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Houston Carl Farrell
December 10, 2014
Houston Carl (Thomas) Farrell, 61, Hobart, passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, in Oklahoma City, OK. He was born in Sikeston, MO to Herbert Leroy and Janna Faye (Marshall) Thomas on November 12, 1953. Houston lived in Oklahoma most of his life. He went to Altus Public Schools, then going to Oklahoma Jr. College in Oklahoma City for a...
Blanche Pauline Post
December 9, 2014
Blanche Pauline Post, 84, of Anadarko, was born May 18, 1930, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Allen and Ethyl (Webb) Lennox. She passed from this life on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, in Anadarko. Blanche was raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended public school there graduating with the class of 1949. After high school she married Peter Post and worked for Bell...
Sylvia Zumwalt
December 9, 2014
Sylvia Fern (Williams) Zumwalt, 94, Lawton, passed away on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, in Lawton, OK. She was born in Tishomingo, OK on December 27, 1920, to Simon Bird and Sidnea Bell (Smith) Williams. Sylvia was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Sunday school class in Lawton, OK, and was very active in her earlier years until...
Roberta Gibson
December 7, 2014
Roberta Colleene (Bobbie) Jarnigan Gibson, 86, of Oklahoma City passed away Sunday, December 7th, 2014. She was born May 7th, 1928 in Sand Springs, OK, to Robert (Bob) Jarnigan and Opal Godfrey Jarnigan. As a baby, the family moved to Washita County near Colony. She started school at Red Top, a one room schoolhouse with eight grades. Her family moved...
Doyle Leonard Mccarty
December 7, 2014
Doyle Leonard McCarty, 70, of Verden, was born February 2, 1944, in Anadarko, to Leonard and Lois (Prather) McCarty. He passed from this life on December 7, 2014, in El Reno. Doyle was raised north of Verden and attended Verden Public Schools graduating with the Class of 1963. He worked on the family farm and for others in the community....
Virginia Ann Blanchard
December 7, 2014
Virginia Ann Blanchard, 87, formerly of Anadarko, was born July 1, 1927, to Talbert and Dorothy (Ellison) Prickett in Anadarko. She passed from this life on Sunday, December 7, 2014, at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha. Virginia was raised and attended school in Anadarko, graduating with the Class of 1945. She attended the Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha...
Larry Koehn
December 6, 2014
Larry Koehn, 73, Fort Cobb passed away Saturday, December 6, 2014, at his residence. Larry was born May 11, 1941, to Frank and Dena (Buller) Koehn in Carnegie, Oklahoma. He attended Alden School through the 11th grade and graduated from Carnegie High School in 1959. Larry graduated from Oklahoma State Tech in Okmulgee, where he studied Diesel Mechanics. He later...
Rolando Garza
December 5, 2014
Roland Garza, 16, passed away on Friday December 5, 2014, in San Diego, Texas. He was born in Hobart, Oklahoma on September 24, 1998, to Adolfo and Emelin (Benavidez) Garza. Roland grew up in Hobart, Oklahoma moving to San Diego, Texas a couple months ago. He loved sports. Roland was a good student had plans to get a scholarship after...
Walter Joe Hancock
December 3, 2014
Democrat-Chief Publisher Walter Joe Hancock, 85, died December 3, 2014, at Elkview General Hospital in Hobart after a lengthy battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Joe was born on April 10, 1929, to William Ransom and Annie B. (Gardner) Hancock at old Hobart Hospital. He graduated from Hobart High School in 1947, and, except for his college years at the University of...
Johnny Wayne Polk
December 2, 2014
Johnny Wayne Polk, 80, Dill City, passed away on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at his home. He was born in Dibble, Oklahoma to Joe and Emily Polk on April 26, 1934. John grew up in the Dibble/Blanchard area until moving to the Dill City area in 1975. Johnny married Carron Griffith on September 13, 1976, in Elk City, Oklahoma. He...
