OBITUARIES
Jane Stone
Nov 17, 2020
Service for Jane Stone will be 10:00 a.m., Monday November 23, 2020 at Sageeyah Baptist Church burial will follow at Sageeyah Cemetery. Friends may visit at MMS-Payne Funeral Home on Sunday, November 22, 2020 from 1pm-6pm with family receiving visitors from 4pm-6pm. Jane passed away at her home on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. She was 84. Eula Jane Parris Stone...
ArMintie Elizabeth Axley
Nov 16, 2020
A Memorial service for ArMintie E. Tindle Axley will be held 2:00 p.m, Friday, December 4, 2020 at the MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel. ArMintie was born in 1926 to Leroy and Nellie Tindle, she was the oldest of five children. Her early schooling was completed in small schools throughout Osage County. ArMinitie attended Barnsdall High School, but in her senior...
Tiffany Dawn Prather
Nov 16, 2020
Tiffany Dawn Prather passed away on November 16th, 2020. She was 33 years old. Tiffany was born to Ralph and Kim Prather on May 26th, 1987 in Claremore, Oklahoma. She grew up in Claremore and has been a Rogers County resident her entire life. She attended Westside Elementary School as a kid and Oologah High School. One of her greatest...
Bridget Ann Taylor
Nov 15, 2020
Anyone who had the pleasure knowing Bridget, knew that she beamed with kindness and overflowed with love for her family & friends. She wore many hats in life– daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, teacher, friend to all, and passionate lover of the Lord. Bridget embodied strength, determination, and encouraged everyone around her to be the best versions of themselves. Bridget...
Win Ingersoll
Nov 12, 2020
Graveside services for Win Ingersoll will be 2:00 pm Thursday, November 19, 2020 at the Ingersoll Family Cemetery (Masks are suggested). If unable to attend, service will be live streamed on MMS-Payne Funeral Home Facebook page. Visitation will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Inola on Wednesday, November 18 from 1pm-7pm with family receiving visitors from 5pm-7pm....
Louise G. Wofford
Nov 11, 2020
Service for Louise G. Wofford will be 10:00 a.m., Monday, November 16, 2020 at Cedar Point Church, burial will follow at Feathers Cemetery in Stilwell, Oklahoma. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Sunday, November 15 from 1pm-6pm. Louise passed away on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. She was 69. Louise G. Wofford was born December 18, 1950 in Stilwell,...
Connie Jo Moody
Nov 11, 2020
Connie Jo Moody, 82, of Foyil, Oklahoma, passed away on Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 at Hillcrest Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma. Visitation, where family will greet friends, will be on November 16th from 5 PM to 7 PM at MMS-Payne Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Tuesday, November 17th at Foyil Baptist Church with Pastor Mike...
Deloris Marie Wimsatt
Nov 11, 2020
Deloris Marie Wimsatt passed away peacefully with her family by her side on November 11th, 2020, she was 90 years old. Deloris was born to Vivan and Bertha Laws on August 24th, 1930 in Olinger, Missouri. Deloris enjoyed the simple things in life she loved quilting and wood working and she enjoyed attending church at Alluwe Holiness Church. She made...
Patricia (Patty) Ann Melton
Nov 10, 2020
A memorial service for Patty will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 17, 2021 at First Christian Church. Patricia Ann "Patty" Melton passed away peacefully at her home on November 10, 2020, she was 64. Born on July 16, 1956 in Bartlesville to Jimmie Dean and Betty Ruth (Maner) Thompson, Patty attended elementary and high school in Inola. She graduated with...
Margaret (Marty) Mary McNamara
Nov 8, 2020
Beloved daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend, Margaret (Marty) Mary McNamara 75, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away on Sunday, November 8, 2020. She was born on April 23, 1945 in Claremore, Oklahoma, the daughter of Daniel James McNamara and Helen Lenora (Keithley) McNamara. Marty spent all her years growing up on the family dairy and cattle farm at Bushyhead working...
Louis Henry Eilers
Nov 5, 2020
Memorial service for Louis Eilers will be a graveside service at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at Inola Highland cemetery. Louis passed away peacefully at home with love and family by his side on Thursday, November 5, 2020. He was 99. Which turns out he was 69 days from celebrating his 100th birthday. Born January 14, 1921, in Gilliam, Missouri at...
Jo Ann Orr
Nov 5, 2020
Jo Ann Orr passed from this world into the loving hands of Jesus on Thursday, November 5, 2020, at the age of 83 years. She was born to Kenneth and Lolma Reed Gardner on May 30, 1937, in Claremore, Oklahoma. They made their home in the Sequoyah community where Jo Ann lived her entire life. She met and married Thomas...
Leroy Bryant
Nov 4, 2020
Funeral service for Leroy Bryant will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, November 9, 2020 at Inola First Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Sunday, November 8, 2020, from 1-6 p.m., with family greeting friends from 4-6 p.m. Leroy peacefully left his earthly body for his heavenly home on Wednesday, November 4, 2020,...
Winford Lee Turner
Nov 3, 2020
Memorial service for Winford Turner will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 7, 2020 at Claremore First Baptist Church Chapel. Winford passed away on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. He was 85. Born November 1, 1935, in Claremore, Oklahoma to Fred Turner and Bertha (Sumter) Vest, Winford received his education in Claremore. He later enlisted with the US Navy and proudly served his...
Donna Jean Cooksey
Oct 31, 2020
Service for Donna Jean Cooksey will be 10:00 a.m., Thursday, November 5, 2020 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, burial will follow at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday, November 4, from 1pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 6pm-8pm. Donna passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2020. She was 86. Donna Jean Cooksey was born...
Rusty Jay Woods
Oct 29, 2020
Rusty Jay Woods was born August 12, 1957, in San Diego, California, to Floyd Duke Sliger and Mablee Rachelle (Warren) Woods. While he met his biological father later in life, he was adopted as a child and raised by his mother’s husband Riley Woods. He attended schools in Whittier, California, but finished his senior year at Coweta High School, after...
Ennis Dean Smith
Oct 29, 2020
Ennis Dean Smith was born in Hulbert, OK on June 1, 1932. He passed peacefully on October 29, 2020 in Catoosa, OK. Ennis was the 4th of 12 children born to Frank and Daisy Smith. He lived in Inola for 35 years, then married Opal English on April 10th, 1970, and moved to Sequoyah. Ennis worked at American Airlines for...
Frances Ellen Dennis
Oct 26, 2020
Frances (Roberts) Boyd Dennis was born January 11, 1935 in Rainsville, IN to Raleigh and Lydia (Lucas) Roberts. She was 85 years old and entered her Heavenly Home October 26, 2020. Frances married Jim Boyd in 1952 and made their home in the Chelsea area raising four children. Occupations included sewing factory, food service supervisor, printer press operator at Rogers...
Linda Carol Henry
Oct 25, 2020
Linda Carol Henry passed away in her home in Chelsea on October 25, 2020, she was 77. Linda was born on October 1, 1943 in Memphis, Tennessee to parents Charles Marshall Shattuck and Lois Imagene (Buckner) Shattuck. On April 16, 1980 she married Rickey Lee Henry. Linda was a homemaker and caregiver who loved gardening, traveling with her husband, going...