Obituaries

Darline Franks

Darline Franks

Feb 17, 2018

Darline Geneva Hall was born in Wickenburg, AZ to Minnie Rabe-Hall and Hobart Hall.Ā  She had two younger sisters, Diane and Peggy.Ā  The family moved to Beaver County in 1945.Ā  Geneva attended Clearlake Grade School and Laverne High School.Ā  She met Lester Leon Franks, known as Buddy, after graduation from High School.Ā  She attended one semester...

Jerry Thompson

Jerry Thompson

Feb 13, 2018

Jerry L. Thompson was born on August 15, 1951 in Ashland, Kansas to Vance & Betty Jo (Perkins) Thompson. Jerry grew up in Buffalo, Oklahoma and loved the community he called home. He attended both Buffalo grade school and Buffalo High School and graduated with the Class of 1970. Jerry and Evelyn Schroeder were married and had three...

Ruth Berends

Ruth Berends

Jan 3, 2018

Ruth Elner (Stinson) Berends was the second child born to Orval & Heike (Luinstra) Stinson on December 16, 1927 near Rosston, Oklahoma. Ruth passed from this life on January 3, 2018 at the Shattuck Nursing Center in Shattuck, Oklahoma. She was 90 years old. Ruth attended Rosston schools and graduated in 1947 Salutatorian of her class. She then went...

Janice Larson

Janice Larson

Jan 1, 2018

Janice Larson was born October 6, 1952.Ā  She was a resident of Grace Living Center in Buffalo, Oklahoma.Ā  Enjoyed listening to music the living center would play.Ā  Janice left her earthly home on January 1, 2018 at the Harper County Community Hospital.

Charlotte Hamlin

Charlotte Hamlin

Dec 30, 2017

Charlotte Hamlin, age 91, passed away peacefully in her home on the morning of DecemberĀ  30,Ā  2017.Ā  She came into this world during a blizzard on December 18, 1926, in her family home four miles south of Fort Supply, Oklahoma.Ā  She began grade school in May, Oklahoma, and in 4th grade her family moved to Laverne, Oklahoma, where...

Kathleen Hughes

Kathleen Hughes

Dec 11, 2017

Kathleen Hughes was born on Dec. 16, 1929 to George Boyle & Orpha Belle (Smith) Stinson at their farm home northeast of Buffalo, OK.Ā  Named Evelyn Kathleen, she grew to womanhood there attending Buffalo Public Schools and graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1948.Ā  She attended one semester of college at Northwestern State College in Alva before returning...

Orval "Bud" Craig

Orval "Bud" Craig

Dec 8, 2017

ORVAL BYRON (BUD) CRAIG passed away on December 8th, 2017 in Ashland, Kansas. Bud was born on August 13, 1939, to Orval Craig and Julia Tackitt Craig of Meade, Kansas, the youngest of five children.Ā  Bud, or ā€œBuddyā€, in his youth, grew up on the familyā€™s cattle ranch near Meade and Fowler, Kansas.Ā  After graduating from Meade High School...

Asher Sizelove

Asher Sizelove

Nov 20, 2017

Asher Pauline Sizelove was born on November 16, 2017 at 2:06 in the afternoon at Integris Bass Baptist Hospital in Enid Oklahoma. She weighed 5 pounds 11.9 ounces and measured 18 inches in length. Asher left her earthly home November 20, 2017, in her motherā€™s arms surrounded by her family at their home in Rosston, Oklahoma. Although her...

Lennes Jones

Lennes Jones

Nov 15, 2017

Lennes Elvin Jones, eldest son of Clarence and Alma Wilson Jones, was born January 13, 1927 in May, OK.Ā  In 1943, when he was a junior in high school, he started driving a school bus. He graduated with the May Class of ā€™44, and continued driving the bus until 1947.

He worked for B-Line...

