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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
Lynn Bryan Loy
Jun 2, 2021
Lynn Bryan Loy was born in Tulsa Oklahoma to Leon and Lou Ann (Lowe) Loy, on February 23rd 1961. He had one sister, LeAnn, who passed at the age of five to neuroblastoma. Shortly after the passing of his sister, Lynn’s father moved away and Lynn was forced to grow up quickly to help support himself and his mother. It...
Timothy Clark Bingham Sr.
May 31, 2021
Timothy Clark Bingham, Sr., 57, passed away May 31, 2021 in Claremore. Tim was born in Claremore, Oklahoma on October 5th, 1963. He grew up in and attended school in Foyil, Oklahoma. He graduated from Foyil High School in 1981. From there he went on to serve in the U.S. Navy. He enjoyed spending time outdoors, mowing, fishing, riding his...
Jean Ann Essley
May 26, 2021
Jean Ann Overmyer Essley passed on May 26, 2021 at Hillcrest Medical Center following a complicated case of pancreatitis. Jean was born January 15th, 1929 in Fairmount, Indiana. At age four she moved with her family to Tulsa. She attended Central High School and was active with her reunion group for many years. She was at OSU for only one...
Douglas E Gibson
May 25, 2021
Douglas Eugene Gibson, husband, father, and PaPa, died peacefully, among family on May 25, 2021. He was 67 years old. Doug was born to Troyce and Nancy (Taylor) Gibson on May 25, 1954 in Coffeyville, Kansas, the third born of four children. Shortly after school age, the family relocated to Miami, Oklahoma. From then on, Miami, OK and Wichita, KS...
John Cherry
May 24, 2021
John Cherry was born on July 15, 1930 to Agnes Tyler and John Cherry in Verdigris, Oklahoma. He was given the name Junior. He was the second born of nine siblings and worked hard for his family. John’s first marriage was to Doris Early. They had two children, John and Rita, before they divorced. He joined the U.S. army in...
Robert Steven LeGate
May 23, 2021
Funeral services for Robert Steven LeGate will be held at 3:00 pm Thursday May 27th, 2021 at Claremore Elks Lodge, 1820 Summit Drive, Claremore, OK. Services officiated by Joe Spann under the direction of MMS-Payne Funeral Services. Please dress casual, it is what Steve would want. Steven passed away at his home on Sunday May 23rd, 2021 at the age...
Marian Ann Nickles
May 22, 2021
Mern went to be with the Lord on Saturday May 22nd, 2021. She was 77 years and 9 months. Born August 15, 1943. Mern had a son at age 24 and worked hard through her life to provide. Early in her career she was a bookkeeper for various CPA firms, she had Nickles Office Supply, and later managed several stores...
Michael Scott Meador
May 19, 2021
A memorial service for Scott Meador will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, May 27, 2021 at First United Methodist Church in Claremore. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday, May 26 from 1pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Michael Scott Meador passed away on May 19, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Scott as he was known by everyone who...