Obituaries in Seminole, Maud, and Konawa, Oklahoma
Mary Jo Smith Barnett
Aug 2, 2025
Mary Jo Smith Barnett passed away at the age of 85 on August 2, 2025, at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Mary Jo was born on March 19, 1940 at Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Charley and Maggie (Sanders) Smith. A middle child of 13 siblings, she was full-blood Cherokee and raised in...
Wayne Loomis King III
Aug 2, 2025
Wayne L King III, Midwest City resident, passed away on Saturday, August 2, 2025 in Midwest City at the age of 71. Wayne was born on February 10, 1954 in Seminole, OK to Wayne L King Jr. and Betty Jean (Pointer) King. He graduated from Seminole High School in 1972 which was also the same year his mother graduated from...
Eldon Dean Kean
Aug 1, 2025
Eldon Dean Kean, Shawnee resident, passed away on Friday, August 1, 2025 in Shawnee at the age of 91. Eldon was born on January 23, 1934 in Seminole, OK to Albert and Cora (Edney) Kean. He married Betty on July 21, 1953 in Gainsville, TX. He began working for Greens Oklahoma Liquified Gas in 1972 and retired from the company...
Vera Marie Rammage
Jul 29, 2025
Vera Marie Rammage, Oklahoma City resident, passed away on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 in Oklahoma City at the age of 82. Vera was born on March 31, 1943 in Seminole to Homer Morris and Vera Mae (Mason) Montgomery. She spent many years in the far SW corner of Kansas. She graduated from Felt High School in 1960. She moved back...
Walter Ray Shepherd
Jul 29, 2025
Seminole resident, Walter Ray Shepherd, 85, passed away Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at his home.
Walter, the son of James and Sylvia (Hoover) Shepherd, was born December 22, 1939, in Seminole. He attended Varnum Schools. On July 24, 1958, he married Nina Gail Herring, in Seminole. Walter made his living working as an automotive assembly technician for General Motors. Walter was...
Barbara Ann Colvin
Jul 28, 2025
Barbara Ann Colvin, Seminole, OK resident, passed away on Monday, July 28, 2025 in Seminole at the age of 91. Barbara was born on August 19, 1933 in Seminole to L.E. and Gladys (Miller) Majors. She was a 1951 graduate of Bowlegs High School. Barbara married Merle Lee Harper in May 1951 and together they raised two children Keith Harper...
Vanessa (Rivers) Alexander
Jul 27, 2025
Vanessa was born on November 11, 1957 to the parentage of Linzy Lee Rivers and Letha Mae (Napoleon) Rivers, in Shawnee Oklahoma. She was raised in Holtulka, Ok, and was a 1975 graduate of Tecumseh High School.
She married Glenn Alexander from Wetumka Ok and to this Union two children were born: a daughter Shana Alexander and a son Sean Alexander.
Vanessa...
Raymond Hugh Newell
Jul 27, 2025
Earlsboro resident Raymond Hugh Newell, 95, passed away Sunday, July 27, 2025, at his home.
Raymond, the son of George and Sarah (Sealock) Newell, was born September 15, 1929, in Seminole. He graduated from Prairie Valley High School, with the class of 1948. Raymond proudly served in the US Army in the Korean War. On February 2, 1962, Raymond married Patricia...
Louise Anna Chandler
Jul 26, 2025
Louise Anna Chandler, Seminole, OK resident, passed away on Saturday, July 26, 2025 in Seminole at the age of 94. Louise was born on September 9, 1930 in Seminole to Oscar and Dora (Baylor) Arner. She was a graduate of Bowlegs High School. She married Cleve Chandler on March 18, 1950 in Seminole, OK.
Louise was preceded in death by her...
Christine Sue McKinney
Jul 26, 2025
Christine Sue McKinney, Earlsboro, OK resident passed away on Saturday, July 26, 2025 in Tecumseh at the age of 65. Christine was born on July 7, 1960 in Los Angeles, CA to Raymond and Susie (Johnson) Harjo. She earned her masters degree from East Central University. Christine worked as a case manager for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma. She married...