Melva May Koomsa
December 1, 2014
Melva May Koomsa, 57, of Carnegie, OK, passed away Monday, December 1st, 2014. She was born a twin on November 5th, 1957 to Nannie Belle Koomsa in Lawton, OK. After graduating from Carnegie High School in 1976 she attended USAO in Chickasha, OK where she studied Business. Melva was a member of Cedar Creek United Methodist Church, where she was...
Erwin Clifton Pewo
December 1, 2014
Erwin Clifton Pewo, Jr., 21, of Gracemont, OK, passed away Monday, December 1st, 2014. He was born to Erwin Pewo Sr, and Patricia ( Akeen) Pewo, March 15, 1993 in Lawton, OK. Erwin graduated from Gracemont High School in 2011. He played basketball and football. His football team was the first to play 8 man football. After high school he...
Edwin Eldon Hawkins
November 30, 2014
Edwin "Eldon" Hawkins was born September 17, 1926, in Roosevelt, Oklahoma to Edd and Maude (Igo) Hawkins. He died on November 30, 2014, at the age of 88. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944, and entered into the U.S. Army and World War II in 1945. He later graduated from Oklahoma A & M in Stillwater, OK in...
Dorothy Louise Edwards
November 29, 2014
Dorothy Edwards died November 29, 2014. Dorothy was born on January 20, 1924, in LaCross, OK, the second of two children of Effie and Leslie Edwards. Dorothy graduated from Verden High School. Thanks to the assistance of her older brother, John, she attended the University of Oklahoma and Southern Methodist University in Dallas to complete her nursing degree. She worked...
Bessie Allene Penrod
November 26, 2014
Bessie Allene (Mitchell) Penrod, 103 passed away Wednesday, November 26, 2014, in Hobart, Oklahoma. She was born September 3, 1911, in Ector, Texas, the second daughter, fourth child of nine children, born to James Leonidus and Ethel Maude (Moye) Mitchell. Allene graduated high school in Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 1930, and attended business school in Amarillo, Texas, then began a career...
Dolly Faye Beck
November 24, 2014
Dolly Faye Beck, 90, Roosevelt, passed away on Monday, November 24, 2014, in Hobart, OK. She was born on September 30,1924, in Powell, Missouri to Edgar Francis and Dollie (Cooper) Roller. Dolly married James Monroe Beck on October 6, 1942, in Coweta, Oklahoma. She loved flowers red roses being her favorite. Dolly had several hanging baskets of petunias. Dolly and...
Granville Jefferson Laird
November 24, 2014
Granvilleâ€Red†Jefferson Laird was born on May 24, 1926 in Chandler Oklahoma. He was the son of Jefferson and Willie Lyons Laird. Red had a very adventurous life. His dad was pretty upset with him when he was about 14 years old. He asked him where he had been all day. He had gotten a job working as a rough-neck...
Jerry Lee Menz
November 24, 2014
Jerry Lee Menz was born on May 8, 1940, in El Reno, Oklahoma to Lawrence and Viola Menz. He died on November 24, 2014, at the age of 74 years. He married Jerry Ann Edmundson on August 19, 1962. He graduated Central State College, Edmond, OK in 1963, with a degree in Business. Jerry started working at an early age...
Tommy Dean Moore
November 21, 2014
Tommy Dean (Tom) Moore, 81, of Anadarko, was born March 16, 1933, in Cherokee, Oklahoma, to Thomas Augusta and Emma Mae (Wood) Moore. He passed from this life on Friday, November 21, 2014, at the Physicians Hospital in Anadarko. Tom grew up in Cherokee and graduated from Cherokee High School where he played every sport and was an All-State quarterback....
James Joseph Hebensperger
November 21, 2014
James "Jim" Hebensperger, 71, Hobart, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014, in Oklahoma City OK. He was born in Hobart, OK to Joseph Antone and Kimmie Ruth (Evatt) Hebensperger on July 7, 1943. Jim graduated Roosevelt High School in 1961, being class vice president. After high school, Jim worked at Braun and Son, working there for over 40 years...
