Obituaries

Leo Taylor

Leo Taylor

May 25, 2006

Leo W. Taylor, age 74, a lifelong resident of Dewey died Thursday May 25, 2006 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Leo W. Taylor was born on September 8, 1931 to William McKee Taylor and Gracie Mae Henderson Taylor in Dewey, Oklahoma. Leo served in the Korean War as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He received the Korean Service...

Ira Kroh Jr.

Ira Kroh Jr.

May 25, 2006

Ira E. Kroh Jr., age 80, a lifelong resident of Dewey died Thursday May 25, 2006 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Ira E. Kroh Jr. was born on January 30, 1926 to Ira Ellsworth Kroh Sr. and Tina (Miller) Kroh in Dewey, Oklahoma. He was raised and educated in Dewey graduating from the Dewey High School. Ira served in...

Gladys Harrison

Gladys Harrison

May 21, 2006

Gladys Stand-Heath-Harrison, 88-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at 10:15p.m., Sunday, May 21, 2006 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. Funeral services for Mrs. Harrison will be held at 11:00a.m., Friday, May 26, 2006 at the Hillside Christian Church with Pastor John Presko officiating. Interment will follow in the Nowata Re-Located Cemetery under the direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home...

Mckey Turner

Mckey Turner

May 20, 2006

Jay, Ok. - McKey Turner (sometimes called Stew-Stew Meat or Stony Burke), 83, went to be with the Lord on May 20, 2006 at Integris Grove General Hospital. He was born at home in Delaware County, Oklahoma on February 2, 1923 to Daniel and Sally (O'Field) Turner. He went to school at Oakhill School. He was married to Idella Littledave...

Joseph Carinder, Jr.

Joseph Carinder, Jr.

May 17, 2006

Joseph Elliott Carinder, Jr., 51-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at 3:28a.m., Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Funeral services for Mr. Carinder will be held at 2:00p.m., Saturday, May 20, 2006 at the Living Word Family Church with Pastor Jim Winslow officiating. Interment will follow in the Peru Cemetery in Peru, Kansas. Services are...

Harold Walters

Harold Walters

May 16, 2006

Harold Clifford Walters, died Tuesday Morning, May 16, 2006 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Funeral services for Mr. Harold Clifford Walters will be held 2:00 p.m., Friday, May 19, 2006 at the Colonial Chapel of the Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home. Dr. Joe Dan Fowler of the First Baptist Church of Bartlesville, Ok. will preside over the services. Funeral...

David Corley

David Corley

May 14, 2006

David Eugene Corley, 45, of Houston, Texas died at 2:00 p.m. on Mother's Day, May 14 as the result of a head on collision with a vehicle that had crossed the center median of I-10, just west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A memorial service was held Saturday, May 20 at Seabrook Methodist Church in Seabrook, Texas. David will be interred...

Edwin Kraft

Edwin Kraft

May 14, 2006

Grove, OK - Edwin Frederick "Ed" Kraft, 42, lost his battle with cancer, Sunday, May 14, 2006 at Integris Grove General Hospital. Ed was born December 5, 1963 in Denver, Colorado to Edwin T.F. Kraft and Hideko (Suzuki) Kraft. He grew up in Denver and also lived in Japan and California, before coming to Oklahoma in 1992. Ed moved to...

Mildred Brewer

Mildred Brewer

May 13, 2006

Mildred Pearl Brewer Mildred Pearl Brewer age 91 long time Vinita resident passed away Saturday, May 13, 2006, in Vinita, OK. Mildred was born to Wylie and Leona (Richie) Crowder in Ottawa County, Oklahoma on March 2, 1915. She graduated from Grove High School in 1936. She married her loving husband of 69 years on June 20, 1936. She was...

Francis Galway

Francis Galway

May 12, 2006

Francis "Frankie" Galway Francis "Frankie" Galway died Friday May 12, 2006 in Grove, Oklahoma. She was 89. Frankie was born July 6, 1916 to John and Mary Agnes Galway at Boston, Massachusetts. She worked at the business office of New Jersey Bell Telephone in Boston as an office supervisor. She was president of Philo Matheia Club in Boston. Fankie married...

