Area Obituaries

Norma Lee (Brown) Stein, 94, passed away Sunday, May 2, 2021 at Catholic Care Center, Bel Aire, Kan. Norma was born January 20, 1927 in Cherokee to Harry L. and Myrtle (Glenn) Pollock. On August 3, 1945 she married Thomas Jacob Brown in Cherokee. To this union three daughters were born. Tom preceded her in…

June passed away on April 17, 2021, at Bear Creek Senior Living Facility. She was an amazing woman with a zest for life and was a true people person. She led a life dedicated to all the children whose lives she touched as an educator. She was especially devoted to her five grandchildren and eleven…

Lonnie Polson was born July 3, 1936, the son of Howard Ivan Polson and Ella Olena Haegert Polson, in Anthony, Kansas. He was a graduate of Okmulgee Oklahoma State Vo-Tech and his life work was spent as a mechanic, farmer and custom harvester. He and Ruth Hoskins were married February 15, 1958 and they had…

Shirley Ruth Shafer Hurst, resident of Cherokee, was born in Fairview on August 11, 1934 to Guy Irving Shafer and Goldia LaVaughn Bartley Shafer. She passed away Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 11:15 p.m. surrounded by family. Shirley is preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Vida Lee Bowles and brother, Guy Eugene Shafer.…

On May 19, 1928, Felice Warburton was born on the Cherokee farm her grandfather staked as a claim in the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893. It was the largest such land run in U.S. history. Her parents, Cecil Clyde Warburton and Hazel Green Warburton raised their only child quietly and conservatively. Without playmates on…

Stuckey, Nancy Lee (Hunter), age 84, of Burlington passed away Monday evening April 12, 2021, at 7:07 p.m. She was preceded in death by her parents Ernest Melville Hunter and Ellen Isabel (Hendrickson) Hunter, Burlington, and her sister Carol Rosemary (Hunter) McOsker and husband Perry McOsker, Alva.  Nancy is survived by her husband, Harvie Max…

Marjorie A. “Margie” Ferrell, 86, of Wichita, Kansas passed away on Wednesday March 24, 2021 in Wichita. Margie was born the daughter of Jesse and Annie Leeman on August 31, 1934 in Maysville, Arkansas. Margie and Teddy S. Ferrell were united in marriage on October 5, 1952 in Cherokee. Margie received her Master’s Degree in…

Ron was born on August 20, 1943 to Otis Allison and Erma Oakley Allison in Cherokee and passed from this life on February 27, 2021 in Alva. Ron graduated from Cherokee High School with the class of 1961. He attended Oklahoma State University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He joined the National Guard in 1965.…

James Robert Means Jr. “Jimmy” was born September 8, 1928 to James Robert Means Sr. and Lois Edna Mann Means. His birth place was rural Carmen on the family farm. He attended first through eighth grade at Prairie Valley. His high school years were at Lambert, where he excelled in basketball and baseball. He attended…

Gilbert Dean Maltbie, age 89, passed away December 30 in Buckeye, Ariz. He was born in Cherokee on June 23, 1931 to John William Maltbie and Fanny Lucille Maltbie nee McGlassen. He was raised on the family farm with sister Wanda Irene in Amorita. This was the family homestead farm from the Cherokee Strip Run…