Amos Smith Jr.
Dec 22, 2012
Amos Smith Jr. of Deer Creek, Oklahoma, died December 22, 2012, at his residence in rural Deer Creek, Oklahoma, at the age of 85 years. Amos Smith Jr. was born on August 16, 1927, in Proctor, Oklahoma, to Amos and Ina (Richards) Smith Sr. He grew up on a farm near Westville, Oklahoma, attending Westville Public Schools. At the age...
Janice Belle London
Dec 19, 2012
Janice Belle London of Blackwell, Oklahoma, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday evening, December 19, 2012, in the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 83 years. Janice Belle London was born on June 12, 1929, in Binger, Oklahoma, to Harry and Lillian (Smith) Klingman. She grew up in Okeene and graduated from Okeene High School...
Bill L. Patton
Dec 12, 2012
Bill passed from this life on December 12, 2012 in Midwest City at the age of 88. Bill was born in Eureka, Kansas on February 4, 1924 to Frank and Alpha (Jones) Patton. Bill graduated from Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Kansas in 1942. Bill served in the United States Air Force in 1943 and defended his country in The...
Jon Martin Allbaugh
Dec 11, 2012
Jon Martin Allbaugh of Edmond, Oklahoma, died Tuesday afternoon, December 11, 2012, in the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City at the age of 58 years. Jon Martin Allbaugh was born on September 27, 1954, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Marvin Willard and Peggy Annette (Cummings) Allbaugh. He grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High...
Doyle L. Simpson
Dec 8, 2012
Doyle Lavern Simpson formerly of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Saturday, December 8, 2012, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City at the age of 74 years. Doyle Lavern Simpson was born on January 7, 1938, in Blackwell to Pete Alvie and Hazel Alma (Swadley) Simpson. He grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High School...
Larry Wayne Delaney
Dec 7, 2012
Larry Wayne Delaney of Ponca City, Oklahoma, died Friday, December 7, 2012, in the Oklahoma Veterans Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 64 years. Larry Wayne Delaney was born on December 3, 1948, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He was the son of George and Lorene (Chessher) Delaney. He grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools. Following...
Bill E. Ihrig
Dec 1, 2012
Bill E. Ihrig of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died on December 1, 2012, after a short illness. He was 92 years old. Billie Ernest Ihrig was born on June 18, 1920, on the Willoughby Ranch outside of Mannford, Oklahoma, to Ernest and Ivy Deatherage Ihrig. Billie was the eldest of four children and was protector, role model, and source of wisdom and...
Henry L. Stafford
Dec 1, 2012
Henry Leon Stafford of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died December 1, 2012, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City at the age of 78 years. Henry Leon Stafford was born on July 6, 1934, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Joseph H. and Annabelle (Cope) Stafford. He grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1953....
Alicia Pontius
Nov 29, 2012
Helen Alicia Pontius formerly of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died November 29, 2012, in the Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, at the age of 64 years. Helen Alicia Pontius was born on January 6, 1948, in Blackwell to Robert Lee and Hazel Allene (Stoner) Berline. She grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools and graduated from Blackwell High School in...
Twila V. Currie
Nov 28, 2012
Twila Vonceil Currie of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday morning, November 28, 2012, in the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 93 years. Twila Vonceil "Twink" Currie was born on February 1, 1919, in Blackwell to Fred B. and Juanita May (Brown) Hubbard. She grew up in Kay County attending Braman Public Schools before moving to Oklahoma City with her...
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...
