Lela Mae Hess
Sep 22, 2011
Lela Mae Hess of Blackwell, Oklahoma, went to heaven early Thursday morning, September 22, 2011, in the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home in Blackwell at the age of 82 years. Lela Mae Hess was born on October 12, 1928, in Leonard, Oklahoma, to Herbert Harrison and Elsie Maude (Barnard) Turner. She married Jessie Kindle and to this union nine children were...
Wilma Lee Eakins
Sep 20, 2011
Wilma Lee Eakins, loving wife, mother and grandmother, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Tuesday evening, September 20, 2011 in the Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City at the age of 80 years. Wilma Lee Eakins was born on September 16, 1931, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Carl A. and Lora C. (Kelle) Metz. She attended Independence School north of Blackwell and graduated...
Dorothy Irene Smith
Sep 12, 2011
Dorothy Irene Smith formerly of Nardin, Oklahoma, died Monday morning, September 12, 2011, in the Ponca City Regional Medical Center at the age of 91 years. Services are pending with Roberts and Son Funeral Home.
Billy Gene Heath
Sep 8, 2011
Billy Gene Heath, Jr. of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Thursday, September 8, 2011, in the LTAC Hospital of Edmond at the age of 53 years. Billy Gene Heath, Jr. was born on May 7, 1958, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Billy Gene Heath, Sr. and Lola Ruth Ellis. He graduated from Blackwell High School in 1976. He married Linda Sue Riley on...
Robert Lee Kaupke
Sep 6, 2011
R. L. "Bob" Kaupke passed away Tuesday, September 6, 2011, at his home in Braman at the age of 91 years. Bob was born on January 4, 1920, near Drummond, Oklahoma, to Lewis and Florence (Woodbury) Kaupke. He started school at the age of five at Del Norte country school and later attended school in Drummond. He worked at Hockaday...
Genevieve "Jay" Tucker
Sep 2, 2011
Genevieve R. "Jay" Tucker, 95, loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, joined Jesus and her husband Wendell, in heaven on Friday, September 2, 2011. Jay was born on January 26, 1916, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to John R. and Maud (Anderson) Riley. She worked in Northeastern Oklahoma when she met and married Wendell Tucker in 1941. After several...
Edith Eleanora Esther Estes
Aug 30, 2011
Edith Eleanora Esther Estes of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Tuesday morning, August 30, 2011, at her home in Blackwell at the age of 88 years. Edith Eleanora Esther Estes was born on August 26, 1923, in Blackwell to Theodore F. and Emma K. (Claybaker) Deffner. She grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools graduating from Blackwell High School in 1941....
George Weber
Aug 30, 2011
George Cecil Weber III, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at his residence at the age of 58. George Cecil Weber III was born on April 24, 1953, in Enid, Oklahoma, to George C. Weber II and Ethel F. Overhault. He attended elementary school in Covington, Oklahoma, before attending high school at Blackwell High School. He would ring...
Phyllis Rhenea Mullen
Aug 29, 2011
Phyllis Rhenea Mullen formerly of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Monday morning, August 29, 2011, at her home in Ponca City at the age of 53 years. Phyllis Rhenea Mullen was born on August 26, 1958, in Amarillo, Texas, to Leon and Eunice (Kolb) Mullen. As an infant she moved with her family to Decatur, Arkansas, before moving to Gravette, Arkansas, where...
Velma Annette Petre
Aug 28, 2011
Velma Annette Petre, of Newkirk, Oklahoma, died Sunday morning, August 28, 2011, in the Ponca City Nursing Home at the age of 75 years. Velma Annette Petre was born on February 25, 1936, in South Haven, Kansas, to Allen W. Kokendoffer and Mable C. Ericson. She attended and graduated Braman High School in 1954 and attended Oklahoma State University in...
