Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

Russell Lee Dobson

Russell Lee Dobson

Oct 10, 2013

Russell Lee Dobson, 78, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully on October 10, 2013, at his home surrounded by his family after a lengthy battle with merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. Russell was born February 8, 1935, in a small home near Ripley, Oklahoma, to E. R. & Ruby Dobson. Growing up in the oil fields...

John Louis Gemmer

John Louis Gemmer

Oct 10, 2013

John Louis Gemmer went home to be with his Lord on October 10, 2013. He was born on April 9, 1917 in Huntington, IN. He married his beloved wife Francis Keith who preceded him in death in 1981. They had three children who were born in his favorite city, Chicago. Dad loved interacting with people and never knew a stranger....

Lonnie Gene Sigman

Lonnie Gene Sigman

Oct 7, 2013

Lonnie Gene Sigman passed away at his home surrounded by loved ones on October 7, 2013. Born January 16, 1955 in Ardmore, Ok to Mary Elizabeth Scrivner and Lonnie Eugene Sigman. Lonnie had a passion for life, music and people and had a great sense of humor. He is survived by his twin children Brian David Sigman and Christen Dawn...

Mary Ann Logsdon Sine

Mary Ann Logsdon Sine

Oct 5, 2013

Mary Ann Logsdon Sine, 93, died October 5. 2013. She was born in Chickasha, OK on December 2, 1919 to Joseph Logsdon and Rose Haddix. Mary was the last of 8 siblings. She met her husband, Robert J. Sine, Sr. of Scammon, KS at a Coronado Club picnic. They were married for 63 years before his death in 2009. Mary...

Catherine Sue 'Sue' Nichols

Catherine Sue 'Sue' Nichols

Oct 3, 2013

Sue was born on September 14, 1935, to Carl Durwood Nipps and Beulah Wallace Shook and passed away on October 3, 2013, in Oklahoma City. Catherine attended college at Oklahoma A&M and William Woods. She was a homemaker most of her life. She was a very faithful person who enjoyed reading and watching soap operas. She was a Rainbow Girl...

Alfred 'Al' Mclaughlin

Alfred 'Al' Mclaughlin

Oct 1, 2013

On April 27, 1921, when Alfred Willis McLaughlin Jr. entered the world, St. Anthony Hospital was a small building out in the country. His parents were Alfred Willis Sr. and Della R. Christmond McLaughlin, who had moved to Oklahoma City from the Foss area where he was a raiser of pink pigs and a deputy sheriff and she was a...

Virginia Henderson Hollacher Darnell

Virginia Henderson Hollacher Darnell

Sep 29, 2013

Virginia went to be with Jesus Christ her Lord and Savior for her homecoming celebration on September 29, 2013. Born in Kansas City, MO where she was adopted into Katherine Reinecker Henderson and Newton Henderson's lives. She grew up in Atchison, Kansas; and OKC where she grew into a beautiful woman. She graduated from Classen High School in 1936, and...

Shirley Ann Cooper

Shirley Ann Cooper

Sep 25, 2013

Shirley Ann Cooper died at dawn, September 25, 2013 peacefully surrounded by her loved ones at home. Shirley was born in Oklahoma City on December 31, 1937, the daughter of Clyde and Ann (Doyle) Acton who preceded her in death. A graduate of Rosary Elementary School and Catholic High in 1955, Shirley also attended Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchinson, Kansas....

Linette Marie Mills

Linette Marie Mills

Sep 24, 2013

Linette was called to Heaven on Tuesday Sept. 24, 2013 at Mercy Hospital in Okla. City, OK. She was born on October 4, 1953 to Bennie & Ann Schmidt in Hays, KS. Linette graduated from Plainville High School in 1971. She is survived by her husband, Rusty of the home; three children that she was so proud of, Chris Finnesy...