Houston Carl Farrell
December 10, 2014
Houston Carl (Thomas) Farrell, 61, Hobart, passed away on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, in Oklahoma City, OK. He was born in Sikeston, MO to Herbert Leroy and Janna Faye (Marshall) Thomas on November 12, 1953. Houston lived in Oklahoma most of his life. He went to Altus Public Schools, then going to Oklahoma Jr. College in Oklahoma City for a...
Blanche Pauline Post
December 9, 2014
Blanche Pauline Post, 84, of Anadarko, was born May 18, 1930, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Allen and Ethyl (Webb) Lennox. She passed from this life on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, in Anadarko. Blanche was raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended public school there graduating with the class of 1949. After high school she married Peter Post and worked for Bell...
Sylvia Zumwalt
December 9, 2014
Sylvia Fern (Williams) Zumwalt, 94, Lawton, passed away on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, in Lawton, OK. She was born in Tishomingo, OK on December 27, 1920, to Simon Bird and Sidnea Bell (Smith) Williams. Sylvia was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Sunday school class in Lawton, OK, and was very active in her earlier years until...
Roberta Gibson
December 7, 2014
Roberta Colleene (Bobbie) Jarnigan Gibson, 86, of Oklahoma City passed away Sunday, December 7th, 2014. She was born May 7th, 1928 in Sand Springs, OK, to Robert (Bob) Jarnigan and Opal Godfrey Jarnigan. As a baby, the family moved to Washita County near Colony. She started school at Red Top, a one room schoolhouse with eight grades. Her family moved...
Doyle Leonard Mccarty
December 7, 2014
Doyle Leonard McCarty, 70, of Verden, was born February 2, 1944, in Anadarko, to Leonard and Lois (Prather) McCarty. He passed from this life on December 7, 2014, in El Reno. Doyle was raised north of Verden and attended Verden Public Schools graduating with the Class of 1963. He worked on the family farm and for others in the community....
Virginia Ann Blanchard
December 7, 2014
Virginia Ann Blanchard, 87, formerly of Anadarko, was born July 1, 1927, to Talbert and Dorothy (Ellison) Prickett in Anadarko. She passed from this life on Sunday, December 7, 2014, at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha. Virginia was raised and attended school in Anadarko, graduating with the Class of 1945. She attended the Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha...
Larry Koehn
December 6, 2014
Larry Koehn, 73, Fort Cobb passed away Saturday, December 6, 2014, at his residence. Larry was born May 11, 1941, to Frank and Dena (Buller) Koehn in Carnegie, Oklahoma. He attended Alden School through the 11th grade and graduated from Carnegie High School in 1959. Larry graduated from Oklahoma State Tech in Okmulgee, where he studied Diesel Mechanics. He later...
Rolando Garza
December 5, 2014
Roland Garza, 16, passed away on Friday December 5, 2014, in San Diego, Texas. He was born in Hobart, Oklahoma on September 24, 1998, to Adolfo and Emelin (Benavidez) Garza. Roland grew up in Hobart, Oklahoma moving to San Diego, Texas a couple months ago. He loved sports. Roland was a good student had plans to get a scholarship after...
Walter Joe Hancock
December 3, 2014
Democrat-Chief Publisher Walter Joe Hancock, 85, died December 3, 2014, at Elkview General Hospital in Hobart after a lengthy battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Joe was born on April 10, 1929, to William Ransom and Annie B. (Gardner) Hancock at old Hobart Hospital. He graduated from Hobart High School in 1947, and, except for his college years at the University of...
Johnny Wayne Polk
December 2, 2014
Johnny Wayne Polk, 80, Dill City, passed away on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at his home. He was born in Dibble, Oklahoma to Joe and Emily Polk on April 26, 1934. John grew up in the Dibble/Blanchard area until moving to the Dill City area in 1975. Johnny married Carron Griffith on September 13, 1976, in Elk City, Oklahoma. He...
