Obituaries

Laverne Acuff

Oct 19, 2009

LaVerne June Mitchell Acuff, age 90 of Grove, died Monday October 19, 2009. LaVerne was born in Collinsville, OK on June 15, 1919 the daughter of Roy and Sallie (Conway) Hurn. She was united in marriage to Walter T. Mitchell and together they raised one daughter Darla Mitchell. Years after Walter's passing she was re-married to Norbert Acuff. LaVerne was...

Charles Cupp

Oct 18, 2009

Charles Alan Cupp Alan Cupp age 54 of Grove, OK died Sunday October 18, 2009 in his home rural Grove. The son of Charles and Evelyn Cooper Cupp, he was born on August 21, 1955 in Joplin, MO. Alan had been a code welder traveling to inspect pipe for pipelines. Later he was involved in the manufacture of Wood Stove...

Minnie Barnes

Oct 18, 2009

Minnie Pearl Barnes 67, of Kingfisher formally of Nowata passed away Sunday, October 18, 2009 in the Hospice Quality Care in Del City, Oklahoma. Minnie was born on February 21, 1942 in Alluwe, Oklahoma to Aaron Grambell Hall and Vera Pauline (Huckleby) Hall. She attended school in Alluwe but life's journey took her in another direction before graduating but in...

Dale Young

Oct 17, 2009

Dale G. Young 79 year-old Langley resident, died Saturday, October 17, 2009 at his home. He was born July 14, 1930 in Abilene, Texas to C. E. and Louise (Gordon) Young. He was married to Jo Mae (Reed), she preceded him in death on November 27, 2004. Dale was retired from McDonnell-Douglass Aircraft in Tulsa. He was a veteran of...

Sequoya Flechs

Oct 13, 2009

Sequoya Flechs, age 51, died Tuesday October 13, 2009 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Miami, OK. He was born October 10, 1958 in Galveston, Texas the son of W.D. Flechs and Betty V. Davis Flechs. He finished high school in Nebraska and moved to Oklahoma in the mid eighty's and attended OSU Okmulgee earning a degree in Computers. He...

Lucille Gillespey

Oct 12, 2009

Service Details

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 10:00am, First United Methodist Church Nowata

Interment Details

Memorial Park - Nowata

James Battige

Oct 12, 2009

James Gordon Battige James Battige age 71 died at his home in Grove, OK, on Monday October 12, 2009. The son of Leonard and Laverne Lentz Battige, he was born on March 3, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served in the US Army. James married Barbara Phillipp on June 27, 1964. They moved to grove in 1999 from Shawnee OK....

Darrell Nichols

Oct 11, 2009

Darrell Gene "Nick" Nichols, age 61, of Vinita, OK died at his home on Sunday October 11, 2009. He was born on October 20, 1947 in Ainsworth, NE the son of Lynn Spencer Nichols and Nila Faye Wellman Nichols. He graduated from Broken Bow, Nebraska High School in 1966. On May 9, 1976 he was united in marriage to Brenda...

Buford Winters

Oct 11, 2009

Buford Dale Winters DVM Buford Dale Winters, age 91, Nowata resident died Sunday October 11, 2009 at his home surrounded by his family after being ill for quite some time. He was born August 15, 1918 in Blaine, Colorado to Harley Earl and Ina Pearl Winters. He graduated High School in Oswego Kansas, attended 2 years Parsons Junior College and...

Hattie Prather

Oct 11, 2009

Hattie Lee Prather 99, year old Vinita resident, passed away Sunday October 11, 2009 at Rosewood Terrace. She was born April 27, 1910 in Snyder, Texas to Henry S. and Cora (Davis) Hart. Hattie was married to Charlie Marion Prather; he preceded her in death on September 11, 1986. They moved to Vinita from Muleshoe, Texas in 1954 and were...

Elvin Barrier Jr.

Oct 10, 2009

Elvin S. Barrier Elvin Shadrick Barrier Jr., age 82 of Grove, OK, died Saturday October 10, 2009 in the Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, MO. The son of Elvin and Ethel Mae Matthews Barrier, he was born on January 21, 1927 in Little Chief, OK. He married Marion White on November 6, 1948 in Sherman TX. Elvin owned and operated...

Ruth Spears

Oct 10, 2009

Ruth C. Spears, age 65 of Vinita, died Saturday October 10, 2009. Ruth was born in Farmsville, Virginia on April 4, 1944 the daughter of Edgar and Fredah (Swindle) Larkin. In 1962 Ruth joined the United States Marine Corp. She was proud to serve her country. She also worked as an accountant and bookkeeper for many years. Ruth loved her...

Kathalene Snider

Oct 8, 2009

Kathalene Snider, 83 is walking the streets of gold as she left this world Thursday, October 8, 2009 at Grove Integris Hospital. She was born on April 17, 1926 to Arthur Jacobs and Maggie Opal Jacobs in Joplin, Missouri. Kathalene Jacobs was married to the love of her life John Eugene Snider on August 20, 1945 in Columbus, Kansas. They...

Lonnie Nail

Oct 7, 2009

Lonnie Lenn "Butch" Nail, 64 year-old White Oak resident, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at the St. John Hospital in Tulsa. He was born July 19, 1945 to Ray Lenn and Juanita Margaret "Marge" (Leforce) Nail. Butch attended and graduated from White Oak Schools. He worked as a coal miner for many years, including,...

Lon Donavant Jr

Oct 6, 2009

Lon Donavant Jr. 1918-2009 Lon Donavant Jr., 91, of Grove passed away October 6, 2009. Funeral Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Grove Methodist Church. Lon was born on Jan. 9, 1918, in Jefferson City, MO. He graduated from Cleora High School in 1936. He went to John Brown University and then Oklahoma State University to study electrical engineering...

Susan Angel

Oct 4, 2009

Susan Gail Angel, 51, a resident of Grove passed away at her home on Sunday, October 4, 2009. She was born on July 16, 1958 to William Ira Angel II and Sabre Ann Yates in Kansas City, Missouri. Ms. Angel worked as a Certified Nurses Aide with Grand Lake Villa Nursing Home in Grove. She loved her work at the...

Dovie Rogers

Oct 3, 2009

Dovie "Aunt Ree" Marie Rogers , age 87, a longtime Vinita resident died Saturday October 3, 2009 at Rosewood Terrace Nursing Home in Vinita. She was born July 3, 1922 in Harrison, Arkansas the daughter of James N. Thompson, and Nerva Alice Watson Rogers. The family moved to Vinita where she was raised and educated. She and Lee Rogers were...

Linda Bradley

Oct 3, 2009

Linda Carol Bradley, 57 year old Big Cabin resident and a Third grade teacher at Will Rogers Elementary School, died Saturday, October 3, 2009, due to injuries from an accident. She was born January 18, 1952 in Bakersfield, California to William Ernest and Rose (Begley) Brannan. Linda graduated high school from Stoutland, Missouri and attended college at NSU in Tahlequah...

Judy Carlisle

Oct 3, 2009

Judy Kay (Reddick) Carlisle, wife of Don Carlisle went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday October 3, 2009 at her home in Bartlesville, Ok. A true gift in our lives, she had so much love to give and life to live and left us too soon. She will truly be missed by all that knew her. There...

Jay Spencer

Oct 1, 2009

Jay Spencer age 73 of Grove, OK died Thursday October 1, 2009 in the Integress Grove General Hospital in Grove, OK. He was born on July 17, 1936 in Nebraska. Jay had been living in the Betty Ann Nursing Home He was buried in the Hickory Grove Cemetery at 1 PM on Thursday October 1, 2009 The services was directed...