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

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.,...

Anna Gorden
Mar 20, 2013
Anna Nadine Elsberry White Gorden was born November 20, 1942 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Anna Louise Foust and James Huey Elsberry. She grew up in the Fairfax and Ralston area, where she stayed for most of her life. She graduated from Ralston High School in 1960 then married Donald Joe White in November of 1960. That marriage...

Tracie Sanzalone
Mar 12, 2013
Tracie Raenae Stone Sanzalone, resident of Broken Arrow, passed Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. She was 43 years of age. Tracie was a member of the Osage Nation and her given Indian name was Gra to me tsa ha, New Hawk Woman. Tracie was born January 19, 1970 in Ponca City, the daughter...

Ruth Reed
Feb 24, 2013
Ruth Irene Ray Reed passed away at Fairfax Manor in Fairfax, Oklahoma on February 24, 2013 at the age of 83. The daughter of the late Bill and Nora McHargue, Ruth was born June 21, 1929 in Dewey, Oklahoma. She was the last survivor of four children, preceded in death by the late Ann McHargue, Flora Jane McHargue, and...

John Brittenham
Feb 7, 2013
John Michael Brittenham, age 59, passed away on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at Fairfax Manor in Fairfax, Oklahoma. John was born on September 10, 1953 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the son of Earl Brittenham and Mary Hazel Davis Brittenham. He was called to the ministry, and spent his life serving the Lord. He is survived by his loving wife, Carol...

Norma Byrd
Feb 6, 2013
Obituary Norma Osage Byrd Norma Osage Byrd, 80, Pawhuska OK, Osage Nation Historic Preservation Traditional Cultural Advisor, died February 6, 2013, at Clarehouse Hospice, Tulsa OK, from an unexpected illness. Norma was born in Ralston OK on July 18, 1932 to Joseph Osage, Osage Original Allottee 37 and Mabel Kihega Osage, of the Iowa Tribe of OK and she...

Ermal Wells
Feb 1, 2013
Ermal Lois Wells, former resident of Shidler, passed Friday, February 1, 2013 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. She was 85 years of age. Ermal was born March 27, 1927 in Stone County, Missouri, the daughter of William Lee Jackson and Gladys Eva Jackson. She attended the Red Rock, Oklahoma schools. She was married to Orin James Thompson on...

Will Mashburn
Jan 30, 2013
Will Mashburn was born William Turner Mashburn II on November 13, 1965 in Fairfax, the son of C. Turner Mashburn and Jeneva L. Reed Mashburn. He was a resident of Shidler and passed Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in Fairfax at the age of 47. Will had attended the Shidler schools and was employed as a welder. He was a...

Clark Palmer, Jr.
Jan 25, 2013
Clark Lloyd Palmer, Jr. passed away Friday, January 25, 2013 in Billings, Oklahoma. He was 56. Lloyd was born December 28, 1956 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, the son of Clark Lloyd Palmer, Sr. and Doshie Cleo Robertson Palmer. He was raised in Fairfax, and was a member of the First Osage Baptist Church of Fairfax. He had been a resident...

J.D. Harrison
Jan 24, 2013
J.D. Harrison, Jr. J. D. Harrison, Jr., lifelong resident of the Fairfax area, passed away Thursday, January 24, 2013 at his home. He was 66. J.D. was born August 31, 1946 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the son of Jake Don Harrison and Virginia Berry. In high school, he excelled as a quarterback before going on to Oklahoma State University...