Obituaries
Mabron Haff
Jun 4, 2006
Mabron Haff Vinita resident passed away at Integris Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami, OK on Sunday, June 4, 2006 after a brief illness. Born in Ketchum, OK on March 5, 1917 to Eber "Jake" and Lennie (Sloan) Haff. He married Ruby Thompson on June 1, 1937. As a young man he went to work at a C.C. Camp in...
Frances Higgins
Jun 3, 2006
Frances Earlene Higgins Former Vinita resident passed away at her home in Homeland, CA on June 3, 2006. She was born on July 13, 1923 in Oklahoma to Roy and Belle (Blaire) Duke. Mrs. Higgins worked as a Cardiac Nurse for twenty years. She was a member of the Southside Church of Christ in Vinita. She loved caring for people...
Emil Keeler
Jun 1, 2006
Emil Jay Keeler Funeral services for Emil J. Keeler will be held 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at Benjamin Funeral Service, Nowata. Burial will follow at Mt. Washington Cemetery, Lenapah, Oklahoma. Emil J. Keeler was born Sept. 25, 1928, in Ponca City, Oklahoma, to Guy Ernest and Daisy (Martin) Keeler. He passed from this life June 1, 2006, at...
Tanner Chisum
May 31, 2006
Tanner Lee Chisum, born on May 6, 2006, went to sit on the lap of our Lord on May 31, 2006. Even though Tanner was given to us for only a brief 25 days, his memory will be cherished for a lifetime. Those who mourn his passing are his parents, Joe and Krystal Huffman-Chisum of Chelsea, OK, his brothers, Tate...
Emma Roberson
May 31, 2006
Emma Jane Roberson Graveside funeral services for Emma Jane Roberson will be held 2 p.m., Saturday, June 3, 2006 at Memorial Park Cemetery, Nowata, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Home of Nowata. Emma Jane Roberson was born July 9, 1935, in Nowata, to William and Lucille (Cooper) Corn. She passed from this life at Tulsa Regional...
Fosca Baldridge
May 27, 2006
Fosca M Baldridge Vinita resident passed away at her home in rural Vinita, OK on Saturday, May 27, 2006. She was born on August 8, 1948 in Scotia, California to Kenneth and Faye (Watson) Weeks. Mrs. Baldridge worked as a machine operator for General Mills for over fifteen years. She was preceded in death by her parents Kenneth and Faye...
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...
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...
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
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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....
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