OBITUARIES
LaVonna J. Blan
Mar 6, 2020
Memorial service celebrating the life of LaVonna Blan will be 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at New Life Baptist Church, Claremore. LaVonna passed away on Friday, March 6, 2020. She was 83. LaVonna J. Blan was born September 20, 1936, in Stigler, Oklahoma, to Robert E and Ruby L (Hackler) Suggs. She attended schools in Stigler where she received...
Paul Driesel Jr.
Mar 3, 2020
Paul Driesel was born October 28th, 1952 and died peacefully at home on March 3rd, 2020, at the age of 67. Paul grew up in Tulsa and attended Rogers High School. Paul Shared many happy memories of weekends and vacations with the aunts, uncles, and cousins fishing and swimming in Barren Fork Creek and of the extended family gatherings at...
Kenneth Earl (Kenny) Jones
Mar 3, 2020
Service celebrating the life of Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Jones will be 4:00p.m., Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at his home, 404 C Street Southwest, Inola, Oklahoma. Kenny passed away on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. He was 59. Kenneth "Kenny" Earl Jones was born March 18, 1960, in Grove, Oklahoma, to Billy Frank Jones and Bessie Mae Jones. Kenny received his education...
Charlotte Lee Coday
Mar 2, 2020
Memorial service for Charlotte L. Coday will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at First United Methodist Church, Dr. Ray Crawford will officiate. Charlotte passed away on Monday, March 2nd, 2020. She was 73.
Floyd Eugene Shackelford
Mar 1, 2020
Memorial service for Floyd Eugene Shackelford will be 11:00 am Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at Inola Funeral Home Chapel. Floyd passed from this life at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa on Sunday, March 1, 2020. He was 70 years old. The son of Floyd Lowell Shackelford and Lydia Lucendy (King) Shackelford was born July 13, 1949 in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He grew...
Louise Summers
Mar 1, 2020
Louise was born July 12, 1911 in Portland, Indiana to Jasper and Anna Clara Hughes. She had two older siblings, Ruth and Ralph. In 1915, tragedy struck this family as the three children contacted Scarlet Fever. Her sister and brother died five days apart, but Louise survived. In 1918, the oil boom hit Oklahoma. Jasper decided to move his family...
Sidney Kellehan
Feb 29, 2020
Funeral service for Sidney Kellehan will be held 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at First Baptist Church in Claremore. Pastor Sam Nichols will officiate. Burial will follow at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held on Monday, March 2, 2020 at the MMS-Payne Funeral Home. Family will greet friends from 6-8 p.m Sidney passed away on Saturday, February 29th,...
Phillip Dean Rollman
Feb 29, 2020
Memorial service for Phillip Rollman will be 2:00 pm Friday, March 6, 2020, at MMS-Payne Funeral Home in Claremore. Art Hamel will officiate. Phillip passed from this life at his home in Big Cabin on Saturday, February 29, 2020. He was 57 years old. The son of George Phillip Rollman and Essie Mae (Bradley) Rollman was born August 9, 1962,...
Robert Jones
Feb 28, 2020
Robert " Bobby" Jones was born on January 29th, 1952 in Redwood City, California. He passed away on February 28th, 2020 in his home in Claremore, Oklahoma with his wife and a few close friends by his side. He attended high school in Huntington Beach, Ca. Bobby lived the first part of his life working in a factory and pouring...
Braxton Lee Landburg
Feb 27, 2020
Service for Braxton Lee Landburg will be 2:00p.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at First Baptist Church, Inola, burial will follow at Chouteau Cemetery. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Tuesday, March 3, from 2pm-8pm, with family receiving visitors from 5pm-8pm. Braxton passed away on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at home with his loving family by his side. He...
Robert Elvis Hall
Feb 26, 2020
On Wednesday, February 26th, 2020, Robert Hall, passed away at home with family at the age of 74. Robert was born on September 20, 1945 in Oakdale, California to Clabern and Dora (Owens) Hall. He married Freda Mae Glasco in Ceres, California on March 6, 1965. The couple moved to Oklahoma, where Robert began his career doing prestress concrete work,...
Charles Brown
Feb 26, 2020
Funeral service for Charlie Brown will be held on Monday, March 2, 2020 at the Harvest Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Ross Mayes cemetery. Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at the MMS-Payne Funeral Home from 1-6 p.m. with family greeting friends from 3-6 p.m. Charles (Charlie) Leo Brown was born November 21, 1934 to Leo...
Jeannette Burns
Feb 26, 2020
Service for Jeannette Burns will be 10:00a.m., Saturday, February 29, 2020 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Friday, February 28 from 1pm-8pm, family will receive visitors from 6pm-8pm. Jeannette passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. She was 76. Born July 7, 1943 in Bixby, Oklahoma to...
Charolette Ann Brunson
Feb 26, 2020
Service for Charolette Ann Brunson will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, March 2, 2020 at First Baptist Church, Inola, burial will follow at Sweeten Cemetery under the direction of Inola Funeral Home & Crematory. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Sunday, March 1 from 1pm-6pm, with family receiving visitors from 4pm-6pm. Born October 9, 1942 in Claremore, Oklahoma to...
Deborah Kay Marlin
Feb 25, 2020
Deborah Kay Marlin passed away at her home in Claremore on Wednesday, February 25, 2020. She was 62 years old. Deborah was the daughter of Elba Carroll Pate and Wilma Caulder Pate, born in Tulsa on March 15, 1957. She attended and graduated from East Central High School in 1975. She went on to earn her Associates Degree. Her working...
Jerry Drane West
Feb 23, 2020
Memorial service for Jerry West will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 2020 at Clearview Church in Claremore. Jerry Drane West passed away on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 at the age of 86. The son of Jerry and Noval Drane West was born November 12th, 1933 in Springfield, Missouri. As a young boy he grew up in Fordland, Missouri....
Kathryn Gulley
Feb 22, 2020
Funeral service for Chelsea resident, Kathryn Lavern Gulley will be at 2 pm Thursday, February 27, 2020 at Chelsea First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Chelsea cemetery. Visitation will be at Chelsea Funeral Home on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 from 1-8 pm. Family will receive friends from 6-8 pm. Kathryn passed away at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa on Saturday,...
Dorsey Eugene Spurlock
Feb 21, 2020
Dorsey "Gene" Spurlock of Chelsea passed from this life on Feb 21, 2020, at the age of 88. Gene was born on Nov. 30, 1931, to Dorsey McKinley and Edith Irene Spurlock on a farm near Claremore. He grew up in Rogers County and attended Justus Elementary School. He and his family grew blackberries and sold them in the city...
Flora "Charlene" Storie
Feb 17, 2020
Service for Charlene Storie will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, February 21, 2020 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, burial will follow at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Flora "Charlene" (Lytle) Storie was born August 5, 1932 in Atoka, Oklahoma. She met her heavenly father February 17, 2020. She was the sixth child of Pizora Ellsworth Lytle and Leona Hester (Evans) Lytle. One of...