Obituaries

Dempsey Mills

Sep 1, 2011

Dempsey Michael "Mike" Mills, 68 year old, Kansas, Oklahoma resident passed away, Tuesday September 1, 2011. Mike was born in Eucha, Oklahoma on November 29, 1942 to Dempsey Abraham and Leona Hazel (Dykes) Mills. Mike graduated from Jay High School, and attended Northeastern State University. He also served his country in the United States Army. Mike had several different careers,...

Gladys Adkins

Aug 30, 2011

Gladys Charlotte (Campbell) Adkins, 98, of Pawhuska, Oklahoma died Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Gladys was born September 9, 1912 in Osage County (I.T.), Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Melia and Charles Campbell. She grew up on the family homestead which is now "Campbell's Field" at Woolaroc Wildlife Preserve. Gladys had a 35-plus year career with the Pawhuska City Hospital...

Thomas Mccamey Jr.

Aug 29, 2011

Grove, OK - Thomas Carl McCamey, Jr., beloved father and grandfather, passed away on August 29, 2011 at Hillcrest Specialty Hospital in Tulsa, OK surrounded by his loved ones. He was born on March 20, 1949 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Thomas C. McCamey, Sr. and Nell Virginia (Hutchison) Grissom. Thomas graduated from East Central High School and worked as a...

Virginia Utterback

Aug 29, 2011

Virginia Rose "Ginny" Utterback, 81 year old resident on Grand Lake, Oklahoma passed away Monday, August 29, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. She was born on April 29, 1930 in Washington, Indiana to Charles William and Fannie Eula (Gaskey) White. She and Jack Utterback were married in Kentucky in July of 1949. Ginny loved to read, especially romance novels and cookbooks....

Ruth Murray

Aug 29, 2011

Juanita was born November 17, 1924 at Bartlesville, the daughter of the late Laymon Floyd Fears and Cora Leona (Cowan) (Fears) Reed. Juanita was raised in rural Bartlesville and attended school at Circle Mountain, Buck Creek and Lincoln School. She completed her education at the Bartlesville Central High School. Juanita was first married to Mr. Ray Marvin Shull and they...

Alice Watson

Aug 27, 2011

Alice Mae Watson, age 91, died on August 27, 2011 at Monroe Manor in Jay, Oklahoma. Alice was born on July 6, 1920 in Riverdale, California; she was the daughter of Everette Arthur Pineo and Lucy Frances Eller. Moving here four years ago from Modesto, California, she enjoyed traveling, reading and was a member of the Church of the Brethren....

Bettie Parman

Aug 27, 2011

Bettie F. Parman, age 79, died on August 27, 2011 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bettie was the daughter of James F. and Mattie M. (Griggs) Prather. She was born on August 14, 1932 in Grove, Oklahoma. She was married to William R. Parman who preceded Bettie in death. Before retiring, Bettie worked as an accountant. She...

Michael Elkins

Aug 26, 2011

Michael Cole Elkins, age 41, died on Friday, August 26, 2011 at his residence in Grove, Oklahoma. Cole was born on July 28, 1970 in Perryton, Texas. He was the son of Michael Thomas Elkins and Julie Ann (Smith). Moving from Greely, Colorado, Cole has lived in Grove for the past thirteen years. He enjoyed music, playing his guitar, boating,...

Sue Wells

Aug 23, 2011

Sue Wells, 62 year old Vinita resident, died Tuesday August 23, 2011 at the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. She was born April 28, 1949 in Chula Vista, California; her parents were Willard and Gail Thompson. Sue graduated from Muskogee High School and later married Billy Wells. She was a longtime employee of Lowe's Home Improvement Store in Claremore and...

Daryle Lamphear

Aug 22, 2011

Daryle George Lamphear, 77 year old Jay, Oklahoma resident passed away Monday, August 22, 2011 following an extended illness. Daryle was born on August 23, 1933 in Cherokee City, Arkansas to Irvin and Evelyn (Dawson) Lamphear. He was a avid outdoorsman who enjoyed deer hunting and fishing as well as auctions and gardening, but most of all enjoyed spending time...

Leroy Solomon

Aug 22, 2011

Leroy Harrison Solomon was born on July 21, 1937 in Bartlesville. He was the son of Roy Solomon and Myrtle (Brantley) Solomon. He was raised in the Bartlesville area where he also received his education. He was a member of the College High School Sr. Class of 1955. Leroy enlisted in the U.S. Army on February 28, 1961 where he...

Janice

Aug 21, 2011

Janice Sue (Cline) Lay, age 61, died on August 21, 2011 in Grove, Oklahoma. Janice was the daughter of C.B. "Toad" Cline and Helen Louise Shirk. She was born on October 20, 1949 in Nowata, Oklahoma. Janice attended Alluwe schools. She worked as a Foundry worker and in the Home Health industry. Living in Nowata for fifty years, Janice moved...

Naomi Masters

Aug 20, 2011

Naomi Kathryn Sixkiller Masters was born in the Sycamore Springs community east of Jay, Oklahoma on September 13, 1935. Born into the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee Nation she was the youngest of three daughters born to Effie Peak Sixkiller and Houston Sixkiller. Known as "Bebe" by most of her friends and family, she lived most of her life in...

Dorothy Finnell

Aug 20, 2011

Dorothy Lila Hughes Finnell, a long-time resident of Vinita, Oklahoma, passed away August 20th, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 92 years and 7 months. She was born on January 6, 1919, at Colcord, Oklahoma, the 4th of 11 children of Catherine Kaiser Hughes and Ezekial Henderson Hughes. She graduated from Kansas High School, Kansas, Oklahoma. She became a...

Lela Boyd

Aug 19, 2011

Lela Lou Boyd, 77, year old, Bernice, Oklahoma, resident passed away, Friday August 19, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri. Lela was born in Delaware co, on January 25, 1934 to Johnie David and Mary Luella Niman Jordan. Lela was a homemaker most of her life and enjoyed gardening, especially flowers, and sewing. She and her husband were also the former owner...

Mack Potts

Aug 19, 2011

Service Details

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 11:00am, Arnold Moore Funeral Home

Jack Beauchamp

Aug 18, 2011

Jack D. Beauchamp, 84 year old Vinita resident died, Thursday August 18, 2011 at his home. He was born January 5, 1927 in Miami, to Arthur and Ruby (Baker) Beauchamp. Jack was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1948. He worked for the University of Tulsa for many years, before opening...

Ruby Manley

Aug 18, 2011

Ruby Pauline Manley, 100, of Nowata, Oklahoma passed away on August 18, 2011 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, OK. Ruby was born on August 11, 1911 to William Vernon and Sarah Elizabeth (Estes) Tate. Ruby was married to Floyd M. Manley on December 22, 1934 in Nowata, OK until he passed away in December of 1969. She...

Lilliy Chastain

Aug 17, 2011

Lillie "Fern" Chastain, 93, a Caney, Kansas resident, died Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the Caney Nursing Center. Lillie Fern Copeland was born October 20, 1917 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma to John Copeland and Lillie (Luellen) Copeland. Fern was united in marriage to Mack Chastain on October 17, 1934 in Caney, KS. Fern worked at Perril's Dry Goods in Caney, KS,...

Charles Hayes

Aug 16, 2011

Charles Hayes, 78, resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at Forrest Manor Nursing Center in Dewey, Oklahoma. Charles Hayes was born April 24, 1933 in Bronx, New York, son of Raymond Herman Hayes and Gladys Louise Hayes. Charles grew up in New York, leaving his formal education, at the age of 16, he joined the Merchant Marines...