Fairfax City, Oklahoma Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Fairfax City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas
Recent Obituaries

George Chief
Aug 11, 2013
George Eves Tall Chief, former Chief of the Osage Nation, crossed over into the spirit world on August 11, 2013, at the age of 96. During his eight years in office from 1982 to 1990, Tall Chief was one of the first chiefs inducted into the National Native American Hall of Fame, and was the recipient of the esteemed...

L. Trisdale
Aug 11, 2013
Lindsey Marlin Bud Trisdale, longtime resident of Fairfax, joined his Heavenly Father, wife and other family on Sunday, August 11, 2013 with his loving family by his side. He was 90 years of age. Bud was born February 6, 1923 in Cleveland, Oklahoma, the son of Andrew Jackson Trisdale and Hazel Irene Brower Trisdale. He was a graduate of...

Lillian Myers
Aug 9, 2013
Lillian Myers Lillian Billie Rae Myers of Pawnee and Maramec, Oklahoma was received into heaven on August 9, 2013. She was 80 years of age. Born March 25, 1933 in Pawnee Oklahoma to Melbert Hudson and Rebecca McGlaslin, Billie Rae lived a fruitful life and was loved by all. We pray that the Lord takes care of her. She...
Norma Smith
Jul 27, 2013
Norma Lee Smith, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed Saturday, July 27, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa surrounded by her loving family. She was 89 years of age. Norma was born September 26, 1923 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the daughter of K.T. Clark and Nora Belle Claypool Clark. She moved with her family to the Fairfax area where she...

Bettie Swearingen
Jul 24, 2013
Bettie Louise Swearingen, longtime resident of Fairfax, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. She was 90 years of age. Bettie was born May 5, 1923 on a farm in rural Payne County, the daughter of William Clemmons Jones and Maude Pearl Clark Jones. She attended her first 8 years of school...

Curtis Watts
Jul 23, 2013
Curtis Wayne Watts, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed Tuesday, July 23, 2013. He was 69 years of age. Curtis was born November 27, 1943 in Fairfax, the son of Curtis Watts and Mae Fisher Watts. He was a 1962 graduate of Shidler High School and attended Northeastern State University in Tahlequah and Oklahoma State University. He was married to...

Fred Marshall
Jun 24, 2013
Fred Eugene Dilbeck, 74, passed away peacefully at his home in Shidler, Oklahoma on Monday, June 24, 2013. He was born January 5, 1939 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He was an Osage shareholder and enrolled in the Kaw tribe. At the time of the Korean War, he served as an MP in the US Air Force. His pipelining jobs took...

James Burgess
May 28, 2013
James Vernon Burgess James Vernon Jim Burgess, fondly known as Pops, passed away at his home surrounded by his family on May 28, 2013. He was born in Cleveland, Oklahoma on December 17, 1933 to George Vernon Burgess and Iva Ingle, but was raised by his mother and stepfather, who was his dad, Loyd Ricketts. He attended Fairfax School...

Betty Roberts
May 25, 2013
Betty Roberts, resident of Webb City, went home to her Lord and Savior on May 25th, 2013. She was 85 years of age. Betty was born April 12, 1928 at Whiz Bang, Oklahoma. She was raised in old Kaw City by her Mother, Etta Combs and stepfather, Marion Combs. She was married to John Paul Roberts on April 14,...

Marian Mcnamara
May 24, 2013
Marian McNamara, 91 years of age, devoted wife and mother, dedicated Christian servant and talented church organist, passed away at Fairfax Manor nursing home on May 24, 2013. God, family, friends and music filled her humble and generous soul. She will be missed by her surviving children, Roger and Pat Welch of Fairfax Tom and Sue Mikesell of Craig,...

Billy Brown
May 19, 2013
A memorial service for Billy Ray Brown of Ralston, Oklahoma will be held Monday June 3, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Woodland Middle School gym in Ralston, Oklahoma. Cremation rites have taken place. Billy Ray Brown passed away on May 19, 2013 in Fairfax, Oklahoma with his wife by his side. He was 73. Billy is survived by...

John Tallchief
May 7, 2013
John Papa John Tallchief, resident of Fairfax, passed peacefully on May 7, 2013 at Fairfax Community Hospital. He was 95. John was born October 23, 1917 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the son of Eves Tallchief and Rose Ware Tallchief. He was a lifelong resident of the Fairfax community, a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and a World War II...

Michael Hall
May 7, 2013
Michael William Hall, who resided near Cleveland, Oklahoma, passed peacefully on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 33. Michael was born August 5, 1979 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, the son of Larry William Hall and Barbara Jo Hendrix Thornburg. He attended Woodland Schools and graduated high school in Ponca City in 1998. He then...

Debra Yarber
Apr 13, 2013
Debra Jo Yarber was born on August 21, 1955 in Pawnee, Oklahoma to Paul William Jewell and Ina Lucille Fenton Jewell. She passed away peacefully at her home in Fairfax on April 13, 2013. She was 57. Debra is survived by her daughter, Linda Fernandez, of Fairfax sons, Allen and William McConnell, both of Booneville, Arkansas sisters, Patricia Nuttle,...

Korbin Burch
Apr 11, 2013
Korbin Jackson Burch was born on March 24, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Jacqueline Holloway Burch and Travis Burch of Fairfax, Oklahoma. He passed peacefully in the arms of family at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City on April 11, 2013. He leaves behind his parents maternal grandparents, Bessie Holloway and Roger Potter two sisters, Kaylee and...

Melvin Webb
Apr 9, 2013
Melvin Lee Webb, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 81 years of age. Melvin was born October 6, 1931 at Guymon, Oklahoma, the son of Henry Augustus Guss Webb and Gladys Lillian Pauley Webb. He was a 1950 graduate of Guymon High School. He was married to Mary...

Billy Crabtree
Apr 4, 2013
Billy Crabtree was born December 28, 1929 in Havana Arkansas. He was the son of Vernon Ardell and Zula Grace Hood Crabtree. At an early age he and his family moved west of Fairfax Ok where he attended school. He grew up helping his family farm around the Fairfax and Big Bend area growing cotton, wheat and raising cattle....

Pauline Reed
Apr 4, 2013
Pauline Ada Hunt Reed, 82, passed away Thursday, April 4, 2013 at her home in Yale, OK. Pauline was born on June 6, 1930 in Sallisaw, OK to Leo B. and Maudie Belle Scott Gann. She moved to Fairfax at an early age, member of the Assembly of God Church, was a caregiver for a number of years, also...

Marvin Ross
Mar 30, 2013
Marvin Gene Ross March 1, 1928 March 30, 2013 Marvin Gene Ross, 85, died March 30th at home in Loveland, Colorado. Gene was born March 1, 1928 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Neely Ross and Ida Mae McConnell Ross. He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1946 and Oklahoma State University then Oklahoma AM in 1950 with a degree in...

Carl Ponca, Jr.
Mar 27, 2013
Carl Francis Ponca Jr., resident of Fairfax, passed peacefully Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at his home. He was 74 years of age. Carl was a member of the Osage Indian Tribe and had the given Indian name of Wahsistah Ponca Wahtianka. Carl was born August 25, 1938 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the only child born to Carl Francis Ponca Sr.,...