Rogers Co. Obit for: William E. (Bill) Payne
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Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 7/01/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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6/06/2002

William E. (Bill) Payne



William E. (Bill) Payne of Claremore died June 3, 2002 at St. John's Hospital in 
Tulsa after a lengthy illness. He was 73.

He was born on Feb. 2, 1929 to Harold and Alma (Ryman) Payne of Geuda Springs, 
Kan. 

He married Janice Dickson on Sept. 7, 1948 in Manhattan, Kan., and to this union 
three daughters were born: Vivian, Roberta and Beverly.

Bill was active in sports, playing in high school and on community basketball 
teams for many years. 

He also played semi-pro baseball, including for a St. Louis Cardinal farm team.

He was a ranch manager for purebred Hereford ranches for 15 years, including 
Faulkner Farms, Delaware, Oklahoma and McGuirk Hereford Ranch in Claremore. 

The entire family participated in stock shows and fairs with their own Herefords 
and Milking Shorthorns. 

In 1965, they were named an outstanding farm family by the Tulsa World.

Bill worked for Meadow Gold dairies until his retirement in 1989. 

Since then, he was the school bus driver of Bus #4 for the Sequoyah Public 
Schools, north of Claremore.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold Payne and Alma (Ryman) Payne 
Nugen; and two brothers, Donald and Robert.

He is survived by his wife Janice, of the home; daughters, Vivian and Pat Loving 
of Muskogee, Roberta Johnson of Chelsea, Beverly Eagle and her fiance, Ron Brown 
of Bixby; sisters, Judy and husband Fred Woods of Wichita, Kan., Wanda and 
husband Emanuel (Mani) Rameriz of Arlington, Texas, Joyce and husband Jim 
Ratcliff and Dorothy Stout, all of Arkansas City, Kan.; brother, Larry Payne of 
Arkansas City, Kan.; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Services will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 8, 2002 in Olan Graham Fieldhouse at 
Sequoyah Schools. Interment will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Memorial Lawn 
Cemetery in Arkansas City, Kan.

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made to the Wm. E. 
(Bill) Payne Sequoyah High School Marching Band Memorial Fund/Sequoyah Schools, 
16441 S. 4180 Road, Claremore, OK 74017. 

The family has requested the arrangements to be handled by Claremore Funeral 
Home (918) 341-4512.

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