OBITUARIES
Madeline (Madge) Ruth Wilson
Dec 31, 2020
Funeral services for Madge Wilson are scheduled for Wednesday, January 6th at MMS-Payne funeral home at 2:00 pm. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 5 from 1pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Madeline Ruth Wilson was born on August 17th, 1931 in Binghamton, New York to Fred and Marion Stevens. She passed from this life...
Patricia Jane Rue
Dec 30, 2020
Graveside service for Patricia Rue will be held 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at Dawes Cemetery. Patricia "Pat" Jane Rue passed away on Wednesday, December 30th, 2020 at the age of 90. The daughter of Frank and Lydia Williams Coble was born June 15th, 1930 in Miami, Oklahoma. As a young girl she was raised in the Miami area....
Elmer Dean Mitchell
Dec 28, 2020
Visitation for Chelsea resident, Elmer Dean Mitchell, will be 4-8 pm Thursday, January 7, 2021, at Chelsea Funeral Home and Cremation Service. Funeral service will be 2:00 pm Friday, January 8, at Chelsea First Baptist Church. Dean passed away Monday, December 28, 2020, at the age of 82. Dean was born July 13, 1938, at the old Franklin Hospital in...
Roger Wolf
Dec 28, 2020
Roger Wolf was born February 24, 1950 in Claremore, Oklahoma, to Palmer and Josephine (Billy) Wolf. He was one of six children and grew up in the west Tulsa area. Roger finished Webster High School early after his sophomore year, and went to work to help support his family. His father died when Roger was seven years old and it...
Margaret Elizabeth Nugent
Dec 27, 2020
Memorial service for Margaret Elizabeth Nugent will be 2pm, Monday, January 4, 2021 at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Claremore. Margaret passed away on Sunday, December 27, 2020. She was 75. Margaret Elizabeth (Comby) Nugent was born to Seymour and Edna (Ben) Comby in Philadelphia, Mississippi on February 25, 1945. Margaret, known as Maggie, was the youngest of four children, Warren Comby,...
Loy William Hurd
Dec 24, 2020
Loy is now Singing with the Angels in that Great Celestial Choir! Surely he is walking the Golden Streets of Heaven visiting with family, friends and chatting up stats with the Sports legends of old. Loy will be laid to rest with his family at the Lone Elm Cemetery. Memorial Service pending a time when we may gather in his...
Linda Kay Taylor
Dec 24, 2020
On December 24, 2020 at 7:58 pm Linda Kay Taylor took her place in Heaven. Born March 21, 1949 to Herman Roy Hood and Katherine Newell Hood, Linda grew up in Waurika Oklahoma and in the 1970’s the family moved to Stigler Oklahoma. Linda worked hard to provide for her two children, Tommy and Cindy, sacrificing like a great mother...
Robert George Cawrse
Dec 21, 2020
A graveside service will be held at Highland Cemetery for Robert George Cawrse on January 4, 2021 at 2:00pm. Robert “RC” Cawrse passed away on December 21st, 2020 at the age of 77. Bobby was born in Akron, Ohio to Albert and Ethel Cawrse. He began driving trucks at a young age and continued for most of his life. He...
Paul Delbert Thompson
Dec 17, 2020
Paul Thompson was born at home to Luther and Pauline Thompson (England) on July 30,1935. He passed away Thursday, December 17, 2020, at the age of 85. He has lived around Claremore all of his life. He started at a young age working in the sawmill and drilling water wells with his dad . In 1953 he went on a...
George Martin Peper
Dec 16, 2020
George Martin Peper passed from this life, December 16, 2020 at home with his family by his side. George was born November 25, 1928 in Adair, Ok to George Ernest and Lydia (Ruppel) Peper. He was baptized and confirmed in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Adair. He later graduated from the Lutheran Church School. George went on to serve in...
Jodel Elton Lewellen
Dec 15, 2020
Jodel E. Lewellen was Born on March 19, 1938. He passed away on December 15, 2020. He is survived by his wife Elaine; sons Reid, Tim and wife Sharon, and Jerry and wife Lyslie; ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Jodel enjoyed being a part of a truck stop ministry for 15 years, and working with Claremore First Baptist Church disaster...
Steven Wade Roberts
Dec 13, 2020
Services celebrating and remembering the life of Steven W. Roberts will be December 29th, 2020 at 2 p.m. at the Oologah Senior Center. Steven passed away December 13, 2020 in Tulsa, OK, at the age of 38. He was born in Claremore, OK on January 19, 1982 to Grant and Jeri Roberts. Steven was raised in Chelsea Oklahoma. He graduated...
Beverly J. Hancock
Dec 13, 2020
Beverly Hancock passed away peacefully on December 13th, 2020. She was 78 years old. She was born to Otto Hartlipp and Amanda Hartlipp in Hoyleton, Illinois on September 30th, 1942. She grew up and attended school in Hoyleton. Later in life, her family moved around in Illinois and Indiana, and making Chelsea, Oklahoma their final home in 1979. Beverly enjoyed...
Rosemary Catherine Steigert
Dec 11, 2020
Mass of Christian burial will be 10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 17, 2020 at St. Cecilia Catholic Church. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday, December 16 from 1pm -8pm. Rosemary passed away on Friday, December 11, 2020. She was 100.
Margaret Ann Tapley
Dec 10, 2020
Memorial service for Margaret Tapley will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 9, 2021 at First United Methodist Church. Margaret passed away on Thursday, December 10, 2020. She was 92. Born August 25, 1928 in Pella, Iowa to Andrew John and Anna (Verros) Buwalda, Margaret attended school and graduated high school in Pella. On August 28, 1947 she married Charles Alfred...
Virgil Lee McLain
Dec 9, 2020
Graveside service for Claremore resident Virgil Lee McLain will be 1 pm Friday, December 18, 2020, at Washington Cemetery, under the direction of MMS-Payne Funeral Home. Virgil passed away at his home on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. He was 78 years old. The son of Oscar McLain and Evelyn Loraina Hamilton was born January 19, 1942, in Pryor, Oklahoma. He...
Jerry Samuel Copp
Dec 9, 2020
Jerry Samuel Copp passed away peacefully in Tulsa, Oklahoma on December 9th, 2020, He was 78 years old. Jerry was born to Virgil "Buck" and Louise Copp on December 4th, 1942 in Claremore, Oklahoma at the Franklin hospital. He has been a long time Claremore and Rogers County Native. He attended Claremore Public Schools and graduated with the class of...
Beverly Diane Maddox
Dec 7, 2020
Memorial service for Beverly Diane Maddox will be 11:00 am Friday, December 11, 2020, at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel in Claremore. Beverly passed from this life on Monday, December 7, 2020, at the age of 66. The daughter of Marvin and Velma England was born October 27, 1954, in Claremore. She grew up and attended school in her birth community,...
Edwin Neal Rackleff
Dec 6, 2020
Funeral service for Edwin Neal Rackleff will be 1 pm Friday, December 18, 2020 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel. Ed passed away Sunday, December 6, 2020, at the age of 59. Ed Rackleff, full blood Keetowah Cherokee, originally from the rural community of Rocky Ford, near his birthplace of Tahlequah, OK, has been a resident of Claremore for the past...
Helen Virginia Burks
Dec 5, 2020
Helen Virginia (Austin) Burks journeyed peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior on December 5th, 2020. She joined in heaven her beloved adoptive parents, aunt and uncle Clessie (Wimberly) and Dee Austin, and her birth parents Oland and Vera (Wimberly) Meaders, along with her sister Loretta Watts and five brothers: Wayland, Wayne, Marl, Owen and Baby Meaders. She is...
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