Maria (Betty) Velez

Maria (Betty) Velez

Nov 12, 2017

Maria Berenitce ā€œBettyā€ Velez, was born in Nacogdoches, Texas to Saul & Angela Velez on October 2, 1992. The family made their home in Perryton, Texas before moving to Buffalo, Oklahoma in 1993. Betty grew up in Buffalo attended grade school and graduated from Buffalo High School with the class of 2012. After high school she enrolled into...

Warren Smith

Warren Smith

Oct 30, 2017

Leslie Warren Smith, known as Warren, the son of Samuel Leslie and Gladys Oā€™Dessie (Taylor) Smith, born on May 27, 1924 on the family farm, Selman, Oklahoma.Ā  The family moved to Diamond, Missouri when Warren was a baby and returned to the family farm when Warren was 13 years old.Ā  Warren attended Selman Schools from 7th...

"ANDY" Truman Anderson

"ANDY" Truman Anderson

Oct 26, 2017

Truman Don Anderson, son of Herschel and Iona Anderson; born July 16, 1929.Ā  He grew upon the family farm northwest of Buffalo.Ā  He attended several country schools and graduated from Rosston High School.Ā  Truman entered the U.S. Air Force in 1951, where he was in the medical corps while stationed at Kirkland Air Force in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Ā ...

Duane Whisenhunt

Duane Whisenhunt

Oct 9, 2017

Duane Richard Whisenhunt, 54 years and 7 days, went home to be with Lord on Monday October 9,

2017 from Minneola, KS. Duane fought a short, but courageous battle with cancer.

Born in Minneola, KS, he was the second of four children born to...

Edwin Canton

Edwin Canton

Sep 6, 2017

Edwin was born in Southwest Kansas on November 1935 to Ulysses and Erna Canton of Englewood, Kansas. He was the youngest of seven boys, including two cousins from Utila and a younger sister. Edwin graduated from Englewood High School with the class of 1953 and moved to California with his family. Edwin served four years in the US...

Luther Cook

Luther Cook

Aug 21, 2017

Luther (Luke) Harding Cook was born on the family farm northeast of Rosston, on December 1, 1920, to Adam (Koch) Cook and Gertie Gullett Cook and left this life on August 21, 2017. He was 96 years old. He was the fourth of 5 children and spent his childhood on the family farm until he was drafted into...

Virgil Wells

Virgil Wells

Jul 27, 2017

Virgil Ray Wells was born the 6th of ten children to Leona and Glenn Wells on March 22, 1930, in Griggs, OK. After their father passed in 1935, the family moved to Boise City, OK, where Virgil attended all 12 years of school. As a child of the Great Depression, Virgil often recalled his first job as a...

Max Craighead

Max Craighead

Jul 18, 2017

Max Ralph Craighead, 88, died July 16, 2017, at Appletree Court Assisted Living in Richardson, TX. A 59-year resident of Stillwater, he moved to Texas in December 2016 to be near family. Visitation will be from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at Strode Funeral Home. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m....

Tra Snider

Tra Snider

Jul 15, 2017

Tra William Snider was born April 29th 1984 in Buffalo, Oklahoma. He is the son of Joannie and Greg Snider. Tra was a lifelong resident of Buffalo, graduating from Buffalo High School in 2003 where he was a member of NWOJR. Tra's experience in law enforcement began at the age of 18 when he worked as a dispatcher...

Larry Smith

Larry Smith

Jun 2, 2017

Larry Eugene Smith the son of Warren and Bonnie (Miller) Smith, born November 17, 1943, in Woodward, Oklahoma.Ā  Larry graduated from the Selman High School, with the class of 1961 and briefly attended Panhandle State College in Goodwell, Oklahoma.Ā  Larry joined the U.S. Army Reserves for 6 years.Ā  He was united in marriage on December 26th 1966 to Carolyn...

Wilma Neil

Wilma Neil

May 18, 2017

Wilma E. Neil was born September 1, 1928 to William and Esther (Miller) Greene at Windsor, Missouri.

Wilma moved to Buffalo, Oklahoma in 2008 to make her home and to be closer to her daughter Marjorie Hanson and grandson Mark Hanson.Ā  No services will be held in Buffalo, they will be held in Cole Camp, Missouri with...

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