All Obituaries

 Randall Neil Bishop was born December 17, 1952, to William James “Bill” Bishop and Dortha Lee Long Bishop in Woodward, Oklahoma.  Randall attended Woodward Public School until 1968 when the family moved to Buffalo, Oklahoma.  Randall was a member of the FFA, Boy Scouts and dreamed of building homes.  Randall attended Buffalo High School, graduating with the class...

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Donna Maree Ring Craighead, 86, died June 4, 2018, in Richardson, TX.  A 59-year resident of Stillwater, she moved to Texas in December 2016, to be near family. Visitation will be Wednesday, June 6, 2018, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Strode Funeral Home.  Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 7, 2018, at the First Baptist Church, Stillwater, OK. The Reverend Greg Oppenhuis, her Texas pastor, will officiate.  Interment will...

Ila Marie (Redwine) Bentley was born on December 21, 1937 in her parents’ home near the Paruna Community, northeast of Buffalo, Oklahoma. She attended first grade at Paruna Grade School and then moved to Buffalo, Oklahoma with her family, to complete her grade and high school years. After Ila graduated from Buffalo High School, she moved to Oklahoma City, where she attend Beauty...

Meryl M. Keding was born on June 1, 1933 to Erwin and Hilda (Schumaker) Keding at Dayton, Iowa. Grew up in Iowa before moving to Woodward, Oklahoma. Meryl later made his home in Buffalo, Oklahoma where he built portable storage building, for many years before, he sold the Keding business and retired to a slower life style. Meryl was preceded in dead by his parents, 2 brothers, and 1 sister. Meryl left his...

James “Jim” Hill Burnside, 77 of Buffalo, Oklahoma passed away May 15, 2018. “Jim” best known to family and friends, was born on February 11, 1941 in Garden City, Kansas.  He was the son of John and Imogene (Hill) Burnside. Jim and Shirley Quakenbush Burnside were united in marriage on December 22, 1962 at Sublette, Kansas. Their family was made complete with  two boys Keith, Kirk and daughter...

Leslie Francis Harper, age 74, passed away peacefully on April 15, 2018 in his beloved hometown of Buffalo, Oklahoma. He was born to Buck and Fran Harper on August 23, 1943 in Buffalo. He graduated from Buffalo High School (which he attended most days unless it was quail season) in 1961. He would often say he graduated three years in a row – 1960, 1961, and 1962 because everyone in those three classes were his...

Darrol “Dean” Stone was born April 29, 1936 to Lytle Troy Stone and Sylvia Baker Stone at Ashland, Kansas and left this life on April 14, 2018 in Enid, Oklahoma.  Dean moved to Buffalo in 1950 along with his mother Sylvia, who was then married to R. L. “Loren” Brock.  Dean graduated from Buffalo High School with the class of 1955 then promptly entered the U.S. Navy in June of 1955, where he served on a destroyer, the U.S.S. Uhlmann in the Western Pacific...

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Ula Lea Morgan was born on a farm near Harmon Oklahoma, to Arnold and Emma (Adams) Morgan on February 24, 1936.  She attended school at Arnett Oklahoma. In 1955, she married Henry Clay Patton.  To this union, was four children born, Henry, Billy, Hillard and Marlene Patton and two step-daughters of Darlene, Arlene.  She left Henry in 1980 and later divorced him in 1988, that’s when she moved from Woodward to Buffalo. ...