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Obituaries and Death Notices
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Brenda Angle
Brenda Olene Angle, 21, secretary for Security Bank and Trust Co., died Friday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church.
Survivors: mother, Edna Angle at home; brother, Lawrence of Blackwell; sisters, Bonnie Stalnaker of Winfield, Donna Logan of Tonkawa, Okla., Oleta Asbury of Bartlesville, Okla., Thelma Jernigan of Ponca City, Okla., Barbara McMartin of Blackwell. Memorials have been established with First Baptist Church and Oklahoma Medical Research, Cancer Division. Roberts Funeral Home.
(Wichita Eagle ~ January 19, 1986 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
Frank Bicksler
Death by Drowning. -- The Chicaskia near this place claimed another victim last Saturday, in the person of Frank Bicksler, a young man living southeast of the city. Mr. Bicksler, in company with several other men, was in swimming Saturday afternoon and sank from their view without warning and completely disappeared despite their efforts to recover the body. Saturday afternoon and evening and all day Sunday searchers worked in vain trying to locate the drowned man. Explosives and other means were used but all seemed futile. Early Monday morning some boys found the body in a measure lodged or held by the overlapping branches of some trees. They fastened the body to the tree and came to town to notify the undertaker. Chas. Richards and Undertaker Fyffe went after the body and it was prepared for interment. Bicksler was a single man and made his home with his parents on the farm commonly known as the Charley Goetting place. The funeral was at the farm home southeast of the city Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev Woodward of the Methodist church, and the body was taken to the old home in Iowa, Tuesday, for burial.-- [Blackwell Times Record, 16 July 1904]
Effie J. Bonham
EFFIE BONHAM'S SERVICE IS SET WEDNESDAY AT 2
Mrs. Effie J. Bonham of Blackwell died at 11:05 a.m. Monday in Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home where she had resided for the past four years. Her residence was 707 W. Dewey. She was 86. The funeral service will be at 2 P.M. Wednesday in Barr Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Lew Davis, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Grandsons will be pallbearers. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery.
Mrs. Bonham had lived in the Blackwell area since 1924 coming to the community from Lamont. She was born March 14, 1885 at Cherryvale, Kans. and was a member of the Christian Church. She was married to William Henry Bonham on March 22, 1903 at Grant City, He preceded her in death in 1939. Also, preceding her in death were one son, Howard; a daughter, Rosa Conill; 2 brothers and two sisters. Survivers are three sons, Charlie O. Bonham, Drummond, Mont.; Johnie W. Bonham, Blackwell, and Pearl D. Bonham of Billings; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Day of Elkhart, Kans. 23 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren. and one brother Roy Hempsmyer, of Enid.
William Henry Bonham
Funeral services for William Henry Bonham, 72, who died suddenly at his home, 815 E. College, at 6:00 P.M. Thurday, will be held at the Roberts mortuary Saturday at 4 P.M. with Rev. E.W. Harrison, pastor of the Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery. Mr. Bonham was born in Ohio, Nov. 4, 1866 and had been a resident of Blackwell since 1924, coming here from Cherokee. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Effie Bonham, a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Day of Jefferson: four sons, Charles, who resides in Montana, Johnnie of Blackwell, Howard of Enid, and Earl, who makes his home in Arkansas: a sister Mrs. Lizzie Rogers of Mt. Hope, Kans., and a brother, George Bonham of Supply, Okla.
Andrew Jackson Blackwell
HE DROPPED DEAD
A.J. Blackwell Suddenly Passes Away
HE WAS A TOWN BUILDER And Was the Founder of Blackwell
A. J. Blackwell, the founder of the city of Blackwell is dead. This forenoon John R. May received the following telegram:
Chelsea, I. T. - June 1903 Mr. Blackwell dropped dead this morning. Will be buried tomorrow at 4:30. - Rosa Blackwell
A few weeks ago Mr. Blackwell moved his family from this City to Chelsea, I. T., to be nearer the scenes of some large business transactions he had recently engaged in. The announcement of his death was a great surprise, and the news rapidly spread throughout the city, many people being inclined to doubt the truth of the report, owing to the fact that he has been on one or two occasions during the past few years reported dead. A. J. Blackwell was probably close to sixty years old at the time of his death. He was born in the state of Mississippi, but spent a great many years in the Cherokee Nation, his wife being part Cherokee. During his latter years he accumulated a great deal of property and was a very wealthy man at the time of his death. He leaves a widow and three children.
A. J. Blackwell was a town builder. Long before the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement he conceived the idea of building a city upon the present site of Blackwell. He secured the allotments, three eighties, and when the strip opened to settlement on Sept. 16th, 1893, this town had already been laid out and surveyed into lots, blocks and streets, with one house on the town site, a small frame building that now stands back of the Blackwell hotel on West Blackwell Avenue. The original name of this city was Blackwell Rock, but the citizens soon dispensed with the Rock and adopted the name of Blackwell. He afterwards founded the town of David, in the Cherokee Nation, and was also one of the founders of the town Chelsea in the same country.
