Obituaries

Dec 25, 2010

Barry Allen Hoover Graveside funeral services for Barry Allen Hoover will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 29, 2010, at the Nowata Memorial Park cemetery with Allan Walker officiating. Barry Allen Hoover was born November 16, 1947, in New Castle, Indiana, to Harold J. and Donna (Dudley) Hoover. He died on December 25, 2010, in Nowata, after reaching 63...

Dec 25, 2010

Bill was born on November 29, 1925, in Greeley, Colorado. He was the son of Roy Stevens and Lusena (Miller) Stevens and attended Nowata High school. Bill was a WWII vet. He enlisted in the United States Navy in January of 1945, and served aboard the USS Munda Bay CVE-104 baby flat-top aircraft carrier as a Watertender Second Class. The...

Dec 25, 2010

Johnnie Ed Wiedower, 81 year old lifetime Vinita area resident, died December 25, 2010 at Rosewood Terrace in Vinita. He was born June 20, 1929 in Vinita, to John H. and Minnie C. (Zimmerman) Wiedower. Johnnie married LoveVanna Heater on August 30, 1950, in Vinita; She preceded him in death on July 11, 2007. He worked as a rural mail...

Dec 25, 2010

Harmon Benson Allen, a former Tulsa lawyer passed on Saturday, Dec. 25th at 2010 following an extended illness. Mr. Allen was born on Oct. 24,1934 in Colcord Oklahoma to Ray Benson and Gertrude Hyde Allen. He spent his childhood there and attended Mt Hermon church as a young man. Harmon graduated Jay H. S. in 1952 and went on to...

Dec 25, 2010

Shirley "Geraldine" Reed, age 87, of Vinita, OK died Saturday December 25, 2010 at her home. She was born February 18, 1923 in Pawhuska, OK the daughter of K.W. Bruce and Lenora Callahan Bruce. She was raised and received her formal education at Pawhuska. She and Joe M. Reed were united in marriage in Miami, OK and moved to Vinita...

Dec 23, 2010

Mildred Harringer, 81 year old, Grove, Oklahoma resident passed away Thursday December 23, 2010 following an extended illness. Mildred was born on November 24, 1929 in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Frand Earnhardt and Florence Ellen (Grissom) Earnhardt. Mildred married Max Harringer on November 22, 1952. She was an avid painter and enjoyed fishing and playing cards as well as dancing, but...

Dec 23, 2010

Sidney, NE - Babs Lea (Rush) Pulliam, 39, died Thursday, December 23, 2010 in Sidney, Nebraska. She was born on March 24, 1971 in Miami, Oklahoma to Larry and Linda (Roberson) Rush. Babs was a graduate of Grove High School in 1989. She married Dean Pulliam in May, 2006 in Miami, OK. Babs enjoyed taking pictures, playing with her dogs...

Dec 22, 2010

James Edward MacDonald, son of Archie and Ruth (Lennen) MacDonald, was born June 26, 1939 in Kansas City, Kansas. He was adopted as an infant and grew up in McPherson, Kansas. At the age of 69, Jim was fortunate enough to locate his birth mother and meet his two half-sisters and half-brother (Naomi, Mary and Paul) in Idaho. Family was...

Dec 22, 2010

Dec 22, 2010

Beverly Rowand, 56 year old, Afton, Oklahoma area resident passed away Wednesday December 22, 2010. Beverly was born on May 22, 1954 in French Camp, California to Adolfus and Georgia (Hendren) Potter. Beverly graduated from high school in Linden, California, and harvested walnuts before working in a candy store as a clerk and later a manger. She married Ross Rowand...

Dec 22, 2010

Mrs. Banks was born the daughter of John F. Richardson and Emma (Robbinson) Richardson on July 30, 1922 in Sapulpa, Ok. She was raised and educated in Sapulpa and graduated from Sapulpa High School. Wilma was united in marriage with James D. (J.D.) Banks on October 3. 1941 in Sapulpa, Ok. Mr. Banks was then enlisted in the United States...

Dec 22, 2010

Lillie "Lorene" Garner a ninety year old resident of Grove passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at her home. She was born on April 23, 1920 in Coweta, Oklahoma to Wesley Newton and Lily Virginia Morris . Mrs. Garner was a homemaker loved her family and an avid follower of her grandkids ballgames and livestock shows. She enjoyed crosswords,...

Dec 21, 2010

Cleo Harold "Ted" Collins, 91 year old, lifetime area resident, passed away Tuesday, Decmeber 21, 2010, at his "home away from home" for the past 6 ½ years, the Claremore Veterans Center in Claremore, Oklahoma. Ted was born on April 20, 1919 in Craig County (Banzet), Oklahoma, to George Dewey and Emma Augusta (Bradbury) Collins. He was married to Dorothy...

Dec 20, 2010

Jackie Ray Tiry, 54, went to heaven to be with the Lord on December 20, 2010 at their home. He was born October 6, 1954 at Coffeyville, KS, the son of Earl Shaw and Margaret Royer. Jack worked hard all his life to support his family. He was well known for the T-6 buildings he built for people all over....

Dec 19, 2010

Gary L. Taylor, 74, died Sunday, December 19th 2010 after a brief illness in Grove, Oklahoma. Gary was born in Pratt, Kansas on June 27, 1936; the second son of Bedford and Viola ‘Jeanne' Taylor. As a young man Gary became a barber in Lawrence, Kansas. He moved to Oklahoma where he became a successful businessman. Gary loved to fish,...

Dec 19, 2010

Lorene L. Worden, age 82, of Grove, Okla., passed away on Sunday December 19, 2010 at St. John's Hospital, following an illness. Lorene was born on February 27, 1928 in Stella, Mo., the daughter of the late William and Jewel Doty. She was a former resident of Joplin, moving to Grove in 1986. She was a homemaker. She was a...

Dec 18, 2010

Grace Ellen Daniels, a sixty-nine year old long time Delaware County resident passed away at her home on Saturday, December 18, 2010. Mrs. Daniels was born on December 22, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Ora Alexander and Dora Ella (Lewis) Keith. She married Thomas Wayne Daniels. He preceded her in death September 29, 2001. Grace loved her family. She raised...

Dec 18, 2010

Mendel Eugene West, age 73, died Saturday December 18, 2010 in St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, Ok. Mendel Eugene West was born the son of Floyd Clifford West and Dorothy Genieva (Tippit) West in Lenapah, Oklahoma on January 20, 1937. He was raised and educated in NE Oklahoma. Mendel served in the United States Army in Hawaii from 1959 -...

Dec 17, 2010

Jack Dee Parsons, Jr., Grove resident, died Friday evening December 17, 2010 at home surrounded by his family. He was born on December 5, 1944 in Columbus, Kansas to his parents, Jack Parsons, Sr. and Margaret J. (Malcolm) Parsons. Jack grew up in West Mineral and Cherokee, Kansas. Jack earned the following degrees, Bachelors in Science Education, Masters in Education,...

Dec 17, 2010

Joan Camilla Barnes of Grove, Oklahoma passed away December 17, 2010 at the Integris Grove hospital, she was 79. She was born on October 22, 1931, in Marshall Town, Iowa, to Marie Mahaffey and Merle Mahaffey. Joan is survived by her husband of thirty years, Jim; two sons, Michael Damian Moore of Denver, and Michael Alan Barnes of Grove, Oklahoma,...