OBITUARIES

Murry Wayne Estabrook

Murry Wayne Estabrook

Jul 9, 2021

Memorial service for Murry Wayne Estabrook, Sr. will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 24, 2021 at Claremore First United Methodist Church. Visitation will be at MMS-Payne Funeral Home on Friday, July 23, 2021 from 6-8 p.m. Murry was born May 3, 1951 In Muscatine, Iowa, to Murry Alfred Estabrook and Virginia Nadine Estabrook. In 1968, he met the love of...

Edward Eugene Barbee

Edward Eugene Barbee

Jul 7, 2021

Edward Eugene Barbee passed away on July 7th, 2021 at St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa at the age of 76. The son of Cecil and Reba Madden Barbee was born November 13th, 1944in Hoyt, Oklahoma. Around the age of 7 Ed and his family moved Rogers county just outside of Catoosa. He would later attend Verdigris and Catoosa schools. In...

Myrtle Alene Binam

Myrtle Alene Binam

Jul 6, 2021

A graveside service will be held at the Chouteau Cemetery in Chouteau, Oklahoma on Friday at 10:00a.m. Myrtle Alene Binam was born February 27, 1932, in Inola, Oklahoma , to Willis and Grace Honeycutt. She passed peacefully with her children by her side, at the age of 89 on July 6, 2021. She was raised on a farm in Inola...

M.C. Morgan

M.C. Morgan

Jul 2, 2021

M.C. Morgan was born to Lesley and Dove Ann (Winters) Morgan on January 6, 1928 on the family farm in Barber, Arkansas. There he grew up and attended school in a one room school house. After school he worked and took care of the family farm until he moved to Claremore, Oklahoma to work delivering Ice in the 1940s. During...

Wanda Verdell Stokes

Wanda Verdell Stokes

Jun 30, 2021

Wanda Verdell Stokes passed away peacefully on June 30, 2021. She was 93 years old. Verdell was born in Seminole, Oklahoma to William Everett Flood and Augusta Elizabeth (Mozier) Flood. Growing up, Verdell and her family moved around Oklahoma in many different towns before settling down in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There she attended Cherokee Public Schools. Verdell had a passion for...

Dwayne Lee Hurst

Dwayne Lee Hurst

Jun 28, 2021

Dwayne Lee Hurst passed away on June 28, 2021. He was 55 years old. Dwayne was born to Bennett Ocie Hurst and Terry Lynn Hurst in Glendale, Arizona. Not long after he was born, the family moved to Claremore, Oklahoma where they planted their roots and raised their family. Dwayne attended Sequoyah Public Schools, where he played football and competed...

James Leon Baldwin

James Leon Baldwin

Jun 23, 2021

Funeral service for James Baldwin will be 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 39, 2021 at First Baptist Church, Inola, Oklahoma. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Tuesday, June 29 from 2pm -8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. James Leon Baldwin passed from his earthly life and into his heavenly home on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 at the age...

Jay "J.D." Denver Williams

Jay "J.D." Denver Williams

Jun 22, 2021

Jay Denver Williams peacefully departed this earth on June 22, 2021, surrounded by loved ones. Jay was born in Inola, OK on July 27, 1949 to Stella (Williams) Whitten and Jim Williams, both of which have preceded him in death. He spent most of his life “fixing” things. From lawnmowers to heavy equipment, he could make just about anything run...

Leonard Leon Yates

Leonard Leon Yates

Jun 22, 2021

Lenny passed from this life on June 22, 2021 at the age of 67. The son of Leon and Elaine Yates was born on October 10, 1953 in Wagner, OK. Leonard attended Justus and Claremore Schools. On May 25, 1973 he married the love of his life, Ellen Ivon Kizer. They made their home in Claremore. From reading electric meters,...

David Wayne Clingenpeel

David Wayne Clingenpeel

Jun 22, 2021

David Wayne Clingenpeel was born to Max and Rachel Clingenpeel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He grew up in Tulsa where he attended Booker T Washington School and graduated. After high school David worked in the food industry, He worked at Pizza Hut and worked his way up the ladder to a General Manager position for many years. He met the mother...

