Obituaries

Oct 2, 2003

Eugene Willis Gene Coffey, lifelong Osage County resident, passed away on Thursday, October 2, 2003 at the Cleveland Area Hospital at the age of seventy-eight years and eight months. Gene was born February 2, 1925 in Miami, Oklahoma. He was the son of William Wesley and Ida May Coffey. Gene moved with his family at an early age to Prue...

Sep 27, 2003

Edna Marie Pickle was born August 27, 1917 in Indianola, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Sam and Bertha Freeman. Edna was raised and attended school in Indianola. She was a member of the Choate Prairie Baptist Church. At the age of sixteen, Edna married Lowell Jake Pickle on July 29, 1933. The couple made their initial home in Indianola...

Sep 26, 2003

Cloyde Clifford Byrom, lifelong Cleveland resident, passed away on Friday, September 26, 2003 at his home in Cleveland, at the age of ninety-two years and ten days. Cloyde was born September 16, 1911 in rural Pawnee County, Oklahoma, near Maramec. He was the son of Calvin Sinnitt and Lottie Mamie Byrom. He moved to Cleveland at an early age, where...

Sep 24, 2003

Theodore Henry Cox was born August 24, 1928 in Osage County, Oklahoma to Nell (Prater) Tilley and Clarence Cox. T.H. grew up West of Hominy attending the Enterprise School until the 8th grade. He then attended school in Hominy where he later graduated. T.H. entered the United States Army during the Korean Conflict until he was honorably discharged. He returned...

Sep 22, 2003

John Travis Allen, lifelong Cleveland resident, passed away on Monday, September 22, 2003 at the Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, at the age of twenty-nine years, eight months and twenty-one days. Travis was born December 31, 1973 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of John and Connie Allen. Travis was raised and attended school in Cleveland, graduating from Cleveland...

Sep 22, 2003

Sep 21, 2003

On September 21, 2003 Dee Jones Dobbs passed away at the Cleveland Manor Nursing Home at the age of 87 years. He was born on January 19, 1916 to Ben and Milvina (Rutledge) Dobbs in Manes Missouri. Dee received his education in Wright County, Missouri. On November 11, 1937 he married Sylvia Trellis Willhite in Hartville, Missouri. They made their...

Sep 20, 2003

Sep 4, 2003

Sybil Lea Place Clemens, a resident of Cleveland was born July 5, 1930 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma to Elisha and Jessie Mae (McAdory) Place. Sybil was raised and received her education in Sand Springs where she graduated from high school. Soon after her graduation Sybil joined the United States Marine Corp in 1952 serving in El Toro, California. Upon receiving...

Sep 1, 2003

Aug 31, 2003

Dollie A. Lay was born February 24, 1917 in Fruita, Colorado. She was the daughter of L. Ed and Angus G. Barker. Dollie moved often with her family during her youth as they lived in California, Kansas and all over Oklahoma. Dollie was married to Loy Burgess Lay on June 20, 1937 in Cleveland, Oklahoma. The couple made their initial...

Aug 31, 2003

Nila Maxine Nichols was born November 8, 1924 in Blackburn, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Boyd and Nila Ann Jones. Maxine was raised an attended school in the Blackburn area. She was married to Joseph Henry Nichols on September 1, 1941 in Cleveland, Oklahoma. The couple made their initial home west of Cleveland as Joe was employed by Kerr...

Aug 29, 2003

Louise Draughon, lifelong Cleveland resident and business woman, passed away on Friday, August 29, 2003 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa at the age of ninety-four years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. Louise was born in Piedmont, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Joseph Lee and Azle Lee Meyer. She moved with her family at an early age to...

Aug 18, 2003

Imogene Gragg, of Cleveland was born August 10, 1938 in Decatur, Illinois to Harold Cecil and Lula Juanita (Seitz) Traughber. Imogene was raised and received her education in Decatur, Illinois. She graduated from Lakeview High School with the Class of 1956. Imogene attended college and soon accepted employment with the Decatur Memorial Hospital. She worked for the hospital from 1956...

Aug 17, 2003

Ruth E. Carter, of Cleveland was born August 31, 1925 in Dewey, Oklahoma to Howard Early and Dorothy (Crosslin) Cutler. Ruth was raised and received her education in Dewey. The family moved to Tulsa in 1940's. On July 21, 1943 she was united in marriage to Edd Carter in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The couple made their initial home in the Cleveland...

Aug 11, 2003

Delfina Kay Del Milagro Banos infant daughter of Sherry Ann (Brown) and Moises Alberto Banos II. She passed away August 11, 2003 at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Delfina was preceded in death by infant brother Angel. Survived by her parents, Moises and Sherry Banos of the home, sibilings, Chase, Kristina and Moises III of the home, maternal grandfather Jack Brown of Cleveland,...

Aug 9, 2003

Keith A. Deems was born March 13, 1930 in Denver, Colorado. He was the son of Arnold Theodore and Ellen C. Deems. Keith was raised and attended school in Denver, graduating from North High School in 1948. Shortly after graduation, Keith accepted employment with the Colorado and Southern Railroad. He continued to work for the railroad for nearly forty years,...

Aug 6, 2003

Edd Carter, longtime Cleveland area resident, passed away on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at the Southern Oaks Care Center in Pawnee at the age of eighty-five years, two months and five days. Edd was born June 1, 1918 in rural Caddo County, Oklahoma. He was the son of Luther and Rosetta May Carter. He moved with his family at the...

Aug 3, 2003

Deborah Ruth Dunn was born May 9, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was the daughter of Gordon Stanley and Grace Bennington. She moved often during her childhood as her father was an evangelist, beginning school in Pennsylvania and then graduating from high school in Burbank, California in 1943. She accepted Jesus Christ as her personal savior at the age...

Jul 29, 2003

Iva Marie Cox was born November 24, 1911 in Garfield, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Edward Monroe and Ada Mitchell. She was raised attended school in the Garfield area. Her mother passed away when Iva was young and she was raised by her step-mother. Iva was married to Jesse Maurice Morris Cox in Britewater, Arkansas on February 26, 1928....