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Steve's Sundry founder 'Steve' Stephenson dies
Francis W. “Steve” Stephenson, who founded the iconic Steve’s Sundry, Books and Magazines in Tulsa in 1947, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Services are pending with Freeman Harris Funeral Home.
Teresa Miller, founder of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, told the Tulsa World in 2007 that Stephenson had “done more to promote Oklahoma authors than anyone else.”
Although the store carries about 60,000 books, including best-sellers and classics, Steve’s has concentrated on selling ...  read more |
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Robert S. Kerr
Sen. Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma’s homespun statesman, died Tuesday, ending a career that stretched from a log cabin near Ada to immense wealth and national leadership.
Sen. Kerr, 66, collapsed while seated on the edge of his bed in a Washington, D.C., hospital and died minutes later.
Death came at the top of his career during which the senator apparently reached every major goal of his life.
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Diplomat Richard Holbrooke dies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Holbrooke, a brilliant and feisty U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, died Monday, an administration official said. He was 69.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the family had yet to make a formal announcement of Holbrooke’s death.
Holbrooke, whose forceful style earned him nicknames such as “The ... read more |
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Interim City Attorney David Pauling dies
Tulsa Interim City Attorney David Pauling died Monday evening, his wife, Assistant City Attorney Nancy McNair said.
Pauling, 68, died from pneumonia, a complication of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett hired Pauling as interim city attorney last December. He had been on unpaid medical leave since May.
Pauling had spent nearly a decade as the city attorney under former Mayor Susan Savage.
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William Wiseman, First Presbyterian pastor emeritus, dies
The Rev. William Wiseman, pastor emeritus of Tulsa’s First Presbyterian Church, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Services are pending with Moore’s Southlawn Funeral Home.
Wiseman was the church’s senior minister from June 30, 1963, until 1984 and remained active in the congregation as pastor emeritus.
He was founder of the downtown clergy association and worked in the Tulsa interfaith community for decades, advocating that social justice be a priority.
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Lydie Roberts Marland
PONCA CITY – Lydie Roberts Marland, widow and one-time adopted daughter of Gov. E.W. Marland, died Saturday at a Ponca City nursing home. She was 87.
Mrs. Marland, a recluse after the 1941 death of her husband, received national publicity when she disappeared in 1953. A 1958 article in the Saturday Evening Post plus articles in Kansas City newspapers speculated on the events of the disappearance.
Her whereabouts remained unknown until she returned to Ponca City in 1975.
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Angie Debo
OKLAHOMA CITY – Those who knew Angie Debo said Monday that the noted Oklahoma historian who died Sunday will be missed by people from her home town of Marshall to scholastic centers around the world.
“Angie Debo was one of Oklahoma’s grand ladies,” said Gov. Henry Bellmon. “She has distinguished herself through her long life in many, many ways and will be sorely missed by all who knew her.”
She wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Indian and Oklahoma history.
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Bob Wills
The cigar-smoking ebullient father of Western Swing is dead.
Bob Wills, a former Tulsan and country music legend, died Tuesday at Fort Worth, Texas. He was 70.
Wills, the author of “San Antonio Rose,” and “Maiden’s Prayer,” had been in fragile health since 1969, when a stroke left him partially paralyzed and confined to a wheel-chair.
The end for the country music giant came at 1:05 p.m. at the Kent Nursing Home at Fort Worth. The immediate cause of ... read more |
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Jim Thorpe
LOS ANGELES – Jim Thorpe, probably the greatest all-around athlete who ever lived, died today of a heart attack at the age of 64.
The most talked-about sports figure of his day in football, track and field and later in big league baseball succumbed in the modest trailer in which he lived with his third wife, Patricia, in suburban Lomita.
The colorful Carlisle Institute Indian, who set records in winning the grueling pentathlon and decathlon events in the 1912 Olympics ... read more |
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Wiley Post
OKLAHOMA CITY - Blossoms showered from the sky today on the body of Wiley Post as the intrepid airman was accorded the tribute of the state.
A crowd of more than 15,000 persons at the capitol building, where the bronze casket lay in state for two hours, became almost unmanageable as the time arrived for removal to a church.
Airplanes trailing crepe streamers circled lazily, high above the building, during the morning as the unnumbered multitude walked in rapid file ... read more |
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Henry Starr
HARRISON, Ark. – Henry Starr, Oklahoma bandit, died today as the result of a wound inflicted Friday by W.J. Myers, former president of the People’s Bank of Harrison, when Starr, with three companions, attempted to rob that institution.
Starr’s career as a bandit and bank robber, ending when he died today, covered many years, during which time he has served several terms in federal and state prisons.
Once Sentenced to Death
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Chester Gould
WOODSTOCK, Ill. – Chester Gould, who created the Dick Tracy comic strip from ideas spawned in the crime-filled streets of Depression-era Chicago, died Saturday. He was 84.
Gould died at home, said his daughter, Jean O’Connell, of Geneva. He had been in ill health for some time and suffered a heart attack in October.
Tracy was born in the days of the Depression, prohibition and gangsters. In “The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy,” published in 1980, Gould was quoted as ... read more |
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Henry Iba
HENRY IBA'S legions of admirers have favorite memories that range from his championships, colorful bench demeanor and innovations that changed basketball to his wit, humanity and grace.
Whether it was the clinical precision of his Oklahoma State teams in making history by winning back-to-back national championships, defeating Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in a storied finish, jerking the warmup jersey off a substitute to replace a player who took a bad shot, or being the catalyst in ... read more |
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Woody Guthrie
New York – Balladeer Woody Guthrie, America’s folk poet of the downtrodden, their singing, guitar-playing apostle of self-esteem, died Tuesday, foredoomed 15 years ago by an encroaching illness that robbed him of his voice. He was 55.
“I want to thank you for making this world a beautiful place,” an unidentified admirer once wrote him. “Your songs make people think about the good that is within them.”
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Perle Mesta
OKLAHOMA CITY – Perle Mesta, Washington hostess to presidents and top political figures, died Sunday night at Baptist Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said. She was 83 years old.
Mrs. Mesta entertained along Embassy Row and posh Foxhall Village during the Truman and Eisenhower years.
President Harry S. Truman named her ambassador to Luxembourg, and she used the post to entertain as many as 25,000 American GIs.
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