Tulsa World: Deaths

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By Staff Reports
Published: 11/30/2009 2:20 AM
Last Modified: 11/30/2009 5:54 AM

TULSA

Bollinger, Marie M., 67, Bollinger Bindery co-founder, died Saturday. Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn.

Estes, Katherine Lloyd, 79, retired bookkeeper, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Leonard & Marker Funeral Home, Bixby, and graveside service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Hillcrest Memorial Park, Ardmore.

Garcia, Kali Marie, infant daughter of Jacquelyn and Genaro Garcia III, died Nov. 23. Graveside service 3 p.m. Monday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Geiger, Margueriette, 71, retired Tulsa Public Schools educator, died Saturday. Private family services. Moore's Memory.

Harmon, Don, 68, automotive body trade worker, died Saturday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Howard, Betty Jean, 88, Howard Sheet Metal co-owner, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church. Ninde Brookside.

Kinney, Vicki Baehler, 56, Bill & Ruth Subs employee, died Sunday. Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn.

Krumme, Virginia Ruth, 89, Tulsa Public Schools educator, died Wednesday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Ivy.

Matthews, Mary Louise, 94, retired engineering assistant, died Nov. 23. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Monday and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, both at Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Funeral Home.

Parker, Mary Etta, 87, retired Tulsa Public Schools cook, formerly of Tulsa, died Saturday in Edmond. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Pleasant, Vernon Albert, 74, automotive parts service adviser, died Sunday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Wynn, Richard Jr., 43, construction worker, died Saturday. Services pending. Moore's Memory.

Young, Richard Kenneth "Ken," 87, retired bank data supervisor, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Ninde Brookside Funeral Home Chapel.

STATE/AREA

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

Atwood — Nolen Guy McCarn, 81, retired from the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home Chapel, Holdenville.

— Jimmy W. West, 71, office and home mover, died Friday. Service 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Fisher Funeral Home Chapel, Holdenville.

Bristow — William Barnett, 74, died Friday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Monday and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, both at Hutchins-Maples Funeral Home.

— Archie Allen Ingersoll, 74, air-conditioning and refrigeration worker, died Saturday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.

Broken Arrow — James O. "Booger" Plunk, 59, Premier Collision Center automotive body technician, died Sunday. Services pending. Christian-Gavlik.

Chouteau — Charles Walsh, 75, retired civil service worker, died Thursday. Services pending. Shipman's, Pryor.

Claremore — Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Baughman, 85, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Hilldale Baptist Church. Rice.

Colcord — Arthur G. Gonser, 77, factory worker, died Saturday. Services pending. Midtown, Tulsa.

Coweta — Edith M. Gage, 71, retired Broken Arrow Schools cafeteria worker, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Hayhurst Funeral Home, Broken Arrow, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Assembly of God.

Disney — Patsy Ruth (Drake) Allen, 67, retired waitress, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 10 a.m. Wednesday, both at Luginbuel South Grand Lake Funeral Home, Langley.

Fort Gibson — Judy Cook, 61, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Free Will Baptist Church. Foster-Petering, Muskogee.

Grove — Loren "Putt" D. Fansler, 71, retired from Elliott Trucking Line, died Saturday. Visitation 3-5 p.m. Monday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, and graveside service 1 p.m. Tuesday, GAR Cemetery, Miami, Okla.

— Leslie L. Williams, 80, died Saturday. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.

Henryetta — James Null, 63, Poly Vision shipping and receiving clerk, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dewar First Baptist Church, Dewar. Rogers.

Independence, Kan. — Ralph Gildart, 86, died Friday. Private family services. Penwell-Gabel Webb & Rodrick.

Jenks — John Rogers, 80, concrete form setter, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Bixby Cemetery Chapel, Bixby. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.

Miami — William "Bill" Lee Honey, 78, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home Chapel.

Muldrow — Harvey Lee Morgan, 77, furniture upholsterer, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Agent Funeral Home and graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Upper Camp Creek Cemetery.

Muskogee — Arthur Lee Bates, 83, retired Muskogee Daily Phoenix printer, died Tuesday. Service 1 p.m. Monday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Foster-Petering.

— Janet Ewing, 53, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, St. Joseph Catholic Church. Foster-Petering.

— Mary Lou Lindsay, 82, retired Realtor, died Wednesday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Citizen's Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Foster-Petering.

— Aaron Smith, 67, died Saturday. Services pending. Bradley.

— Mary K. Tucker, 99, homemaker, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Bradley Funeral Home Chapel.

Okemah — Curtis Lee Fuller, 77, retired truck driver, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Castle Baptist Church. Parks Brothers.

Okmulgee — Betty Jane Freeman, 77, homemaker, died Saturday. No services planned. Shurden.

— Betty Jo Stange, 72, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Crosstown Pentecostal Church. Shurden.

Poteau — Orb Francis, 70, retired school maintenance worker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Evans & Miller Funeral Home Chapel.

Sallisaw — Samuel Fredrick Mains II, 78, firefighter, died Saturday. Services pending. Mallory-Martin.

Skiatook — Callie M. Dacus, 87, retired from Safeway and farmer, died Saturday. Services pending. Sien-Shelton.

Sperry — Jerry D. Donalson, 55, Laufen International lead maintenance worker, died Friday. Services pending. Dillon, Sand Springs.

Stilwell — Regina Kay Bogart, 56, died Sunday. Services pending. Roberts-Reed-Culver.

