Obituaries
Pamela Arnold
Jun 4, 2011
Pamela Wyvone Arnold, 76 year old Nowata resident, died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at her home. She was born December 7, 1934 in Boise City, Oklahoma, daughter of Charles M. "Shorty" Wilson and Bessie Ellen (Stubbert) Wilson. Wyvone attended school in Childers, OK before moving with her family to California. Wyvone graduated high school in Compton, California at the age...

Katherine Riley
Jun 3, 2011
Katherine Lidia (Crout) Riley, 86, of Delaware, passed away on June 3, 2011 at the Medicalodge in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born to Jackson and Winnie (Jackson) Crout, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on May 6, 1925. Katherine graduated from Bartlesville High School. She married Jake Riley and they had a son together, James. Jake passed away in 2005. Mrs. Riley loved...
Amethyst White
Jun 2, 2011
Amethyst Dawn White, 3, resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, passed away at her home on Thursday, June 2, 2011. Amethyst was born on November 30, 2007 in Bartlesville. She was the daughter of Margie A. Johnston and Kevin D. White, Bartlesville. Although she lived only 3-1/2 short years, she left a lifetime of love and wonderful memories. She was an extremely...
Pauline King
May 31, 2011
Pauline Jane (Cook) King, 67 year-old rural Vinita resident, died Tuesday May 31, 2011 at the Craig General Hospital. She was born January 12, 1944 in Livermore, California to Charles D. and Ellen Virginia (Dail) Cook. Pauline was retired from Eastern State Hospital where she had worked 27 years as a mental health aide and time keeper. She married Charley...
Dorothy Shields
May 31, 2011
Mrs. Dorothy V. L. Shields, 88, died at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Visitation Details
Saturday, June 4th, 2011 9:00am - 10:30am, Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home
Service Details
Saturday, June 4th, 2011 1:00pm, First Wesleyan Church of Bartlesville
Interment Details...
Brandon Keever
May 31, 2011
Brandon J. Keever of Bartlesville, Oklahoma was born February 13, 1981, in Hastings, Nebraska, to Billy J. Keever Jr., and Jolene Thuman Keever. He passed from this life May, 31, 2011 in Nowata, Oklahoma. Brandon graduated from high school and worked as a mechanic. He later attended trade school to become a welder and worked as a welder in Nebraska,...

Alberta Dikeman
May 30, 2011
Memorial Services for Alberta will beheld 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at Talala Christian Church in Talala, OK with Pastor Tom Jones officiating. Alberta passed away on May 30, 2011 at the Veteran's Center in Claremore, OK. Alberta was born on July 2, 1923 in rural Vinita, OK to Roy Ernest Hunt and Bertha Myrtle (Morgan) Hunt. She...

Jack Hughes
May 30, 2011
Jack Leon Hughes, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away at his residence Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 83 years of age. Jack was born February 29th, 1928 to Charles Lee Hughes and Anna (Heath) Hughes in Nowata, Oklahoma. He attended school in Childers, OK, and remained in the Nowata area all his life. At 16 years of age, Jack...
Eutoka Freeman
May 30, 2011
Eutoka M. "Toke" Freeman, eighty-nine year old lifetime resident of Grove passed away on Monday, May 30, 2011 at Integris Grove General Hospital. She was born on January 20, 1922 in Grove to Jess and Maude (Clanton) Landrum. Toke's husband Jim Freeman preceded her in death on November 1, 1998. She worked as an egg handler for the Nichols Egg...
Bobby Needham
May 29, 2011
Bobby Ray Needham 72 year old, lifetime Grove, Oklahoma resident, passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, following an extended illness. Bobby was born on February 7, 1939 in Grove, Oklahoma to George Dewey and Geneva (Reasoner) Needham. Bobby was raised in Grove and graduated from Grove high school in 1957. He served in the United States...
Mary Dady
May 29, 2011
Mary Frances (Waldrop) Dady, age 73 of Bluejacket, died Sunday, May 29, 2011. Mary was born in Big Cabin on January 7, 1938, the daughter of Joseph and Goldie (Smith) Waldrop. She graduated high school in Omaha, Nebraska. On November 19, 1955 she was united in marriage to Walter Ivan Dady in Hiawatha, KS and together they raised three children....
Joann Case
May 29, 2011
Joann Case age 62 of Vinita died Sunday May 29, 2011 at Craig General Hospital with her family by her side after a long battle with cancer. She was born June 24, 1948 in Holden, MO the daughter of Willis Alvin Underwood and Jannie Roseann Tune Underoood. Joann was raised and educated in Vinita and worked at the Vinita Daily...
M. Reynolds
May 28, 2011
M. Louise Reynolds, 90, of Bartlesville, OK, died Saturday, May 28, 2011. Louise was born February 26, 1921 in Bartlesville, OK, the daughter of Burr R. and Marguerite Dunlap Reynolds. Louise was a lifelong resident of Bartlesville, OK and a member of the first graduating class of Bartlesville College High School in 1939. She completed her education in 1942 after...
Roy Tipton
May 27, 2011
Roy Cecil Tipton, a seventy five year old Vinita resident died Friday May 27, 2011, at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. He was born September 20, 1935 in Afton, OK the son of Cecil William Tipton and Eletha Baker Tipton. He was raised and educated in Afton and upon reaching the age of eighteen he enlisted in the U.S. Air...
Manuel Diaz
May 25, 2011
Joe was born February 27, 1919 in Zeising (Spelter), West Virginia, He was the son of Benigo and Maria (Rodriguez) Diaz. Joe had one brother; Joseph, and six sisters; Theresa Nadolski, Josephine Skolik, Bana Robbins, Mae Orsolak, Olga Strizak, and Jovita Lautar. Joe traveled along with his mother, three sisters and his brother, to Meries, Spain at age 2. He...
Bonnie Galanis
May 23, 2011
A native of Bartlesville, Bonnie Louise Dixon was born in Bartlesville on May 22, 1933. She was the daughter of the late Roy Vern and Odessa C. "Dess" (Lynn) Dixon. She began her elementary education in the Bartlesville community schools. The Dixon family moved to Copan, Oklahoma during her youth where she continued her education in the Copan community, graduating...
Christopher Lucas
May 22, 2011
Christopher Don Lucas, 27 year old former Vinita resident, died Sunday May 22, 2011 in Joplin. He was born November 24, 1983 in Claremore to Terry Don Lucas and Pamela Jean Parker. Chris attended Vinita Schools, then joined the United States Navy in August of 2003, and was Honorably Discharged in July of 2009. He was currently the Assistant Manager...

Betty Weaver
May 22, 2011
Betty Jo Weaver, age 85 of Vinita, died Sunday, May 22, 2011. Betty was born in Vinita on May 14, 1926, the daughter of John and Edna (Paulding) Willis. She was a 1944 graduate of Big Cabin High School. On August 5, 1944 she was united in marriage to George Weaver in Pryor, Ok. Together they raised two children. Betty...
John Kingfisher
May 20, 2011
John "Spud" Bryce Kingfisher, 3, of Vermillion, SD, passed peacefully on May 20, 2011 in his home with his family. Spud was born August 15, 2007 in Sioux Falls, SD. He was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, "half a heart", which affected, but did not define his life. Spud endured three open heart surgeries, frequent hospitalizations and innumerable medical...
Sidney Schiff
May 17, 2011
Sidney Schiff was born June 9, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Nathan and Ida Schiff. He furthered his education by attending the Illinois Institute of Technology, graduating with a Batchelor's Degree in Organic Chemistry and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Sidney and the former Miss Treva Hammond were united in marriage on July 31, 1954...