[The Blackwell Sun, Blackwell, Oklahoma; June 25, 1903]
Col. Andrew Jackson Blackwell
1842-1903
Founder of Blackwell, Oklahoma
Buried: Chelsea Cemetery in Rogers County, Oklahoma
COL. BLACKWELL DEAD
Last Friday morning John R. May received a telegram from Mrs. Blackwell at Chelsea, I.T., announcing the sudden death of her husband, Col. A. J. Blackwell, and later by letter to Mr. May gave an account of his death, burial, etc. Mr. Blackwell arose Friday morning in usual health and sprits, but before he had completely dressed he spoke to Mrs. Blackwell and told her to look at him as he was going to die, and almost as he spoke he turned purple, and toppled over before Mrs. Blackwell could reach him to support him. Death followed shortly. The funeral held Saturday was conducted by Chelsea Lodge, I.O.O.F, of which the deceased was a member. Colonel Blackwell, as founder and principal builder of this city, has had much to do with its history and the story of his life if properly compiled would read like fiction. He was an eccentric character, but was a shrewd, capable business man and had amassed thousands that in a few years would have made him worth what he claimed he would be, a millionaire; his holdings in this city are among the most valuable in town, and he was builder and owner of Hotel Blackwell corner; Hotel Maine corner, and Hotel Kay corner; also four brick buildings are some valuable unimproved property; at one time his monthly rent toll amounted to $1500. His permanent improvements showed his faith in the town and while in the past two years he has not given his interests here much of his time, still it is known that he thought highly of Blackwell. About three months ago he moved his family to Chelsea, I.T., to give his time to the development of his vast coal, oil and farming interests near there and they bid fair to make him a millionaire. While at times of an irascible disposition much could be said to his credit and his bite was never as serious as his bark. He was a humorist and could give or take a joke even when most perplexed with cares. The Commercial club at their meeting Tuesday of this week took action on the death of Col. Blackwell by passing the following resolution: Whereas, The sad news has come to us of the sudden lamented death of Col. A.J. Blackwell at Chelsea, I.T., and whereas, Col. Blackwell was the founder of our city, its first mayor and its chief citizen; therefore, be it resolved, By the Blackwell Commercial club, that in the death of Col. A.J. Blackwell our city has lost one of its most ardent supporters and friends, whose death is most universally deplored and lamented, and his widow a kind and affectionate husband, and his children a loving father. Be it further Resolved, that to the widow and children of Col. Blackwell we offer our heartfelt sympathy and condolence and that a copy of that resolution be sent to the widow and children of Col. Blackwell.
[The Times Record, Blackwell, Oklahoma, June 25, 1903]
(Note: His three children were King David Blackwell, Solomon Blackwell and Hazel Blackwell and his wife's maiden name was Vaught)
A.A. Byers
WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY DIES; FUNERAL TODAY
A. A. Byers, Passes Away at Brown Hotel of Euremic Poisoning
A. A. Byers, a well known attorney of Oklahoma City , died at the Brown hotel Sunday of euremic poisoning. The body was shipped to Guthrie last night where the funeral will be held by the Guthrie Masonic Lodge. Mr. Byers had lived in Oklahoma City for the past six years, coming here from Kay county. He was a graduate of Vanderbilt university and was a classmate of Champ Clark and Martin Littleton, famous in the Thaw murder case. A special meeting of the Oklahoma City bar was held yesterday noon for the purpose of appointing committees on resolution and flowers for the late Judge Byers. Attorney J. S. Twyford was elected chairman and Attorney S. A. Horton, secretary. The committee on resolutions was appointed by the chairman and consisted of Attorneys C. B. Ames, chairman; E. J. Giddings and John Hayson. Attorney S. A. Byers, J. H. Everest, Leo F. Wilson and S. A. Horton were appointed as a committee to get up a floral offering.
[The Oklahoman, 4/27/1909 - submitted by Dale Donlon]
Alpha R. Carson
Alpha Retta Carson, longtime Newkirk resident, died late Friday night, July 30, 1999 in St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Ponca City. She was 92. The daughter of John James and Mary Louella (Goatley) Ramsey, she was born March 15, 1907 near Newkirk in Dale Township. She grew up in the rural area and attended school at Tipton Rural School and Newkirk High School.
On April 15, 1926 she and David Dunn Carson were married in Newkirk. They established their first home in the Newkirk area. She lived in several military camps while her husband served with the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII. While in Van Nuys, California she operated a cafeteria on base. After he received his discharge in 1945 they returned to Newkirk and she worked in a cafe for six months as well as several other jobs. They also purchased a farm in the Newkirk area that they operated for many years. Mr. Carson died March 22, 1979. She was a member of the Newkirk Christ's Church.
