Deaths
BY Staff Reports
Saturday, August 25, 2012
8/25/12 at 2:56 AM
TULSA
Blotevogel, Eric Wayne, 60, Postal Service carrier, died Thursday. Service 3 p.m. Monday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.
Brewer, Robert L., 84, retired land surveyor, died Friday. Services pending. Moore's Memory.
Evelyn, Wilma Lavine (Davenport), 94, executive secretary, died Friday. Services pending. Green Hill, Sapulpa.
Flowers, Teresa Gayle (Davis), 44, homemaker, died Thursday. Services pending. Freeman Harris.
Francis, James Stephen, 82, retired Campbell Wholesale Co. controller, died Thursday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Monday, Fitzgerald Ivy Funeral Home Chapel.
French, Mary Lorine, 91, homemaker, died Wednesday. No local services planned. Moore's Southlawn.
Grover, Cynda Cason, 70, former teacher, died Thursday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Wednesday, St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church. Cremation Society.
Hudson, George, 62, Mathis Brothers Furniture lift-truck operator, died Thursday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Kent, Betty Joe, 78, homemaker, died Thursday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Monday, Asbury United Methodist Church. Add'Vantage.
Laughry, James Craig "Jim," 58, geophysicist, died Thursday. Service 11 a.m. Monday, Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Funeral Home Chapel.
Nally, Charles L., 86, accounting clerk, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.
Risdon, Marjorie, 86, retired PepsiCo supervisor, died Friday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Seymore, Shirley, 67, homemaker, died Friday. Services pending. Keith D. Biglow.
Tumbleson, Gerald N., 91, Oklahoma Vocational Rehabilitation Services field director, died Thursday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Sunday and service 10 a.m. Monday, both at Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home.
Zito, Donna Sue, 50, telemarketer, died Thursday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Afton - Lynn Coats, 76, electrical line superintendent, died Friday. Services pending. Grand Lake, Langley.
Bartlesville - Gary L. Gray, 66, carpenter, died Friday. Services pending. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
- Johnnye Faye Presnell, 87, died Friday. Services pending. Arnold Moore & Neekamp.
Beggs - James Howard "Jim" Phillips, 63, retail salesman, died Wednesday. Service 1 p.m. Saturday, McClendon-Winters Funeral Home Chapel.
Broken Arrow - Rudolph "Rudy" Santiago, 56, retired from the military, died Wednesday. Services pending. Floral Haven.
- Jimmie Ray Schreppel Sr., 66, oil industry revenue supervisor, died Thursday. Services pending. Christian-Gavlik.
Chouteau - Gene D. Shelton, 83, engineer, died Friday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Shipman's Funeral Home, Pryor, and graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson.
Claremore - Kenneth Leon Austin, 72, Warren Cat heavy-equipment mechanic, died Thursday. Private family services. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
Colcord - Cecil Ray McCoy, 68, Kansas Public Schools janitor and bus driver, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Wasson Funeral Home Chapel, Siloam Springs, Ark.
- Taylor Sixkiller, 86, retired, died Thursday. Visitation 3-8 p.m. Sunday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, Jay, and graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, Elm Cemetery, Leach.
Copan - Steven Mark Hemphill, 52, died Thursday. Services pending. Stumpff, Bartlesville.
Henryetta - Vickie D. Hamilton-Smith, 57, retired county court clerk, died Wednesday. Services pending. Integrity.
Inola - Samuel Houston "Sam" Sanders, 96, Sanders Nursery owner, died Wednesday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah.
Jay - Calvin A. Dilbeck, 60, poultry farmer, died Thursday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Monday, Mount Hermon Church.
Ketchum - Janie Diane (Hieronymus) Ronsse, 63, former Anchor's End Homeowners Association manager, died Wednesday in Tulsa. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Sunday and rosary 6 p.m. Sunday, both at Luginbuel South Grand Lake Funeral Home, Langley; and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Monday, St. Francis of Rome Catholic Church, Langley.
Locust Grove - Jim D. Stokes, 80, electrician, died Thursday. Services pending. Locust Grove Funeral Home.
Mounds - Sue Hampton, 65, escrow officer, died Friday in Carlsbad City, Calif. Services pending. McClendon-Winters, Okmulgee.
Muldrow - Harry B. Griffith, 79, Army staff sergeant, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Agent Funeral Home Chapel. Mallory-Martin, Sallisaw.
Muskogee - Dawnesha D. Jones, 18, died Thursday in Dallas. Services pending. Dyer, Tulsa.
- Willa Dene LaRue, 71, homemaker, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Keefeton Freewill Baptist Church, Keefeton. Foster-Petering.
- William E. "Bill" Smith Jr., 87, formerly of Muskogee, died Thursday in Fayetteville, Ark. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home Chapel.
- Thomas Edward Tanner Jr., 83, retired from the military, died Thursday. Service 11:30 a.m. Monday, Foster-Petering Funeral Home Chapel.
Nowata - Elva Cleo Lunsford, 99, homemaker, died Thursday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery. Stumpff.
- Sarah Jane Mosley, 95, janitor, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Ethel Reece Cemetery, Barnsdall. Benjamin.
Okmulgee - Leona Patton, 101, teacher, died Thursday. Services pending. McClendon-Winters.
Ponca City - Betty Stallings, 70, died Friday. Services pending. Trout.
Poteau - Ina "Juanita" Hargrove, 93, died Thursday. Services pending. Evans & Miller.
Sand Springs - Beatrice B. "Bea" Jones, 88, retired Mayo Hotel seamstress, died Thursday. Visitation 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Monday, Broadway Baptist Church.
Sapulpa - Bonnie M. Conley, 83, homemaker, died Thursday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Midway Full Gospel Church, Oakhurst. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.
Spiro - Burl O. Griffith, 87, died Friday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel.
- Steven Dale Sebo, 50, farmer and rancher, died Friday. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Monday, Victory Worship Center.
- Joe Dave Terry, 79, died Thursday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, and graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Fairview Cemetery, Panama.
Tahlequah - Michelle Patricia Cox, 54, restaurant cook, died Wednesday. Services pending. Green Country.
Vian - Ruby Jane Speck, 89, homemaker, died Friday in Fort Smith, Ark. Graveside service 2 p.m. Monday, Garden of Memories. Agent, Sallisaw.
Wagoner - Edna "Lois" Henning, 96, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Shipman Funeral Home Chapel.
Wister - Dorothy Josephine Midgley, 90, died Thursday in Fort Smith, Ark. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Evans & Miller Funeral Home, Poteau, and service 2 p.m. Sunday, Ellis Chapel.
- Melba Treadway, 89, homemaker, died Thursday in Fort Smith, Ark. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Heavener Christian Church, Heavener. Grace Manor, Poteau.
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