Paula Kaye Barber

Paula Kaye Barber passed away on Dec. 19, 2025. Paula was born on Aug. 17, 1942, in Shawnee, OK, to Nelson and Betty Greene. She married Charles “Chuck” Barber on June 17, 1961, at New Hope Baptist Church.

Flora (Baker) Gay

Flora Jean (Baker) Gay, 91, passed away Dec. 21, 2025. Jean was born to Jesus Botello and Florence Drake Botello on Nov. 11, 1934, in English WV. She was a nurse of 25 years on the oncology floor of the Presbyterian Hospital and was a natural gifted care giver.

Robert Kent Hendon

Robert Kent Hendon passed away Dec. 16, 2025. Robert was born Jan. 31, 1951, to Claude Fairchild Hendon and Joy Loretta (Jordan) Hendon.He owned several businesses over the years, including Big Red Pawn in Shawnee and Earlsboro Auto Sales.

Mary Rizkharati

Mary Anne (Smith) Rizkharati passed away on Dec. 16, 2025. Mary was born on Feb. 24, 1954, in Shawnee, OK, to Floyd Charles Smith and Mary Isabel (Swink) Smith. On Jan. 12, 1973 she married Yousef Rizkharati.

Anita Combs

Anita Nell Combs passed away Dec. 9, 2025.Anita was born to William Robert and Dora Alice (James) Deatherage on Oct. 29, 1938, in Tecumseh, OK. She married Richard Darrel Combs on Dec. 5, 2006, in Wewoka, OK.Anita is preceded in death by her parents and one child.

Earnestine “Tina” Alberta Harris

Earnestine “Tina” Alberta Harris passed away Dec. 6, 2025. Tina was born in Shawnee, OK to Earnest Albert Patterson and Bettie Jean Kratz June 14, 1948. Following graduation from Shawnee High School in 1966, she was employed by the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare in Oklahoma City.

Delores Colbert

Delores Butler Kernell Colbert passed away on Dec. 14, 2025. She was born on Nov. 20, 1952, in Shawnee, OK, to Roland and Beverly Jean (Longhorn) Butler.Delores graduated from Earlsboro High School with the class of 1971.

Lee Curtis Hodges

Lee Curtis Hodges passed away Dec. 9, 2025. Lee was born in Shawnee, OK, on March 23, 1984, to Kathryn Marley and Gurney Hodges.Lee was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Orbie and Lula McCormick of Okemah and Gurney and Mary Hodges of Okemah.

Jimmie Wilkerson

Jimmie Wayne Wilkerson passed away Dec. 13. 2025. Jimmie was born on May 15, 1943 in Seminole, OK to Hershel Woodrow Wilkerson and Lois Lee (Summers) Wilkerson. Jimmie graduated from Seminole High School. Following his graduation, he married Wilberta Hamon in Seminole on Dec. 21, 1963.

Ann Charlene Myers-Baxter

Ann Charlene Myers- Baxter passed away Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025 in Shawnee, OK at the age of 79.Ann was born Nov. 16, 1946 in Wewoka, OK to Lloyd Melvin Myers and Dorothy Marie (Sullivan) Myers. Ann attended Wewoka High School with the Class of 1965.