Obituaries

Christine Mouse
Jul 20, 2006
Jay, OK - Christine Marie (Grass) Mouse, 64, died Thursday, July 20, 2006 at St. John Medical Center, Joplin, Missouri. Christine was born September 2, 1941 at Kansas, Oklahoma to Dick Grass and Lottie Davis Foreman. She was a member of Piney Baptist Church and she loved sewing, making quilts and spending time with her family. She enjoyed watching Chicago...
Jean Piepergerdes
Jul 19, 2006
Jean L. Piepergerdes, age 87, a resident of Bartlesville died Wednesday July 19, 2006 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Graveside Funeral services for Mrs. Piepergerdes will be held 11:00 a.m., Monday, July 24, 2006 at the Johnson County Memorial Gardens in Overland Park, Kansas. The Rev. Ruth McAleer of the St. Michael�½s and All Angles Episcopal Church of Mission, Kansas will preside...

Roma Sapp
Jul 19, 2006
Salina, OK - Roma Gene Sapp, 56, died Wednesday night, July 19, 2006 at Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Roma was born August 27, 1949 in Delaware County, Oklahoma to Eli Sapp and Inez (Lyman) Sapp. He was a lifetime resident of Salina/Kansas, Oklahoma area. Roma was married to Jackie Colston and he was employed by the Cherokee Nation's Natural...

Thelma Walker
Jul 18, 2006
Thelma Ruth Walker, 75, a resident of Vinita passed away on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 in Claremore, OK at Wood Manor. She was born on August 22, 1930 in Kingfisher, OK to Harold and Hazel (Mattie) Wallace. She was married to her husband Jess O. Walker for over fifty years, he precedes her in death. Mrs. Walker was a member...
Archie Cornelius
Jul 18, 2006
Archie J. Cornelius, age 74, retiree of Phillips Petroleum Company, passed away on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at his home in Bartlesville. He was born October 16, 1931 at Westmoreland, Kansas. He graduated from high school in 1949 at Vermillion, Kansas, where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. He was engaged on farming on the family farm until enlisting...
Loyce Curtis
Jul 17, 2006
Loyce E. Curtis, 78-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at 5:00a.m., Monday, July 17, 2006 at the Osage Nursing Home in Nowata. Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Curtis will be held at 10:00a.m., Friday, July 21, 2006 at the Lincoln Cemetery in Nowata with the Rev. Jerry Jeffries officiating. Services are under the direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home of Nowata....

Charles Grotholson
Jul 17, 2006
Charles Leonard GrothOlson, age 55, a resident of Bartlesville Died Sunday July 16, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. Charlie was born March 12, 1951 in Hudson, South Dakota the son of Leonard Groth and Barbara Meyers Groth. In 1961 he and his family moved to Estherville, IA. He graduated from Estherville High in 1969 and attended Denver Technical...
Kenny Stevens
Jul 15, 2006
Kenny Stevens, 28, a resident of Vinita passed away on Saturday, July 15, 2006 in Joplin, MO at Freeman Hospital. Kenny was born on August 19, 1977 to Corby and Judith (Brown) Stevens in Claremore, OK. He married his wife Christi (Smith) on November 7, 1998 in Claremore. Mr. Stevens worked for Daylight Donuts as a Truck driver for the...

Samuel Vanover
Jul 15, 2006
Spavinaw, OK - Samuel Paul Vanover, 77, died Saturday, July 15, 2006 at his home near Spavinaw, Oklahoma. Sam was born August 2, 1928 at Eucha, Oklahoma to Floyd Riley Vanover and Cordi Gertrude (Phillips) Vanover. He married Amogene Roberts, who preceded him in death August 20, 1987. Sam later married Hjordis H. Wirebjer on July 27, 1990 in Missouri....

Tina Hesslen
Jul 14, 2006
Tina Sue Hesslen, 38, of Vinita, passed away on Friday, July 14, 2006 in Tulsa. Born on Aug. 18, 1967 in Stella, MO to Leon and Linda (Morgan) Hesslen. Tina had lived in the Vinita area since 1986 moving from Broken Arrow after graduating Broken Arrow High School. Tina is survived by her mother and step-father; Linda and Hallie Schoonover...

