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DarlAnn Swayze Rial passed away on June 17 in Greenville, Texas at the age of 82. DarlAnn was born in Ashland, Kansas on December 1, 1936 to Bonnie Elizabeth (Ford) Swayze and Jack Herndon Swayze. She attended country school in Sitka, Kansas and graduated from Ashland High School in 1954. DarlAnn attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas for two years and served as editor of the college newspaper before marrying Albert Dean Rial of Pampa, Texas on August 12, 1956 at the United...

Ivan Ray Bozarth was born on November 15, 1950 in Laverne, Oklahoma to Auto Fay and Eula Francis (Colten) Bozarth. Ivan grew up on the family farm in Beaver County, Oklahoma and then moved to Laverne. He attended Laverne Schools. He was united in marriage to Sandra Allen Courange on September 26, 1967 in Laverne, Oklahoma, to this union three children were born; Ivan Todd Bozarth, Julie Faye (Bozarth) Coulter, Debbie Sue (Bozarth) Ellis, and adopted Linda Sue (Cooper) Daughtery. Ivan worked...

Phyllis Jo Bockelman Nine was born November 12, 1927. She was 91 years old. She was born at home on a farm a few miles southeast of Slapout, Oklahoma. Her parents were Johnny Bockelman and Edna Lena (Calaham) Bockelman. She had 2 sisters, Miriam Anne Colbert and Brenda McDaniel. Phyllis lived her whole life 2 ½ miles from where she was born, except for the 2 years she attended Oklahoma State University. She went to college a year then taught one year then back to college another year...

  Rosa Borth Becker was born December 5, 1919 on the family farm near Shattuck, Oklahoma to Gustav and Rosa Behrens Borth.    Rosa was united in marriage June 2, 1940 to the neighbor boy across the field, Leroy Howard Becker.  Rosa and Leroy were married for 71 years.  They lived in the Follett area all their lives except for the 14 winters they spent in their home at Victoria Palms Resort in Donna, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley.  They also had a summer home...

Jonell Doyal of Higgins, TX, passed away at the age of 89 on June 4, 2019 at Newman Memorial Hospital in Shattuck, Oklahoma.  She was born on February 14, 1930 in Whiteland, TX to Roy Virgil and Hazel Mae Brock. Jonell received her education in Brady, TX.  She married Alfred C. "A.C." Doyal on November 14, 1947.  She was committed to her family and her dogs. Jonell stated babysitting in 1978 when her last child went off to college.  She enjoyed traveling,...

Marilyn Elaine Lansdown Moseley was born September 6, 1933, to Forest Marvin Lansdown and Edith Mary Aldrich Lansdown at Woodward, Oklahoma.  She attended Woodward Public Schools and graduated in 1951.   In 1953, while attending Oklahoma A&M University she met the love of her life, Melvin Wayne Moseley, on a blind date to Lake Blackwell. Two years later, Marilyn and Melvin were married at the First Methodist Church in Woodward, Oklahoma on April 14th, 1955.   After...

Esther Ruth York was born August 10, 1919 to Frank and Cora Johnson York of the Sitka Community.  She passed away at the Ashland Health Center/Senior Living Center on May 25, 2019.  She was two and one-half months from her 100th birthday. Ruth attended the Sitka Elementary schools and graduated from Ashland High School with the Class of 1937. She then attended Southwestern College to return home and teach one term in the Bare country school on the Clark/Comanche County line and...

Vernon Bozarth was born on April 5, 1942.  Vernon and his parents Glen and Thelma Bozarth with his sister Betty Boise lived on the family farm west of Laverne, Oklahoma during his school years.  Vernon graduated from Laverne High School in 1961.  After graduation, he joined the US Army.  During his 6 years of military service, he achieved the rank of a drill sergeant.    Vernon enjoyed riding motorcycles and rebuilding Ford cars (never a Chevrolet)!  He...

Kenneth Leland Swanson passed away on May 15, 2019 at the age of 86 years, 4 months and 4 days. He was born in Ashland, Kansas, at the farm home of his parents Walter Alexander Swanson and Mary Golden Beard Swanson. He had three older brothers, one an infant who passed away 1-2 days after birth, Harold, and Robert Swanson. He attend grade school and high school in Ashland.   He met Melba L. Edmonston on a blind date. He always said he knew after the first date he was going to marry...