Her survivors include two sons, Paul D. Carson, Newkirk and Dale Leon Carson, Bowie, Texas; three daughters, Mrs. Cleo Marie Wagers, Newkirk, Mrs. Eva Lee Huffman, Newkirk and Mrs. Wanda Jeannean Wanko, Ponca City; and numerous grand, great-grand and great-great- grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Richard R. Carson, three brothers, four sisters, and six grandchildren.
The funeral was held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 4 in Christ's Church, Newkirk with the Rev. J. Craig Ortwein officiating. Burial followed in Newkirk Cemetery under the direction of Miller-Stahl Funeral Service. Those serving as casket bearers were John Free, Dean Summitt, Clinton Summitt, Greg Summitt, Ron Dobson, and Harry Wayne Johnston.
[Unknown Newspaper, c. Aug 1999 - Submitted by: Kyle M. Condon, Kmarty4@sbcglobal.net]
Donald A. Close
PONCA CITY - Donald A. Close, 63, business owner, died Sunday.
Services 2 p.m. Wednesday, Trout Funeral Home Chapel.
(Tulsa World (OK) ~ November 1, 1994 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
John Hall
Mrs. John Hall
Maude Hall
John Hall
Dr. Gilliam
John Hall and wife, their daughter Maude, 18 years of age, their son John and Dr. Gilliam who had been taking a summer outing, were all drowned while attempting to ford the Arkansas river in Kay county Saturday.
[The Langston City Herald, Langston City, O. T., September 28, 1895 - Submitted by Dale Donlon]
Ruby Johnson
Ruby Johnson, Ponca City resident, died Tuesday, June 23, 1998, at Ponca City Nursing Home. She was 85. The funeral service will be grave side, Thursday, 2 p.m. at the Longwood Cemetery with Mr. Frank Tepe, associate pastor, Eastern Heihgts Christian Church, officiating, Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home. Born Sept. 3, 1912, at Burns, Kan., she was the daughter of Charles Dudley and Jessie Soupernall Dunn. On April 2, 1938, she married Carl Johnson in Haukensville, Ga. The couple lived for several years at Quitman, Ga., before moving to Augusta where Mr. Johnson was employed by the State of Georgia. The couple moved to Ponca City in 1969. Mrs. Johnson was a lifelong homemaker. She is survived by three sisters, Juanita May Miller of Blackwell, Goldie Albertie of Shidler, and Edna Reeves of Ponca City; and her care givers, Orrin and Evelyn Rederson of Ponca City. Frields may call at the funeral home until 1 p.m.
[Newspaper: Ponca City News Date: June 24, 1998 Submitters Name: Robert King]
Lela Ruth Kolb
Lela Ruth (Ebert) Kolb, 84, of Tulsa, died Saturday, July 19, 2008.
Funeral services were Tuesday at Johnson Funeral Chapel in Sperry with the Rev. Albert Shults officiating. Burial was at Rock Falls Cemetery in Braman. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home.
(McAlester News-Capital & Democraft (OK) ~ July 23, 2008 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
McDowell
A 7-year old daughter of A. McDowell, colored, living near Newkirk, was burned to death by the explosion of a can of coal oil while attempting to kindle a fire with the oil. (The Dallas Morning News, September 18, 1899, page 5 - Submitted by Peggy Thompson)
Sarah Rose Moore
Mrs Sarah Rose Moore was born in Iowa Dec. 2, 1853. When about four years of age with her parents moved to Kansas. She was married to William Moore on Feb. 25, 1871 near Holton, KS. They came to Blackwell when the strip opened and remained here until about two years ago, when Mrs. Moore moved to Seattle, Washington where she died Dec.3, 1913 of Kidney trouble. Mr. Moore died about eight years ago. Five children remain to mourn her loss- A.E. Moore, Piedmont, KS, Mrs. W.B. Jones, Seattle Washington, Miss Minnie Moore, Seattle, Washington, Mrs. Bertha Scott, Los Angeles, CA and Mrs. A.J. Yarbrough, Blackwell, OK. Two daughters Miss Minnie Moore and Mrs. Bertha Scott were unable to be present at the funeral which was held Saturday at 2:30 o'clock from the Methodist church, Rev. F.L. Templin officiating, Interment in I.O.O.F. cemetery, beside the remains of her husband. ( Kay Co. OK Obituaries)
Submitted by Kyle M. Condon
William Moore
Wm. Moore died at his residence in Blackwell on Jan.27 aged about 67 years. He was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, when he moved at various times to Philadelphia, PA. Then to Hocking County, Ohio, to Jackson County, Kansas, to Elk County, Kansas finally coming to Blackwell at the opening of the Cherokee Strip. He was married Feb. 25, 1881, to Sarah Rose at Holton, KS and to them were six children born, one son and five daughters, five of whom with their mother survive to morn the loss of a devoted husband and father. He served in the Union army in the late civil war in Company E, 155th regiment of Ohio, and was discharged Aug. 27, 1864 at Camp Denison, Ohio. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and the G.A.R. and was city treasurer of Blackwell county for several terms. He was well and favorably known and his death is greatly regretted. The funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, from the M.E. Church, interment in the Odd fellows Cemetery. (Kay County OK Obit. January 1906)
Submitted by Kyle M. Condon
Ned and Lila Shoffner
Mid-Air Crash Leaves Two Dead; Lawton Pilot, Fletcher Man Okay
Ponca City
Investigators probed through the crumbed wreckage of a light plane in a northern Oklahoma wheat field today in an effort to determine what caused a mid-air collision that killed an Oklahoma City couple.
