Doris Smith
Nov 22, 2012
Doris Fay Smith of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Thursday, November 22, 2012, at the Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 80 years. Doris Fay Smith was born on February 11, 1932, in Hulbert, Oklahoma, to William Claud and Gertha Pauline (Potts) Steelmon. She grew up in Lost City, Oklahoma, attending Lost City Elementary School. In...
Leslie Leroy Baldwin Jr.
Nov 20, 2012
Leslie Leroy Baldwin Jr. of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, November 20, 2012, in the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 57 years. Leslie Leroy Baldwin Jr. was born on July 30, 1955, in Newton, Kansas, to Leslie L. "Pete" and Elizabeth Joan (Ertz) Baldwin Sr. As a young boy he moved with his family to Blackwell...
Evelyn Kathleen Nash
Nov 17, 2012
Evelyn Kathleen Nash of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Saturday evening, November 17, 2012, at the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 73. Evelyn Kathleen Nash was born on June 5, 1939 in Yakima, Washington. Her parents were Earl and Ruby (Alford) Stock. She married Aaron H. Nash in Carbondale, Illinois, in 1958. Her hobbies included painting and camping. She enjoyed...
Pearl Rayfield
Nov 13, 2012
Della Pearl Rayfield of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died early Tuesday morning, November 13, 2012, in the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home in Blackwell at the age of 100 years. Della Pearl Rayfield was born on April 20, 1912, in Randolph County, Missouri, to Charles Louis and Mary Ann (Blackwell) Nipps. As a young girl she moved with her family to Oklahoma where...
Katherine Rohrs
Nov 7, 2012
Katherine Julia Rohrs of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday, November 7, 2012, in the Harry Hynes Hospice in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 78 years. Katherine Julia Rohrs was born on November 16, 1933, in Okeene, Oklahoma, to Roscoe Merle and Esther Anna (Hall) Newman. She grew up in Okeene until 1942 when she moved with her family to Blackwell...
Rachel Kathryn Courtney
Nov 7, 2012
Rachel Kathryn Courtney of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday, November 7, 2012, at her home in Blackwell at the age of 89 years. Rachel Kathryn Courtney was born on May 17, 1923, in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, to Louis and Martha Pearle (Boarman) Surber. In 1933 she moved with her family to Norman, Oklahoma, where she attended Norman Public Schools. Following graduation from...
Jean Hendrix
Nov 4, 2012
Barbara "Jean" Hendrix formerly of Nardin, Oklahoma, died Sunday, November 4, 2012, in Florissant, Missouri, at the age of 76 years. Barbara "Jean" Hendrix was born on July 27, 1936, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Joe Herbert and Thelma Elizabeth (Cooper) Bontz. She grew up in Nardin and attended Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1954. Following...
Michael Lee Reser
Nov 4, 2012
Michael Reser of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, died Sunday morning, November 4, 2012, at the Bass Baptist Hospital in Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 58 years. Michael Lee Reser was born on February 9, 1954, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Verne L. and Mary Eloise (Hawkins) Reser. He attended Blackwell Public Schools and graduated with the class of 1972. He loved...
John Beland Bickford
Oct 29, 2012
JOHN BELAND BICKFORD, 89, of Oklahoma City died October 29, 2012, in the care facility at Epworth Villa in Oklahoma City. Born in Guthrie on September 5, 1923, to Warren F. and Esther (Beland) Bickford, he moved with his family to Blackwell, Oklahoma at the age of 12 when his father, a newspaperman in Oklahoma since before statehood, became the...
Roy Davis
Oct 25, 2012
Roy Leon Davis of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Thursday, October 25, 2012 enroute to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Roy was born May 6, 1946, in Blackwell to Jake C. and Mildred Florence (Carter) Davis. He attended St. Joseph Catholic School K-8, transferred to Blackwell Public School System, graduating from BHS in 1964. He attended two years at Northern Oklahoma...
B. J. Alsip
Oct 24, 2012
Betty Jeanette "B.J." Alsip of Nardin, Oklahoma, died Wednesday morning, October 24, 2012, at her home at the age of 69 years. B. J. Alsip was born on October 23, 1943, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Clyde T. and Mary Jeanette (Keyes) Parrish. As a young girl she moved with her family to Wichita, Kansas, where she grew up and...
Della Florence Smith
Oct 20, 2012
Della Florence Smith of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Saturday evening, October 20, 2012, at the Ponca City Nursing Home in Ponca City, Oklahoma, at the age of 94 years. Della Florence Smith was born on October 27, 1917, in Eureka, Illinois, to Zimmerman H. and Lillie M. (Adams) Arnold. She attended and graduated Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas. She...
Patricia Gregory
Oct 18, 2012
Patricia Gail (Gough) Gregory of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Thursday night October 18, 2012, at the Blackwell Regional Hospital in Blackwell, Oklahoma at the age of 73 years. Patricia Gail (Gough) Gregory was born on May 24, 1939, in Santa Monica, California. She was the daughter of William R. and Gail (Brenner) Gough. They lived in California until she was in...
Hazel Frost
Oct 17, 2012
Hazel Harrieze Frost of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at the Blackwell Regional Hospital, Blackwell, Oklahoma, at the age of 91. Hazel Harrieze Frost was born on July 6, 1921, in Oak Grove, Louisiana, to Hardy Z. and Stella (Adams) Gates. She married William P. Dees in 1941 in Louisiana and he preceded her in death in March...
Helen Pennington
Oct 15, 2012
Helen Louise Pennington passed away Monday evening, October 15, 2012 in Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home at the age of 86. Helen Pennington was born on August 23, 1926 in rural Blackwell, Oklahoma to Elmer and Mina (Bumgardner) Weigle. She grew up on the farm in Kay County and attended grade school at Lone Tree School just one quarter mile north...
Larry Cochenour
Oct 11, 2012
With his family by his side, Larry Cochenour of Blackwell, Oklahoma, went to be with his Heavenly Father on Thursday evening, October 11, 2012, in the Integris Hospice House in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 71 years. Larry Cochenour was born on October 29, 1940, in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Lloyd Morgan and Lenora H. (Mead) Cochenour. After his...
Edward Brian Decosta
Oct 10, 2012
Edward Brian DeCosta, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died October 10, 2012, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 35. Edward Brian DeCosta was born on July 28, 1977 in Seattle, Washington, to Raymond Manuel DeCosta and Joni Lauree Lantz. He grew up in Blackwell and attended Blackwell Public Schools graduating in 1995. Following his education he entered the United States Navy...
Ed Vetter
Oct 1, 2012
Edward Lesley "Ed" Vetter of Ponca City, Oklahoma, died Monday morning, October 1, 2012, in the Shawn Manor Nursing Home in Ponca City at the age of 82 years. Edward Lesley "Ed" Vetter was born on November 13, 1929, in Amarillo, Texas, to William Henry and Viola Gertrude (Stephens) Vetter. As an infant he moved with his family to Blackwell...
Allie Collyar
Sep 23, 2012
Allie Francis Collyar, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Sunday morning, September 23, 2012, at the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 84 years. Allie Francis Collyar was born on April 25, 1928, in Arkansas City, Kansas, to Ed and Birdie (Chandler) Wilson. She married Frank R. Collyar on May 23, 1947, in Winfield, Kansas. He preceded her in death on...
Opal D. Severson
Sep 20, 2012
Opal Dorothy Severson of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died early Thursday morning, September 20, 2012, in the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 95 years. Opal Dorothy Severson was born on April 6, 1917, in Sumner County, Kansas, to George and Nellie Morris. She grew up in southern Kansas and attended Sumner County Rural Schools. Following her education she worked as...
