Custer County, Oklahoma Obituary and Death Notices Collection

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Services set for Auemheimer at 11:54 am
Graveside services for Wanda (Slawson) Auemheimer, age 81 of Wichita, Kan., will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Arapaho Cemetery.
Auemheimer died Thursday, June 8, 2006, at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan. She was born to Jodie and Sue (Humphrey) Slawson.

A graduate of Arapaho High School and the former Southwestern State College in Weatherford, she taught school in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas before retiring in Wichita in 1966.

Preceding her in death, along with her parents, was her husband, Earl C. Auemheimer.

Visitation will be Monday at the Stanley-Lee Funeral Home in downtown Clinton.

Survivors include a daughter, Lucretia Sue Mella of Brighton, Colo.; a son, Loyd Charles Alexander, Jr. of Wichita, Kan.; her stepmother, Winnetta Slawson of Weatherford; and a sister, Marjorie Jo Hansen of Ogden, Utah.

The family suggests that memorial contributions in Wanda Auemheimer’s memory may be made to the American Diabetes Foundation.

Thursday, June 08, 2006
Travis rites set Saturday at 1:40 pm
Graveside services for Johnny Don Travis, 41, of El Reno will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Chapel Hill Cemetery.

He died in his El Reno home Tuesday, June 6, 2006.

He was born Nov. 14, 1964, in Cordell to J.D. and Donita (Crook) Travis. He grew up east of Clinton and gradu-ated from Clinton High School in 1982.

He was employed by Cass Industries at the time of his death.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Donita Taylor-Unruh.

He is survived by his wife, Judy Travis; step-daughter, Coyette Camper; step-sons, Brandon and Eric McCoy; parents, J.D. and Wanda Travis of Clinton; five sisters, D’Lese Travis of Weatherford, Sharon White, Carla Crook, Debbie Jacques, Gay Monaco; and two brother, Deck and wife Linda of Houston, Texas and Glenn Wat-son.

West services to be Saturday at 1:39 pm
Funeral services for Clovis R. West, 92, of Taloga, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Seiling First Baptist Church.
He died Tuesday, June 6, 2006, and was a farmer.

Burial will follow at the Mound Cemetery and is under the direction of the Shaw Funeral Home of Taloga.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Olsovsky service will be Friday at 12:34 pm
Olsovsky service will be Friday
Funeral services for Edwin Bernard Oslov-sky, 76, of Clinton, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, June 6, 2006, in the Kiesau Chapel with Pastor Roy Dobbs offi-ciating.
He died late Monday night, June 5, 2006, in his home.
He was born Jan. 27, 1930, in Lolita, Texas, to Frank and Mary (So-sick) Olsovsky. He grew up there and attended school before joining the Army in 1951.
He served during the Korean War and was wounded in combat to receive the Purple Heart Medal. He also received the Good Con-duct Medal, the Na-tional Defense Service Medal, the Korean Ser-vice Medal, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the United Nations Service Medal and the Sharp-shooter Badge.
After his discharge he returned to Texas and worked as a house mover. He married Marilyn McNamara on Dec. 25, 1955. He would work as a trucker and a seismograph operator.
He transferred to Clin-ton in 1968 and retired in 1998.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Stanley-Lee Funeral Home.
He was preceded in death by a son, William Olsovsky; brothers, Frank and Joe; and sis-ters, Lucille, Lillie, Mary and Cecilia.
He is survived by his wife of the home; two daughters, Jody Rose, Mary and a son, Floyd Olsovsky, all of Clinton; two sisters, Bessie Steinke and Claudia Keyser, both of Hous-ton; two brothers, An-tone Olsovsky of El Campo, Texas, and Louis Olsovsky of Ga-nado, Texas; four grandchildren, Amanda Ingram, Tara Moore, April Lustfield and Travis Mahan; six great grandchildren and a host of family and friends.

Noblitt rites to be Friday at 12:31 pm
Graveside services for Ameta May Noblitt, 97, of Arapaho, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, June 9, 2006, at the Mound Valley Cemetery in Thomas with Carlin Gray officiating.
She died June 5, 2006, at the Methodist Health Center in Clinton.

She was born Aug. 29, 1908, in Peek of Ellis County the daughter of William Henry and Agartha Maude (Hanks) Ferguson. She was raised in the Cus-ter City area and graduated in 1927 from Custer City School.

