Obituaries

Loren Jones

Loren Neil Jones passed away Dec. 4, 2025. Loren was born on Dec. 31,1956 in Shawnee, OK to Earl Jones and Bonna (Redwine) Jones. Loren graduated from Shawnee and was later employed by Iron Tough Fence Company.

Tom Dell Scott

Tom Dell Scott passed away Dec. 6, 2025. He was born May 22, 1937 in Romulus, OK to Dell and Belle (Hargus) Scott.Tom was a 1956 graduate of Macomb High School. He married Mary Martin on Oct. 31, 1958 and they celebrated 59 years of marriage before her passing in 2017.

Sky Deere

Sky Christine Nicole Deere passed away Nov. 7, 2025. Sky was born May 6, 1997, in Shawnee, OK to Chris Deere and Christy (Hasty) Deere.Sky was preceded in death by her mother, Christy (Hasty) Deere; grandmother, Nevalee Deere; aunt, Fawn Powell.

Gary Dennington

Gary Lynn Dennington was born on Sept. 18, 1941 in Seminole, OK and passed away on Dec. 6, 2025. Gary graduated from Bowlegs High School in 1959. He married Rachel Waller on May 14,1959.
William Donald “Don” Crosby

William Donald “Don” Crosby

William Donald “Don” Crosby

William Donald “Don” Crosby, 89, of Shawnee, went home to be with his Lord on Nov. 28, 2025.Don was born in Konawa, OK, on Aug. 7, 1936—one of the hottest days in a record- setting Oklahoma summer—to William Cleatus and Hazel Marie (Degraffenreid) Crosby.

Clifford Boyd Honeycutt

Clifford Boyd Honeycutt passed away on Nov. 21st after a long battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.Clifford was born on Oct. 21, 1953, to Leslie Boyd Honeycutt and Helen Marie (Patton) Honeycutt in Ponca City, OK.

Perry Hennigh

Perry Hennigh passed away on Nov. 30, 2025. Perry was born to Marvin Hennigh and Barbara Hennigh in Shawnee, OK on April 16,1956. He grew up in the Tecumseh and Shawnee area.

Glenda Weger

Glenda Weger passed away on Nov. 21, 2025. Glenda was born on June 8, 1935 in Lone Grove, OK to AP and Mattie Lewis. She grew up working alongside her sisters and parents in the grocery store that her family owned in Lone Grove. She married Johnny Weger on Christmas Eve of their senior year, 1951.

Anita Louise Gassett

Anita Louise Gassett passed away on Nov. 27, 2025. She was born on Oct. 15, 1947, in Shawnee to George and Doris Elliott.Anita was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother.