All Obituaries

Service Date and Obit To Follow

James Aaron Bowker of Laverne, OK passed away at home surrounded by his family on Friday, October 19 at the age of 76.   He was born February 6, 1942 on the farm east of Laverne to Arnold and Edith (Smith) Bowker.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church, accepted Christ as his Savior and was baptized at a young age.    He attended the Laverne school system where he graduated high school in 1959.  He attended NWOSU for one year before moving back to Laverne...

 Harold Baird Jr. age 74 from Shattuck, OK passed from this life on October  19, 2018 in Shattuck Ok. Harold was born to Harold Sr. and Rose L. (Becker) Baird on November 19, 1943 in Newman Memorial Hospital.  He lived West of Shattuck on the Kelln farm all his life, attended Seventh Day Advent School and graduated Shattuck High School in 1962.      On December 25, 1964 married the love of his life, Alberta. First job farming with his father and did...

Victor Elmer Messner of Follett, Tx, passed away on October 11, 2018, in Perryton, Tx at the age of 77. He was born in Shattuck, Ok, June 6, 1941, to Wyette and Ethlyn (Douglas) Messner. He was raised at Capital Hill until they moved to the Slapout, Ok area. He attended the Overstreet School until 1956 and graduated high school in Laverne, Ok in 1959. During the years following graduation he could be found working on the family farm or going on harvest. His love was going on harvest,...

Virginia Lee (Berry) Peetoom was born October 14, 1926  in Buffalo, OK to Harold W. and Fern (Carter) Berry.  She passed peacefully from this life in her home in Shattuck, OK on October 4, 2018. Virginia spent her early childhood in Rosston, OK after which her family moved to Laverne, OK where she graduated from Laverne High School.  One of her activities was serving  as drum major for the band.  During a parade in which the band was participating, Willie Peetoom,...

     Scott Kelley Garvin, 57, died Saturday, September 29, 2018 at his home in Fargo, Oklahoma.      He was born May 27, 1961 to Archibald Watson and Jean (Kelley) Garvin in Abington, Pennsylvania.      He married Sally Ann Wade June 5, 1993 in North Port, Florida, and then moved to Pennsylvania and to Fargo, Oklahoma in January 1995.      Scott was a carpenter by trade, he loved to build with wood, he could...

Nelta “June” Jackson was born in Midway, Arkansas on June 21, 1946 to Ira “Art” Yocham and Melvina “Mel” (Fox) Yocham. She graduated high school in Coweta, Oklahoma and then attended Tulsa Beauty College. June and Rob Jackson were married on March 28, 1968. They have two children, son, Taylynn Jackson and daughter, Tanesa Kline. She worked as a beautician most of her life, also worked at Panhandle Eastern and at the May Coop as a book keeper. June...

Patricia Ann (Dunn) Flowers was born June 17th, 1952 in Mountain View, Oklahoma to Wayne and Opal (Whisenhunt) Dunn. She graduated from Gate High School in Gate, Oklahoma where she lived most of her life on the farm. Patricia and David Flowers were married in 1970 and to this union they were blessed with three sons; Wayne, Marquis, and Phillip. They moved to South Carolina in 1996. She enjoyed spending time with David riding motorcycles with a Christian Motorcycle group. She had a joy...

Austin Andrew Riggs was joyfully welcomed into this world on July 19th, 1987 (Shattuck, Oklahoma) by his parents Randal and Jerri (Rolf) Riggs and his bother Adam. “Ozzie” as some of his family members called him grew up 8 miles west of Laverne at the family farm. He currently lived just a little east of there, behind his grandma, Elma. As there were few other children in the neighborhood, Adam and Austin were reduced to playing with each other. Many were times when they were...

     On May 1, 1953, was born to Odell and Esther Bowles, and to help welcome her home was big Brother Douglas and big sister Judith Ann, then later, she got to welcome home little sister Janet Sue. They made their home South of Shattuck in a little Community called Podunk Corner, where they were Dairyman and farmers.  Her dad also worked for the Arnett County Dept. Her mother was a nurse at the Shattuck Newman Memorial Hospital. Later, in September of 1967 losing...