OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries at Lanman Funeral Home, Inc Providing Services Helena, Cherokee, Okeene, and Medford Oklahoma, and in addition to Kiowa, Kansas

Delbert Luginbill

Oct 13, 2013

Funeral service for Delbert Boyd Luginbill, 74, of Helena, will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, October 17, 2013 at Timberlake High School Auditorium in Helena with Gary Lillie and Spencer LeForce officiating. Burial will follow in Karoma Cemetery near Goltry. Viewing at the funeral will Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. and Wednesday 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. with family present...

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Virgil Thorp

Oct 12, 2013

Funeral service for Virgil Charles Thorp will be Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the Helena First Christian Church with Pastor Jay Drawbridge officiating. Burial will follow at Timberlake Cemetery. Virgil, son of Bert and Lillie Williams Thorp, was born in Helena on February 9, 1936 and passed away Saturday, October 12, 2013 at Integris Bass Baptist Health...

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Mildred Schwartz

Oct 9, 2013

KIOWA-Mildred Marion Schwartz, 96, passed away on October 9, 2013 at the Kiowa District Hospital. Graveside service will be Friday, October 11, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Riverview Cemetery. Mildred was born in Kiowa on October 10, 1916 to Abe and Annie Brannan Van Gundy. She graduated from Kiowa High School with the class of 1934. She worked at the...

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Ronny Pratt

Oct 8, 2013

Ronny Pratt, 54, of Medford, passed away suddenly from a massive heart attack early Tuesday morning, October 8, 2013 at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Enid. The rosary and remembrance service will be Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. with the Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., all to be held at...

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Walter Ent

Oct 3, 2013

Jack was born on November 26, 1932 at Watonga to Orval Ent and Fern Etta Salladay Ent and passed from this life on October 3, 2013 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center in Enid. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 - 1956. Jack started work at Union Equity and retired from Farmland Industry. He loved to golf,...

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Gerald Helmer

Sep 28, 2013

HARDTNER- Gerald Ray Helmer passed away Saturday, September 28, 2013 at the Pratt Regional Medical Center. Gerald was born September 17, 1942 in the Lyons Hospital to Francis L. Helmer and Winona (Belden) Helmer. He attended grade school at Sunny Four Country School and graduated from Lyons High School in 1960. Gerald was raised on the family dairy farm, north...

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Marvin Janzen

Sep 27, 2013

Marvin W. Janzen, born August 2, 1918 in Gotebo, Oklahoma to John J. Janzen and Susie Anna Voth Janzen, went to be with his Lord on September 27, 2013 at the age of 95. The family moved to Medford when Marvin was approximately two years of age. He attended school in Medford and Oklahoma Bible Academy. He married Regina Pauline...

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Betty Smith

Sep 17, 2013

Graveside service will be at Pleasant View Cemetery north of Jet on Monday, September 23, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Cherokee. Viewing will be Sunday from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home in Cherokee. Betty Lee Smith passed away Tuesday September 17, 2013, while recovering from back surgery in the...

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Milo Jantzen

Sep 10, 2013

Milo was born in rural Ringwood on March 1, 1940 to Johnnie Jantzen and Mildred Smith Jantzen and passed from this life on September 10, 2013 in Fairview. He attended country school and then graduated from Ringwood High School in 1958. On September 16, 1961 Milo married Bertha Weeks. To this union three children were born, Ronda, Greg and Peggy....

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Buddy Vanosdol

Sep 4, 2013

L. Jack “Buddy” VanOsdol, our beloved brother, uncle, cousin, and friend to all, died on August 8, 2013. Buddy was born on May 8, 1945 in Enid to Jack L. VanOsdol and Linnie Williamson Van OsDol. He graduated from Jet High School in 1963. He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 1967. He went to work for Computing and...

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Janet Frisk

Aug 24, 2013

Janet Marie Frisk, long time Cherokee resident, passed away on August 24, 2013 in Enid. She was born Janet Marie Goltz, January 2, 1956 in Shelby, Montana. At the age of three her family moved to Stockton, California, where she lived until 1973. She worked for the Cherokee Police Department for thirteen years and had worked for the Alfalfa County...

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Nathan Thompson

Aug 22, 2013

Helena-Memorial service for Nathan Howard Thompson, 60, will be Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at Timberlake High School Auditorium Nathan was born on April 26, 1953 in Ulysses, Kansas to Harold Harvey Thompson and Lois Virginia Randles Thompson and passed from this life on August 22, 2013 in Enid. He grew up in Syracuse, Kansas, where he graduated...

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Virginia Jepsen

Aug 18, 2013

Okeene- Memorial service for Virginia Mae Jepsen, 85, will be Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm at Okeene United Methodist Church. Virginia was born on December 29, 1927 at Yankton, South Dakota to Glenn T. Clark and Dora M. Lane Clark and passed from this life on August 18, 2013 in Okeene. On March 25, 1945 she married Harvey...

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Kenneth Marshall

Aug 13, 2013

Jet-Funeral service for Kenneth Dryden Marshall will be Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Vining Community Church. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery, Jet. He was born on September 28, 1933 in Dewey to Charles and Juanita Marshall and passed from this life on August 13, 2013 in Wichita, Kansas. On May 15, 2004 he married the...

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Eleanor Arterburn

Aug 11, 2013

Mass of Christian Burial for Eleanor F. (Ciskowski) Arterburn, 94, a resident of Medford, OK will be at 10:00 am Thursday, August 15, 2013 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Medford. The Rev. Carl Janocha will officiate. She will be laid to rest at St. Mary’s Calvary Cemetery, Medford, under the direction of Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Medford. Rosary and...

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Roberta Kildow

Aug 5, 2013

Cherokee - Lifetime Alfalfa County resident, Marion Roberta Kildow, 82, passed from this life on August 5, 2013 at her home in Cherokee. She was born on November 30, 1930 in rural Alfalfa County to Marion O. Jack and Icy Thomas Jack. On August 7, 1948 she married Donald “Shorty” Kildow in Amorita, and they were blessed with two sons,...

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Gordon Mcdowell

Aug 3, 2013

Gordon Lee McDowell was born on July 13, 1923 in Cherokee, the son of Orville and Hattie Millspaugh McDowell and passed from this life on August 3, 2013. He was raised and educated in Cherokee, graduating from Cherokee High School in 1941, having been named to the Daily Oklahoman’s All State Football Team. He then attended Oklahoma State University, graduating...

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Loretta Parker

Aug 1, 2013

Aline-Graveside service for LaDonna Springer will be Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Aline Star Cemetery. LaDonna was born August 10, 1943 in Alva and passed from this life on July 30, 2013 in Enid. She was the oldest of four children and had lived in the Aline area for thirty-eight years. She ran the Aline Cafe for...

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Ladonna Springer

Jul 30, 2013

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Margaret Nichols

Jul 29, 2013

Goltry-Funeral service for Margaret Nichols will be Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Zoar Mennonite Church with Pastor Leland Streck and Pastor Scott Hofen officiating. Burial will be in Karoma Cemetery. Viewing at the funeral home will be Tuesday 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Margaret Pekrul Nichols was born August 24, 1920 at Alden, Oklahoma to Henry and...

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