She married Hubert Ray Noblitt on Feb. 3, 1934, in Texas. They made their home in Portland, Ore., and in 1946 moved to Arapaho.

She worked on the farm and was a member of the Willing Worker Club and was treasurer of the Vicksburg Church.

Burial is under the di-rection of Lockstone Funeral Home of Tho-mas.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Henry Adver; a daughter, Shirley Jean; three brothers, Herbert, Orville, Everett Fergu-son; and a sister, Violet Hoosier.

She is survived by two daughters, Ameta Fay Davis and her husband Bob of Clinton, Moeta May Davis and her husband Will of Moun-tain Park; five grand-children; 11 great grandchildren; two great-great grandchil-dren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Monday, June 05, 2006
Services set for Rawdon at 1:25 pm
Funeral services for Susie Mae Rawdon, 91, Weatherford resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at the Lockstone Funeral Home Chapel in Weatherford with Pas-tor Tony Cannon offici-ating.

She died Saturday, June 3, 2006 at the Corn Heritage Village in Weatherford.

She was born Dec. 9, 1914 in Athens, Tenn., to Samuel and Tempa (Hammons) Cantrell. She was raised in Tho-mas and attended Swan School, later graduating from Thomas High School in 1932.

She attended Oklahoma Baptist University and Baylor University, ob-taining a nursing de-gree.

She married Jim Raw-don in 1941 in Indiana and the couple would make their home in De-troit and Chicago before moving to Weatherford in 1946.

She would work at the Clinton Regional Hospi-tal, the Clinton Indian Hospital and the Weatherford Hospital before retiring at 65.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her son, Dr. Sam Raw-don; and an infant brother.

She is survived by her son, Dr. Jim Rawdon III and wife, Glenda of Parksville, Mo.; her daughter-in-law, Linda Rawdon of Manhattan, Kan.; five grandchil-dren, eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home and memorial contributions may be made to the Southwest-ern Memorial Hospital building fund.

Moss funeral held today at 1:24 pm
Funeral services for Olive Co-rene Moss, 79, area resident, were held today at the Cumberland Pres-byterian Church in Burns Flat with Rev. Duawn Mearns and Rev. Lloyd Hall officiat-ing.
She died June 1, 2006 at Norman.

She was born Nov. 21, 1926 in Ware, Mo., to Olive and Willis Grant Hood and she was the oldest of eight children.

She married Darrell Maupin Moss on Jan. 25, 1945 at Gray Ridge, Mo. The couple lived with their two sons and six of her siblings and all of them graduated from Gray Ridge School.

She would go on to graduate from South-east Missouri State Col-lege in Cape Girardeau, Mo. It took her 12 years to finish, as she at-tended only during the summer and taught 34 years in the school she graduated from.

She and her husband moved to Oklahoma in 1980 and she worked at the Southwestern Oklahoma Development Authority’s Area Agency foe Aging for 20 years as an ombudsman supervisor and was an advocate for nursing home residents and those in assisted living. She retired due to health problems in 2001.

She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, a SWODA delegate to the White House Confer-ence on Aging in 1995, the Senior Advocates, National Citizens Coali-tion for Nursing Home Reform, Oklahoma for Improvement of Nurs-ing Care Homes, Lead-ership Roundtable, In-ter-Agency Taskforce, Silver Haired Legisla-ture, Eldercare Advi-sory Council, a Hospice volunteer, Alzheimer’s Support Group, Grief Support Group, Nurs-ing Home Family Coun-cil, a certified senior health insurance coun-seling program volun-teer and the Missouri Retired Teachers Asso-ciation.

She was also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Burns Flat.

Burial was concluded at the Sentinel Cemetery under the direction of the Whinery-Savage Funeral Service in Elk City.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Grant and Donald.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Darrell W. Moss of Al-tus and Walter G. (Ho-sie) Moss of Burns Flat; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three sisters and two bothers, Shirley Chumbley of Champaign, Ill., Sher-wood Hood of Houston, Norman Hood of Boss-ier City, La., Jo Ann Jones of Vancouver, Wash. and Jimee Modica of Corona, Calif.

Saturday, June 03, 2006
Wreck victim dies at 1:14 pm
Funeral services for Darren Hill, 19, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Cordell High School auditorium.

