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Watson A memorial service was held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 20, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 127 N.W. 7th, in Oklahoma City for former Seminole resident, Dr. Mary Jo Watson who passed away on Nov. 18, 2025, in Oklahoma City at the age of 88. She has been lauded as a groundbreaking academic and historian in Native American art and art history. Watson passed just a few hours after the death of her firstborn child, Timothy Wantland, age 68, a Claremore attorney and Chief Justice of the Seminole Nation.
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Watters Jimmy Edward Watters age 81, passed away Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at his home in Sasakwa, Oklahoma. He was born February 10, 1944 in Sasakwa, Oklahoma to Alvie Watters and Mary Lou (Tarpley) Watters. He married Mary Pauletta Bryant in Wewoka, Oklahoma in 1962.
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Sherwood “Jim” Jimmy Locust Jr. age 56, passed away Sunday, December 14, 2025 in Holdenville, Oklahoma.
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Seminole resident, David William Haney, 75, passed away Tuesday, December 16, 2025, in Oklahoma City.
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Bartel LaTina Gay “Tina” (McMillion) Bartel, lifelong Seminole area resident, passed away Friday, December 12, 2025 in Seminole at the age of 68.
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Brown Shawna Kay Brown (Hester) passed peacefully on December 11, 2025 in Seminole, Oklahoma, at the age of 59.
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Shirley Joe Stuart Shirley, aged 79, passed away on December 9, 2025.
Read moreFuneral services for Dana Presley Eddings will be held Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the Highland Cemetery in Okemah. Dana Presley Eddings, CMSgt, USAF (Ret.), was born November 30, 1931, in Wheatcroft, Kentucky, to Francis and Anna Eddings. He passed away peacefully on December 6, 2025, at the age of 94, surrounded by the love of his family.
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