Harold Shuman
May 16, 2015
Harold Jay Shuman was the 5 th child of Jay and Maude (Painter) Shuman, he was born on August 22, 1929 on the family farm northwest of Buffalo, Oklahoma. At the early age of 8 years old, Harold Jay’s brother Robert, sister Ruby, and brother-in-law James Torrence, were killed in a truck wreck east of Buffalo in December 1937. ...
Inez Fergason
May 9, 2015
Inez Leah (Luinstra) Fergason, was the 16 th child of John and Ica Blanche Surgeon Luinstra, born on April 26, 1930 at their home in Laverne, Oklahoma. Upon the death of her mother at the age of eight, older siblings L.W. Luinstra and Ethel Shelinbarger became her guardians. Inez graduated from Laverne High School and attended Oklahoma...
Wanda Wyscaver
Apr 25, 2015
Wanda E (Huffman) Wyscaver was a daughter of Jesse William and Ollie Mae (Weese) Huffman, she was born on August 2, 1930 in Buffalo. As a child Wanda and her family moved to May, Waynoka, and Selman, Oklahoma. Wanda attended school in Selman graduating with the class of 1949. Wanda was married to Melvin Otis Wyscaver and...
Duane Stinson
Mar 26, 2015
Michael Duane Stinson was born in Buffalo, Oklahoma on April 16, 1961 to Kenneth Stewart Stinson (Bud) and Patricia Faye (Savoy) Stinson. Duane attended Buffalo Public Schools graduating with the Class of 1979 and was involved in every sport that was offered as well as other extra-curricular activities, to include the band and FFA. Duane’s first entrepreneurship was when...
Bessie Appleton
Mar 25, 2015
Bessie (Pope) Appleton, the daughter of W.E. & Rose Anne (Thomas) Pope, was born March 7, 1926, Knowles, Oklahoma. She was one of 9 children, 4 brothers & 4 sisters. Bessie attended school in Winona, Missouri, through the 10 th grade. Bessie’s mother suddenly passed away just a few days before her 13 th birthday. At the...
Guy Randolph
Feb 26, 2015
Guy Wesley Randolph, son of Roy Ralph (Hook) & Martha Mills (Mattie) Randolph, was born on January 16, 1925 on the family farm home north of Buffalo, in the small community of Little, Oklahoma. Guy was one of four children born to this marriage and lived there until approximately the age of 8, when the family moved...
Hunter Virgie
Feb 22, 2015
Virgie Lou Hunter was born to Willard and Bertha (Ford) Miller on November 15, 1930 Northwest of Buffalo, Oklahoma, in her grandmother’s farm house.
Virgie attended Fort Diamond Country School before attending High School in Buffalo and graduating with the class of 1948.
Following High School graduation, Virgie work many years at...
Gayle (Judy) Harper
Feb 19, 2015
Gayle (Judy) Maxine Crowl Harper was born north of Butler, Oklahoma, April 21, 1937, to David Othal Crowl and Ila Pearl Gregory Crowl Dennis. Judy grew up in Northwest Oklahoma. She attended Butler Grade School and Buffalo, Rosston, and Fargo High Schools (graduating in 1955). While in high school, Judy enjoyed playing basketball and being around her friends. On...
Dwanye Richardson
Jan 28, 2015
Dwayne W. Richardson was born on the family farm west of Buffalo on February 2, 1923 to Walter and Ruth (Price) Richardson. Dwayne attended the Wayside Country School through the eighth grade and graduated from the Buffalo High School with the class of 1942. After high school he joined the United States Army during WWII. While serving...
Esta Edmonds
Jan 1, 2015
Esta Lorene Bowker Edmonds was the 6 th of 10 children born to Charles Addison Bowker and Josie Gowens Bowker. Esta was born on Tuesday, September 4, 1917 at the family home east of Rosston, OK. Esta attended the rural Lone Star School thru 8 th grade. Esta was united in marriage to Lewis McKindrew Edmonds...
Ruth Lorenson
Jan 1, 2015
Mary “Ruth” Harris Lorenson
November 2, 1933 – January 1, 2015
Age: 81
Residence: Greeley, CO
Ruth Lorenson, 81, passed away peacefully at the Life Care Center of Greeley on January 1, 2015. She was born in Arnett, OK...
Samuel Wilkinson
Dec 23, 2014
Samuel (Sammy) Joe Wilkinson the son of the Jay Wilkinson and Ruth Fay Hill, was born on September 7, 1965, Buffalo, Oklahoma. Sammy attended grade school in Laverne, Oklahoma, moved to McCammon, Idaho where he attended Marsh Valley Junior High. Sammy then returned to Laverne, Oklahoma, where he attended High School until the eleventh grade. In 1987 Sammy married...
Leora Hurst
Nov 25, 2014
Leora Blanche (Black) Hurst, daughter of Ora and Lola (Walton) Black, was born on September 5, 1922, on the family farm in Harper County, Oklahoma. Leora was raised and spent her childhood helping her parents and siblings on the family farm. The highlight of Leora high school days was the Rosston Class of 1939 senior trip, in...
Shirley Cox
Nov 11, 2014
Shirley Maxine (Crane) Cox was born in Sitka, Kansas on July 19, 1935. She passed away at South Wind Hospice in Pratt, Kansas on November 11, 2014 at the age of 79.
Shirley was the youngest of ten children born to Raymond and Estella (Fox) Crane. She attended elementary schools in Sitka and Ashland and attended Ashland...
Virgil Jahay
Oct 9, 2014
Virgil William Jahay, 67, passed away in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday, October 9, 2014 after a year long battle with cancer. Virgil was born November 14 1946 in Buffalo, Oklahoma to Samuel and Minnie (Remmele) Jahay. Virgil graduated from Fargo High School in 1965. On May 19, 1967 Virgil was united in marriage to Glynda Molen at The First...
Glen Beck
Oct 5, 2014
Glen Leroy Beck was born on November 25, 1925, to Frank A. and Hazel Marie Crocker Beck in Hobart, Oklahoma. Glen passed away on October 4, 2014 at the age of 88 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, at the Sterling House, where he resided since July 2014. Glen graduated from Buffalo High School in June 1943. He enjoyed singing and...
Virgil Snell
Sep 17, 2014
Virgil Lee Snell was the second child born to Virgil and Celia (Myers) Snell on April 2, 1939 at Buffalo, Oklahoma and died on September 17, 2014 at Ashland, Kansas. Lee grew up on the family farm in the Gyp Valley Community of Buffalo, Oklahoma. During his high school years he was very active in FFA Future...
Janice Lemons
Sep 9, 2014
Janice Jean Lemons was born July 4, 1947 to Bev Berlin and Cora Naydeen (Franklin) Miller at Woodward, Oklahoma. Janice grew up in Buffalo where she attended school and graduated from Buffalo High School, with the class of 1966. Janice and Jerry Lemons were united in marriage on April 11, 1967 at Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A short time later they made...
Manuel Tellez
Aug 25, 2014
Juan Manuel Tellez Zapata was born November 5, 1983 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. His mother Juana said that his head was so big at birth that he was nicknamed "Yuca" after the people of the Yucatan. Manuel went to schools in Mexico, and later moved with his family to Dallas, Texas for work. He visited Buffalo,...

