Charles Fredie Paterson

Charles “Pat” Fredie Paterson was born December 6, 1941, in Corning, Ark., and died Monday, October 25, 2021. He was 79 years old. Paterson, the son of Jake and Dorothy (Helms) Patterson, married Ardith Dingman on September 17, 1971, in Missouri. He worked as a truck driver for Millers Truck Line.

Melfouse Thomas Corter

Melfouse Thomas Corter was born January 31, 1935, in Cushing, Okla. He died Thursday, October 21, 2021, in Newalla, Okla., at the age of 86 years. Corter, the son of Johnny Thomas and Rosa Ellen Carmichael Corter, was married to Nola Mae Clayton on September 1, 1956, in Oklahoma City.

Deborah LeeAnn Milam

Deborah LeeAnn (Speer) Milam was born May 22, 1958, in Oklahoma City. She died Friday, October 22, 2021, in Wellston at the age of 63 years. Milam, the daughter of Paul and Patricia (Mincks) Speer of Wellston, married Earl Roe in 1976. She later married Ted Milam Sr.

Tom Hammock

Tom Hammock was born August 14, 1936, in Wink, Texas. He died Tuesday, October 19, 2021, in Broken Arrow, Okla., at the age of 85 years. Hammock, the son of Victor Hammock and Ada Douglas, married Sammie Donnelly of Cleveland, Okla., on March 1, 1956.

Mary Lillian Bookout

Mary Lillian (McDonald) Bookout of Wellston was born November 19, 1946, in Oklahoma City and died Tuesday, October 19, 2021, in Wellston. She was 74 years old. Bookout, the daughter of Charles and Lillian (Eads) McDonald, married Ibrey Bookout on April 27, 1996.

Chris Henry Eulberg

Chris Henry Eulberg was born in Upland, Calif., and at an early age his family moved to Oklahoma. He was raised on a farm in Grant County, Okla. He lost his father at age four but had his older brother Floyd to lean on.

Steve Wayne Smith

Steve Wayne Smith was born November 14, 1956 in Oklahoma City to Billy and Mildred (Cope) Smith. He passed away October 17, 2021 in Edmond at the age of 64. Steve grew up in Wellston where he attended school graduating with the class of 1975.

Linda Jean Tillison

Linda Jean Tillison of Oklahoma City was born November 18, 1959, in Oklahoma City. She died Tuesday, October 12, 2021, in Oklahoma City at the age of 61 years. Tillison, the daughter of Robert Junior and Myrtle (Cochran) Hart, married Richard Tillison on May 8, 1981, in Oklahoma City.

Gary Wayne Smith

Gary Wayne “Buddy” Smith of Agra was born October 16, 1940, in Cushing, Okla. He died Friday, October 15, 2021, at the age of 80 years. Smith, a 1958 graduate of Ponca City High School, earned an associates degree in auto mechanics at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology in Okmulgee.

Lois Lorene Sprague

Lois Lorene (Hancock) Sprague of Chandler was born the youngest of five children on February 5, 1931, in Wewoka, Okla. She died Thursday, October 14, 2021, at the age of 90 years. Sprague, the daughter of Emmit and Hattie Hancock, married Euell Sprague on June 7, 1952, in Shawnee, Okla.