Alice Askew

Alice Askew

May 12, 2006

Alice Ann Askew passed away peacefully on Friday, May 12, 2006. She was born in Catoosa, Oklahoma on February 18, 1931 to Robert Lee (Sr.) and Ruth Avanelle Heard Cambron. A memorial service will be held at the First Baptist Church in Nowata at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 18, 2006, followed by a private family graveside service at Greenhill...

Billy Livingston

Billy Livingston

May 12, 2006

Billy Don "BUZZY" Livingston, 67, of Vinita, passed away Friday, May 12, 2006 at his home. Born on March 10, 1939 in Estella, OK to Willie and Agnes Mae (Hunter) Livingston. A life long are resident Buzzy attended school through the 8th grade at Estella and then graduated from White Oak High School in 1958. He was owner/operator of Livingston...

Rev. Vernon

Rev. Vernon

May 9, 2006

Rev. Leon Vernon of Grove went to be with the Lord Tuesday May 9, 2006 at the Freeman Health Center in Joplin, Mo. He was 69. Brother Leon was born April 28, 1937 to James and Marie (Booker) Vernon at Natchez, Mississippi. He graduated High School from Istrouma High School at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married his high school sweetheart...

Stephenson Ada

Stephenson Ada

May 9, 2006

Ada Fay Stephenson, a life long resident of Vinita died Tuesday, May 9, 2006. She was 94 years of age. Fay was born April 29, 1912 in Vinita, OK. She graduated from Vinita High School in 1929 then later graduated from Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College in Miami, OK in 1931. She was a member of the Sigma IOTA Chi Sorority....

Kenneth Caywood

Kenneth Caywood

May 8, 2006

Kenneth Lee Caywood formerly of Grove, Ok died Monday May 8, 2006 at his home in Tulsa, Ok. He was 68. Kenneth was born March 21, 1938 at Eucha, Ok. to John Isaac and Cora Lee (Fields) Caywood. He married Lavona (Caudill) Caywood July 31, 1959 at Grove, Ok. They moved to Tulsa in 1963 while keeping a home in...

Sandra Hill

Sandra Hill

May 6, 2006

Grove, OK - Sandra Jane Hill, 61, died late Saturday night, May 6, 2006 at St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Missouri. Sandra was born December 14, 1944 at Miami, Oklahoma to Mary (Thomas) Champlin. She grew up in Miami and graduated high school, there. She moved from Miami to Joplin, Missouri, before moving to Grove, Oklahoma in 1991. Sandra...

Polly Farr

Polly Farr

May 6, 2006

Polly Bridges Farr, a resident of Bartlesville died Saturday Morning, May 6, 2006 at Jane Phillips Hospital in Bartlesville. Funeral services for Mrs. Polly Bridges Farr will be held 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at the First United Methodist Church of Bartlesville. Reverend Buz Wierick of the First United Methodist Church of Bartlesville, Ok. will preside over the services....

Georgia Peck

Georgia Peck

May 5, 2006

Georgia Prudance Peck Graveside funeral services for Georgia Peck will be held 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 8, 2006, at Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata. Georgia Prudance Peck was born October 18, 1917, in Nowata, to William A. and Barbary Allen (Kearns) Peck. She passed from this life May 5, 2006,...

Ruby Pahl

Ruby Pahl

May 5, 2006

Ruby Mae Pahl, 90, resident of Mission, Texas passed away Friday, May 5, 2006 at the Mission Hospital in Mission, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 10:00a.m., Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in the Benjamin Funeral Service Chapel at Nowata, Oklahoma with Reverend Ben Killion officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Nowata. Ruby Mae (Nicholson) Pahl was...

Nina Cowardin

Nina Cowardin

May 5, 2006

Nina Ruth Cowardin 91, Passed away at her home in Vinita on Friday, May 5, 2006. She was born on June 9, 1914 in Bluejacket, OK to Henry and Ellen (Cauthorn) Smith. She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Vinita. Ruth was preceded in death by her parents Henry and Ellen Smith, and her husband Fred Cowardin...

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