Wendell H. Pappan

© Grace Memorial Chapel

05-2015

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Grace Memorial Chapel

Wendell H. Pappan passed from this life to the next last Friday, May 22, 2015 at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa following a short illness. He was 52 years of age and would have turned 53 on the 25th of May this year. He was a member of the Ponca and Sac & Fox Tribes.

Wendell was cared for and loved by his daughters Kelly Yvonne and Sarah Elizabeth Delodge and Margaret Burgess. Wendell loved spending time with his children and grandchildren. He grew up in the Ponca City area most of his life and attended McKinley grade school and East Jr. High.

His enjoyments included his weight lifting workouts and his walking.

Wendell is survived by three brothers, Clifton Pappan, Jeffrey Pappan and Garland Pappan Jr.; his daughters, Kelly Yvonne Delodge, Sarah Elizabeth Delodge and Margaret Burgess. Paternal aunts Ernestine Pappan Overland of Texas, Harriet Lee Pappan Raven, also of Texas, Clara Jane Pappan Columbus of Oklahoma City; uncles Thomas Roy and Thomas Pappan, Jessie Pappan and family of Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Wendell has a large extended family whom he cared deeply for; numerous nieces and nephews. He will be greatly missed by them all.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Lowellia Jean Wakolee and Frances Pappan Jr. His siblings that include two brothers, Gabriel Q. Pappan and Stephen R. Pappan; two sisters, Mary Lou Pappan Rhodd and Loretta Lynne Pappan.

Prayer services will be held each evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Ponca Indian Baptist Church. A traditional noon meal will be held at the church Wednesday, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather the meal will be served at the Ponca Tribal Cultural Center.

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, 2015 also at the Ponca Indian Baptist Church with Pastor Gordon Lack leading the service with Doug Eagle presiding. Burial will follow in the Ponca Indian Tribal Cemetery under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel.

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