Graveside services for Velma Jean (Womack) Bensmiller of Chickasha will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Friendship Cemetery southwest of Minco. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.
Jean died Oct. 12, 2022, in Chickasha. She was born April 28, 1935, in Woodbury, Tenn., and graduated from Woodbury High School. Jean was a homemaker and was active in the Woodbury Church of Christ.
An all-night wake for Isaiah Edward Russell will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, with funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at the Concho Emergency Response Center with Rev. Greg Leaf officiating. Burial will be in the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Isaiah died Oct. 12, 2022, in El Reno.
He was born April 12, 2019, in Yukon.
Gary L. Tesch, 86, of Norman, an El Reno High School class of 1954 graduate, died Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 at First Christian Church of Norman.
Detailed obituary can be found at https://www.johnirelandfuneralhome.com/obituary/Gary-Tesch.
Funeral services for Eleanore Madbull were held Thursday at the Emergency Response Center in Concho with Rev. Gerald Panana officiating. Burial followed at the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Eleanore died Oct. 8, 2022, at Windsor Hills Nursing Center in Oklahoma City. She was born Nov. 23, 1941, in Calumet. She was a case worker for Tribal Elder Care and a member of the Native American Church and the Indian Methodist Church.
Funeral services for Barbara Jean (Jeanie) Ventris of Minco were held Monday at First Baptist Church in Minco, under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.
Jeanie died Oct. 6, 2022, at Agape Road Hospice House in Bethany. She was born Nov. 14, 1941, in Minco. She was raised in the Minco community, helping with the family dairy farm. She graduated from Minco High School in 1959.
Jeanie worked as a bank teller while serving as a Cub Scout den mother.
She was a lifelong member of Minco First Baptist Church.
Marlene Young, 83, of Oklahoma City, passed away Oct. 2, 2022, at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital.
Marlene was born July 4, 1939, to Dewitt Talmage Keesee and Ruby Lorene Denton Keesee in Mangum, Oklahoma. Marlene married Gene Young on June 4, 1966, in Fort Smith, Ark. Gene worked for the El Reno Federal Reformatory. Upon their moving to El Reno, Marlene opened Marlene’s Beauty Salon on Sunset Drive in El Reno in 1966. She closed her shop in 2016. She was proud to have operated a beauty salon in El Reno for 50 years.
Graveside services for Patsy Lou Finch Clem of Yukon were held Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco, under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.
Patsy passed away Sept. 30, 2022, in Yukon. She was born Aug. 20, 1941, in Cogar. Patsy was raised in the Cogar community, graduating from Binger High School in 1961. She graduated from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha with a degree in elementary education and home economics. She attained her master’s degree from Central State University.
Funeral services for Lucille Tabor Todd were held Friday at Geary First Baptist Church with Rev. Jay Mule officiating. Burial was in the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Turner Funeral Home.
Lucille passed away Oct. 2, 2022, in El Reno. She was born Dec. 11, 1939, in Clinton, and grew up in Greenfield. Lucille loved to sew, loved beading and making shawls, cooking for everyone and playing golf.
Survivors include her children, JoElla Hamm and Joseph E. Todd Jr., and stepson, Curtis Big Eagle; sister, Peggy Dawson; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Marietta Cheryl Poe will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Pastor Mark Fryar officiating. Services are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Marietta passed away Sept. 26, 2022, at her home in El Reno at the age of 77. She was born Aug. 24, 1945, at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Parris Island, S.C. She graduated from El Reno High School in 1963 and attended the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education.
Gary Gene Wagner, 64, of Watonga, passed away Sept. 26, 2022, in Amarillo, Texas. He was born Nov. 24, 1957, in Sentinel to John F. and Francis Leona Wagner.
