Obituaries

Taelin Jace Bush was born on March 22, 2021, in Oklahoma City, OK, and passed away unexpectedly in Ponca City, OK, on January 23, 2023. A Funeral Ceremony will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, February 2, 2023, at the First Baptist Church with Wayne Vineyard officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory, 505 W. Grand Ave., Ponca City, OK, 74601.

Charlie Fields came into this world on May 29, 1948, and left this life on January 11, 2023. He was the oldest of four children born to Edgar and Doris Fields. Charlie graduated from Po-Hi in 1967. He then attended Northwestern State University in Alva, OK graduating in 1971.

Curtis Leon Winney, age 85, resident of Forks, Washington passed away January 27, 2023 at Via Christi Village in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Arrangements are under the direction of County Creation Services, 1901 E. Hubbard Rd, Ponca City, OK 74604. We invite you to leave a message of condolence, expression of sympathy or perhaps share a memory of Curtis at www. countycremationservices. com.

Charlene Thornton was welcomed into Heaven and embraced in the arms of our Savior on the morning of January 1, 2023. She was 77 years old.

Darrell Wayne Wood was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma on December 21, 1956 to Evelyn Violet (Dorman) Wood and Roscoe Allen Wood. Darrell passed away on December 15th, 2022 at the OSU Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from complications of COVID, pneumonia and kidney failure. Through the years, he fought several battles with cancer and courageously beat them all.

September 1, 1954 ~ January 28, 2023 Mark Alan Horinek, 68, passed away at his home in Newkirk, Oklahoma on January 28, 2023 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Mark was born to Elmer A.

Monty was born October 8th 1954 in Ponca City OK to Ernest Ray Hankla and Wilma Jean Grimm. He married Amanda Anna Lee Gregory in 1971, together they had 4 children, Chance Glenn, Shawn Derek, Brian Lee, and Jessica Ann.

Sheryl Lanette (Jones) Buxton passed away peacefully into the hands of our Lord and Savior while surrounded by family on January 22, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born in Enid, Oklahoma on November 1, 1940, to LeRoy Wallace Jones and Barbara Lorayne (Will) Jones and had one younger brother, Richard L.

Catharine Alda Veal (age 97) passed away on January 23rd in her home in Edmond, Okla. where she was well taken care of by her son Coburn and his wife Pama Veal. She was born on June 9, 1925 to Kenneth and Vera Smith in their farm home southeast of Tonkawa.

On January 24, 2023, Wallace Neal Officer passed away 6 days before his 100th birthday. You are invited to celebrate Wally’s life on Saturday, February 4th, 2023, at 2:00 PM at Community Christian Church, 2109 W. Grand Ave, Ponca City, OK 74601, with Reverend Tom Howard officiating. Burial will immediately follow at Odd Fellow’s Cemetery, Ponca City. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory, 505 W. Grand Ave., Ponca City, OK, 74601.