Ned and Lila Shoffner, parents of five children, were killed when their plane scraped the bottom of another light plane 6, 500 feet in the air and crashed near Ponca City Monday. Two men in the other plane escaped injury when they landed their damaged craft at the Ponca City airport.
There was speculation Shoffner may have been blinded by the sun and failed to see the other plane until too late.
Shoffner, 30, vice president of the Shoffner Sand and Gravel Co. of Oklahoma, and his wife, Lila, 30, both of Oklahoma City were killed instantly when their plane plummeted to the earth after the mid-air collision.
Escaping injury were the pilot of the other plane, John Potts, of Lawton, and his passenger, H. D. Dalton, a Fletcher, Okla., funeral home director.
The Shoffners had traded in a Cessna on the 2-year-old Piper Commanche last Saturday. They left Sunday for Kansas City and were returning home when the accident occurred.
The highway patrol said the Shoffner plane came up under the Potts plane, striking the underside and causing considerable damage. The collision occurred about four miles from the Ponca City airport.
The Shoffner plane crashed in a wheat field four miles east of Tonkawa, some five miles from where the planes collided. It sank about four feet into the soft ground and wreckage was scattered over a 1 ½ square mile aea.
The other plane made a belly landing, without wheels, at the airport. Dalton and Potts were en route to North Dakota to pick up a body to return to Fetcher.
"We had just checked in with the tower at Ponca City and I had closed my eyes and settled back in my seat to catch 40 winks." Dalton said.
"The next thing I knew there was a terrific bang and I was bounced severly in my seat…. I thought we had hit a goose, but the pilot told me we had struck another aircraft."
"I never did see the plane. By the time I came to my senses, I looked out the right-hand side and we didn't have any landing gear."
"We came in without any wheels. We both had to stand on the left rudder pedal to keep it under control." Dalton added. [Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Oklahoma) October 10, 1964 - Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Gary R. Williams
Gary Robert Williams, lifelong resident of Ponca City, passed Sunday, July 5, 2009. He was 60 years of age. Gary was born January 12, 1949 in Ponca City, the son of Dale B. Williams and Lenetta Mae “Lynn” (Hewitt) Williams. He was a 1967 graduate of Ponca City High School and a 1969 graduate of Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa. Gary then attended Oklahoma State University. He was married to Theresa Womack on June 29, 1973 in Ponca City. Gary was a 31 year member of the Ponca City Fire Department, retiring from the department on April 1, 2001 as the Assistant Fire Chief. He then was employed at the Conoco Carbon Fiber Plant for two years, the Ponca City Hospital for two years and most recently in the maintenance department of Westminster Village. Gary was a member of the First Baptist Church of Ponca City. He knew Christ as his savior and loved to watch prophecy shows. His enjoyments included woodworking, at which he was very skilled, making muzzle loader guns, making walking canes, collecting antique music boxes, watching old black and white movies on TV, riding his Harley especially with his best friends, Rev. Clyde and LuAnn Garrett of Bella Vista, Arkansas and John and Dona Elliott of Keota, Oklahoma, and most of all spending time with his grandson, Dustin whom they adopted in May 2004. Gary is survived by his wife, Theresa, of the home; his daughter, Penny Williams, Oklahoma City; his grandson, Dustin Williams, of the home; his mother Lynn Williams of Ponca City; one sister, Nancy Niemann and husband, John, of Ponca City; two brothers, Bruce Williams and wife, Louisa, Ponca City, and Dale Williams Jr. of Baraboo, Wisconsin. He had numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Dale Williams in August of 2002, and one sister-in-law, Mary Williams in June 2009. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 9, 2009 in the Worship Center of the First Baptist Church with Rev. Dr. Michael Seabaugh presiding. Interment will follow in Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.
