Deaths
BY Staff Reports
Saturday, December 22, 2012
12/22/12 at 2:46 AM
TULSA
Bowlin, Carol Ann, 74, retired Tulsa Police Department word processing supervisor, died Thursday. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.
Craddick, Jimmie C., 74, car salesman, died Friday in Oklahoma City. Service 1 p.m. Monday, First Baptist Church, Hinton. Turner, Hinton.
Drake, Mary, 91, homemaker, died Thursday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Dec. 29, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel.
Hale, Alfred J., 85, Oklahoma Department of Transportation employee, died Thursday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Johnson, Hazel M., 91, retired Vandevers marketing worker, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel.
Nemec, Betty Doris, 89, homemaker, died Thursday. Visitation 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Fitzgerald Ivy Funeral Home; memorial service 3 p.m. Sunday, St. Simeon's Episcopal Home Chapel; and graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Statham, Victoria Lee (Heiligman), 57, Cities Service programmer, died Nov. 13. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Claremore. Schaudt's, Glenpool.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Bartlesville - Bobby J. Blue, 79, died Thursday. Services pending. Stumpff.
- Betty Lou Pettigrove, 94, died Friday. Services pending. Stumpff.
Bixby - Bob G. Morgan, 66, Morgan Dump Truck Service owner, died Thursday. Services pending. Leonard & Marker.
Broken Arrow - Mark Wade Robinson, 52, died Wednesday in Tulsa. Private family services. Kennedy-Kennard.
- Rudolph "Rudy" Swanson, 85, industrial products salesman, died Thursday. Services pending. Floral Haven.
Chelsea - Wayne A. Horner, 91, retired from Peabody Coal Co., died Thursday. Visitation 1-6 p.m. Sunday, Chelsea Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church.
Claremore - Violet Lee "Vi" (Kirkpatrick) Lane, 90, retired teacher, died Friday. Services pending. Musgrove-Merriott-Smith.
Cushing - Robert Earl Fritts, 80, retired radio disk jockey, died Friday. Services pending. Serenity, Tulsa.
Glenpool - Bryan Joseph Alverson, 20, student, died Tuesday in Tulsa. Visitation 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Schaudt's Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Monday, Park Plaza Church of Christ, Tulsa.
Grove - Betty Wagner, 83, homemaker, died Friday. Services pending. Nichols.
Inola - Eddie Joe Wilson, 73, retired Treat's Solutions salesman, died Dec. 19. Visitation 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Inola Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church.
McAlester - Walter Paul Ford, 64, truck driver, died Dec. 13 in Mobile, Ala. Visitation 2-4 p.m. Sunday and service 2 p.m. Monday, both at Bishop Funeral Home.
Muskogee - Constance Gloria Huffman, 89, secretary, died Friday. Services pending. Shipman's.
- Mary A. Manske, 85, retired Southwestern Bell supervisor, died Dec. 19. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Foster-Petering Funeral Home Chapel.
Okmulgee - Joyce Brydges, 87, teacher, died Thursday. Memorial service 10 a.m. Monday, First Presbyterian Church. McClendon-Winters.
- Helen Pauline Scott, 93, homemaker, died Friday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Saturday, Okmulgee Cemetery. McClendon-Winters.
Poteau - Faye (Holloway) Nebraski, 89, died Dec. 20. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Evans & Miller Funeral Home, and service 1 p.m. Friday, First Christian Church.
Sand Springs - Lois Lorene Clymer, 95, homemaker, died Friday. No services planned. Moore's Memory, Tulsa.
- Odis Davis Cox, 88, retired from Porcelain Steel, died Friday. Services pending. Mobley-Dodson.
Sedan, Kan. - Ralph Leonard Barclay, 75, died Dec. 20 in Chanute, Kan. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Penwell-Gabel Gibson Funeral Home, Chanute, and service 10 a.m. Friday, First Christian Church, Chanute.
Spavinaw - Donna Thompson, 81, retired Oklahoma Department of Human Services social worker, died Wednesday in Tulsa. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Spavinaw United Methodist Church. Stephens, Pryor.
Spiro - Marshall James Lively, 67, welder, died Friday. Services pending. Shipman's, Muskogee.
Stigler - Linda Weems, 68, retired receptionist, died Thursday in Tulsa. Memorial service 2 p.m. Monday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel.
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 like to have the "Circle of Life" logo placed in his or her listing.
