Barrow, Norma
Funeral services for Norma Raylene Barrow of El Reno will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Binger Baptist Church with Rev. John Chennault officiating. Burial will be in the Murray Cemetery in Binger under direction of Turner Funeral Home.

Mrs. Barrow died Tuesday at Parkview Hospital. She was born March 4, 1932, in Cardin. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church, First Baptist Church in Anadarko and El Reno First Baptist Church.

She is survived by a son, Bobby Barrow of Anadarko; a daughter, Lori Niblock of El Reno; sisters, Eva Gardner and Lillie Peach, both of Hinton, Jessie Poos of Choctaw and Katherine DuBois of Stockton, Calif.; brothers, Billy Stephenson of Binger, Walter Stephenson of Hinton and Andrew Stephenson; and three grandchildren.

Bigelow, Ruby Lee (paid)
Ruby Lee Trolinder Glenn Bigelow of Mustang passed from this life on July 29, 2006. She was born Aug. 25, 1909, in St. Joe, Texas, to John Luther Trolinder and Leona Mae (Garrison) Trolinder. At the age of 4 she lost her mother and baby brother and for the next two years she was boarded with various relatives. At the age of 6 she found her home with her aunt and uncle, Mae (Trolinder) and Walter Armstrong on their farm near Optima, Okla., where she graduated high school in 1927.

Ruby worked hard her whole life, first on the farm, then raising her first four children, Delton, Dorothy, LaQuita and Melton Glenn. During World War II, while living in California, she also worked on aircraft engines. Right after the war she started raising her second family in Nevada with three more children, Wil, Leona and Charles Bigelow, and three grandchildren.

In 1954 Ruby moved to El Reno with husband, Willard and four children, where she lived for the next 50 years.

Ruby’s passions were making quilts, gardening and reading. She moved to Mustang in 2000 when she could no longer live the independent life she so loved. Ruby was first and foremost a mother, wife and homemaker who instilled the love of reading in all of her children. Here was truly a woman with tenacity and determination. After surviving stomach cancer at age 80, her goal in life was to live to be 100. She survived a heart attack in early 2005 only to suffer a stroke later that spring.

Ruby was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Lemuel Glenn and Willard O. Bigelow Sr.; three children, Delton Glenn, Melton Glenn and Dorothy Glenn Lisik; a granddaughter, Amanda R. Bigelow Sr.; brothers, Charles and Robert Trolinder; and most recently her special cousin, Pauline Adams.

She is survived by daughters, Leona Benson and husband, Rollie of Mustang and LaQuita Thompson and husband, David of Calumet, and “adopted” daughter, Kathy Sexton of Yukon; sons, Wil Bigelow and wife, Joyce of Garden Grove, Calif., and Charles Bigelow and wife, Christy of Oklahoma City; and daughter-in-law, Vada Glenn of Minco. She is also survived by 26 grandchildren, 43 great-grand-children and six great-great-grandchildren; and loving cousins, Faye Wells of Hooker and Hazel McVey and Bonnie Horton of Wichita Falls, Texas.

Services were held Monday, July 31, 2006, in the Benson Memorial Chapel with burial in the family plot in the El Reno Cemetery. Services were under direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home of El Reno.

Burkhart, Ruby
Graveside services for Ruby Lee Burkhart of Minco will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the Cache Cemetery with Rev. Johnny Wray officiating. Services are under direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Mrs. Burkhart died Monday in Chickasha. She was born Dec. 25, 1920, in Alvord, Texas.

She had lived in Lawton most of her life and moved to Minco in 2002. She was a homemaker.

She is survived by a son, Ed Burkhart of Minco; daughters, Beverly Arriaga of Duncan, LaNelle Arce of Lawton, Pat Holcomb of Oklahoma City and Rosemary Rosa of Indio, Calif.; 17 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Farris. Kathleen
Funeral services for Kathleen Ruth Farris were held today at Minco First Baptist Church with Rev. Curtis Robertson of Minco Canaan Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery under direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Mrs. Farris died Sunday in El Reno. She was born Aug. 21, 1938, in Muskogee. She moved to Minco in 1968 from Oklahoma City. She was a member and pianist of Canaan Baptist Church.

She is survived by a son, Monte Farris, and a daughter, Gina Bassham, both of Tuttle; a sister, Cindy Sides of El Reno; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Klingsick, Carla
Funeral services for Carla S. Klingsick of Lenapah will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Southview Church of God in South Coffeyville with burial in the Mt. Washington Cemetery in Lenapah. Services are under direction of Benjamin Funeral Service of Nowata.

Mrs. Klingsick died Sunday at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kan. She was born Feb. 18, 1945, in Bartlesville, and attended school in South Coffeyville. She worked as a waitress and also as cook and custodian for Kingfisher High School, as well as department manager for Coffeyville Wal-Mart. She was a member of Southview Church of God.

She is survived by sons, Wayde of Liberty, Kan., Billy of Yukon, Carl of Independence, Kan., and Perry of Tulsa; a daughter, Vicki James of Lenapah; sisters, Marita Kerns of Liberty and Jeanne Ledbetter of Tulsa; a brother, Dean McKellips of Foyil; 10 grand-children and three great-grandsons.

Rowe, Annie
Funeral services for Annie Kaleta Rowe of Ness City, Kan., were held today at Maud First Baptist Church with burial in the Cummings Cemetery. Services were under direction of Fitzgerald Funeral Home of Ness City.

Mrs. Rowe died Saturday at Trego County Hospital in WaKeeney, Kan. She was born April 2, 1915, in Kiowa.
She was a homemaker and member of Bible Baptist Church of El Reno.

She is survived by sons, Wayne Rowe of Tulsa and Gene Rowe of Ness City; daughters, Arlene Jayne of Springfield, Mo., and Wanda Crump of Sulphur Springs, Texas; 10 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.