Ralph Terry Adams
Jul 24, 2025
It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Ralph Terry Adams on July 24, 2025 surrounded by his loving family. Ralph fought a short but courageous battle with cancer.
Ralph was born in Heidelberg, Germany on June 14, 1962 to Howard Elsworth and Rosemarie Adams.
As a part of a military family, he spent most of his childhood living in...
Ronald "Ron" Geary Sheppard
Jul 21, 2025
Ronald Geary Sheppard entered into eternity with his Lord and Savior on July 21, 2025 at age 85 at the Fountain Brook Assisted Living/Memory Care, in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Born August 17, 1939 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, he was the younger son of Geary Mickey Sheppard and Lula Lillie Towery Sheppard. His early years were spent playing pool with his older...
Jimmie Carol Sanders
Jul 21, 2025
Jimmie Carol Sanders, age 83 and a longtime resident of Konawa, Oklahoma passed away July 21, 2025 at Corn Heritage Village and Rehab in Corn, Oklahoma.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 25, 2025 at Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel in Konawa, burial will follow at East Hill Cemetery, in Roff, Oklahoma. Casket bearers are Steve Sanders, Scott Sanders,...
Susan Lorrine Warden
Jul 17, 2025
Susan Lorrine Warden, Shawnee resident, passed away on Thursday, July 17, 2025 in Shawnee at the age of 73. Susan was born on October 20, 1951 in Meeker, OK to Jimmy Neal and Hazel Mae (Mays) Warden. She grew up in Meeker, OK, spent time with family and friends in Seminole, OK and worked and lived in Shawnee, OK. She...
Sherman "Blake" Keith Jones
Jul 16, 2025
Sherman Keith “Blake” Jones passed away on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. He was born on October 27, 1964, to Thelma Anita Faye Jones/Stern Lee and Jimmy Lee Robinson. Though life brought early transitions, Blake was lovingly raised in Altus, Oklahoma, by his Uncle Nate and Aunt Sue Jones, alongside his siblings. From an early age, he stood...
Amber Dawn Staring
Jul 12, 2025
Amber Dawn Staring, 41, of Oklahoma City, OK, arrived at Heaven’s gates on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Amber was beloved and cherished by all who knew her.
Amber was born in Seminole, OK on August 31, 1983. Amber attended school in Strother and Butner, graduating from Butner with the class of 2002. During her school years, she enjoyed playing basketball and...
Charles Ward Padgett
Jul 12, 2025
Charles Ward Padgett, age 82, of Yukon, Oklahoma, went to his heavenly home on Saturday, July 12, 2025, after a brief battle with acute leukemia.
Charles grew up in Kentucky and Illinois, graduating from Zeigler High School in Zeigler, Illinois, in 1960. That same year, his family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma. He attended Oklahoma State University and completed basic military training...
Midge Vera Dean Richards
Jul 12, 2025
Maud resident, Vera Dean “Midge” Richards, 85, passed away Saturday, July 12, 2025, in Oklahoma City.
Midge, the daughter of Loy and Veral (Raper) Acree, was born November 4, 1939, in Maud. She graduated from Maud High School with the class of 1958. On January 27, 1958, she married Noel Lee Richards, in Chandler. Midge and Lee enjoyed fifty-seven years of...
Patricia Kaye Moore
Jul 9, 2025
Patricia Kaye Moore
“Honor her for all that her hands have done, and
let her works bring her praise at the city gate.” Proverbs 31:31
Patricia Kaye Moore passed peacefully in her home surrounded by her family on July 9, 2025. The fourth of eighteen children, Patricia was born in Holdenville, OK, to Joseph and Velma Anson on October 6, 1947.
She grew up...
Gene Lovoe Miller
Jul 7, 2025
Gene Lovoe Miller died July 7, 2025. Gene was born on July 23, 1930, to Jacob Joseph “Jake” Miller and Bessie Jewel Rodgers Miller on a farm near Weatherford, Oklahoma.
He attended school at Deer Creek, a one room schoolhouse near Weatherford, Oklahoma, until his family moved to the Cowden, Oklahoma community when he was in the 3rd grade. Gene graduated...
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