OBITUARIES
Shirley Susan Franklin
Mar 17, 2022
Shirley Susan Lambert Franklin left this earthly home March 17, 2022. She was born July 1, 1947 in Claremore, Oklahoma at the old Franklin Hospital. She was the 6th and last born child to Minnie Worden Lambert and Bill Lambert. She grew up in Oologah. She married Ronald Franklin December 20, 1968 and they were married until his death...
Marjorie Evelyn White
Mar 15, 2022
Funeral service for Marjorie Evelyn White will be held on Monday, March 21, 2022 at the First Baptist Church of Chelsea. Burial will follow at Lone Elm Cemetery. Visitation will be at Chelsea Funeral Home and Cremation Service on Sunday, March 20, from 1-6 p.m. Family will greet friends from 4-6 p.m. Marjorie Evelyn White passed away on Tuesday, March...
Edith Maxine Robichaud
Mar 15, 2022
Edith “Maxine” Leach Still Robichaud was born at home, in Mayes County, on May 23, 1952. Maxine was the baby of 8 children, born to Marion Leroy Leach and Gracie Melvina Gillum Leach. Maxine graduated from Claremore High School in 1970. Shortly after graduating, Maxine married Jerl “Jerry”Jackson Still. The couple moved to Amarillo, Texas where they lived for many...
Barbara Jean Ballard
Mar 14, 2022
Memorial service for Barbara Jean Ballard, longtime Claremore educator, will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 17, 2022, at Claremore First United Methodist Church. Family will greet friends at MMS-Payne Funeral Home in Claremore from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16. Barbara passed from this life on Monday, March 14 at Integris Grove Hospital. She was 75 years of age. Barbara...
Lonnie G. Chambers
Mar 12, 2022
Lonnie Gilbert Chambers was born on October 1st, 1945, in Denver, Colorado, to Robert W. (Bob) Chambers and Rayebelle Jacobs Chambers. After attending many schools as a child, his family moved to Claremore, where he grew up on Cat Creek. He would joke about his wife, Pat, growing up on Dog Creek. Lonnie and Pat were childhood sweethearts, but due...
Judy Ann Eagleton
Mar 12, 2022
Judy Ann (Smith) Eagleton passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at home surrounded by her family and friends. She was 81 years old. Friends may visit at MMS – Payne Funeral Home on Wednesday, March 16 from 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., with family receiving visitors from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Funeral services for Judy will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 17, 2022 at...
Trixie Stinnett
Mar 11, 2022
Laura Mae “Trixie” Stinnett was born February 26, 1952 to Jimmie Joe and Susie Allien Atchley. She was born near Alluwe, OK in the home of her grandparents’, Bert and Jesse Melton. Trixie grew up in the Bushyhead area and attended Bushyhead School from first to eighth grade. She then attended Chelsea High School where she was football homecoming queen...
Betty Lou Mell
Mar 9, 2022
Betty Lou McKinney Mell passed on to be with Jesus on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 while she was sleeping. She was born June 26, 1933 in Ames, Oklahoma. She married Walter F Mell (now deceased) on July 28, 1951 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She lived in Tulsa most of her working life, and moved to Inola after she retired. She...
Doris Geneva Grigg
Mar 5, 2022
Funeral service for Doris Grigg will be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel; burial will follow at Highland Cemetery in Inola. Doris passed away on Saturday, March 5, 2022. She was 83. Born January 23rd, 1939 to James Richard and Bessie Mae (Thompson) Hasten in Mineola, Texas, Doris attended school in Mineola. She began helping...
Norma Jean Pryor
Mar 5, 2022
Norma Jean Mathews Pryor passed away on March 5th, 2022. She was born on June 6th, 1928 in Miami, OK to Elmer and Ella Montgomery Mathews. Norma graduated from Commerce High School in 1946. She spent the next few years working, first at Miami Sales, and then at the Commerce Bank. Norma married Beauford E. Pryor on November 20th, 1954,...
Patricia Ann Compton
Mar 2, 2022
Claremore resident Patricia Ann Compton passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2022in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 80 years old. The daughter of Floyd Kirby and Mary Lee (Barrett) Kirby was born in San Diego, CA on September 11, 1941. She is preceded in death by her parents; and husband, Lee Allan Compton. She is survived by her son, Darrel Compton; and...
Debra Suzanne Osten
Mar 2, 2022
Debra Suzanne (Thomas) Osten passed away from this life to enter her eternal rest on March 2, 2022 at the age of 67 years. The daughter of Robert Thomas and Marie (Barnard) Thomas , and younger sister of Bobby Thomas, Debra was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 26, 1954. Her early years were spent in Arizona, where her father...
Karen Gail Ballard
Mar 1, 2022
Graveside service for Karen Gail Ballard will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 4, 2022 at Woodlawn Cemetery. Karen passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. She was 70. Karen Gail Ballard was born December 5, 1951 in Azle, Texas to Harold and Nina (Upton) Allman. She attended schools in Tulsa and high school at Central. Karen married Leon Ballard on...
Merryll Jennings
Feb 23, 2022
Funeral service for Merryll Jennings will be 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 28, 2022 at First United Methodist Church, burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Merryll Gay Jennings was born September 23, 1928 in Perry, Georgia to George P. and Edna (Gay) Hunnicutt. She grew up and was educated in Perry, graduating with the class of 1945. Merryll continued her education...
Luana Kay Hering
Feb 22, 2022
Services will be held at Memorial Heights Baptist Church on March 1st, 2022 at 2pm. with a lunch and celebration of life at Memorial Heights, after the graveside service. Viewing will be February 28th, 2022 at Musgrove Merriott Smith from 4pm-8pm; family will be receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Luana, called “Kay” by many, departed from this world on the morning...
Wynona Louise Draeger
Feb 21, 2022
Wynona Louise Draeger went home to meet her Lord and Savior on Monday, February 21st, 2022 at the age of 95. The daughter of Oral and Essie (Dawes) Grigg was born July 9th, 1926 in her family's home just outside of Chelsea, Oklahoma. As she became older she would attend a local country school before attending Chelsea schools. There she...
Lillian Marie Foster
Feb 20, 2022
Lillian Marie “Sissy” Gibson Foster was born March 7, 1942, in Pitcher, Oklahoma to Virginia Pauline Hefner and Hubert “Hoot” Eugene Gibson. She passed away February 20, 2022 with her loving husband Loyd at her side in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a long battle with cancer. Most people in Chelsea knew Lillian by Marie or Sissy. Sissy was baptized as a...
Phyliss Maureen (Bayless) Beasley
Feb 19, 2022
Phyliss Maureen (Bayless) Beasley, aged 87, passed away on February 19th, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born on August 31st, 1934, in Medicine Mound, Texas to Lewey William Bayless and Vivian Pearl (Davidson) Bayless. She was preceded in death by her husband, H.J. Beasley; her parents; two brothers, Thomas Bayless and Lewey Alan Bayless; one son, Robert Kent Beasley;...
Alma Jo Taber-Marlin
Feb 18, 2022
Alma Jo Taber-Marlin's Viewing and Visitation will be 1:00 pm- 8:00 pm, Monday, February 28, 2022 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home, with family receiving visitors from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, and the Funeral Service will be 10:00 am, Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at the New Hope Church of God. Alma Jo Taber-Marlin passed away on Friday, February 18th, 2022 at...
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