Payne County (Oklahoma) Veterans Services: the ODVA Northeast Team

Payne County has no ODVA office of its own; the department's Northeast Team serves the county for claims help - regional manager Brian Gibson, (918) 348-4901, with service officers Angela Chalk, Bobbie Jones, Michael Merit, David Roberts, Les Rouell and Joseph Spychalski.

Also called: ODVA, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans service officer, claims, compensation, Northeast Team, Brian Gibson, Angela Chalk, David Roberts, Stillwater, Cushing, Stillwater, Cushing, Perkins, Yale, Glencoe, Ripley, Mulhall, Orlando.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Payne County, OKCounty

The department's county map puts Payne County on its Northeast Team: "Northeast Team Proudly Serving the Following Counties: Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay, Lincoln, Logan, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Noble, Nowata, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner, and Washington." No ODVA office sits in Payne County; the county seat's Stillwater courthouse keeps the county's own offices. Who. The team's regional manager is Brian Gibson, (918) 348-4901; the service officers are Angela Chalk (918-537-0129), Bobbie Jones (405) 982-2493, Michael Merit (918) 616-5336, David Roberts (918) 252-8014, Les Rouell (918) 348-8377 and Joseph Spychalski (918) 397-2561. The department's Central Office is at 2132 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73111 - toll free 855-701-6382, local 405-523-4000 - and the ODVA hotline is (833) 993-0234; the Muskogee office (P.O. Box 769, Muskogee, OK 74402, 918-781-7766) is the department's second site. A veteran registering brings a discharge document that shows the character of service - DD-214 member copy 4, or NGB-22 for Guard service; see the Oklahoma entry. The county's own record. The Board of County Commissioners' year carries no veterans service office item: the only veteran mention in the 43 documents is the November 3, 2025 meeting's "Veteran Dewey Clapp informed the board of the upcoming Veterans Day Ceremony at 9am on November 11th at Fairlawn Cemetery" (Stillwater's cemetery), after a flag salute Clapp led. The Board's three commissioners are Zach Cavett (District 1, Chairman), Seth Condley (District 2) and Rhonda Markum (District 3, Vice Chairwoman).

Thresholds

Thresholds for Payne County (Oklahoma) Veterans Services: the ODVA Northeast Team
Gate	Rule
Payne County veterans, surviving spouses and families	Free help filing VA claims and state benefit requests; no rating is needed to ask.

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