OBITUARIES
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...
Leroy McDaniel
Feb 17, 2022
Marvin Leroy McDaniel passed away on Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at the age of 77. The son of Marvin and Imogene Dirck McDaniel was born April 28th, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a young boy he would live in Pryor before his family settled in the Keetonville area. He would later attend Catoosa Schools graduating as a member of the class of 1961. It...
Marilyn Jewel Barbee
Feb 17, 2022
Marilyn Jewel Barbee passed away on February 17th, 2022. She was 82 years old. Marilyn was born on January 14, 1940 in Troy, Ohio to Harold and Paulina Ash. She attended and graduated from Troy High School in the class of 1958. She met Jack, her husband, in Augusta, Georgia in 1974. The couple married on September 2, 1983 in...
Lorene Emma Fry
Feb 16, 2022
Funeral service for Chelsea resident, Lorene Fry will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at Epworth United Methodist Church in Chelsea. Burial will follow at Chelsea Cemetery. Visitation will be at Chelsea Funeral Home and Cremation Service from 1-7 p.m. on Monday, February 21, 2022, with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m. Lorene passed away Wednesday, February 16, 2022,...
Lawrence David "Bumper" Hale II
Feb 15, 2022
Funeral service for Lawrence David "Bumper" Hale, II, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, February 21, 2022 at First United Methodist Church, burial will follow at Double Springs Cemetery in Tahlequah. Visitation will be held at MMS-Payne Funeral Home on Sunday, February 20th from 1pm-6pm, with family receiving visitors from 4pm-6pm. David passed away on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at...
Grace Marian Lubben
Feb 14, 2022
A celebration of life is 1 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Oologah United Methodist Church, and online at www.Oologahumc.org . A graveside service will be held later in Shawnee, Kansas. Amazing Grace Lubben left Earth a better place Grace Marian Henriksen Lubben, a true pioneer woman, educator, and advocate for her family, died Feb. 14 in Claremore. She had moved...
Jolene Yvette Stout
Feb 13, 2022
Jolene Yvette Alexander (Stout) was born in Fresno, California on August 18, 1968, to her parents Joel & Brenda Alexander and recently resided in Inola, Ok. She went to be with Lord on Sunday, February 13th, 2022. She had lived in Eufaula throughout her wonderful childhood until she and her family moved to Tulsa in 1983. She attended Eufaula Public...
Joshua David Greenwood
Feb 12, 2022
Memorial service for Joshua David Greenwood will be held 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel. Joshua passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2022. He was 36. Born July 29, 1985 in Borger, Texas to Randy Greenwood and Tandi Wheless, Joshua attended schools in Borger until the age of 9, then moved with his family to...
Joyce LaVone Tidwell
Feb 12, 2022
Funeral service for Joyce LaVone Tidwell will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, February 18, 2022, at Owalla Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Owalla Cemetery. Visitation will be on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home in Claremore from 1-7 p.m. Family will greet friends from 5-7 p.m. Joyce passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2022. She was 76 years...
Anita Marie McAlexander
Feb 10, 2022
Graveside services for Anita Marie McAlexander will be held February 25, 2022 at Ward's Grove Cemetery 16541 E. 390 RD. Foyil, OK at 2:00 pm. Anita passed from this life at home February 10, 2022 in Claremore, OK. She was born at home in rural Nowata, Oklahoma on February 15, 1948 to Orvill Otis Holt and Melvina Elizabeth Edyburn-Holt. Preceding...
Patricia Vann
Feb 10, 2022
Patricia Ann Vann passed away on February 10th, 2022 at the age of 72 years old. Patricia was born to James and Julia Clay in Tahlequah, Ok. Growing up Patricia and her family moved several times over the years. They finally settled in Inola where she graduated with the class of 1967. Pat earned the All State Basketball player for...
Michael Richard Ellick
Feb 10, 2022
Funeral service for Michael Richard Ellick will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at the First United Methodist Church of Chelsea. Visitation will be at Chelsea Funeral Home and Cremation Service on Monday, February 14, 2022, from 1-8 p.m., with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m. Michael passed away in Tulsa on Thursday, February 10, 2022. He was 63...
Linda Lee Elledge
Feb 9, 2022
Linda Lee Elledge passed away on February 9, 2022 She was 81 years old. She was born to Bartlesville, Ok to Edd and Helen Hixson. she attended Claremore Public Schools and graduated with the class of 1959. she worked at Claremore Public Schools as a cafeteria cook for twenty plus years. She loved supporting her nieces and nephews in all...
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