Rita F. Wagg

Rita F. Wagg

Sep 24, 2013

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Utona Ola Jewell

Utona Ola Jewell

Sep 22, 2013

Utona was born on June 14th, 1928 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Edwin Tucker Nix and Izora Real Nix. She passed away on September 22nd, 2013 at her home after a short illness at the age of 85. Utona grew up as a child during the Great Depression on the south side of Oklahoma City near the downtown area. She...

Michael Joseph Crake

Michael Joseph Crake

Sep 22, 2013

Michael Crake went to be with the Lord on September 22, 2013 after a brief fight with cancer. He was surrounded with loving friends and family. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph Frank Crake; mother, Rita Marie Crake; and sister, Linda Marie (Crake) DeCarlo. He is survived by his spouse, Ellen Reeder; brother, Mark David Crake; sister,...

Richard Harlan 'Dick' Osborne

Richard Harlan 'Dick' Osborne

Sep 21, 2013

Richard H. Osborne "Dick", 73, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed into the Arms of his Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday, September, 21, 2013, with his loving Family at his bedside. He was born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota on August 11, 1940, to Richard Lesley Osborne and Frances Ellen Shepard Osborne. Dick graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1958 and...

Richard H. Osborne

Richard H. Osborne

Sep 21, 2013

Richard H. Osborne "Dick", 73, of Edmond, Oklahoma, passed into the Arms of his Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday, September, 21, 2013, with his loving Family at his bedside. He was born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota on August 11, 1940, to Richard Lesley Osborne and Frances Ellen Shepard Osborne. Dick graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1958 and...

Beverly Virginia Endicott

Beverly Virginia Endicott

Sep 20, 2013

Bebbles passed away peacefully on Friday, September 20th, 2013, surrounded by her three children. Bebbles was born on September 12, 1926 in Okemah, Oklahoma, to Bertha Cagle Catlett and Stanley Bouleware Catlett. Her paternal grandparents were pioneers in Oklahoma territory. Her sisters, her brother and she spent many happy summers at the plantation of their maternal grandmother, Mama Shug, in...

Eugene James 'Gene' Kenney

Eugene James 'Gene' Kenney

Sep 19, 2013

Gene Kenney, 81, of Oklaho¬ma City, formerly of Turpin, OK, passed away September 19, 2013 at his home in St. Ann's Retirement Center. A Rosary ser¬vice will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, Septem¬ber 27, at Smith and Kernke Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Sat¬urday, September 28, at St. Joachim Chapel, St. Ann's...

John J. Hole

John J. Hole

Sep 19, 2013

What a privilege to express our sorrow for the loss of our gentle, humorous friend and uncle. John J. Hole shed a blessed influence on those around him with an uncomplaining nature, a quick mind, helpful hands and a listening ear. Born in Mitchell, Nebraska in 1921 and raised in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, John had many tales to tell about...

Grace O’Briant Wildey

Grace O’Briant Wildey

Sep 19, 2013

Grace was born July 31, 1922 to David O'Briant and Gertrude England O'Briant on the family farm near Binger, Oklahoma, and passed away on September 19, 2013, at 91 years of age. Grace met her husband, William "Bill" Wildey at St. Luke's Methodist Church where they both attended and were married on December 18, 1970. Grace retired as an executive...

Nicholas A Fortune

Nicholas A Fortune

Sep 18, 2013

Nicholas Albin Fortune was hatched on a flat rock in Foraker, Oklahoma on January 27, 1912, born to Mamie Fortune and the middle child of seven brothers and sisters. He was also the much beloved adopted son of Amelia Girard and grandson of Pop and Dada Girard. God showed him the way to go home on Wednesday, September 18, 2013...

Beverly Jane Reed

Beverly Jane Reed

Sep 14, 2013

Beverly J. Reed (nee Pomeroy), 77 of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma died Saturday, September 14, 2013. Beverly was born March 30, 1936 in North Olmstead, Ohio to Robert C. and Helen M. Pomeroy. She is preceded in death by her parents, by her husband, James Duane (Bucky) Reed, and her son, Bobby Jack Reed. She is survived by her son Thomas...