Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Shawnee, OK and Pottawatomie County

Jolie Fox Thorne

Jolie Fox Thorne

Nov 22, 2015

Jolie Fox Thorne, 2 month old daughter of James & Ragan (Butler) Thorne passed away Sunday, November 22, 2015 in an Oklahoma City hospital. Services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at the Salateeska Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Wakolee Cemetery. Jolie was born September 27, 2015 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is survived by her parents,...

Howard Joseph Rayner, Jr.

Howard Joseph Rayner, Jr.

Nov 22, 2015

McLoud resident, Howard Joseph Rayner, Jr., 78, died Sunday, November 22, 2015 at his home. Services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, November 27, 2015 at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Howard was born November 14, 1937 in Lake Orion, Michigan to Howard Joseph, Sr. & Hazel Augusta (McCown) Rayner. On October 5, 1963 he married...

Clifton "Skip" Branscum

Clifton "Skip" Branscum

Nov 20, 2015

Clifton “Skip” Branscum, lifelong Shawnee resident, passed away Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 at his daughter’s home at the age of 84. He was born on April 18, 1931, in Shawnee to Ray & Remeth Branscum. He graduated from Bethel High School and married his high school sweetheart and love of his life, Betty Jo Carpenter. They had one child, their...

Doris Jean Leone

Doris Jean Leone

Nov 20, 2015

A Rosary will be held at 6:30 P.M. Monday, November 23, 2015 at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be 10:00 A.M. Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery.

Doris Jean Leone

Doris Jean Leone

Nov 20, 2015

Doris Jean Leone, age 86, passed away on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. She was born on Jan. 27, 1929, to John and Linda Vegher Paris in Coalgate, Oklahoma. Doris married her high school sweetheart, Kenneth Leone, on April 11, 1948, in Bonham, Texas. Doris was a devoted Catholic who served as past president of the St. Benedict Alter Society and...

Constance "Connie" Frances (Tarpley) Junk Hollins

Constance "Connie" Frances (Tarpley) Junk Hollins

Nov 16, 2015

Constance “Connie” Frances (Tarpley) Junk Hollins, 70, died Monday, November 16, 2015 at her home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Rosary will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday, November 19 at St. Benedict Catholic Church, and Mass will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, November 20 at St. Benedict Catholic Church with Abbot Lawrence Stasyszen, OSB officiating. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. In lieu...

Milton LeRoy Hunt

Milton LeRoy Hunt

Nov 8, 2015

Milton LeRoy Hunt passed from this world to be with his Heavenly Father on Sunday, November 8, 2015. Born in Stratford, OK, on July 14, 1937 to M.L. and Priscilla Hunt, he was the first of five children. He was preceded in death by his father, M.L. Hunt, his mother, Amy Priscilla (Benge) Hunt, his sister, Yvonne (Hunt) Wood, and...

David Isaac Penisten

David Isaac Penisten

Nov 2, 2015

Oklahoma City resident, David Isaac Penisten, 71, passed away Monday, November 2, 2015 in Oklahoma City. Wake service will be 7:00 P.M. Friday at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be 10:00 A.M. Saturday at St. Benedict Catholic Church with Father Schwarz officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery. David was born April 11, 1944 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to...

Rhoper A. Bly, Jr.

Rhoper A. Bly, Jr.

Oct 27, 2015

Rhoper A. Bly, Jr., 87, of Shawnee, passed away Tuesday, October 27 at his home. He was born March 27, 1928 in Rocky Ford, Colorado to Rhoper & Rosa Bly, and graduated in 1945 from Dale High School. On December 24, 1945 he married Jimmie Lou Robertson. She preceded him in death on September 1. Rhoper was the foreman of...

Carol Jane Lynn

Carol Jane Lynn

Oct 21, 2015

Shawnee resident, Carol Jane Lynn, 78, passed away Wednesday, October 21, 2015 in Shawnee. Services will be 10:00 A.M. Saturday, October 24, 2015 at Walker Funeral Service with Dwyane Dennis officiating. Burial will follow at Tecumseh Cemetery. Carol Jane Lynn was born September 7, 1937 in Wewoka, Oklahoma to Victor and Ethel Berry. She graduated from Shawnee High School in...

