Obituaries

Apr 29, 2010

Ancalene Adele West, 76 years old, passed away on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at the Lakewood Nursing Center in Tulsa. She was born January 1, 1934 in Nowata to Robert Lee and Edna Fern (Burch) Jones. Ancalene was married to Celwyn West, who preceded her in death on September 1, 1986. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Ancalene...

Apr 28, 2010

Mary Madgalene Jarboe, 94, passed away April 28, 2010 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. She was born on May 15, 1915 at Caruthersville, Missouri, the daughter of John and Velma (Treece) Montgomery. She was united in marriage to Marion Jarboe on July , 1942 in Blytheville, Arkansas. Marion preceded her in death on September 25, 1988. She had...

Apr 27, 2010

Ethel "Louise" Murnan, 94-year-old Nowata resident passed away at 11:50p.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at the Nowata Nursing Center. Mrs. Murnan was born April 4, 1916 to W.S. Marler and Susie Hogen-Marler. She was married to Alva L. Murnan on April 16, 1934. They made their home in Nowata County where they farmed and ran a dairy until they retired...

Apr 27, 2010

Glinda Sue Martin, 64-year-old Delaware resident, passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Mrs. Martin was born August 17, 1945 in Dos Palace, California to Charles Daniel York and Mary Yates-York. She grew up and attended schools in California. On June 6, 1967 she was married to Dannie Martin in Mendota, California. Mrs....

Apr 27, 2010

Donald L. Scronce Donald L. Scronce age 76 of Grove, OK died on April 27, 2010 at Integris Grove General Hospital following a long illness. He was born on June 10, 1933 in Saint Louis, MO. to Lyle and Sylvia (Kennamore) Scronce. Don married Mary C. "Sue" Tyson on January 8, 1956 in Hernando, MI. She died September 17, 2002....

Apr 26, 2010

Patricia Ann Johnson, 59-year-old Nowata resident, passed away at her home Monday, April 26, 2010. Ms. Johnson was born February 20, 1951 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Otis Brown and Ernestine Virginia Hicks. Ms. Johnson moved to Nowata at the age of 4 where she was raised by her adoptive mother, Mrs. Loretta Alberty. She attended the Lincoln School in Nowata...

Apr 26, 2010

Virginia P. "Jennie" Oakley Virginia Pauline Dowty was born September 6, 1928, near North Miami, Oklahoma. She was the oldest child of Claud Leroy and Jewel Irene (Chambers) Dowty; Jenny started school in 1934 at North Fairview rural school, and over the years attended Willow Creek (near Baxter Springs), and other Ottawa County schools, finishing her education at Commerce and...

Apr 25, 2010

Sue Jane Lay, 68 year old Vinita resident, died Sunday April 25, 2010 at her home surrounded by family. She was born February 1, 1942 in Vinita to Albert and Esther (Chamberlain) Schwartz. Sue married Jim Lay on August 15, 1965. She worked as a secretary in vocational rehabilitation for 36 years, with the Department of Human Services. Sue was...

Apr 22, 2010

Dr. Carlos M. Lajara, age 82, a resident of Bartlesville, died Thursday April 22, 2010 at Bartlesville Care Center. Dr. Lajara is survived by his wife, Lucy Victoria Lajara, three children, Carlos A. Lajara, Odile V. DelGiudice and Dr. Walter Lajara and his wife Deborah, Eight Grandchildren. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Parkinson's Disease...

Apr 20, 2010

Carolyn A. Kirkpatrick, Afton area resident, died early Tuesday morning in Grove at the age of 61 years. She was born on March 28, 1949 in Stafford, Kansas to her parents Charles L. and Kathryn A. (Musil) Ireland. Her lifelong love of animals began by spending summers on a family farm as a child. She graduated from the College of...

Apr 18, 2010

Dorothy June Toliver, 89, of Grove, Oklahoma passed away at Grand Lake Villa on Sunday, April 18, 2010. She was born on December 1, 1920 in Tonganoxie, Kansas to Charles and Dorothy (Brown) Cole. She married Glenn Toliver on September 22, 1940 in Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. Toliver was a homemaker who loved to sew and crochet. She was a...

Apr 17, 2010

Karen Maureen Schaefer, age 59, a resident of Langley, OK died Saturday April 17, 2010 at her home in Langley. She was born April 4, 1951 in Lincoln, Nebraska the daughter of Albert and Joan Bouton Schaefer. Karen was a member of the Seventy Day Adventist Church and was a dietician working at Adventist hospitals in Phoenix, AZ and Shawnee...

Apr 16, 2010

Betty Irene Walker, 85, a resident of Grove passed away at Integris Grove General Hospital on Friday, April 16, 2010. She was born in Leo, Indiana on December 11, 1924 to Elmer and Orpha (Van Zile) Akey. Betty graduated from Leo High School in Leo Indiana. She married her love of sixty-five years Dale Walker on March 17, 1945 in...

Apr 15, 2010

Fredrick "Fred" Eugene Wolfe Fred Wolfe age 84 of Grove, OK died Thursday April 15, 2010 at the Grand Lake Villa in Grove, OK. The son of Rosco Wolfe and Adelia Anna Matthew Wolfe, he was born on February 6, 1926 in Joplin, MO. Fred married Wanda Lee Colson in August of 1947 in Miami, OK. They were members of...

Apr 15, 2010

Evah Lois Sturm, former Bartlesville resident and widow of Paul Sturm, died April 15, 2010, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after a brief illness. Mrs. Sturm, 91, was born at Enid, Oklahoma to Earl and Helen Young. She graduated from Stillwater High School and attended Oklahoma State University majoring in Home Economics. On May 28, 1939, she married Paul Sturm in...

Apr 15, 2010

DeWitt Richard Ballard, 77-year-old former Nowata resident passed away Thursday, April 15, 2010 at the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, Kansas. Mr. Ballard was born January 13, 1933 in Nowata, Oklahoma to Jack Ballard and Delva Mae McMains-Ballard. He attended schools in Nowata where he played quarterback for the Ironmen football team and graduated with the Class of 1952....

Apr 14, 2010

Kirk G. McGee, 48, a former resident of Grove passed away in Jay, Oklahoma on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. He was born on August 7, 1961 in El Dorado, Kansas to George G. and Oleta K. (Flinn) McGee. Mr. McGee worked for Boeing Aircraft as a site director; Kirk had worked for Boeing for thirty-one years. He graduated from Grove...

Apr 13, 2010

Mary Joyce Henderson Mary Joyce Henderson, age 72 of Grove, OK, died Tuesday April 13, 2010, at her home in Grove, OK. The daughter of Leroy Ing and Rosie Mae Baggerman Ing, she was born on December 25, 1937 in Hedley, TX. Mary Joyce married Harold Henderson on August 12, 1956 in Hale Center, TX. She taught school in Sunray...

Apr 13, 2010

Vada Margarette Robinson, 89-year-old Nowata resident, passed away Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at the Jane Phillips Nowata Health Center. Mrs. Robinson was born February 21, 1921 in rural Nowata County, Oklahoma to James Layfette Inman and Ethel Evelyn Tatum-Inman. Mrs. Robinson grew up and attended schools in the Diamond Point and Bugscuffle area. Mrs. Robinson married Herbert Lee Robinson on...

Apr 12, 2010

Robert Kennedy, 81, a resident of Grove passed away at Betty Ann Nursing Center on Monday, April 12, 2010. Robert was born on June 24, 1928. Services are Thursday, April 15, 2010 with Chaplain Lonnie Sanders officiating. Memorial Services are under the direction of the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home of Grove. Friends and family may leave online condolences at www.honoringmemories.com.

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