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Howard Gaddis

83 years old · died October 18, 2025 · Dick Conner Correctional Center, Osage County, Oklahoma

Howard Gaddis died at Dick Conner Correctional Center on October 18, 2025, in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Howard Gaddis was 83 years old. The department lists the manner of death as natural.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Oklahoma Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Oklahoma Department of Corrections (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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