OBITUARIES
Wilma Willis
Jul 25, 2021
Wilma Jean Willis passed away on July 25, 2021. She was 83. Born on February 10, 1938, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to Elmer and Gladys Maner. She attended school in Inola. Wilma was a cook at Inola elementary school for 20 years. She was a charter member of Calvary Baptist Church. Wilma taught Sunday school for several years. She was...
Audrey Purves
Jul 24, 2021
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Audrey L. Purves passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family, on Saturday evening, July 24, 2021 at 99 years, 1 month and16 days. Audrey lived a rich and fulfilling life and left an equally wonderful legacy. Daughter of dairy farmers of Batavia, New York, Herbert and Lela Logan, Audrey was the middle child...
Deborah Lynn Stover
Jul 23, 2021
Service for Deborah "Debbie" Lynn Allison Stover will be 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at First Christian Church of Chelsea, Debbie will be laid to rest at Dawes Cemetery in Chelsea. Visitation will be Monday, July 26 at the Chelsea Funeral Home from 1pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Debbie passed away on July 23, 2021. She was...
William Edward Roughley
Jul 22, 2021
Funeral service for Ed Roughly will be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at the First Baptist Church of Verdigris. Pastor Rogers Plemmens will officiate. Burial will follow at Hartford Memorial Park Cemetery in Hartford, Arkansas. William Edward Roughley was born September 16th, 1926 in Haskell, Oklahoma. He would spend the early years of his life there. At the age...
Norman Lester Jones
Jul 22, 2021
Memorial service for Claremore resident, Norman Lester Jones will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel in Claremore. He passed away at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MO on July 22, 2021. He was 64 years old. Norman Lester Jones, the son of Frank Lester Jones and Norma Ruth (Nelms) Casey, was born in Tulsa on...
Ted Eugene Steidley
Jul 21, 2021
Ted Steidley passed away on July 21, 2021 He was 83 years old. Ted was born to Theodore and Edna Steidley in Tiawah, Ok. Ted attended Washington Schools, Tiawah Schools, Macintosh Schools and Claremore Schools growing up. After his school years he helped his parents on the family farm and mowed lawns. Over the years he worked at Jack Kissee...
Morgan Dowell
Jul 18, 2021
Service for Grady Morgan Dowell will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, July 22, 2021 at First United Methodist Church, burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday, July 21 from 2pm-8pm, family will receive visitors from 6pm-8pm. Morgan passed away on Sunday, July 18, 2021. He was 61. Born January 2, 1960 in Claremore,...
Paul Arthur Renaud
Jul 16, 2021
Paul Arthur Renaud passed away on July 16, 2021. He was 89 years old. Paul was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts on August 16th, 1931.He attended St. Anthony Schools in New Bedford. Paul felt that he needed to serve his country and stopped going to school and enlisted in the Army 1948-1952 during the Korean War. He also served in...
Betty Jo Adams
Jul 12, 2021
Graveside service for Betty Jo Adams will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2021 at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Betty passed away on Monday, July 12th, 2021. She was 92. Betty Jo Adams was born July 21, 1928 in Celestine, Oklahoma to Jacob F. and Ora (Hodges) Smart, she was one of nine children. On December 20, 1942 she married Beecher...
Mary Lu Bible
Jul 12, 2021
Mary Lu Bible went to be with her Lord and Savior on July 12th with her beloved family by her side at the age of 77. Mary Lu was born on January 29, 1944 to George T., Jr. and Lilly Louise (Morrison) Jarvis. She attended Whitehill and Chelsea Schools, graduating with the CHS class of 1962. On August 24, 1962...
Judy Ladonna Crane
Jul 11, 2021
Judy Ladonna Crane passed away on July 11, 2021 She was 79 years old. Judy was born to Walter and Annabelle (McQueen) Crisp in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Judy and her family moved to Lake Texoma for a couple of years before they planted their roots in Chouteau, Oklahoma. Judy attended Chouteau Public Schools until the 9th grade Shortly after high school...
Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Morgan
Jul 11, 2021
Service for Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Morgan will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, July 16, 2021 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, burial will follow at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Thursday, July 15 from 2pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Tom passed away on Sunday, July 11, 2021. He was 94. Thomas Jefferson Morgan was...
Frances S. Moore
Jul 9, 2021
Service for Frances S. Moore will be 10:30am, Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at North Park Trinity Baptist Church, burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Monday, July 12 from 2pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Frances passed away on Friday, July 9, 2021 with family by her side. She was 99. Service...
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
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
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
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
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...
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