Tulsa World: Deaths

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Deaths

By Staff Reports
Published: 11/26/2009 2:23 AM
Last Modified: 11/26/2009 6:16 AM

TULSA

Armstrong, Janet Lee, 82, retired Tulsa Public Schools teacher, died Monday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Friday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Saturday, Asbury United Methodist Church.

Brooke, Joan Louise, 97, retired Pan American Oil secretary, died Wednesday. Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn.

Brown, Kathlyn Imogene, 87, former Crystal Bowl bowling alley restaurant waitress, died Wednesday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Dowell, Cecil Leon, 92, Oklahoma State University County Extension agent, died Wednesday. Graveside service noon Saturday, Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater. Moore's Southlawn.

Faulkner, Bonnie O., 70, retired educator, died Wednesday. Private family services. Cremation Society.

Gammon, Warren Francis, 51, Womble Door Co. employee, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Saturday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel. Moore's Rosewood.

Garcia, Kali Marie, infant daughter of Jacquelyn and Genaro Garcia III, died Monday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Gatchell, Carol Eve Foster, 87, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Goodwin, Dona Dee, 77, homemaker, died Wednesday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial.

Haynes, Lisa, 49, died Wednesday. No local services planned. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Heavener, Fern Elizabeth, 82, day-care owner, died Monday. Visitation 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Fitzgerald Ivy Funeral Home; rosary 7 p.m. Friday and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Saturday, both at Holy Family Cathedral.

Holt, Fletcher O. "Buster," 77, retired C.E. Natco mechanical engineer, died Wednesday. Services pending. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.

Lindsay, Beverly, 66, investor, died Tuesday. Service 10:30 a.m. Monday, Stanleys Funeral Home Chapel.

Noe, Mary Irene, 65, registered nurse, died Wednesday. Service 1 p.m. Saturday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Parks, Robert H., 85, retired Arco Oil Co. petroleum engineer, died Tuesday. Services pending. Freeman Harris.

Thompson, Charles, 88, died Wednesday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.

Vendley, Emerson, infant son of Stacy Younts and Mark Vendley, died Monday. Graveside service 12:30 p.m. Friday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

STATE/AREA

Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.

Agra — Joann Hart, 60, homemaker, died Tuesday in Cushing. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Strode Funeral Home Chapel, Stillwater.

Bartlesville — Marilyn Kay Adams, 60, real estate agent, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Saturday, Happy Hill Church, Ramona. Stumpff.

— Douglass L. Brazell, 88, died Wednesday. Services pending. Neekamp-Luginbuel.

Broken Arrow — Betty Jo Dawson, 86, retired telephone operator, died Tuesday. Service 3 p.m. Sunday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel, Tulsa.

— Fern Taylor, 84, retired administrative assistant, died Tuesday. Service 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oak Ridge Baptist Church, Eufaula. Mallory-Martin, Spiro.

Checotah — Lorene Walker, 87, retired nurse, died Sunday in El Reno. Service 11 a.m. Saturday, Greenlawn Cemetery Pavilion. Garrett Family.

Coffeyville, Kan. — Marjorie "Susan" Best, 62, died Tuesday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, Thomas Funeral Home Chapel, Welch, Okla.

— Jeanette M. Lippincott, 90, retired from Boeing Co., formerly of Coffeyville, died Wednesday in Plano, Texas. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Christian Church, Tyro. Barnes.

— James O. Spradlin, 80, retired from Funk Manufacturing, died Wednesday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Saturday, St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Barnes.

Collinsville — Lyla Marie Whitehouse, 60, chef, died Saturday. Services pending. Serenity, Tulsa.

Coweta — Herman M. Brown, 86, painter and rancher, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Church of God of Holiness. Wright.

— Mary A. Cade, 73, housekeeper, died Tuesday. Services pending. Wright.

— J.B. Massey Jr., 84, American Airlines maintenance painter, died Wednesday. Services pending. Wright.

— Robert L. Rea, 86, retired Army lieutenant colonel, died Tuesday. Visitation 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home, Tulsa, and service 11 a.m. Monday, Our Finest Hour Church.

