Obituaries
Thelma Hentz
Mar 3, 2010
Thelma Bernice Hentz, 95 year old Big Cabin resident, died Wednesday March 3, 2010 at Rosewood Terrace in Vinita. She was born November 21, 1914, in Big Cabin to Ernest Campbell and Maude (Lauchner) Campbell. Thelma was a graduate and former basketball player of Big Cabin High School. She was preceded in death by two husbands, John Brown who died...
Lyn Lemons
Mar 2, 2010
Lyn Nell Lemons, 79 year old Miami resident died Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at her home. Lyn was born December 4, 1930 in Bluejacket to Leonard Thomas and Ann G. (Ryan) Williams. She graduated from Bluejacket High School, the Northeastern Oklahoma A & M, where she attended nursing school. Lyn married Carroll Lemons on October 21, 1950 in Arkansas, they...
Janis Brooks
Mar 2, 2010
Janis "Jean" Brooks, 100 year old long time Disney resident, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at the Grove Integris Hospital. She was born July 8, 1909 in Miami, Oklahoma, the third of Elmer and Maddie (McVay) Bigham's four daughters. Mrs. Brooks graduated from the University of Hawaii with a Masters in Education. She taught...
Howard Teel
Mar 1, 2010
Grove, OK - Howard Jackson Teel, 80, died March 1, 2010 in his home while resting. He was born on November 10, 1929 to Claibourne Jackson and Hazel Fern (Saffle) Teel in the home of his parents located in the Dodge community east of Grove, OK. Howard married Nancy Ruth Hogue in June 1979. He graduated from Jay High School...

Jesse Duffield
Mar 1, 2010
Jesse Merle Duffield, 84, went to meet our Lord and Savior on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 3:29 a.m. He was born on October 26, 1925 in Jay, Oklahoma to Jop Henery and Lena Pearl (Tarter) Duffield. Jesse and Ruby were high schools sweethearts in Modesto, California and were married on March 21, 1944 in Pryor, Oklahoma. Jesse was an...

Michael Sanders
Mar 1, 2010
Michael Eugene Sanders 55 year old Colcord, Oklahoma resident passed away Friday, October 1, 2010 at his home following an extended illness. Funeral Services will be held at the First united Methodist church in jay, Oklahoma on Wednesday October 6, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation hours will be between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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John Livsey
Mar 1, 2010
John Livesay, 55, a resident of Grove passed away at Betty Ann Nursing Home on Monday, March 1, 2010. Graveside services for Mr. Livesay will be at a later date in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Service Details
No local services planned.

Lola Parker
Feb 27, 2010
Lola Inez Parker Obit Lola Parker age 90 of Grove, OK, died Saturday February 27, 2010, at the Grove Nursing Center in Grove, OK. The daughter of Harry and Edith Millard Smith, she was born on September 22, 1919 in Meade, KS. Lola married Alva Parker on November 1, 1935 in Vinita, OK. He preceded her in death on November...
Eugene Wood Jr.
Feb 26, 2010
Eugene North Wood, Jr., age 73 of Afton, died Friday, February 26, 2010 at his home. North was born in Tulsa on October 13, 1936, the son of Eugene North Wood, Sr. and Blanche (Mullen) Wood. He graduated from Central High School in 1954. In 1958 he graduated from Harvard with a degree in Chemistry. He graduated from Notre Dame...

Vera Fields
Feb 26, 2010
Vera Irene Fields, age 93 and longtime Vinita resident, died Friday, February 26, 2010. She was born in Alluwe, OK on January 19, 1917, the daughter of Gulley and Ida Finnell. Vera was a loving and devoted mother and grandmother. She was a very strong and independent woman with an amazing work ethic. Even after retirement she worked to get...
Charles Hodge
Feb 25, 2010
Charles R. Hodge On February 25, 2010 Chuck Hodge age 77 of Grove went home to be with the Lord. He was born on September 16, 1932 in Perry, OK. A Veteran of the United Air Force, owner and founder of a successful business of fifty years - H & H Resistance Wielders & H & H Laboratory, he is...
Ruth Massey
Feb 25, 2010
Ruth Ellen Massey, 86 died Thursday, February 25, 2010 at her home in Bartlesville. Ruth Ellen Massey was born to Mae Scott Wright and Hubert Carlton Wright in Hampton, Kentucky on December 23, 1923. After completing high school, she earned a degree in Home Economics at Murray State College in Kentucky. After graduation she taught home economics for one year...

Claudine Copenhaver
Feb 25, 2010
Claudine D. Copenhaver, 84, died Thursday, February 25, 2010 at Heritage Villa Nursing Center. Claudine was born January 24, 1926 the daughter of Charlie Denison and Carrie (May) Denison in Breckenridge, Texas. While working for Phillips Petroleum Co. in Phillips Texas she met and married Bill Copenhaver. In 1954 they moved to Bartlesville and made their home. They received assignments...
Lois Browning
Feb 24, 2010
Lois Browning, 96 year-old Cleora resident, passed away at her home on Tuesday. She was born April 4, 1913 in Tuxedo, Texas to Flake and Dorthula Loretta "Etta" (Floyd) Williams. After high school Lois got her beauticians license, before her marriage to Charles Woodrow Browning on December 24, 1939 in Iradell, Texas. Charles preceded her in death on May 2,...
Gene Foote
Feb 24, 2010
Gene Loyd Foote, age 79 and lifetime Spavinaw resident, died Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at his home. Gene was born in Spavinaw on May 29, 1930, the son of William and Bonnie (Owens) Foote. He attended Spavinaw schools graduating in 1948 and later earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in Mathematics. In July of 1948, Gene enlisted in the United...
Dorothy Watford
Feb 21, 2010
Dorothy Lou Watford, age 71 of Vinita, OK died Sunday February 21, 2010 at her home. She was born January 26,1939 in Shawnee Oklahoma the daughter of Willie Byron Neighbors and Evelyn Marie Rozell . Dorothy and Eugene Taylor were married Oct 12, 1954 at Miami, Oklahoma. She married John Watford August 21, 1987 in Muleshoe Texas, He preceded her...
Van Owens
Feb 21, 2010
Van Walter Owens, Grove resident, died Sunday February 21, 2010 at the age of 87. Van was born on November 18, 1922 in Bingen, Arkansas to his parents, John Walter Dona Bernice (Powers) Owens. Van served his country during WWII in the Army Air Force. He married the love of his life, Jean on December 22, 1943 in Independence, Kansas...

Carl Bretz
Feb 20, 2010
Service Details
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 10:00am, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
Interment Details
Memorial Park Cemetery Bartlesville