Tanya Gunter

Tanya Elizabeth (Adams) Gunter, longtime Seminole County resident, passed away Saturday, August 16, 2025 at the age of 57 after a courageous battle with cancer for three years.

Surviving Tanya are her two sons, Bailey Gunter and wife Kelsi and J.T Gunter and Melissa; best friend and father to her children, Richard Gunter, Jr., two grandchildren, and a granddaughter expected February 2026. She also leaves behind her father, Jimmy Earl Adams; loving sisters, Norma Jean Melton and husband Chip, Jimmie Lynn Fluitt and husband Robert and Tina Sue O’Dell and husband Shawn; several nieces and nephews and a host of other family and friends.

Tanya was preceded in death by her mother, Teresa Elizabeth Adams, her aunts, Joann Lucas and Geneva Davis, and her grandparents, Verna and John Deatherage and Earl Frank Adams and Pauline Geneva Adams A Celebration of Life for Tanya will be held on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM at New Life Church in Wewoka with Rev. Bill Chesser and Pastor Kevin Merriman officiating.

Services are under the direction of OK Cremation & Funeral Home, Oklahoma City.