Cushing — Robert "Bob" Farrell, 71, entrepreneur, died Nov. 18. Memorial service 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Davis Funeral Home.

— Gerald "Jerry" Roberts, 48, auto mechanic, died Sunday. Private family services. Palmer Marler.

Eufaula — Mae Verlee Closson, 79, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Garrett Family, Checotah.

Gentry, Ark. — Roberta Lea Janes, 68, died Wednesday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday and service 2 p.m. Saturday, both at Wasson Funeral Home, Siloam Springs.

— Frances Maude Keenom, 84, hardware store owner, died Wednesday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday, Wasson Funeral Home, Siloam Springs, and service 11 a.m. Saturday, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Siloam Springs.

Grove — Betty Barksdale, 89, homemaker, died Wednesday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Worley-Luginbuel.

— Brenda Nelson, 60, certified dietary manager, died Wednesday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel.

— James Norris Jr., 35, painter, died Tuesday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Independent Baptist Church. Funeral Services of Grand Lake.

— Fern Wilson, 94, died Wednesday. Visitation 12:30-2 p.m. Friday and service 2 p.m. Friday, both at Ellis Family Funeral Home.

Haileyville — Scotty L. Moore, 69, McAlester Army Ammunition Plant shop foreman, died Tuesday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Saturday, Sulphur Cemetery, Hartshorne. Brumley-Mills, McAlester.

Henryetta — Clifton Randall, 43, mason, died Tuesday in Claremore. Wake 7-9 p.m. Friday and service 10:30 a.m. Saturday, both at Rogers Funeral Home.

Hominy — Joyce Maxine Mills, 64, homemaker, died Wednesday. Services pending. Powell.

Inola — Delores M. Lee, 79, retired restaurant owner, died Tuesday. Services pending. Key, Pryor.

Mannford — Levean W. "Buddy" Hamilton, 84, trash hauler, died Wednesday. Service 3 p.m. Saturday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.

McAlester — Glenn H. Hollis, 69, oil-field worker, died Monday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday, Brumley-Mills Funeral Home, and graveside service 2 p.m. Saturday, Blue Cemetery.

— Duggie Ward Hunter, 62, died Nov. 15. Memorial service 11 a.m. Saturday, Chaney-Harkins Funeral Home Chapel.

— Kevin Shandale White, 38, died Wednesday. Services pending. Bishop.

Miami — Brody Todd Winters, infant son of Jessica Gess and Brian Winters, died Nov. 18. Graveside service 1 p.m. Friday, Fairland Cemetery, Fairland. Paul Thomas.

Mounds — Janice Barton, 37, homemaker, died Tuesday in Duncanville, Texas. Services pending. Schaudt's, Glenpool.

Muldrow — Edward F. Brogdon, 80, laborer, died Tuesday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel, Sallisaw.

Muskogee — Arthur Lee Bates, 83, retired Muskogee Daily Phoenix printer, died Tuesday. Services pending. Foster-Petering.

— Russell Brenneman, 77, physician, died Monday. No services planned. Bradley.

Nowata — Betty M. Clow, 77, died Tuesday. Services pending. Stumpff.

Panama — Connie Brown Wiles, 71, died Tuesday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Evans & Miller Funeral Home Chapel, Poteau.

Sallisaw — Beth Harden, 50, salesclerk, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Friday, Way of the Cross Free Will Baptist Church. Agent.

Sand Springs — Bonnie Lou White Belden, 71, retired Sand Springs Public Schools teacher's aide and bus driver, died Tuesday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Friday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service, and service 10 a.m. Saturday, Olivet Baptist Church, Tulsa.

— Harold Dean Wilson Sr., 66, retired truck driver, died Wednesday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Riverside.

Sapulpa — Hilda Jane Searcy, 72, retired cook, died Monday. Visitation 1:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, Schaudt's Funeral Service, Glenpool, and service 10 a.m. Saturday, Tulsa Hills Baptist Church, Tulsa.

Spiro — Frank Edwards Jr., 59, maintenance supervisor, died Saturday. Service 9:30 a.m. Friday, Harvest Hill Assembly of God. Mallory-Martin.

