Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Shawnee, OK and Pottawatomie County

Georgia Belle Austin

Georgia Belle Austin

Dec 10, 2015

Georgia Belle Austin, former longtime Pottawatomie County Clerk, 88, died Thursday, December 10, 2015 at a local nursing home. Graveside services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at Resthaven Memorial Park with Rev. Larry Sparks officiating. Georgia Belle was born October 7, 1927 to George & Mary (Morgan) Austin. At the age of 9 she contracted scarlet fever...

James "Jimmy" E. France, Jr.

James "Jimmy" E. France, Jr.

Dec 3, 2015

James E. "Jimmy" France, Jr., 60, of Shawnee, died Thursday, December 3, 2015 in a local hospital. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 7, 2015 at Walker Funeral Service Chapel with Guy Cagle officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park. Jimmy was born September 15, 1955 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to James France, Sr. and Pauline (Estep) France. He...

Mariella Jacobs

Mariella Jacobs

Dec 3, 2015

A graveside service will be held at 2:00 P.M Monday, December 7, 2015 at Resthaven Memorial Park. A memorial service will be held on December 12, at 2:00 P.M. at Walker Funeral Service Chapel with Les McGalliard and Tad McGalliard officiating. Mariella Jacobs was born September 5, 1922 in Aydelotte, Oklahoma to Earl and Edna Jane (Reid) Partlow. She graduated...

Ricky Marles Hall

Ricky Marles Hall

Nov 29, 2015

Ricky Marles Hall, 59, of McLoud entered heaven on November 29. 2015 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Rick was born on March 17, 1956 in Enid to Mary Cole and Harold Hall. He attended Shawnee High School and married the love of his life, Cathy Hall, on February 18, 1977. He learned his plumbing skills from his step-dad...

Linda Alleene Roberts

Linda Alleene Roberts

Nov 23, 2015

Linda was born on Friday, November 28, 1947 to her parents Joel and Clarrissia Catlett. God called her home Monday November 23, 2015, five days before her birthday. Linda was a beautiful, loving, caring person not only to her family but to all who knew and needed her. At four years old, she told her mother that when she was...

Tony Lynn McDaneil

Tony Lynn McDaneil

Nov 22, 2015

McLoud resident, Tony Lynn McDaniel, 56, died Sunday, November 22, 2015 at his home. Services will be 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at McLoud United Methodist Church with Rev. Charles King officiating. Burial will follow at Dale Cemetery under the direction of Walker Funeral Service. Tony was born June 26, 1959 in Shawnee, Oklahoma the son of Marland and...

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...

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