Melva May Koomsa
December 1, 2014
Melva May Koomsa, 57, of Carnegie, OK, passed away Monday, December 1st, 2014. She was born a twin on November 5th, 1957 to Nannie Belle Koomsa in Lawton, OK. After graduating from Carnegie High School in 1976 she attended USAO in Chickasha, OK where she studied Business. Melva was a member of Cedar Creek United Methodist Church, where she was...
Erwin Clifton Pewo
December 1, 2014
Erwin Clifton Pewo, Jr., 21, of Gracemont, OK, passed away Monday, December 1st, 2014. He was born to Erwin Pewo Sr, and Patricia ( Akeen) Pewo, March 15, 1993 in Lawton, OK. Erwin graduated from Gracemont High School in 2011. He played basketball and football. His football team was the first to play 8 man football. After high school he...
Edwin Eldon Hawkins
November 30, 2014
Edwin "Eldon" Hawkins was born September 17, 1926, in Roosevelt, Oklahoma to Edd and Maude (Igo) Hawkins. He died on November 30, 2014, at the age of 88. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944, and entered into the U.S. Army and World War II in 1945. He later graduated from Oklahoma A & M in Stillwater, OK in...
Dorothy Louise Edwards
November 29, 2014
Dorothy Edwards died November 29, 2014. Dorothy was born on January 20, 1924, in LaCross, OK, the second of two children of Effie and Leslie Edwards. Dorothy graduated from Verden High School. Thanks to the assistance of her older brother, John, she attended the University of Oklahoma and Southern Methodist University in Dallas to complete her nursing degree. She worked...
Bessie Allene Penrod
November 26, 2014
Bessie Allene (Mitchell) Penrod, 103 passed away Wednesday, November 26, 2014, in Hobart, Oklahoma. She was born September 3, 1911, in Ector, Texas, the second daughter, fourth child of nine children, born to James Leonidus and Ethel Maude (Moye) Mitchell. Allene graduated high school in Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 1930, and attended business school in Amarillo, Texas, then began a career...
Dolly Faye Beck
November 24, 2014
Dolly Faye Beck, 90, Roosevelt, passed away on Monday, November 24, 2014, in Hobart, OK. She was born on September 30,1924, in Powell, Missouri to Edgar Francis and Dollie (Cooper) Roller. Dolly married James Monroe Beck on October 6, 1942, in Coweta, Oklahoma. She loved flowers red roses being her favorite. Dolly had several hanging baskets of petunias. Dolly and...
Granville Jefferson Laird
November 24, 2014
Granvilleâ€Red†Jefferson Laird was born on May 24, 1926 in Chandler Oklahoma. He was the son of Jefferson and Willie Lyons Laird. Red had a very adventurous life. His dad was pretty upset with him when he was about 14 years old. He asked him where he had been all day. He had gotten a job working as a rough-neck...
Jerry Lee Menz
November 24, 2014
Jerry Lee Menz was born on May 8, 1940, in El Reno, Oklahoma to Lawrence and Viola Menz. He died on November 24, 2014, at the age of 74 years. He married Jerry Ann Edmundson on August 19, 1962. He graduated Central State College, Edmond, OK in 1963, with a degree in Business. Jerry started working at an early age...
Tommy Dean Moore
November 21, 2014
Tommy Dean (Tom) Moore, 81, of Anadarko, was born March 16, 1933, in Cherokee, Oklahoma, to Thomas Augusta and Emma Mae (Wood) Moore. He passed from this life on Friday, November 21, 2014, at the Physicians Hospital in Anadarko. Tom grew up in Cherokee and graduated from Cherokee High School where he played every sport and was an All-State quarterback....
James Joseph Hebensperger
November 21, 2014
James "Jim" Hebensperger, 71, Hobart, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014, in Oklahoma City OK. He was born in Hobart, OK to Joseph Antone and Kimmie Ruth (Evatt) Hebensperger on July 7, 1943. Jim graduated Roosevelt High School in 1961, being class vice president. After high school, Jim worked at Braun and Son, working there for over 40 years...
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