— Genevia Mae Martin, 90, cook, died Wednesday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Friday, New Hope Cemetery. Mallory-Martin.

— Jimmy Leroy Starr, 56, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel.

Stillwater — Amos A. Barnard, 95, retired from the Department of Agriculture, died Tuesday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Highland Park United Methodist Church. Strode.

Stilwell — Sylvia Isaacs, 84, died Wednesday in Lake Charles, La. Services pending. Roberts/Reed-Culver.

Stroud — Fred Leon Pryor, 71, backhoe operator, died Wednesday. Services pending. Parks Brothers.

Tahlequah — James Hume Barnes, Jr., 87, Ford Motor Co. business manager, died Tuesday. Memorial service 1 p.m. Saturday, Go Ye Village Chapel. Hart.

Vinita — Alexus V. Watkins-Cox, 1, died Tuesday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Friday, White Oak Cemetery, White Oak. Luginbuel.

Westville — Donald Dean Rector, 71, carpenter, died Wednesday in Springdale, Ark. Visitation 2-6 p.m. Sunday and service 2 p.m. Monday, both at Roberts Funeral Home.

U.S.-WORLD

Ira "Babe" Hanford , who as an 18-year-old apprentice rode 20-1 shot Bold Venture to victory in the 1936 Kentucky Derby, died Saturday in Ocala, Fla. He was 91.

He was the oldest-living jockey to have won the Derby and the only apprentice to have done so.

Hanford did not get a chance to ride Bold Venture in the Preakness because racing officials suspended him for 15 days following the Derby. He retired in 1953 without running in another Derby. He is one of 22 jockeys to win the Run for the Roses in their only appearance.

Hanford said officials never told him why he was suspended, along with two other jockeys.

Bold Venture's trainer Max Hirsch replaced Hanford with George Woolfe for the Preakness, which the horse won. Bold Venture did not run in the Belmont.

H.C. Robbins Landon , a musicologist noted for his pioneering research on Franz Joseph Haydn and for writing popular works on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, died Friday in Rabastens, France. He was 83.

Robbins Landon moved from the U.S. to Europe in the late 1940s to pursue research on Haydn.

He did much to popularize the composer, inspiring the foundation of the Haydn Society, editing music scores and publishing a book on Haydn's 108 symphonies in 1955.

His reputation took a knock in 1993 when he vouched for the authenticity of what were claimed to be six newly discovered piano sonatas by Haydn, but which proved to a hoax perpetrated by a living German composer.

Harold Chandler Robbins Landon was born in Boston in 1926. He went to Vienna and, anticipating he would soon be drafted, he persuaded the U.S. Army to take him on as a researcher on an official history of the Fifth Army and the liberation of Italy.

In 1949, he returned to Boston and joined with friends to found the Haydn Society, which quickly produced the first recording of Haydn's "Harmoniemesse." He returned to Vienna where one of his early triumphs was discovering the original parts of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo."

Robbins Landon also solved the Vienna Philharmonic's difficulty with the high pitch of the horn parts in Haydn's 56th symphony. He realized that Haydn wrote for horns pitched an octave higher, and he had some copies made.

Alejandro "Bong" Reblando , a veteran Filipino journalist and former Associated Press stringer, was among at least 18 reporters killed in an attack Monday on an election caravan. He was 53.

The attack left 57 dead in the Philippines' worst election massacre.

Reblando and the other journalists were accompanying relatives and supporters of a gubernatorial candidate in the Maguindanao province when they were ambushed and shot dead.

Media groups said it was the highest number of reporters killed in a single attack anywhere in the world.

Based in General Santos City, Reblando covered the southern Philippines for The AP from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. He was recently named a regular staff member for the Manila Bulletin daily.

Death notice policy

The Tulsa World publishes free death notices. Funeral homes may submit death notices from 4 to 10:30 p.m. daily. For information about news obituaries, call 581-8325.

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Circle of Life

In an effort to honor those who have donated either organs, eyes or tissue, the Tulsa World is participating in the "Circle of Life" campaign sponsored by the Global Organization for Organ Donation (GOOD).

If your loved one was a donor, please inform the funeral director if you would like to have the "Circle of Life" logo placed in his or her listing.

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