Hill died Thursday at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City of injuries received in a Memorial Day automobile accident. The mishap occurred at 7:48 a.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 183 four blocks south of the red light in Cordell.

The Cordell Beacon reported Wednesday that a Police Department report showed Hill was northbound in a 1991 Chevrolet S-10 pickup, following a truck and combine, when a southbound driver in a 1999 Ford F-250 tried to turn left onto Caddo Street. The bigger Ford hit the smaller Chevy in the driver’s door area.

The second driver, Daren Switzer, reportedly did not see Hill’s vehicle before starting his turn.

Hill was pinned in the wreckage approximately 30 minutes.

Friday, June 02, 2006
Roller rites set Monday at 3:12 pm
Funeral services for Nellie Roller, 93, long-time Clinton resident, will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, June 5, 2006, in the Stanley-Lee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Sandy Shep-herd officiating.

Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery.

She died early Thurs-day, June 1, 2006, at Integris Clinton Re-gional Hospital.

She was born Oct. 10, 1912, northwest of Clin-ton to Sherman and Ida Pearl (Pridemore) Sebastian.

She married Jimmie Roller on Dec. 24, 1938.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother,
Alfred Sebas-tian; and a half sister, Ann Turner.

She is survived by a cousin, Alice Nabors of Lower Lake, Calif. and several local special friends.

Smith rites held today at 3:12 pm
Funeral services for Sweetwater native Robert Ray Smith, 85, were held this morning at the Sweetwater Baptist Church with Rev. Ed Wrather officiating.
Smith died Tuesday, May 30, 2006. He was born on March 22, 1921 at Sweetwater, the son of Will and Lillie (Duerkson) Smith.

Smith farmed most of his life before retiring from the Department of Transportation.

He married Adele Hill in 1942, and she preceded him in death in 1943, after which he married Doris Waggoner in 1973.

He was a member of the Sweetwater Baptist Church and was also preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, a sister and a daughter, Kay Smith.

Interment followed in the Buffalo Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.

Survivors include six children, Reba Reynolds and her
husband, Dave, of Edmond, Sylvia Titus and her husband, Terry, of Seneca, S.C., Mary Blocker and her husband, Ora, of Retrop, Ed Smith and his wife, JoAnn, of Dodge City, Kan., Leonard Smith nd his wife, Anita, of Clinton, Robert Smith and his wife, Kim, of Owasso; 13 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; a great-great grandchild.

Betty Pope services set at 1:37 pm
Chapel services for Betty Jean Pope, age 69 of Clinton, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel at the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton with Rev. Lawrence Hart officiating.

A traditional wake is planned for 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Pope died early Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, at Integris Clinton Regional Hospital. She was born June 7, 1937, the daughter of Howard and Mary (Coyote) Riggs.

On Aug. 15, 1968 she married Herschel L. Pope, and they made their home in Clinton. She worked for many years as a nurse’s aide and was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Clinton.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; a brother, John David Riggs; and a sister, Ella Mae Riggs-Penn.

Burial will conclude in the Orion Cemetery near Seiling with visitation starting at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Survivors include numerous cousins and other relatives.

Kincaid rites set Monday at 3:40 pm
Graveside services for Geraldine Agnes Kincaid, 87-year-old Custer County resident, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Clinton Cemetery with minister Doyle Kinney officiating.

Geraldine Agnes (Shouse) Kincaid died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, at the Thomas Nursing Center. She was born on Oct. 24, 1918 in Clinton, the daughter of William Alexander Shouse and Agnes Oregon (Thrash).

Reared in Clinton, she graduated from Clinton High School in 1936 and married Wilbur Gordon Kincaid in 1938.

They made their first home in Elk City but spent most of their married life in Clinton.

He preceded her in death in 1979. Due to failing health, she had been a resident of the Thomas Nursing Center for the past 17 years.

Also preceding her in death were her parents; a son, Gordon Kincaid; a grandson, Richard “Rick” Kincaid; a sister, Kay Aspinwall; and a brother, W.A. Shouse, Jr.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Visitation will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday. Arrangements are under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.

Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Dorothy Kincaid of Clinton; a granddaughter, Karen Ramsey and her husband, Kevin, a great granddaughter, Kristi Ramsey, and a great grandson, Bryan Ramsey, all of Butler; her sister, Margaret Patterson of California; and a brother-in-law, Nolen Kincaid of Clinton.

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