Obituaries

Feb 10, 2002

Waymon L. Smartt was born December 25, 1920 at the Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was the son of Wilson and Pearl Smartt. He was raised and attended elementary and junior high school in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Waymon attended high school at the Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating in 1939. Waymon worked at various jobs upon graduation from...

Feb 8, 2002

Dorothy Virginia Peacock was born May 15, 1918 in Springfield, Missouri. She was the daughter of Warren and Maud Dobbs. Dorothy moved with her family at the age of six to the Sand Springs, Oklahoma area where she attended school, graduating from Sand Springs High School in 1937. Dorothy was married to Bert Peacock in Sand Springs on December 24,...

Feb 6, 2002

Samuel Leroy Melugin was born March 9, 1929 in Orlando, Oklahoma. He was the youngest of five children of John T. and Fannie Ionia Melugin Dover. His father passed away prior to Leroy's first birthday requiring his mother to obtain assistance from other family members to raise her children. Leroy was raised and attended school in Perry, Oklahoma. Although, he...

Feb 3, 2002

Ola Price, a resident of Jennings was born April 8, 1902 in Pawnee County, Indian Territory to William Perry and Mollie (Smith) Hunt. Ola was raised and received her education in the Jennings and Terlton area; attending the Oakdale School located between Terlton and Jennings. After she completed her education she was united in marriage to James Robert Price at...

Feb 1, 2002

Odis Lee Wilson, Jr. was born March 25, 1972 in Kingsburg, California. He was the son of Odis Lee Wilson Sr. and Janice Giggs Wilson. Odis was raised in California and Arizona and attended school in both states. He moved with his family to the Hallett, Oklahoma area in 1995 and has been employed by Anchor Roofing for the past...

Feb 1, 2002

Ronald Lee ''Ronnie'' Summers was born June 15, 1956 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of Eugene Carl and Winnie Summers. Ronnie moved just after his birth with his family to California to the Oakland/Freemont area. He was raised and attended school in the Bay area. Upon completion of his schooling, Ronnie obtained his GED and then attended some...

Feb 1, 2002

Thelma L. Morris was born December 26, 1927 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Clyde and Leta Blackwell. Thelma was raised and received her education in the Pawnee area. Thelma was married to Gaines Smith, Sr. on March 18, 1946 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. The couple had two children, Mary and Gaines, Jr. Gaines preceded her in death on...

Jan 29, 2002

Yolinda Kay Mills, a of Oklahoma City was born March 1, 1960 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Richard Irvin and Peggy Ruth (Moore) Mills. Yolinda attended school in Oklahoma City and then later graduated from Putnam City West High School in 1978. After high school she started working in the Laundry Business. Presently she was the manager of a Laundry...

Jan 25, 2002

Miles E. Vaughan, lifelong Terlton area resident, passed away Friday, January 25, 2002 at the Select Specialty Hospital in Tulsa at the age of sixty-three years, ten months and eleven days. Miles was born March 14, 1938 in Keystone, Oklahoma. He was the son of Hughie and Ema Rosalie Vaughan. He moved with his family at an early age to...

Jan 24, 2002

Alice Gertrude Ramsey was born April 7, 1915 in Okemah, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of John and Laura Rader. Alice moved with her family at an early age to Hominy where she was raised and attended school, graduating from Hominy High School in 1934. Alice was married to John Marvel Ramsey at Sedan, Kansas on August 15, 1936. The...

Jan 24, 2002

Graveside services for Esther O. Crook, age 88, Will be held Monday, January 28, 2002, at the Jennings, OK cemetery under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home of Cleveland, OK. Mrs. Crook died January 24, 2002 at Cherry Ridge Guest Care in Bastrop, LA. She was born October 24, 1913 in Dunnegan, MO to Henry Hoyt and Martha Harcum Purinton....

Jan 23, 2002

Ida Mae Powell, lifelong Cleveland area resident, passed away on Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at the Cleveland Manor Nursing Home at the age of eighty-four years, ten months and fourteen days. Ida Mae was born on March 9, 1917 in Blue Springs, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Lester James and Lottie Mae Self. Ida moved with her family shortly...

Jan 19, 2002

Rosemary Hazel Peachey, was born December 15, 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri to Dolena Udine (Ball) Desnoyers and Lawrence Early. Rosemary was raised and received her education in Tulsa. Rosemary began working in Tulsa at for Lloyds Self-Service Shoes that later became Trippetts. February 18, 1967 Rosemary was united in marriage to Ted M. Peach at Nowata, Oklahoma they then...

Jan 19, 2002

Jewell Amanda Blue was born May 8, 1911 in Chelsea, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Thomas and Frances Brannon. Jewell was raised and attended school in Hominy as her father was a horse trader and worked in the oilfields of Osage County. Jewell dedicated her life to taking care of her four children. Additionally, she worked in a tent...

Jan 13, 2002

Joyce Robin Orcutt, of Terlton was born November 1, 1955 in Yale, Oklahoma to Theodore Wayne Sr. and Billie Joyce (Chesney) Orcutt. Robin was raised in Terlton and attended schools in Cleveland graduating in 1973. Robin moved to the Wagoner and Coweta area where she raised her children. Robin moved back to Cleveland and was active the in the Helping...

Jan 12, 2002

Lberta Geneva Whitton better known to her friends and family as Peaches was born February 15, 1944 in Baxter Springs, Kansas to Luther and Grace (Garrett) Balentine. Peaches moved to Hominy as a young child where she was raised and received her education. After high school Peaches enrolled in cosmetology school at Collinsville. After the completion of her education she...

Jan 11, 2002

Lorraine Damron, a resident of Cleveland was born June 29, 1936 in Marlow, Oklahoma to Woodrow Alford Sr. and Edna Rosa (Sears) Garrett. Lorraine was raised and received her education in Tulsa graduating from Tulsa Central High School in 1954. She then attended Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Miami, Oklahoma. On November 22, 1957 she was united in marriage James...

Jan 9, 2002

Helen M. Stook was born May 4, 1913 in Meriden, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Ada Woodward. Helen was raised in the Hartford area and attended school there. Although she spent her younger years in Connecticut and was married to Philip W. Stook before moving to New York, Helen spent most of her adult life in upstate New York....

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