Obituaries

Alma Bennington

Nov 3, 2011

Alma Udena "Dean" Bennington, 92 year-old Vinita resident, died Thursday, November 3, 2011 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. She was born June 16, 1919 to George William and Cynthia Bell (Hull) Ramsey. Dean worked as head dietician in the kitchen at Eastern State Hospital for over 35 years, retiring in 1992. She was a member of the First...

Shirley Wolf

Nov 3, 2011

Lifetime resident, Shirley Ann Wolf, age 57, died on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at her residence in Eucha, Oklahoma. Shirley was the daughter of Maxine (Budder) and Leland Stick; she was born on June 27, 1954 in Gravette, Arkansas. Shirley enjoyed doing beadwork, cooking, making baby blankets for the grandchildren, gardening, going to yard sales and thrift shopping. She was...

Catherine Nuckolls

Nov 1, 2011

Catherine "Cathy" Leona Nuckolls, age 78, died on Tuesday November 1, 2011 at Integris Grove General Hospital in Grove, Oklahoma. Cathy was the daughter of Rhudell (McCullough) and Chester Earl Pipkin; she was born on March 16, 1933 in Osceola, Arkansas. Cathy graduated from Wilson High School in Wilson, Arkansas. She was united in marriage to Bill Nuckolls in Rockford,...

Scott Bailey

Nov 1, 2011

Scott was born in 1953 to Clyde Edward Bailey and Mary Lee (Jessup) Bailey in Bartlesville. He attended Bartlesville public schools and graduated from Sooner High School in 1971. Scott attended some college and trade schools finding his niche in computer programming. He worked at Bartlesville Office Supply and Tulsa-based Kingsley's Office Supply for a number of years. He was...

Barbara Cummings

Nov 1, 2011

Barbara Cummings, 80, a lifetime resident of the Grove area passed away at Integris Grove General Hospital on November 1, 2011. She was born on June 22, 1931 in Peoria, Oklahoma to Ralph Lee and Marie (McDermit) Crabtree. She married Donald Edward Cummings on August 25, 1947 in Neosho, Missouri. Barbara was the true sense of a homemaker and loved...

L.E. Chappell, Jr.

Nov 1, 2011

L.E. Chappell, Jr. was 79 years of age and was a resident of Jay, Oklahoma. He passed from this life on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 in Grove, Oklahoma. He was the youngest child of Merl (Hamilton) Chappell and Leon Ernest Chappell, Sr. He was born on November 27, 1931 in No Man's Land, Oklahoma. He graduated from Darrouzett High School...

Helen Burke

Oct 31, 2011

Helen Lavonne Burke, age 88 died Monday October 31, 2011 at Shady Rest Nursing Home at Pryor. She was born September 28, 1923 in Tulsa, OK the daughter of Henry Brady and Ethel Jewell Francis Brady. She was raised and educated in Tulsa and married Elbert Roy Burke Sr. in 1942. They made their home in Tulsa where she attended...

Margaret Pennington

Oct 31, 2011

Margaret L. Pennington was born on May 7, 1921, in Roanoke, Virginia to E. Ray and Edna Lee Ferrell. She died peacefully on Monday, October 31, 2011 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 90. Margaret was raised and educated in Tulsa graduating from Central High School in 1938. She met her future husband, Murrel W. Pennington, at Oklahoma State...

Ima Proctor

Oct 30, 2011

Services for Ima Lou Proctor are currently pending with Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, Jay, Oklahoma.

Visitation Details

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home - Jay

Service Details

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 2:00pm, Steeley Baptist Church

Interment Details

Euwasha Cemetery

Stella Payton

Oct 30, 2011

Graveside funeral services for Stella Mae Payton will be held 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at Re-Located Cemetery, Nowata, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata. Stella Payton went home to be her Lord Jesus October 30, 2011. She was born February 23, 1923, in Humphrey, Arkansas to Charlie and Elizabeth (Derryberry) Hugg. In...

Gerald Delozier

Oct 29, 2011

Longtime Nowata resident and businessman Gerald Edward "Jerry" DeLozier, passed from this life Saturday, October 29, 2011, at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. He was born October 11, 1930, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Paul Oliver and Dorothy (Creason) DeLozier. Jerry was educated in the Chelsea and Nowata Schools Systems. He continued his education at Oklahoma A&M (later renamed...

Berniece Pollett

Oct 28, 2011

Berniece Faye Pollett, 100, of Collinsville, Oklahoma, passed away October 23, 2011 at the Frances Streitel Senior Care Center in Collinsville. She was born on April 3, 1911 to Alonzo and Mary (Greene) Spradlin in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. She attended school in Kingfisher and moved to Stillwater when she was 9 years old. On August 19, 1937, Berniece married Orbie Edgar...

Betty Vaughn

Oct 27, 2011

Betty "MiMi" Jean Vaughn Betty Jean Vaughn, 75, of Nowata, was born August 17, 1936 in Alluwe, Oklahoma to Fern H. and Gracie Burdell (McNabb) Clasby. She passed from this life Thursday, October 27, 2011 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. Betty attended and graduated from Alluwe Schools and on December 24, 1954 she married Walter "Pete" Vaughn in...

Mary Drake

Oct 27, 2011

Mary Luvena Whittenburg Drake, 88, of Wann, Oklahoma passed away October 27, 2011 at her home. Luvena was born September 26, 1923 in Bartlesville to Joseph and Leta (Sullivan) Brown. Luvena married Percy Whittenburg on October 16, 1937 in Davenport, Iowa. After they were married they made their home east of Dewey. She was employed by Halliburton and also worked...

June Evinger

Oct 27, 2011

June Newburn Evinger, lifelong resident of Grove, passed away on October 27, 2011. She was born March 30, 1926 to Goldie V. and Clarence W. Newburn in Grove. She was a graduate of Grove High School and Northeastern State University where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Education in 1944, and a Master's Degree in Counseling in 1984. June taught...

Dollie Gregory

Oct 26, 2011

Dollie Gregory passed away on October 26, 2011 at the Grove Nursing Center in Grove, OK at the age of 88. She was born December 23, 1922 in Ripley County, MO to Radford E and Medie Jane (Campbell) Stanley. Dollie received her education in Centralia, OK. On February 12, 1942 she married Everett James Gregory in Vinita, OK. She made...

Mary Henson

Oct 24, 2011

Mary Allene (Jenkins) Henson, eighty four year old lifetime Vinita Resident passed away at her home on Monday October 24, 2011. Mary was born July 25, 1927 the daughter of Arlin Jenkins and Claudia Elsey Jenkins. After high School Mary attended NSU at Tahlequah where she earned her bachelor's degree. She worked as an Assistant County School Superintendent and taught...

Odie Swift

Oct 24, 2011

Odie Darrell Swift, Sr., age 78 of Vinita, died Monday, October 24, 2011. Odie was born on April 19, 1933 in Barnsdall, OK the son of Charlie and Emma (Starr) Swift. In 1955 he enlisted in the United States Army serving until 1957. Odie worked as a truck driver for Elliott Trucking numerous years. He enjoyed watching NASCAR and was...

Wildon Shook

Oct 24, 2011

Service Details

Friday, October 28th, 2011 2:00pm, Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home

Leane Line

Oct 24, 2011

Leane Elizabeth Line, nom de plume "Leane Roffey", 62, a resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma died peacefully at her home on Monday, October 24, 2011, after fighting a courageous two year-long battle with breast cancer. Leane Elizabeth Accomando was born March 17, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois the daughter of Joseph and Ethel (DeSalvo) Accomando. Leane was united in marriage to Mark...