Oklahoma Obituaries

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

           There are three levels of volunteering work involved in helping with this project:

1. Submitting whole obituaries as seen in the newspaper. Permission is required. See bottom of page for information and sample letter.

2. Indexing the information found in the obituary (Name, dob, dod, locations, parents, spouses, marriage date & location, cemetery, funeral home, date of source, picture availability) . If you live in Oklahoma or know someone who does that subscribes to a local paper, then you can help with this project! You can index the local paper. Permission is not required from the newspaper, so begin today. It is easy, not a lot of typing is involved, just a dedication to saving the obits and typing in the basic information for each one. Estimated amount of time five to ten minutes a day (or save them and do them on the weekend). More information available at bottom of this page.

3. Individual Obituaries also accepted. Permission is required to place the obit word for word. Otherwise a synopsis or index of the obit can be submitted without permission. Know the city and need the county?

Directory of Special Obituaries

State of Oklahoma Obits - Not County Specific

Public Domain Obituaries (pre-1923) Indian Journal - (1915)(1916)(1919)(1920)(1921)(1922)

Creek Nation Obituaries

Chickasaw Nation Obituaries

Choctaw Nation Obituaries

Osage Nation Obituaries

Oklahoma I O O F Obituaries

Newspapers Indexed :

• The Durant Daily Democrat (Bryan County) partial 1998,1999 - by Trudy Marlow

• The Enid News & Eagle (Garfield County) partial July 2001 to current - by Ann Weber

  • (July 2001)(Aug 2001)(Sep 2001)(Oct 2001)(Nov 2001)(Dec 2001)(Jan 2002)(Feb 2002)
    (Mar 2002)(Apr 2002){May 2002][June 2002]{July 2002}{August 2002)

• The Madill Record (Marshall County) Aug-Dec 1999- by Rhonda Rowe

Newspapers Volunteers Needed to Index Obituaries
(and/or contact for permission to post full obituaries)

• The Daily Ardmoreite http://www.ardmoreite.com/ (Carter Co.) -  Volunteer Needed
• Chickasha Daily Express http://www.chickashanews.com/ (Grady Co.) - Rosemarie Tapia
• Claremore Progress www.claremoreprogress.com (Rogers Co.) - Volunteer Needed
  The Daily Oklahoman The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma Co.) - Melissa Smith
• The Duncan Banner http://www.zwire.com/news/newslist.cfm?brd=1598 (Stephens Co.) - Volunteer Needed
• Edmond Sun http://www.edmondsun.com/ (Oklahoma Co.) - Dorothy Del Rio
• Kiowa County Democrat - (Kiowa Co.) - Zoe Barnard
• The Lawton Constitution http://www.lawton-constitution.com/ (Comanche Co.) - Zoe Barnard
• McAlester News Capital http://www.zwire.com/news/newslist.cfm?brd=1126 (Pittsburg Co.) - Volunteer Needed
• The Ponca City News http://www.poncacitynews.com/ (Kay Co.) - Volunteer Needed
• Poteau Daily-News http://www.pdns.com/cgi-bin/pdns.pl (Leflore Co.) - Volunteer Needed
• Shawnee Online http://www.news-star.com/ (Pottawatomie Co.) - Volunteer Needed
• The Seminole Producer http://www.seminoleproducer.com/ (Seminole Co.) -Linda Simpson
• Tulsa World http://www.tulsaworld.com/ - (Tulsa Co.) - Linda M. Brummett
• Weatherford Daily News http://wdn.itlnet.net/ (Custer Co.) - Volunteer Needed

Participating Newspapers Permission granted for (FULL OBITUARY)

• The Altus Times (Jackson County) - Lola Withrow

• Cordell Beacon http://www.cordellbeacon.com/ (Washita Co.) - Lola Withrow

• Elk City News -(Beckham County) - Wanda Purcell

• Enid News & Eagle http://www.enidnews.com  (Garfield Co.) - Dora Gillilan
• The Hominy News Progress (Osage Co.) - Sharon Hamilton
• Kingfisher Times & Free Press http://www.kingfisherpress.net/ - (Kingfisher Co.) - Barbara Clayton

The above includes only a small list of newspapers in Oklahoma, if you would like to volunteer for a newspaper that is not listed, please do not hesitate to contact me.