Ruby Mayes
Jul 14, 2006
Bella Vista, Arkansas - Ruby Charlotte Mayes, 66, of Bella Vista, Arkansas, died Friday morning, July 14, 2006 at her home. Ruby was born August 1, 1939 at Vinita, Oklahoma to Robert Guy Thurman and Ruby E. (Hawkins) Thurman. She grew up in the Vinita area and attended Ketchum Adventist Junior Academy. Ruby later attended Ozark Adventist Academy at Gentry,...

Austin House
Jul 14, 2006
In the Beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. On July 14th of 2006, Born into our hands on this earth is Jaxson Lee House; Born into Gods hands in heaven is Austin Cole House. Austin Cole House, Infant son of Justin and Amanda House passed away on Friday, July 14, 2006 in Rogers, AR at St. Mary's Hospital....
Dewey Ward
Jul 12, 2006
Dewey Edgar Ward Funeral services for Dewey Edgar Ward will be held 10:30 a.m., Saturday July 15, 2006, at Benjamin Funeral Home, Nowata, Oklahoma. Burial will follow at Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery. Dewey Edgar Ward, 52, of Bartlesville passed away on July 12th, 2006. He was born in Nowata, OK on May 16, 1954 to the late Earl Edgar (Pete)...

Beulah Powers
Jul 11, 2006
Wichita, KS - Beulah Belle (Snell) Powers, 86, died Tuesday night, July 11, 2006 at Presbyterian Manor, Wichita, Kansas. Beulah was born March 6, 1919 near Southwest City, Missouri to Alexander Snell and Rachel (Silversmith) Snell. She grew up on a farm near Southwest City and after high school, attended Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. As a young woman, Beulah taught...

Joe Dennis
Jul 10, 2006
Dateline: Southwest City, MO Joe Dee Dennis, 71, the son of Jim and Ida Nix Dennis, was born May 11, 1935 in Delaware County, OK and died July 9, 2006 at his home in Southwest City, Mo., where he had lived for sixteen years. Mr. Dennis worked as a laborer, both on farms and later in a sawmill. Mr. Dennis...

Raymond Robertson
Jul 10, 2006
Jay, Oklahoma R.H. "Cot" Robertson R.H. "Cot Robertson of Jay died Monday July 10, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Ok. He was 82. Cot was born September 26, 1923 at Topsy to W.H. and Ona (Haggard) Robertson. He attended the Mose Ridge School. He operated bulldozers for the Pipeline retiring in 1976 and he was a lifetime cattle...
Clara Shaffer
Jul 9, 2006
Clara M. Shaffer, 85, of Vinita, passed away Sunday, July 9, 2006 in the Craig General Hospital of Vinita. Born on May 25, 1921 in Afton, OK to Alfred Barto and Maude Martha (Parks) Ingram. Mrs. Shaffer was a lifelong area resident and a homemaker. She and George Shaffer were married on June 6, 1953 in Vinita. She was preceded...
Elizabeth Akright
Jul 8, 2006
Elizabeth Darling Akright, 92, widow of James R. Akright, died at 6:15 p.m., July 8, 2006, at her residence in Bartlesville. Memorial services are scheduled for Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, 505 SE Dewey, Bartlesville. Reverend Andrew Odom officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery directed by Neekamp-Luginbuel...
Shirley Morgan
Jul 6, 2006
Shirley Jean Morgan Shirley Jean Morgan, of Jay, died at her home Thursday July 6, 2006. She was 69. Shirley was born January 5, 1937, in Pueblo, Colorado to Raymond and Pearl (Phillips) Tanner. Shirley spent her working life as a homemaker and a mother to nine children. She married Melvin Morgan on November 5, 1952 in Zena, OK. They...
Phillip Alspach
Jul 6, 2006
Phillip Lynn Alspach, 64-year-old Delaware resident, passed away Thursday, July 6, 2006 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Mr. Alspach was born on January 27, 1942 in his grandmother's house in Delaware, Oklahoma to Howard Alspach and Zelma Munnsinger-Alspach. Mr. Alspach attended schools in Chanute, Kansas through the fourth grade when his parents moved to the Delaware area....