Ray Verne Billingsley, Phd
Mar 3, 2014
Dr. Ray Verne Billingsley, professor emeritus, formerly of College Station, Texas, died March 3, 2014, in Vici, Okla. He was 86 years-old.
Dr. Billingsley was born Oct. 5, 1927, to Emeth Lee and Edith May McAfee Billingsley in the family farmhouse near Mutual. He was reared on the homestead and began his education in a one-room country...
Gary G. Dupy
Feb 27, 2014
Gary Gene Dupy, 76 year old resident of Taloga, OK passed from this life on February 27, 2014. Gary was born on September 17, 1937 in Dover, OK to Alvin Leroy and Esther Cleo (Larkins) Dupy.
Gary attended Loyal Public Schools and graduated high school at Loyal. On June 14, 1958 Gary married Cynthia Sue Henry in Enid, OK....
Eula Sue Christian - Clem
Feb 25, 2014
Eula Sue Christian-Clem, 79 year old resident of Yukon, Oklahoma, passed from this life on February 25, 2014, at her home. Sue was born on April 11, 1934 in Elmore City, Oklahoma, to Elmer Theodore and Alice Mae (Pickens) Priest. The family lived in Elmore City, where Sue attended grade school and graduated as the valedictorian of her class in...
Babe Loren Brown
Feb 21, 2014
Babe Loren Brown, longtime Ellis County resident, died February 21, 2014 at the age of 83. Babe was born to Godfrey "Jack" and Ella (Daniel) Brown on May 25, 1930 in Peek, Oklahoma. Babe grew up in Ellis County, just south of Arnett. He attended the Redden rural school during his elementary years and went on to Arnett High School...
Lucille W. Schneider
Feb 21, 2014
Lucille Wilma (Cully) Schneider, eldest child of Ernest (E.B.) and Sarah Cully was born July 26, 1913 on a farm southeast of Gage, Oklahoma. She walked or rode horseback to the one-room school house named Pleasant Valley until she graduated from the eighth grade. She then drove a Model A Ford to Gage High School where she attended until she...
Shelly Kay Rittenhouse
Feb 20, 2014
Shelly Kay (Thorn) Rittenhouse was born March 31, 1959, in Perryton, Texas, to Billy Gene and Polly Jean (Taylor) Thorn. She passed from this life on February 20, 2014, at the age of 54. Shelly lived in Spearman, Texas, until the age of 5. Her family moved to Arnett, OK, in 1964, where Shelly attended school through the sixth grade....
David R Dodd
Feb 13, 2014
David RonDel Dodd was born on October 21, 1964 to Clarence Alva and Patricia Ann (Herren) Dodd in Altus, Oklahoma. He passed from this life on February 13, 2014, at his home in Arnett, Oklahoma. David grew up in several towns in Oklahoma including Altus, Norman, Lawton, Woodward and Arnett. He attended grade school in Norman, Woodward and Arnett. He...
Bennie Wesley Waller
Feb 10, 2014
Bennie Wesley Waller, age 88, of Checotah, Oklahoma passed from this earth on February 10, 2014. Bennie, "Pastor", was born to Earl Otis Waller and Rose Lee (Key) Waller on July 26, 1925, in Stroud, Oklahoma. Soon after Bennie's birth his family resided in Chandler, Oklahoma. Bennie attended Kindergarten through High School at Chandler Public Schools. Bennie was seventeen and...
Julieanna Irean Marie Dye
Feb 4, 2014
Julieanna Irean Marie Dye was born on September 23, 2013 in Clinton, Oklahoma to Timothy Dye Jr. and Brandi Shontae Miller. Julieanna passed from this life on February 4, 2014, she was 4 months old. She was living in Dill City, Oklahoma at the time of her death. Julieanna is preceded in death by her sister, Jessica Nicole Lynn Dye....
Lee Don Poulson
Feb 2, 2014
Lee Don Poulson was born September 24, 1952 to Donovan "Don" C. and Evelyn V. (Smith) Poulson at his grandparents' home in rural Dewey County. Surrounded by his family, he passed peacefully from this world on February 2, 2014 at his home in Vici, Oklahoma. He was raised in rural Woodward County, attending school at Mutual and graduating in 1970....
