Obituaries

Fairfax City, Oklahoma Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Fairfax City, Oklahoma & Surrounding Areas

Recent Obituaries

George Chief

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.,...