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

Joan Barrone
Aug 30, 2010
Joan Delphine Barrone, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Monday, August 30, 2010 at the Stillwater Medical Center. She was 76. Joan was born March 31, 1934 West of Fairfax, the daughter of Adolphus Graves and Josephine Henderson Graves. She was the granddaughter of Simon and Mary Henderson and Frank and Bertha Long Graves. She was a 1952 graduate...

Zeta Seelig
Aug 4, 2010
Zeta Verne Seelig, 25 year resident of Fairfax, passed away Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home at the age of 89 years, 6 months and 23 days. Zeta was born January 12, 1921 at Osage, Oklahoma, the oldest of three children born to Andrew Jackson Trisdale and Hazel Irene Brower Trisdale. She received her education...

Marion Balduff Jr
Aug 2, 2010
Marion Albert Sonny Balduff Jr. went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, August 2, 2010 after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimers disease. Sonny was born January 3, 1933 in Ponca City to Bernice and Albert Balduff. Sonny grew up and graduated from Marland High School. In 1951 he enlisted in the United States...

Gene Phelps
Aug 2, 2010
Gene Phelps, resident of Fairfax, passed away Monday, August 2, 2010 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. He was 74. Gene was born March 19, 1936 at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the son of Robert Phelps and Bessie Hawkins Phelps. His early education was in the Stilwell, Oklahoma schools. He was employed in earlier years in road construction where he helped...

Doshie Palmer
Jul 27, 2010
Doshie Cleo Palmer, longtime resident, passed away Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at the Fairfax Hospital. She was 96. Mrs. Palmer was born March 6, 1914 at Marble City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Robertson and Sarah Ann Hartin Robertson. She was married to Clark Lloyd Palmer on April 17, 1946 at Sedan, Kansas. Mrs. Palmer was a homemaker...

Janise Coleman
Jul 24, 2010
Janise Ann Coleman, lifelong resident of the Fairfax community, passed away Saturday evening, July 24, 2010 at the Fairfax Hospital. She was 71. Janise was born June 22, 1939 at Fairfax, the daughter of Roy Gibson and Anita Horn Gibson. She was a 1957 graduate of Fairfax High School. She was married to Jack C. Coleman on September 21,...

Jesse Badley
Jul 4, 2010
Ron Badley, longtime resident of the Sunny Slope area Southeast of Ralston, passed away Sunday, July 4, 2010 in Tulsa. He was 67. Ron was born November 15, 1942 at Webb, Oklahoma, the son of George Wesley Badley and Dorothy F. Gore Badley. He was a 1961 graduate of Shidler High School. Ron was married to Rita Jo Jody...

Lillian Bradsher
Jul 1, 2010
Lillian J. Bradsher, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Thursday morning, July 1, 2010 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. She was 86. Lillian was born February 5, 1924 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the daughter of Leo Gann and Maude Scott Gann. She received her early schooling in the Sallisaw area schools. After living in California, Mrs. Bradsher and family...

"Fodge" Hopper
Jun 26, 2010
Bobby Fodge Gene Hopper, resident of Ralston, passed away on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. He was 79. Fodge was born the son of Ruben Wayne Hopper and Velma Jones Hopper on September 15, 1930 in Sunny Slope near Ralston, Oklahoma. He enlisted in the United States Army and faithfully served until his...

Vada Robertson
Jun 5, 2010
Vada Rose Robertson of Webb City, went home to her Savior, Saturday, June 5, 2010, surrounded by family. She was born March 19, 1932, southwest of Pawhuska on the Atlantic Field oil lease, and lived her entire life in Osage County. She attended Pawhuska schools, and as a senior while waitressing at a downtown hotel, received a five dollar...

Merton Moore
Jun 4, 2010
Merton Russell Moore, longtime resident of Pawnee, passed Friday morning, June 4, 2010 at the Fairfax Hospital. He was 82. Merton was a full blood Pawnee and member of the Pitahauret Band. Merton was born March 28, 1928 in Pawnee, the son of Edgar Wichita Moore and Geneva Horse Chief Sun Eagle. He graduated from the Haskell Indian Institute...

Ethel Webb
May 28, 2010
Ethel Viris Webb, Fairfax resident, passed away on Friday, May 28, 2010 at the Fairfax Hospital. She was 94. Ethel was born the daughter of Henry Edward Bertling and Lora Dean Beaty Bertling on February 7, 1916 in Anadarko, Oklahoma. She grew up in Oklahoma attending Greyhorse and Fairfax Schools. She moved to New Mexico and later returned to...

Philip Mcmurray
May 5, 2010
Philip Wesley Flea McMurray Sr., longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa. He was 58. Philip was born February 26, 1952 in Artesia, Arkansas, the son of James Robert McMurray and Blanche Hess McMurray. He attended the Fairfax Schools where he participated in band and was a 1972 graduate. He...

Theodore Mckinney
Apr 25, 2010
Theodore Melvin McKinney, Pawnee resident passed away on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at Southern Oaks Nursing Center in Pawnee. He was 76. Melvin was born on July 9, 1933 to Ben Franklin McKinney Sr. and Leona Bernadette Taylor McKinney in Oologah, Oklahoma. Melvin enjoyed walking, working on lawn mowers and visiting with people. He especially loved animals. He is...

Wesley Dusen
Apr 20, 2010
Wesley Robert Rob Van Dusen Jr. resident of Fairfax, passed away Tuesday, April 20, 2010 in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He was 44. Rob was born January 23, 1966 in Hominy, Oklahoma, the son of Wesley Robert Van Dusen Sr. and Joyce K. Benson Van Dusen Chapman. He was a 1985 graduate of Ralston High School. He proudly served his in...

Venus Yandell
Apr 7, 2010
Venus Yandell, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at the Fairfax Hospital. She was 87. Venus was born March 24, 1923 in Stigler, Oklahoma, the daughter of Rudy Fuller and Mary Alcy McGheeFuller. She was married to Wallace Yandell on January 8, 1949 in Fairfax. She was a member of the Fairfax Full Gospel Church....

Willia Brown
Mar 25, 2010
Willia Mae Billye Brown, longtime resident of the Fairfax and Ralston communities, passed away Thursday, March 25, 2010 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Center. She was 85. Billye was born April 15, 1924 in Quinton, Oklahoma, the daughter of George Pete Barnes and Hattie Coppenger Barnes. She was a graduate of Quinton High School. She was married to Arnell...

Olma Chambers
Mar 10, 2010
Olma Jean Heppel Chambers went to be with our Lord on March 10, 2010 in Houston, Texas. Jean was a long time resident of Fairfax born to Ed and Margaret Heppel on June 5, 1926. She is survived by her elder sister, Emma Mae McIntosh also from Fairfax, who now resides in Shattuck, Oklahoma with her husband, Robert. Jean...

Durwood Bonner
Mar 10, 2010
Durwood Cotten Bonner, longtime resident of Fairfax, passed away Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at the Talihina, Oklahoma Veterans Home. He was 79 years of age. Cotten was born September 2, 1930 at Blue Mountain, Arkansas, the son of Grover Cleveland Bonner and Allie Jane Terry Bonner. He received his early education in the Blue Mountain area schools. He served...

Margaret Phillippe
Mar 4, 2010
Longtime resident of Fairfax, Margaret Jane Phillippe, known as Janie by all her family and friends, passed away Thursday, March 4, 2010 at the Fairfax Manor Nursing Home. She was 92. Janie was born September 18, 1917 at Crowder, Oklahoma, the daughter of Arch Cleveland AC Hightower and Beulah Christina Fisher Hightower. She was a 1935 graduate of Fairfax...