoma on Sept. 12, 1922 to Benjamin and Sarah Elizabeth Parks Clayton. She was the...
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...
Terry Starks
Sep 23, 2006
Terry Lee Starks, 52, a resident of Bernice passed away on Saturday, September 23, 2006 in Bernice at his home. He was born on August 25, 1954 to Harold and Majesty (Becker) Starks in Hastings, MI. Mr. Starks worked as a Mental Health Aide at Eastern State Hospital for Several years. He was a musician and could play almost any...
Maxine Nicely
Sep 23, 2006
Maxine L. Nicely, 85, passed away on Saturday, September 23, 2006 in Vinita. She was born on November 25, 1920 in Ketchum, to John and Rose (Smith) Stephenson. She was married to Lloyd D. Nicely on September 7, 1944 in Pryor, OK. Together they built and managed motels in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and New Mexico. She loved flowers and all...
Mary Crowder
Sep 23, 2006
Mary Lorinda Crowder, age 87, widow of Charles L. Crowder and lifetime resident of Bartlesville had her first day in heaven on Saturday, September 23, 2006, where she and Charlie will reside for eternity. Funeral services for Mrs. Crowder will be held at 11:00am, Wednesday, September 27th, at the First Church of God in Dewey, Oklahoma, Rev. Tony Siebels and...
Lura Fry
Sep 22, 2006
Grove, OK - Lura Mae Fry, 85, died Friday night at Integris Grove General Hospital. Mae was born April 18, 1921 at Clemensaw, Arizona to Roland Howard Bean and Edna Dephane (Pedrick) Bean. Mae grew up in Arizona surrounded by family & friends. She was a people person and never met a stranger. Mae moved to Tiff City, Missouri in...
Barbara Pierce
Sep 20, 2006
Barbara Anne Pierce, was born March 13, 1955 in Bartlesville, OK the daughter of John Leonard Pierce and Dorothy Violet (Thompson) Pierce. She died from metastatic Breast Cancer Wednesday September 20, 2006 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, OK. While growing up north of Talala, OK she helped her parents manage Philson Farms for Phil Phillips. She attended Oologah-Talala...
Joseph Downey
Sep 19, 2006
Joseph Edward Downey Funeral services for Joseph Edward Downey will be held 1:00 p.m., Saturday, September 23, 2206, at the First Christian Church of Nowata. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Nowata. Services are under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata. Joseph Edward Downey was born April 11, 1922, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles and...
Beaulah Jones
Sep 19, 2006
Grove, Oklahoma Beaulah Jones Beaulah Mae Jones of Grove died Tuesday September 19, 2006 at St. John's Hospital at Joplin, Mo. She was 67. Beaulah was born February 6, 1939 to George and Alline (Keene) Blevins at Grove, Ok. She married Tommy Jones November 7, 1959 at Pineville, Mo. Beaulah spent most of her life taking care of her home...