Obituaries
Jack Augusta Ditto
Sep 4, 2015
Jackie Augusta Ditto, better known as Jack, passed from this life on Friday, September 4, 2015, in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 84 years of age. Jackie was born August 29, 1931, in Osage, Oklahoma. He was the son of Archie Burl C. and Faye (Dampf) Ditto. Jack was raised and educated in Osage where he later graduated with the class of...
Earnest E. Pollard
Sep 2, 2015
Funeral services for Earnest Eugene Pollard Sr. will be held Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Graveside services will be at the Terlton Cemetery in Terlton, Oklahoma with Robert Hardbuck Jr. officiating. Burial is under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home. Earnest was born August 7, 1941, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. He was the son of William Henry and Mollie Mae (Johnson)...
Betty Charlene Sharpnack
Sep 1, 2015
Betty Charlene Sharpnack was born January 11, 1926 in Cushing, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Charles and Belle Jane (Smith) Barnes. Charlene moved with her family at an early age to Cleveland where she was raised and attended school; graduating from Cleveland High School with the Class of 1945. While attending high school, Charlene was a member of the...
Marlin (Dan) Daniel White
Aug 23, 2015
Marlin Daniel White, of Bristow, Oklahoma, passed from this life on Sunday, August 23, 2015, at his home at the age of 66 years. Dan was born November 22, 1948, in Peoria, Illinois. He was the son Marlin Dane and Ruby (Snyder) White. As a young man Dan moved with his family to the Oologah area where he began his...
Merle (Leroy) Clavin Stocum
Aug 22, 2015
Merle Calvin Stocum, longtime member of the community passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2015, at the age of 88 years old.  Merle was born February 23, 1927, in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Merle Leroy and Mabel (Mosley) Stocum. As a young boy Leroy grew up in the Wellsboro area. Following the completion of his education, Leroy...
Phyllis Jane Weller
Aug 20, 2015
Phyllis was born September 6, 1943, in Hominy, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of John Adam and Oma (Tilson) Walters. At the young age of two Phyllis contracted Polio and was in and out of numerous hospitals and clinics. She later began her education in Cleveland, graduating from Cleveland High School with the Class of 1962. After high school Phyllis...
Edith King
Aug 19, 2015
Edith M King, of Houma, Louisiana, passed from this life on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at the age of 89 years old.  Edith was born May 2, 1926, in Barton County, Kansas. She was the daughter of  James Benjamin ( J.B.) and Clarrisa (Larkin) Carroll. As a young girl Edith grew up in Barton County. She began her education in...
Jerrie Ledbetter
Aug 16, 2015
Jerrie Lee Ledbetter went to be with her Lord and Saviour on Sunday, August 16, 2015, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma at the age of 76 years.   Jerrie was born May 31, 1939, in Cleveland, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Wallace Friend and Edith (Warden) Friend. Jerrie was raised in Cleveland where she began her education. She later graduated from...
Rex Leon Sneed
Aug 15, 2015
Memorial services for Rex Leon Sneed will be held 10:00 am Wednesday, August 19, 2015, at the Chapman-Black Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Justin White officiating. Burial of the cremated remains will be in the Lawson Cemetery in Yale, Oklahoma. Memorial services for Rex Leon Sneed will be held 10:00 am Wednesday, August 19, 2015, at the Chapman-Black Funeral Home...
Evelyn "Zeke" Cheek
Aug 8, 2015
Cleveland matriarch Evelyn Ernestine Cheek, better known Zeke passed away on Saturday, August 8, 2015, in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 92 years.  Evelyn was born October 29, 1922, at 201 North Jordan in Cleveland, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Arthur Harold and Lola Estenee (House) Lucas. Growing up in Cleveland, Zeke began her education at the Greenwood...
F. D. Curtis
Aug 6, 2015
Funeral services for Fayette DeLano Curtis known to his friends and family as F.D. will be held 11:00 am, Monday August 10, 2015, at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Dale Gowdy and Rev. Greggory Hall officiating. Burial will follow in the Woodland Cemetery. Funeral services will be under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home. Friends may share a memory...
Penny Mccollough
Jul 31, 2015
Funeral services for Penny McCollough will be held 10:30 am Tuesday, August 4, 2015, at the Westport Baptist Church with Rev. Ray Earley officiating.  Burial will follow in the Woodland Cemetery under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Cancer Division in memory of Penny. Friends may share a memory...
Cesario Joel Garcia
Jul 15, 2015
Joel was born March 31, 1971, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of Cesario "Pee Wee", Jr. and Paula Dellene (Stroud) Garcia. Joel was raised and received his education in Cleveland, Oklahoma where he later graduated with the Class of 1989. Following high school Joel attended Oklahoma State University. He later moved to the Oklahoma City area where he...
Marguerite Harriet Dennison
Jul 14, 2015
Marguerite Harriet Pease Dennison passed from this life and into the arms of her Lord on July 14, 2015 at the age of 100 years. She died peacefully at her home in Cleveland, Oklahoma surrounded by family.  Marguerite was born on May 2, 1915 in Tulsa County, Oklahoma to George W. Pease Sr. of Kansas and Minnie Adeline Kennedy of...
William Ray Payne
Jul 13, 2015
Funeral services for William Ray Payne, known to his friends and family as Bill will be held 10:30 am Saturday, July 18, 2015 at the Western Heights Baptist Church with Rev. David Head officiating. Burial will follow in the Ridgelawn Cemetery in Collinsville, Oklahoma at 1:30 pm. Services are under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home. Bill was born February...
Dortha Charlotte Sullivan
Jul 8, 2015
Dortha Charlotte Sullivan was born July 12, 1941 in rural Pawnee County near Keystone, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Jerry and Dortha Dollie (Zickefoose) Cunningham. Charolotte was raised and attended her early education in Keystone later transferring to Cleveland where she graduated from Cleveland High School in 1959.  Upon graduation from high school, Charlotte attended Draughon Business School in...
Della Marie Swan
Jul 6, 2015
Della Marie Swan passed away on Monday, July 6, 2015, at her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 84 years, ten months and twenty days.     Della was born August 17, 1930 in Cleveland, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of the James Anderson and Ethel (Hendricks) Cooper. Della grew up in Cleveland and later graduated from Cleveland High School...
Roy Glendon Ard
Jul 6, 2015
Roy Glendon Ard was born on April 24, 1925 in Drumright, Oklahoma. He was the son of Dan William and Sylva Estelle (Crouch) Ard. Roy was raised and attended school in Drumright.  In 1942, Roy accepted a position as a roughneck on a drilling rig working for Taylor Drilling Company of Fairfield, Illinois. He had developed an interest in the...
Anita Marie Collins
Jul 5, 2015
Anita Marie Collins, passed from this life on Sunday, July 5, 2015, at her home in Cleveland, Oklahoma at the age of 64 years, five months and nineteen days.     Anita was born January 17, 1951, in Melbourne, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Everett Eugene and Erma Lee (Rose) Boyd. As a young girl Anita moved with her parents to...
Diane Sharon Baldwin
Jul 4, 2015
Diane Sharon "Lady Di" Baldwin was born May 14, 1959 in Amsterdam , New York . She was raised by her step-father, Harold Balfour and her mother, Helen (Bushee) Balfour. Diane attended her early education in New York and moved to Oklahoma in 1972 at the age of thirteen. While in Oklahoma she resided in Norman, Noble, and Purcell.       Diane...