Lownetta M. Boyd

Lownetta M. Boyd

Jun 20, 2021

Service for Lownetta Marie Boyd will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, she will be laid to rest beside her husband, Ross, at Woodlawn Cemetery. Lownetta passed away at her home on Sunday, June 20, 2021. She was 98 years old. Lownetta was born October 27, 1922 in Circle City, Louisiana to Henry Walter...

Ivan Lee Motter

Ivan Lee Motter

Jun 20, 2021

Ivan Lee Motter was born on January 19, 1932, to George Washington Motter and Vera Marie (Barber) Motter in Yukon, Oklahoma. He passed away on June 20, 2021, in Pryor, Oklahoma at the age of 89. When Ivan was 12 years old, his family moved to Rogers County and began operating a cattle ranch where he worked alongside his dad....

Terri Lynn Young

Terri Lynn Young

Jun 20, 2021

Graveside service for Terri Young will be held on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore. Terri Lynn Young passed away on Sunday, June 20th, 2021 at the age of 61. The daughter of Harold Porterfield and Wanda (Payne) Elliott was born January 19th, 1960 in Claremore, Oklahoma. Terri was a lifelong resident of Rogers County. She grew...

Mary Anne Allison

Mary Anne Allison

Jun 17, 2021

Mary Anne Allison, seventy-five-year-old Vinita resident, passed away peacefully at her home on June 17, 2021. She was born on January 14, 1946, to Marvin Winters Grunden and Pearl Deloris (Ward) Grunden in Palo Alto, California. Shortly after, the family moved to Vinita, where she graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School in 1963. She attended cosmetology school in Miami, Oklahoma....

Elizabeth Luella Johnson

Elizabeth Luella Johnson

Jun 15, 2021

Elizabeth "Betty" Luella (Gordon) Johnson was born April 14, 1925 to Earl & Marguerite E. (Neuerburg) Gordon. She died June 15, 2021, at the age of 96. She was born in Perry, Oklahoma, where she grew up. At the end of WWII, she met and married Blake E. Johnson on Christmas Eve, 1945. They were married 63 years. They lived...

Joyce M. Meeker

Joyce M. Meeker

Jun 15, 2021

Graveside service for Joyce "Mar" Meeker will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, June 18, 2021 at Highland Cemetery in Inola.

William Russell Allton

William Russell Allton

Jun 12, 2021

William Russell Allton was born in Dewey, Oklahoma on April 25, 1931 to Russell Frank and Alice Mae (Steffens) Allton. He attended school in Claremore and graduated with the class of 1948. On August 26, 1949 Bill married Jimmie Louise Reed and the couple made Tulsa home for the first 25 years of marriage and the last 48 years have...

Janie Ruth Floyd

Janie Ruth Floyd

Jun 10, 2021

Janie Ruth Warner Floyd was born August 5, 1950, in Mobile, Alabama to James and Lila Warner.  She attended schools in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, and graduated in 1970 from Claremore High School where she made some lifelong friends.  She enjoyed cooking, art, reading, listening to music, traveling, and sewing as a hobby.  Janie came to know the Lord at...

Dale Mark Janz

Dale Mark Janz

Jun 10, 2021

Dale Mark Janz passed away on Thursday, June 10, 2021 at his home in Inola. Dale was born February 1, 1963 in Pryor, Oklahoma to Joe and Dorothy (Penner) Janz. Dale accepted the Lord during church camp as a youth and baptized as a young teen. After Pastor John Voth came to Eden in 1990, Dale met with him to...

Loretta Ann Genn

Loretta Ann Genn

Jun 3, 2021

Loretta A. Genn passed away on Thursday, June 3, 2021 at her home in Claremore, Oklahoma. Loretta was born July 27, 1936 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma to Sie and Naomi (Forney) Enyart. As the middle of five, she truly enjoyed growing up in Pawhuska. She loved telling stories about her parents, Sie and Naomi, and of her siblings, Sie, Ninetta, Shirley,...

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