All Obituaries

  Kelly Waldon Springer was born on March 28, 1956 and died on January 22, 2021 after a short illness. Born to Jack Dean and Mary Jean (Slack) Springer, Kelly spent his childhood on the family farm east of Carmen, Oklahoma.  Kelly started his life of hard work at a young age, dedicating his earliest years to making mischief for his older siblings, Vicky, Kirk, and Janet.  Kelly was born into a family that valued loyalty, unconditional love, and a good off-color...

Herbert Louis Niles was born April 20, 1932 in Cherokee, Oklahoma.  He grew up on the family homestead south of Cherokee with his parents, Verg and Ona, and his sister Vergie.  He graduated from Lambert High School, NW Oklahoma State University, and had a Masters Degree in Mathematics from Western Colorado University in Gunnison.  He taught school in Wichita, Kansas for many years before returning to Cherokee to teach and help with the farm.  He was Parthena...

Ernie Roy Fredrick was born on November 16, 1936 in the kitchen on the family farm northeast of Medford to Charles Edward Fredrick and Zelma Edith (Wooderson) Fredrick and passed from this life on January 18, 2021 at his home in rural Medford with his family present. Ernie was raised on the homestead staked out in the Land Run of 1893 by his grandfather, Ernest Robert Fredrick, seven miles east and two north of Medford. His parents took over the home and then passed the home onto Ernie and...

My wife and our dear mother, Kathy Harrelson Warren-Moss was born to W.C. and Jewell Cooper Harrelson, on March 10, 1958 in Red Level, Alabama. She peacefully passed into her Savior’s arms on January 16, 2021 after a brief illness. Kathy spent her childhood in River Falls and attended twelve years of school in Red Level. She was the youngest, and much loved little sister, of her five siblings. She grew up attending church with her family and had her first encounter with the Lord in...

Wanda Mae Hobbs Cox was born on August 4, 1934 to James and Maude Hobbs in Mayfield, Kansas.  She was the only girl with three older brothers and one younger brother: Junior, Bill, Don, and Richard “Dick” Hobbs. On January 25, 1951 Wanda married Joe Cox at the court house in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.  Joe had to borrow $20 from Lamoine Woodson to marry his bride, and many said it wouldn’t last a month!!  The couple was just three weeks shy of their 70th...

Lisa Renee Crow was born in Kiowa, Kansas on July 8, 1964.  Her parents are Linda Carey Vossberg and the late Merle L. Crow.  Lisa was born with Down’s Syndrome.  She always had a bubbly personality and enjoyed life.  Lisa was a member of the First Christian Church of Kiowa.  Lisa lived in multiple places during her life.  After leaving home, she lived in Medicine Lodge, where she attended Arrowhead West.  She moved to Rapid City, South Dakota to be...

Wesley Rader September 20, 1941 - December 25, 2020             Wesley Eugene Rader was born on September 20, 1941, in Alva, Oklahoma to Joe and Maxine Rader. Wesley attended most of his schooling as a child in Hardtner, Kansas.  He graduated from Hardtner High School in 1959. He then attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He did his practice teaching at Hardtner High School and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in...

  Mayble Watson was born in Pauls Valley on October 21, 1965 to parents, William Albert Watson and Daisy Ellen Norton Watson and passed from this life in Tulsa on December 24, 2020.  After Pauls Valley she had lived in Driftwood, Cherokee, Helena then Taft.  While living at Taft, Mayble attended Langston University and received her Bachelor’s Degree.  While in college she belonged to Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.  Then she lived in Chicago where she taught in...

Mary Arlene Puffinbarger McPherson, 76, of Newton, Kansas passed away on December 21, 2020 of natural causes. Mary was born on February 5, 1944 to A.R. “Bill” Puffinbarger and Esther Cox Puffinbarger in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.  After graduating from Byron-Driftwood High School in  1962, she went on to study Nursing at Hutchinson Hospital School of Nursing and worked as an RN from 1974 – 2007. She wed Larry McPherson in 1963, and they were married for...

Oscar “Jack” Harding was born July 24, 1926 in Wagoner, Oklahoma to Martha Dunivan Harding and William A. Harding.  He was born with meningitis and told he would live less than a year.  However, by the time he was a year old, he was a healthy child. Jack’s father died when he was five years old and his mother remarried Henry Floyd and the family moved to Missouri.  When Jack was eight, his family was in a car accident.  Jack was thrown from the car and...