Pamela Jean McSpadden
Nov 10, 2025
On November 10, 2025, Pamela J. McSpadden died peacefully at home. Since suffering a stroke on January 15, 2025, Pam took every opportunity to get outside and sit in the sun, finding great pleasure and solace in its warmth and energy. It is fitting, then, that she died resting in the sun’s rays and surrounded by family.
Pam was born on...
Johnny M. Desper
Nov 22, 2025
Johnny Desper passed away November 22, 2025, in his birthplace and life-long hometown of Oklahoma City. Born January 6, 1945, Johnny was a proud 1963 graduate of Capitol Hill High School. He retired as a Tinker Air Force Base civil servant in 2000 after 30+ years, and from the Oklahoma Army National Guard in 2005 after achieving the rank of...
Robert Edward Thomasson
Nov 21, 2025
Robert Edward Thomasson was born on November 25, 1933 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to Ray Emmitt and Annetta (Pefley) Thomasson. As an only child, he was treasured. The family moved to Oklahoma City when Robert was young and established their home on NW 30th in Military Park. They quickly found a welcoming community less than a mile away at Wesley United...
Thomas Vaughn Jones
Nov 18, 2025
On November 18, 2025, God called home one of his last true cowboys. Thomas Vaughn Jones was born on May 3, 1948 to Dick and Mary Jones of Oklahoma City. Tom was the third generation born into Jones Cattle Company and he and his older brother Rick spent countless days at the Oklahoma City Stockyards with their Dad, Dick and...
Lora Ann Reeves
Nov 16, 2025
Lora Ann Reeves, a longtime resident of Oklahoma City, passed away peacefully at her home after a long and courageous battle with dementia. She was born on July 12, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas, the oldest of nine children born to Delos and Alice Butenhoff. As the eldest sibling, Lora often cared for her younger brothers and sisters, forming deep,...
Janet Jane Holmes
Nov 16, 2025
On November 16, 2025, surrounded by her loving family, Janet Jane Holmes departed this world at the age at 78. Janet was born to Gus and Agnes Neufeld of Caldwell, KS and was raised in Medford, OK.
Janet worked as a teller at Union Bank in OKC (the prettiest girl at the bank) where she met her husband, Bob. They were...
Marilyn Kaye Cook
Nov 13, 2025
Marilyn Kaye Cook, 72, died on November 13, 2025 in Oklahoma City. She was born to John and Mary Ellen (George) Bellamy on September 4, 1953 in Anadarko, OK.
Marilyn graduated from Ft. Cobb High School in 1971. She then went onto graduate from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1974. After her graduation she moved to Oklahoma City and met her...
Lauren Elise Emig
Nov 12, 2025
Lauren Elise (Lantier) Emig passed into eternity on November 12th, 2025, at the age of 39, after a heroic battle with cancer lasting over two years.
Lauren was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas on November 11th, 1986 to Dr. Steven and Lisa Lantier. She moved with her family back to her parents' home state of Louisiana for two years before...
Cynthia Tolbert Wolfe
Nov 12, 2025
Cynthia "Cindy" Tolbert was born on February 23, 1950, to Jack Burgess Tolbert, M.D., and Wynema Morrison Tolbert, RN., of Mountain View, Oklahoma. She had a brother, Gary L. Tolbert. She loved growing up in the small town of Mountain View. She loved music from a very early age, taking piano lessons from a much-loved teacher and playing various instruments...
Deanna Lynne Unsell
Nov 9, 2025
Deanna Unsell, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and faithful follower of Christ, passed peacefully into the arms of her Savior on November 9, 2025.
Born on June 24, 1965, in Central Valley, California, Deanna was the cherished daughter of Robert and Marlene Adams. A lifelong and passionate believer, she lived her life grounded in her faith and guided by her deep love...
Lou Ansley
Nov 8, 2025
Lou Ansley passed away on November 8, 2025, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Her father, William Lafayette Blair, came to Oklahoma on horseback from Arkansas, and her mother, Louiza Nichols, drove a covered wagon from Texas in 1907, they married in 1908. Lou was born on January 20, 1921, in Elk City, one of eight children, many of whom were born in...
Carolyn K. Fried-Decker
Nov 7, 2025
Carol was born 07/25/1946 in Urbana, IL and joined her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when she passed away November 07, 2025, after a long battle with diabetes and many related complications.
Carol was preceded by her grandparents Chris H. Chapman and Sophia Reed Chapman, her sister Patricia Chapman.
Carol is survived by her husband of 35 years, Mark D. Decker Sr....
Scott Michael Starcevich
Nov 6, 2025
A whole new day dawned on Cheryl and her family on August 13th, 1982. His name was Scott Michael Starcevich, and little did her family know the impact the new baby would make. As Scott grew it became more and more obvious that he was a very special child. Scott could not speak and would never gain that function that...
Carolyn Larson Sharp
Nov 2, 2025
Carolyn Larson Sharp, 83, died November 2, 2025. She was married for 50 years to John Fletcher Sharp Jr. who died March 29, 2025. Carolyn was born on April 29, 1942 in Oklahoma City to Roy and Eleanor Larson. She was a fourth generation Oklahoman- her grandfather, Andrew Hanson made the 1889 Land Run and settled his family in Oklahoma...
Alfred D. Konarik
Nov 2, 2025
Alfred Daniel Konarik joined his wife Shirley Konarik and father and mother, Rudy and Agnes Konarik in heaven on November 2, 2025. He was born on March 9, 1938, in Hillsboro, Kansas. He married Shirley Freeman in 1958 and moved to Oklahoma City in 1962. They joined St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and were longtime members living across the...
Carolyn Yvonne Hanks
Nov 1, 2025
Our beloved Carolyn Yvonne Hanks (née Smith) passed away on November 1, just one day before her 90th birthday. She was born in Alabama and raised in the Florida Keys alongside her siblings Francis, Berenice, James, and Winston.
At a young age, she modeled and participated in beauty pageants, which caught the eye of the love of her life — Air...
DeForest Warren Hearn, Jr.
Oct 31, 2025
DeForest Warren "DW" Hearn, Jr. left this life on October 31,2025. He was born in Brownsville,Texas on August 13,1945 to DeForest Hearn and Marguerite Muller Hearn. He was the eldest of six children. The family moved to Midwest City in 1952, where his father started a machine shop business. A good student, DW showed an early aptitude for math, and...
Gary Wayne Graham
Oct 30, 2025
Gary Wayne Graham was born to John and Janette Graham on October 12th, 1949, in Muscatine Iowa. He graduated from Muscatine High school at the age of 17 and attended community college for a year before deciding that classroom learning wasn’t for him. Instead, he chose to serve his country and joined the United States Marine Corps, serving in Vietnam.
Upon...
John David Colbert
Oct 29, 2025
John David “JD” Colbert passed away October 29, 2025. He was born June 14, 1943 to Anna Lou Kirkpatrick Colbert and John “David” Colbert in Bokchito, Oklahoma. David had shipped out with the 45th Division for North Africa a few weeks before John David was born and saw him for the first time after he was 2 years old.
JD graduated...
Jaynee Tayar Silvernail
Oct 28, 2025
Jaynee Tayar Silvernail, a beautiful, loving, and petite woman with a firm will and a strong work ethic, left this earthly world to join her husband on October 28, 2025. Born in Oklahoma City, OK, on May 13, 1947, Jaynee was the beloved only daughter of Kenneth and Lola May Tayar. Her life was marked by an unwavering commitment to...
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