Delbert Louis Kauk
Jan 19, 2014
Delbert Louis Kauk, 89 year old resident of the United Methodist Health Care Center in Clinton, Oklahoma passed on January 19, 2014. Delbert was the 11th out of 12 children born to Christian and Magdalena Trost Kauk on April 11, 1924 on the family farm in Custer County. Delbert attended the Solid Rock Country School near Butler, Oklahoma graduating from...
Lloyd Victor Eaves
Jan 17, 2014
Lloyd Victor Eaves was born June 13, 1929 in Hennipen, OK to Lemual Glenn and Martha Elizabeth Eaves. February 19, 1950, Lloyd was married to Patsy Marie Durham in Portales, NM. To this union, three daughters were born, Vickie Geraldine, Glenna Marie and Debra Sue. After Lloyd and Pat were married, they resided in Eaves City, OK; Homer, OK; Hennipen,...
Theodore "Ted" Fariss
Jan 9, 2014
Theodore (Ted) Leon Fariss, son of Medlin Holmes Fariss, Jr., and Lola Faye (McCaslin) Fariss, was born in Elk City, Oklahoma, September 22, 1942. He passed from this life Thursday, January 9, 2014, in M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas, at the age of 71 years. Ted, was born a fourth generation Fariss to call the Trail Flats, on the South...
Florease Elizabeth Wells
Jan 9, 2014
Florease Elizabeth Wells was born in Amarillo, Texas, to Bill and Lucy (Williams) Impola on February 25, 1928. She began her school years in Amarillo, and when she was 12, her family moved to Claunch, New Mexico. She met her future husband, Mackie Wells, at a little country church in Gran Quivira, New Mexico. They became friends almost instantly and...
Janis Pauline Foster
Jan 6, 2014
Janis Pauline Foster joined her Heavenly Father on January 6, 2014. She was born in Leedey, OK on April 3, 1937 to Paul and Louie Fox. After graduating from Leedey High School in 1955, she fulfilled her dream of attending Draugons Business School in Oklahoma City. In 1956 she married her high school sweetheart, James Leonard McKay, and they had...
Susie Dupy
Dec 29, 2013
Cynthia Sue Henry Dupy, 70 year old resident of Taloga, OK passed from this life on December 29, 2013. Cynthia, or more lovingly known as Susie, was born on January 18, 1943 in Enid, OK to Edward Eugene and Dorothy Lee Bowers Henry. Susie attended elementary school and high school in Covington, OK where she lived until she was 15...
William Lee Duncan
Dec 29, 2013
William "Bill" Lee Duncan passed from this life on December 29, 2013 at the age of 70. Bill was born April 7, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to William Henry and Gladys Lucille (Gilliam) Duncan. All of his elementary and high school years were spent in the Wellston School system. He graduated high school with the Class of 1961. On...
Floyd B Randall
Dec 26, 2013
Floyd Randall, loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather went home to be with the Lord December 26, 2013 at the age of 98. Floyd was born on May 15, 1915 in Mountain Home, Arkansas to David and Luvena Crownover Randall. His family moved to Oklahoma living in the Coweta, Muskogee, Fort Cobb, and Webb areas before settling in Vici....
Earl "Ike" Hendricks
Dec 26, 2013
Earl was born on May 24, 1939 in Woodall, OK to Robert Franklin Boudinot Hendricks and Nellie Elizabeth Mathews. He attended Woodall School and graduated from Tahlequah High School. Earl experienced death at an early age, at only 4 years his daddy died but he vividly remembered that day for the rest of his life. Then at the age of...
George Miller Harbison
Dec 25, 2013
George Miller Harbison was born November 2, 1914, six years after Oklahoma statehood and passed away December 25, 2013, at 99 years of age. His parents were Mattie (Shumake) and George M. Harbison Sr. He was welcomed into this world by two adoring brothers, James Harbison and Robert Harbison. George completed his studies and graduated from Eldorado High School. After...