Neomi Sue Judy

Neomi Sue Judy

Oct 19, 2015

Shawnee resident, Neomi Sue Judy, 83, passed away Monday, October 19, 2015 in Meeker, OK. Graveside services will be 2:00 P.M. Thursday, October 29, 2015 at Fairview Cemetery. Neomi Sue Judy was born June 8, 1932 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Edward Dewey Lincicome and Lillie Belle (Starr) Lincicome. She worked various jobs including O.B.U. and James Sausage, as well as...

Phyllis J. (McEver) O'Connor

Phyllis J. (McEver) O'Connor

Oct 18, 2015

Phyllis J. (McEver) O’Connor, affectionately known as "Niminy", 67, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, died Sunday, October 18, 2015 in an Oklahoma City hospital. Memorial services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 22, 2015 at the First Baptist Church of Shawnee with Rev. Ray Miller officiating. Phyllis was born November 25, 1947 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Harvey & Foye (Davis)...

Marjorie Gail (Hart) Coffin

Marjorie Gail (Hart) Coffin

Oct 17, 2015

Marjorie Gail Hart was born October 28, 1925 to Ulysses Frederick Hart and Maggie Hutchins Hart just outside Shawnee, Oklahoma. She was the eighth of eleven children born to that couple. She graduated from Bethel High School in 1943. Marjorie married Zacharias T. Coffin in 1942, and they had two sons, Larry, now residing in Chiang Rai, Thailand, and Steven,...

Opal O. Wright

Opal O. Wright

Oct 16, 2015

Opal Scheidt Wright Lifelong resident of McLoud, Opal (Scheidt) Wright passed away on Friday, October 16, 2015 at the age of 90. She was born May 20, 1925 in McLoud to John P. Scheidt and Ola (Shreve) Scheidt. She graduated from McLoud High School in 1942. After graduation, she worked at the Round House Overall Factory in Shawnee where she...

Jody Lee Duggan

Jody Lee Duggan

Oct 10, 2015

Jody Lee Duggan of Shawnee passed away October 10, 2015 at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Jody Lee was born September 18, 1957, in Pratt, Kansas. Her parents are George Allen Woodward and Laura Mae (Priddy) Woodward. Jody was married January 16, 1982 to Ricky Lee Bailey in Gage, Oklahoma. Jody gave birth August 27, 1984 to her daughter Becky...

Barbara Jean Hasbell

Barbara Jean Hasbell

Oct 9, 2015

Barbara Jean Hasbell, born October 12, 1951, left our Earthly world to be with our father in heaven on October 9, 2015. Barbara was a wonderful woman who put her family and friends ahead of her own wellbeing. She was the homemaker of the family and always claimed to be the mother of all mothers. She was an avid Thunder...

Mary Atwood

Mary Atwood

Oct 8, 2015

Mary Atwood, 63,of Shawnee, died Thursday, October 8, 2015 at her home. Memorial services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at St. Benedict Catholic Church. Mary was born February 22, 1952 in Berwyn, Illinois to C.W. and Betty Hinckle. She graduated from high school in Ft. Madison, Iowa. In 1974 she married Joseph Thomas Atwood in Lexington, Missouri....

Ronald Dean Kindred

Ronald Dean Kindred

Oct 4, 2015

Meeker resident, Ronald D. Kindred, 70, died Sunday, October 4, 2015 at his home. Services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, October 9, 2015 in Walker Funeral Service Chapel with Clifton Briscoe officiating. Burial will be in Oakhaven Memorial Gardens in Claremore, OK under the direction of Walker Funeral Service. Ronald Dean Kindred was born February 16, 1945 in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

Thelma Fae Barnes

Thelma Fae Barnes

Oct 3, 2015

Thelma Fae (Grubbs) Mason Cleveland Barnes, age 107, passed away October 3, 2015 in Norman, Oklahoma. She was born August 3, 1908 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Lex and Eula Harris Grubbs. She was a resident of the Shawnee-Tecumseh area until she was 100 years old, at which time she moved to Norman to be closer to her daughter,...

Richard C. Newell, Sr.

Richard C. Newell, Sr.

Sep 29, 2015

Richard C. Newell, Sr., 91, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Walker Funeral Service with Terry Newell and Ray Newell officiating. The family has requested no flowers be sent. Richard C. Newell, Sr. was born September 18, 1924 in NW Seminole County. His...

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