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James Lee Frederick
Dec 3, 2012
44 year old James Lee Frederick was born on October 22, 1968 in Downey, California to Edgar Allen and Sharon Elizabeth (Longbrake) Benedict. James passed away on December 3, 2012 in Amarillo, TX. James attended school through 12th grade in Southern California. James was united in marriage to Kristie Heatherly on August 22, 2009 at the Hemphill County Texas Courthouse....
Christine Broadbent
Nov 27, 2012
Thelma Christine Graybill Broadbent Thelma Christine Broadbent was born September 3, 1929, to John Boone Graybill and Grace Elmina Vernon Graybill at the family home south of Leedey. She was the youngest of nine children and was affectionately called "Kitten" by her family. She departed this life on November 27, 2012, at the age of 83 years, two months, and...
Jackie Marie Lalicker
Nov 23, 2012
Jackie Marie Lalicker passed from this life on November 23, 2012 at the age of 63. She arrived just in time for Christmas on December 24, 1948 in Lawton, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Jack Charles and Gladys Marie (Baker) Patterson. Jackie attended grade school in Elk City and Piedmont Kansas. She graduated with the Class of 1967 from...
Winnie Lou Burge
Nov 22, 2012
Longtime Shattuck resident, Winnie Lou (Craig) Burge, passed from this life on November 22, 2012 with her family at her side. Winnie was born October 9, 1920 on the family farm near Hennessey, OK. She was the second child of Mary (Grabill) and Mason Craig. Winnie grew up in the Hennessey area and graduated from Hennessey High School. On June...
Rick Knight
Nov 17, 2012
Rickie C. Knight was born on June 9, 1951 in Peoria, IL to Mike and Norma Faye (Cullison) Dever. Rick passed from this life on November 17, 2012 in Canadian, TX at the age of 61. Rick attended all of his schooling in Pekin, IL graduating from Pekin Community High School in 1969. Rick later attended Southwest Seminary in Fort...
Terry Edward Nelson
Nov 15, 2012
Terry Edward Nelson, son of Zenas Gerald and Venia Mae (McCance) Nelson, was born October 11, 1938 in Woodward, Oklahoma. He passed peacefully from this life on November 15, 2012 at the age of 74. Terry grew up in the Mutual and Woodward areas. All of his school years were spent attending Mutual School, graduating with the Class of 1956....
Mildred L. West
Nov 13, 2012
Mildred Lucile Sober passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, at the Woodward Regional Hospital. She was born October 22, 1914 in Roger Mills County near Sweetwater, OK in the farm home of her parents Hugh Wilson Sober and Bessie Lee Scott. The family moved in 1919 to a farm west of Oklahoma City. Mildred met Clovis West when he...
George Dwayne Berry
Nov 12, 2012
George Dwayne Berry passed from this life on November 12, 2012 at the age of 74. He was the son of George and Wanetta (Gilmer) Berry, born on October 1, 1938 in Taloga, OK. George began his school years in a "soddy" school and then went to Putnam. He graduated from Taloga Public Schools in 1956. On September 16, 1959...
Robert Fred Poppe
Oct 23, 2012
Robert Fred Poppe was born on March 14, 1922, to Fred and Olga (Koch) Poppe, in Shattuck, Oklahoma. He passed from this life on October 23, 2012, in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 90. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Robert was raised in Shattuck, OK during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. He attended Shattuck Public...
Winnie Martha Switzer
Oct 12, 2012
Winnie Martha Dean Switzer was born April 12, 1915 at home in Roger Mills County to Arthur and Lena (Black) Dean. She passed away October 12, 2012 in Elk City, Oklahoma at the age of 97. She was a true servant for Christ. Baptized at the age of 14, she began her Christian journey. Winnie would be the first of...
Martha Raye Graybill
Sep 30, 2012
Martha Raye Taylor Graybill was born in Cheyenne, Oklahoma on April 2, 1941, one of six children, to Curtis and Beulah Taylor. She passed from this life on September 30, 2012 at the age of seventy-one years. She lived and grew up in western Oklahoma attending elementary school in Custer City and later Cheyenne Public Schools. Martha accepted Christ as...
Gayle Loree Smriga
Sep 27, 2012
GAYLE LOREE VINCENT SMRIGA Gayle was born March 21, 1940, to Lloyd A. W. and Lela Mae Miller-Vincent in the Newman Memorial Hospital at Shattuck, OK. She lived and grew up in Arnett, Ok, graduating from high school in 1958. She earned a bachelor's degree in business education at Phillips Univ. in Enid, OK, and also completed her master's degree...
Bobby Carrol Matthews
Sep 26, 2012
55 year old Woodward resident, Bobby Carrol Matthews, passed from this life September 26, 2012 as a result of a vehicle accident near Elmwood, Oklahoma. Bobby was born February 7, 1957 at Perryton, Texas to T. F. and Norma Morgan Matthews. Bobby attended all of his schooling years in Perryton, graduating with the class of 1975. He attended the First...
David "Davy" Halbert
Sep 20, 2012
David Miles Halbert was born on May 19, 1923, to Walter and Pearl (Mitchell) Halbert, in Peek, Oklahoma. He passed from this life on September 20, 2012, in Vici Oklahoma, at the age of 89. Davy was the oldest of six children. He attended the Redden School for a few years before staying home to help his folks on the...
Garry D. Carney
Sep 15, 2012
Garry Don Carney was born on January 4, 1947 to Hugh and Elva Deickman Carney in Leedey, Oklahoma and departed this life on September 15, 2012 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was a fourth generation Dewey Countian since his great-grandparents moved to Dewey County before 1920. Garry attended and graduated from Leedey Public School where he participated in FFA, 4-H...
Doris L Rhoades
Sep 12, 2012
Doris Lucille (Kauk) Rhoades was born on May 26, 1922 to Chris and Lena (Trost) Kauk in Butler, Oklahoma. She passed from this life on September 12, 2012 in Clinton, Oklahoma at the age of 90 years, 3 months, and 17 days. Doris grew up on a farm Southeast of Leedey which was in a German community. Doris' father was...
Peggy Roper
Sep 12, 2012
PEGGY LYNNE ROPER (Peggy wrote her obituary this past summer. For those of you who knew her, this should come as no surprise.) Peggy Lynne Roper was born September 3, 1951 to Elwood and Wanda Inman Riley. On the day she was born, her daddy was coaching a baseball game in Altus, OK. When her daddy learned that she was...
Victoria Iviann Knisley
Sep 6, 2012
On August 1, 2004, the Lord loaned us a beautiful baby girl named Victoria Iviann Knisley, she was born to Michael Knisley and Jaclyn Rutledge. Grandpa Jesse, Grandma Billie, and her older brother Kyler were blessed with Victoria and her baby sister Penny, when they came to live with them in November 2006, in Turpin, Oklahoma. Abby, their little sister...
Orvil "Smokey" Price
Sep 4, 2012
Orvil "Smokey" Mitchell Price was born June 22, 1921 to Boyd and Pearl (Bryant) Price on the family farm near Rhea, Oklahoma. Smokey passed from this life on September 4, 2012 at the Vici Nursing Home in Vici, Oklahoma. Smokey lived near Rhea attending school there until 6th grade when he left school to help his father on the family...
Calvin "Cappie" Chris Kauk
Sep 2, 2012
Calvin Chris "Cappie" Kauk was born May 12, 1924 ten miles southeast of Leedey at the home of his parents, John and Carrie (Baumgartner) Kauk. He passed from this life September 2, 2012 in Elk City at the age of 88. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Leedey. Cappie grew up on the family farm and...
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