Fairfax City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Fairfax City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
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David Surprise
Feb 10, 2017
David L. Surprise was born in WaKeeney, Kansas on March 7, 1933 to Charles and Audrey (Kenyon) Surprise. He lived there until he joined the Navy on June 8, 1951, where he served four years in Korea. On May 3, 1957, he married Norma Huber, and they resided in WaKeeney. They had four daughters, Roxanne, Melody, Kelley, and Lisa....
Carole Cox
Jan 25, 2017
Carole Ann Cox, longtime Fairfax resident passed away on January 25, 2017 in Tulsa OK at the age of 78. Born on April 29, 1938 to Clarence Pharis King and Anna Faye (Johnson) King in Fort Worth Texas, she attended school at Ft Worth Elementary before moving to Tulsa in 1953. Following graduation in 1955 from Will Rogers High...
James Gates
Jan 18, 2017
James Franklin Gates, age 85 went to be with his Lord on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at his home in Fairfax, Oklahoma surrounded by his loving wife and children. He was born to Edmund Gates Sr. and Mamie Irene (Tripp) Gates on January 28, 1931, eighth of twelve children, in the Big Bend community west of Ralston. He attended...
Ruth Smith
Jan 13, 2017
Ruth "Lucille" Smith, lifelong resident of Fairfax, passed away at Tulsa on January 13, 2017. Born November 29, 1932 in Fairfax, she loved bingo, gardening, reading cowboy books and going to church along with being with her daughter Julia. Lucille worked for Fairfax Hospital for 15 years before she retired. While enjoying her retirement, she helped out at the...
Josie Hundley
Jan 3, 2017
Josie Gertrude Myers Hundley born June 21,1924, to Ervin Earl Myers and Charlotte Rachel Gibson Myers in Beeville, Texas, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, January 03,2017 at her home surrounded by her loving husband and family. She was one of three daughters, attended and graduated from Patterson in 1943. She met and married the love of...
Mitchell Coleman
Dec 27, 2016
Mitchell Aaron Coleman Jr., passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 in Shidler, Oklahoma. He was 17. "Mitch or Bubba," as he was affectionately known by family and friends, was born on January 30, 1999 in Tulsa, OK to Daniel Clay Wilson and Melissa Dawn (Bonner) Coleman. He grew up in Sapulpa, OK and later moved to Yale, OK...
Joyce Martin
Dec 16, 2016
Joyce Elaine Martin, resident of Fairfax Manor the past few years and longtime Burbank resident passed away on Friday, December 16, 2016 at the age of 66. Joyce was born September 17, 1950 in Ada, Oklahoma the daughter of Vernon Crane and Anita Martin. She attended school at Ada, Oklahoma graduating in 1967. She went on to obtain her...
Robert Bradley Jr.
Dec 16, 2016
Robert Lee Bradley, Jr. passed away on Friday, December 16, 2016 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 76. Born on September 14, 1940 in Lawton, Oklahoma, the son of Robert Lee Bradley, Sr. and Mildred Lee Fulk. He grew up in Tulsa and after school served his country in the U. S. Army....
Davy Watts
Dec 4, 2016
Davy Jeanne Watts, lifelong resident of Fairfax, passed away at her home Sunday, December 4, 2016 surrounded by her loving family. She was 69 years of age. Davy was born July 18, 1947 in Pawhuska, OK the daughter of Theodore Eugene Hazelbaker and Mary Jane Black Hazelbaker. Papa Tee always called her his "birthday present." She was a 1965...
Roger Lance
Nov 26, 2016
Roger Dustin Lance, age 39, passed away Saturday, November 26, 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Traditional Osage Services will be held at 8:00 a.m., Tuesday at the Grayhorse Chapel with Steven Pratt officiating. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at the First Osage Baptist Church with the Rev. Kyle Rhodes officiating. Burial will follow...
Aspen Gates
Nov 22, 2016
God's Little Angel, Aspen Kay Gates, passed from this life on November 22, 2016 in the Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, surrounded by her loving parents and extended family. Born on November 25, 2014 the daughter of William Glenn Gates and Elizabeth "Paige" Hadlock in Stillwater, OK. Aspen was the bright spot in her family;...
Tommie Caldwell
Nov 22, 2016
Tommie Michael Caldwell peacefully departed this life on November 22, 2016 at his home in Kansas City, Kansas surrounded by loved ones. Tommie Michael was born June 11, 1952 in Chandler, Oklahoma to parents Robert & Darlene (Booker) Caldwell. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Robert Harold Caldwell and a daughter Tyenikia Marie Caldwell. Tommie...
Hazel Guthrie
Nov 15, 2016
Hazel Rice was born on May 20th, 1914 at Wilson-Carter County Oklahoma. She was the 2nd of 6 children born to Earnest and Daisy Dean Rainey Rice. Soon after Hazel's birth the family moved north and settled in western Osage County in the Big Bend Area. Hazel attended school at Belford School in the Bend and Ralston High School....
Lula Means
Nov 6, 2016
LULA ELLEN MEANS Funeral Services for Lula (Lu) Ellen Shaffer Zink Means will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, November 10, 2016 at the Burbank First Baptist Church with the Pastors Dennis Wildman and Chris Cooper officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairfax Cemetery under the direction of the Hunsaker-Wooten Funeral Home. Friends may leave online condolences at www.husakerwootenfuneralhome.com....
Donald Yandell
Oct 18, 2016
Donald Yandell passed away on October 18, 2016 at his residence in Stillwater after battling health problems for several years. He was 64 years old. Donald was born in California but lived most of his life in Oklahoma. Donald was known to his family as Don but by all of his friends as "Cowboy". He always looked the part...
James Barnett
Sep 27, 2016
James F Barnett passed away on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in Fairfax, OK at 82 years of age. The son of Fred and Ethel Beatrice (Lee) Barnett, he was born in Fairfax on July 29. 1934. Known to family and friends as Jim, he grew up and graduated high school in Fairfax. Following graduation while working for Halliburton, he...
Carol Carver
Sep 18, 2016
Carol Lynnet Carver, age 77, passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2016, at her home in Fairfax, Oklahoma. Carol is survived by her husband of 57 years, Charles; one daughter, Kelly, and her husband, Richard Johnson, of Arkansas City, Kansas; one granddaughter, Charlie Potter, and her husband, Justin Young, of Spokane, Washington; and one grandson, Quinn Johnson, of Arkansas...
Max Haines
Sep 17, 2016
Longtime Ponca City resident Max A. Haines passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 17, 2016. He was born in Pawhuska, OK on April 11, 1938 to the late Aaron McCord Haines and Pearl (Gallatin) Haines. His much loved hometown was Fairfax, OK. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, September 21 at 2:00pm at the Fairfax City Cemetery with...
Joseph Cox Sr
Aug 29, 2016
Joseph Leonard Cox Sr. passed away Monday, August 29, 2016 at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital North in Oklahoma City, OK surrounded by his loving wife and family. "Leonard," as he was known obtained the age of 75. Born March 9, 1941 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, his parents were Thomas Arthur Cox Sr. and Waunita "Dink" Kays Cox. He attended Fairfax...
Wayne Mitchell Jr
Aug 11, 2016
Wayne C. Mitchell Jr., longtime resident of the Big Bend community died on Thursday, August 11, 2016. He was 81 years of age. Born on July 16, 1935 in Odessa Texas he was the only child of Wayne Mitchell Sr. and Pearl (Duncan) Mitchell. The family returned to the Big Bend area in 1946. Wayne married the love of...