Deaths
BY Staff Reports
Monday, October 01, 2012
10/01/12 at 2:57 AM
TULSA
Bell, Leroy, 95, blueprints shop assistant, died Sept. 24. Service 11 a.m. Monday, Jack's Funeral Home Chapel.
Brown, Mary, 76, died Saturday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood.
Cox, Charles M., 84, died Sunday. Services pending. Heath-Griffith.
Gardner, Yvonne W., 93, Tulsa Public Schools secretary, died Saturday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Monday, Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Calvary Cemetery Chapel.
Gilbert, Ceolia, 81, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Jack's.
Greene, Lister C., 97, machinist, died Wednesday. Private family services. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Haws, Betty Lou, 76, homemaker, died Friday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Wednesday, First United Methodist Church. Freeman Harris.
Hunt, Joe, 60, retired roofer, died Sunday. Services pending. Moore's Memory.
Kays, Mary Charlene, 76, died Saturday. Services pending. Shurden-Jackson, Okmulgee.
Knight, Gladys F., homemaker, 86, died Saturday. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.
McIntosh, Curtiss, 71, American Discount Muffler owner, died Saturday in Mannford. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel.
Phelps, Charlene V., 83, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Swarer, Wanda Sue (Sanders), 67, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Bartlesville - William Boatright, 78, died Sunday. Services pending. Walker-Brown.
- Phylis Fay Jackson, 69, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, New Harmony Baptist Church. Stumpff.
- Barbara Lee Ross, 71, died Sunday. Services pending. Stumpff.
- Wiley R. Scott, 90, died Sunday. Services pending. Stumpff.
Beggs - James Warrick, 84, retired, died Sunday. Services pending. Smith, Sapulpa.
Bristow - Dennis Matlock, 77, rancher, formerly of Bristow, died Thursday in Jennings. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Kellyville First Baptist Church, Kellyville. Michael's.
Broken Arrow - Freda L. McMaster, 87, TD Williams employee, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Hayhurst Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Arrow Heights Baptist Church.
Checotah - Nathaniel Wayne Campbell Ransome, 21, heating and air mechanic, died Saturday. Services pending. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
Collinsville - Eugene S. "Ike" Eichelberger, 72, retired Sprint telephone technician, died Friday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Owasso First United Methodist Church, Owasso. Mowery, Owasso.
Copan - Delores Fay Snyder, 68, died Sunday. Services pending. Stumpff, Bartlesville.
Fairfax - Marian Gayle Stoneman, 64, Oklahoma Department of Human Services supervisor, died Saturday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Osage Baptist Church. Hunsaker-Wooten.
Hitchita - ElDena Morton Lackey, 69, retired Checotah Public Schools teacher, died Saturday in Muskogee. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Free Will Baptist Church. Garrett Family, Checotah.
Hulbert - Vernon Jackson Shankle, 83, steel industry operator, died Thursday in Tahlequah. Services pending. Green Country, Tahlequah.
Kansas - Georgia Peters, 56, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Long Prairie Baptist Church. Key, Locust Grove.
Keota - Louise Ballard, 85, homemaker, died Friday in Stigler. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Unity Baptist Church. Mallory-Martin, Stigler.
Meeker - Johnnie Michael "Mike" Helms, 55, house mover and carpenter, died Friday. Visitation 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Add'Vantage Funeral Home, Tulsa, and service 1 p.m. Wednesday, Living Waters Tabernacle.
Morris - Donald R. "Don" Gaither, 81, business accountant, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Thursday, Trinity Baptist Church. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
Muskogee - John C. Myers, 87, retired welder, died Sunday. Services pending. Cornerstone.
Park Hill - Edward Miller, 53, motorcycle mechanic, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Country, Tahlequah.
Salina - Frederick E. "Dusty" Rhodes, 88, electronics purchaser, died Saturday. Services pending. Key, Pryor.
Sand Springs - Richard Neil Dipboye Sr., 79, retired Postal Service carrier, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home Chapel.
- Mary Alice Wright, 70, retired alarm company dispatcher, died Sunday. Services pending. Dillon & Smith.
Skiatook - Herman Eller, 92, died Saturday. Services pending. Sien-Shelton.
- Joseph K. Madix, 57, died Sunday. Services pending. Sien-Shelton.
Tahlequah - Glen F. McFerrin, 86, forklift operator, died Saturday in Tulsa. Services pending. Green Country.
- Orvel Reeves, 60, truck driver, died Saturday in Tulsa. Services pending. Green Country.
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.
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
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