Obituaries

Carl Walker, Sr.
Jan 24, 2012
Carl William Walker Sr., son of Henry Edward and Elsie Marie Pershing Walker was born October 9, 1934 in Chewey, Oklahoma and departed this life on January 24, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 78 years, 3 months and 15 days. He was a carpenter by trade and also enjoyed woodworking, camping and going fishing. Carl was...

Barney Grayson
Jan 21, 2012
Barney Dale Grayson, son of William and Janie Marie Bird Grayson was born August 26, 1970 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and departed this life on January 21, 2012 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma at the age of 41 years, 4 months and 26 days. He enjoyed fishing and spending time with family. He attended Sanders Flat Church when able. He worked for...

Grady Hill
Jan 21, 2012
Grady Buck Hill, son of Henry Buchanah and Ollie Victoria Battenfield Hill was born October 19, 1932 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and departed this life on January 21, 2012 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas at the age of 79 years, 3 months and 2 days. He married Norma Gordon on June 10, 1953 and to this union 6 children were born...

Betty Woodrell
Jan 20, 2012
Longtime Bartlesville resident Betty Jo Woodrell, 83, died peacefully on January 20, 2012, following a brief illness. A resident of Alexandria, Virginia, since 2003, she spent her last few years at a nursing center where she was much beloved by the staff and other residents. Woodrell was born November 24, 1928, in Bristow, Oklahoma, to Bentley and Dallah Sears....

Dona Morton
Jan 20, 2012
Dona Faye Morton, daughter of Jess and Lillie Sharp McMurtrey was born September 19, 1933 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and departed this life to be with our Lord on January 20, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 78 years, 4 months and 1 day. She enjoyed the duties that followed her role as a homemaker being a...

Wanda Knight
Jan 18, 2012
Wanda Sue Girdner Knight fell asleep here on Earth and woke up in heaven on the night of Tuesday, January 17, 2012, in the home of her granddaughter surrounded by both of her children, granddaughter, granddaughters husband and son and her loving husband of nearly 39 years. A brief battle with cancer prevented her from reaching her 80th birthday...

Benjamin Shell
Jan 17, 2012
Benjamin Charles Shell was born on August 31, 1963 in Stilwell, Oklahoma to Toss Shell and Plizia Ruth Mashunkashey Shell Bishop, and departed this life on January 17, 2012 at the age of 48 years, 4 months, and 12 days. Ben was employed at Schwans Foods as a Leadman for the Sanitation Department. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and...

Deborah Slagle
Jan 15, 2012
Deborah Sue Slagle, daughter of Charles William and Minnie Kate McCracken Mattix, was born on December 18, 1951 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and departed this life on Sunday, January 15, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 60 years and 28 days. She worked in the cash office at WalMart for several years. Everywhere she went she had a...

David Holland, Sr.
Jan 15, 2012
David Allen Holland, Sr., son of Silas and Mabel Bradshaw Clopp, was born on January 3, 1934 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and departed this life on Sunday, January 15, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 77 years, 2 months and 12 days. He was a salesman at an auto dealership. David was preceded in death by his parents:...

Lynden Burchett
Jan 14, 2012
Lynden Eugene Burchett, son of Leslie D. and Elda Faith Perkins Burchett, was born on November 25, 1947 in Seiling, Oklahoma and passed from this life on Saturday, January 14, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 64 years, 1 month and 19 days. He was a graduate of Seiling High School and went on to attend Oklahoma...

Trenton Beaver
Jan 14, 2012
Trenton Cain Beaver, son of Hickory Beaver and Courtney Garrett, was born on May 15, 2000 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and departed this life to be with his Lord on Saturday, January 14, 2012 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the tender age of 11 years, 7 months and 30 days. Trenton was 100 boy earning his nickname Dozer at an...

Pauline Sawney
Jan 12, 2012
Pauline Imogene Sawney, daughter of Thomas and Martha Bigby Long was born August 24, 1929 in Stilwell, Oklahoma and departed this life to be with our Lord on January 12, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 82 years, 4 months and 19 days. She was a homemaker who enjoyed the duties of being a very loving wife,...

Oleta Mccoy
Jan 12, 2012
Oleta Marie McCoy, daughter of Albert and Pauline Smith Chadwell was born December 17, 1942 in Lincoln, AR, and departed this life to be with our Lord on January 12, 2013 in Fayetteville, AR, at the age of 70 years and 25 days. She was a very loving mother and grandmother to her family. She worked for Campbell soup...

Nadene Briggs
Jan 11, 2012
Nadene Briggs, daughter of Tom and Ida Jackson Long was born July 3, 1926 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and departed this life on January 11, 2012 in Springdale, Arkansas at the age of 85 years, 6 months and 8 days. She was a homemaker who enjoyed the duties of being a mother and grandmother to her family. Nadene was...

Nannie Killer
Jan 9, 2012
Nannie Killer, daughter of Gus and Mary Taylor Still was born August 27, 1931 in Stilwell, Oklahoma and departed this life to be with our Lord on January 10, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 80 years, 4 months and 14 days. She was a very loving wife, mother and grandmother to her family. She was a...

Opal Wilhelm
Jan 8, 2012
Opal Lee Wilhelm, daughter of Marvin Marlin and Lena Belle Priddy Sharrock was born February 9, 1930 in Broken Bow, Oklahoma and departed this life to be with our Lord on January 8, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma at the age of 81 years, 10 months and 29 days. Opal was of the Assembly of God faith. She loved playing...

Alex Zuniga
Jan 7, 2012
Alex Gabriel Zuniga, son of Juan and Janae Cornsilk Zuniga was born August 8, 2006 in Stilwell, Ok and received his angel wings to be with our Lord on January 7, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the tender age of 5 years, 4 months and 29 days. He was a very active little boy who loved watching wrestling and...

Harold Kelley
Jan 7, 2012
Harold Wayne Kelley, son of Homer and Lela Emberton Kelley, was born on September 7, 2012 in Stilwell, Oklahoma and departed this life on Saturday, January 7, 2012 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma at the age of 68 years, 3 months and 22 days. Wayne was friendly and easy to get to know. He enjoyed life and especially his children and...

Margaret Lowe
Jan 2, 2012
Margaret Pruitt Lowe, daughter of Walter and Ollie Ketcher Pruitt, went home to be with JESUS on January 2, 2012. She had 3 sons Jr, Stephen and Richard Ganson and 2 daughters Pam Rowan and Karen Snowden, 3 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, 9 siblings and a host of family and friends. She and her husband, Louis Lowe, owned and...

Billy Morton
Dec 31, 2011
Billy Dean Morton, son of George and Fay Barker Morton was born October 20, 1945, in Stilwell, Oklahoma and departed this life Sunday, December 25, 2011, at his home in Agua Dulce, California at the age of 66 years, 2 months, and 5 days. Bill was a 1963 graduate of Stilwell High School and joined the Oklahoma National Guard...