— Jerry Jones, 57, died Sunday. Services pending. Roberts-Reed-Culver.

Talihina — Martha Hill, 80, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Talihina Assembly of God. Talihina Funeral Home.

— Tom Houston Sr., 85, electrician, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Greenhill Baptist Church. Talihina Funeral Home.

Vian — Terry Leon Mathis, 62, law enforcement worker, died Sunday. Services pending. Mallory-Martin, Sallisaw.

Wagoner — Curtis James McCraw, 55, carpenter, died Nov. 23. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mallett Funeral Home Chapel.

— Victory Gregory Seals, 58, retired Tulsa police sergeant, died Saturday. Memorial service 10 a.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church. Mallett.

U.S.-WORLD

Fred Joseph , who as CEO of investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert helped create the modern junk-bond market in the 1980s before the firm's collapse, died Friday in New York after a long fight with multiple myeloma. He was 72.

Joseph, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, arrived on Wall Street in 1963, joining the corporate finance department of E.F. Hutton. He later moved to Shearson Hammill, rising to chief operating officer before leaving to join Drexel's corporate finance department in 1974 when Shearson was bought out by Hayden Stone.

He was named the CEO of Drexel in 1985. With fellow executive Michael Milken, the company expanded the market for low-rated bonds, which most investors at the time considered too much of a risk but which quickly began to dominate the financial world.

The proceeds from junk-bond sales helped finance a wave of cutthroat corporate buyouts and made Drexel one of the most revered firms on Wall Street. But the company ultimately succumbed to a four-year criminal investigation into charges that Milken and others had used inside information to trade shares of companies considered takeover targets.

Milken ultimately pleaded guilty in 1989 to securities violations, served 22 months in prison and was fined $600 million. The scandal drove Drexel to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the following year.

Joseph ultimately accepted blame for failing to supervise Milken, saying at the time that as CEO, he must bear responsibility for whatever "transpired on my watch." Joseph was banned from any managerial position with a securities firm for some time and agreed to pay a $3 million fine to federal thrift regulators.

Mike Penner , a Los Angeles Times sports writer who announced two years ago that he was a transsexual and was changing his name to Christine Daniels, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 52.

Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Brian Elias said officials hadn't yet performed an autopsy or issued an official cause of death.

The Times said in a story Saturday that Penner was believed to have committed suicide. Penner had returned to using the name Mike Penner last year and was a Times columnist at the time of his death.

In 25 years with the newspaper, Penner covered Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the Olympics, World Cup soccer, tennis and other sports. A fluid writer with a sharp wit, he worked at various times as a reporter, columnist and the newspaper's Los Angeles Angels beat writer.

Times Editor Russ Stanton said Penner "respected our readers a great deal, enough to share with them his very personal journey."

Penner revealed that journey on April 26, 2007, when he wrote a story for the Times headlined "Old Mike, New Christine," in which he revealed that he was taking a few weeks of vacation and that when he returned to his job as a sports writer it would be as a woman named Christine Daniels.

The announcement sent shock waves through the sports world, but Penner's bosses were supportive.

After his vacation, Penner did, indeed, return as Christine Daniels, not only continuing to report on sports for the Times but also writing a blog called "Woman in Transition," detailing his experiences.

At the time of his announcement he was married, and he declined to discuss his family situation. He said he was undergoing female hormone treatments but would not say whether he planned to undergo a sex-change operation.

He eventually dropped the "Woman in Transition" blog and returned to writing under the name Mike Penner.

Bob Twigg , 62, a former USA Today reporter and editor of the Loudoun Times-Mirror who won $9 million in the Virginia lottery in 1996, died Nov. 16 of lung cancer at his home in Leesburg, Va.

Twigg worked for Gannett's USA Today for 16 years in a number of roles, including White House reporter, national editor and senior reporter. He covered the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, including overseas travel, and worked on the newspaper's book about the Persian Gulf War.

In 1994, he took over the West Coast desk a week before Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were slain in Los Angeles and former football star O.J. Simpson was charged in the case. The crime and trial were front-page news for a year and a half. After Simpson's acquittal, Twigg covered stories including the Virginia Military Institute's reluctance to accept women and Hurricane Fran in the Carolinas.

Twigg started working at newspapers in Cumberland and Hagerstown before hiring on with the Pensacola News-Journal in Florida, where he became the editor. He joined USA Today in 1983.

In January 1996, while working a Sunday morning shift in the USA Today newsroom, he looked at a newswire story about the winning lottery numbers, 3-15-17-28-33-37. "I was dumbstruck. I didn't move. I just stared. I had won the lottery!" he wrote in a story for his newspaper. "I ran down the hall to the bathroom. That's how my Sunday began. Then disbelief took over. I did not say a word — to anyone. I didn't call my wife; she was at church. I didn't tell my co-workers. Not a peep. I absolutely refused to believe I beat the 7.1 million-to-1 odds."

Two hours later, The Associated Press reported that the lone winner of the lottery came from Leesburg. Twigg, unable to reach his wife by phone, pleaded an upset stomach to his boss and drove home.

The next day, a lawyer-friend verified the ticket with the state lottery office. Twigg begged off a news conference, wanting to break the news in his own paper.

Twigg wrote that he had been struggling with family medical bills, even though his company health insurance paid 80 percent of its cost. In addition to his journalism job, he had taken a part-time job at a hardware store and drove an eight-year-old Pontiac with 187,000 miles on the odometer.

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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