Mary Lou Stuever Heise
Aug 16, 2011
Mary Lou Stuever Heise formerly of Blackwell died Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at her home in Tulsa at the age of 61 years. Mary Lou Stuever Heise was born on September 20, 1949, in Winfield, Kansas, to W. J. "Dick" and Alice (Harshman) Stuever of rural Braman. Mary Lou loved growing up on the family farm, especially showing animals as...
Robert L. Berline
Aug 15, 2011
Robert L. (Bob) Berline of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Monday morning, August 15, 2011, in the Cypress Springs Memory Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had resided for the last year at the age of 89 years. Robert L. (Bob) Berline was born on August 27, 1921, in Wellington, Kansas, to Ora and Lee Berline. He grew up on the farm...
Naomi Maxine Lucas
Aug 13, 2011
Naomi M. Lucas, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Saturday, August 13, 2011, in the Ponca City Medical Center, Ponca City, Oklahoma, at the age of 80 years. Naomi M. Lucas was born on July 20, 1931, in Enid, Oklahoma, to Lawrence E. and Laura J. (Smith) Wooderson, She received her education in Grant and Kay County rural schools and Blackwell Junior...
Charles Douglas Mitchell
Aug 12, 2011
Longtime Blackwell resident Charles "Doug" Mitchell passed away after losing his battle with cancer on Friday, August 12th shortly after 9:30 in the morning. He was 58. Per his request, he was laid to rest without a service in the Blackwell Cemetery on Saturday afternoon next to his father and mother. Doug was born on April 24, 1953 in the...
Hope Alyssa Dollarhide
Aug 11, 2011
"It's a girl!" was mowed in the lawn of her proud parents when Hope Alyssa Dollarhide was born on July 30, 1998. Chad Eric and Bridget Leigh Dollarhide were overjoyed with their first child. Growing up in Blackwell, Oklahoma, Hope is survived at home by her parents and her brothers, Drew Ryan, eight, and Kyle Adam, five. Her "honorary sisters",...
Olive Marie Sprueill
Aug 10, 2011
Olive Marie Sprueill of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday evening, August 10, 2011, in the South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center in Arkansas City, Kansas, at the age of 68 years. Olive Marie Sprueill was born on October 24, 1942, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Wilford L. and Mamie Margaret (Turner) Scott. She grew up in Blackwell attending Blackwell Public Schools. She...
Veda Maxine Holcomb
Aug 3, 2011
Veda Maxine Holcomb of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday morning, August 3, 2011, in the Blackwell Regional Hospital at the age of 84 years. Veda Maxine Holcomb was born on February 20, 1927, in Nardin, Oklahoma, to Edward and Minnie Melinda (Easterly) Lively. She attended Clair Rural School before completing her education at Deer Creek High School graduating in 1945. She...
Kenneth R. "Kenny" Sole
Jul 31, 2011
Kenneth R. "Kenny" Sole went home to be with the Lord on July 31st, 2011. He is survived by his wife, Glenda Koelling Sole of the home and 3 children, Kenneth G. Sole, Tulsa; Polly Sole Davis and husband, Jim, of Tulsa; Karen Sole Ghormley and husband, Wayne of Blackwell. A son Kenny Joe Sole preceded him in death in...
Eileen Rosalee Walcher
Jul 29, 2011
Eileen Rosalee Walcher, age 94, died in Seiling Oklahoma Hospital on 29 July 2011. Eileen was born to Milford Milligan Brock and Lydia "Mae" Giffin Brock on March 4, 1917 in La Harpe, Allen County, Kansas. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma, where her father was employed at the Blackwell Zinc Company until the time of...
Virginia "Grandy" Lenker
Jul 25, 2011
Virginia "Grandy" Lenker of Norman Oklahoma, died Monday, July 25, 2011, at the Norman Regional Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma, at the age of 90 years. Virginia "Grandy" Lenker was born on June 24, 1921, in Towanda, Kansas, to Ray and Ella (Schneider) Ralston. She grew up in El Dorado, Kansas, attending El Dorado Public Schools graduating from El Dorado High...
