Deaths
BY Staff Reports
Thursday, January 03, 2013
1/03/13 at 2:28 PM
TULSA
Armstrong, Alberta, 77, elementary teacher, died Tuesday. Services pending. Jack's.
Anderson, Maxine, 68, teacher, died Dec. 28. Visitation 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Dyer Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Friday, St. Andrew's Baptist Church.
Baker, Ulysses Carlos, 70, retired auto detailer, died Sunday. Services pending. Reynolds Rose Hill.
Banks, Shawn Montrel, 20, laborer, died Monday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, 31st Place North Church of the Living God. Jack's.
Barnhardt, Larry, 62, plumber, died Friday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Monday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Blake, Carline, 71, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Heath-Griffith Funeral Home, and service 1 p.m. Friday, Calvary Baptist Church, Sand Springs.
Brady, Delbert Leon "Bud," 76, Tulsa water department worker, died Dec. 27. Private family services. Mark Griffith-Westwood.
Cartmill, Dorothy, 75, oil & gas analyst, died Monday. Service 11 a.m. Saturday, Cedar Ridge Christian Church, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Chappel, Gary W., 66, Tulsa World warehouse manager, died Sunday. Private family services. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Collier, James, 64, Mark Miller Pontiac security guard, died Wednesday. Rosary 7 p.m. Thursday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel, and funeral Mass 1 p.m. Friday, Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church.
Cosper, Bert Edward, 77, Southern Mills management worker, died Monday. Services pending. Add'Vantage.
Dickey, Marilyn Sue (Howard), 62, insurance company secretary, died Wednesday. Service 2 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church, Blackburn. Poteet, Pawnee.
Dillavou, Jerry L., 76, Burlington Northern Railroad engineer, died Dec. 20. Service 11 a.m. Saturday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel.
Garcia, Nemencio Q. Jr., 49, laborer, died Tuesday. Services pending. Add'Vantage.
Guerrero, Maricela, 51, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Reynolds Rose Hill.
Hicks, Cecil George Sr., 88, retired auto mechanic, died Tuesday. Services pending. Butler-Stumpff.
Hightower, Gary L., 63, carpenter, died Tuesday. Memorial service 1 p.m. Friday, Serenity Funeral Home Chapel.
Laird, Patti J., 74, retired tax attorney, died Tuesday. Services pending. Cremation Society.
Lile, Ramona Kie, 84, retired Oklahoma Turnpike Authority clerk, died Monday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, Cremation Society of Oklahoma Chapel.
Miller, Helen Jeanette, 87, executive secretary to former Sen. Henry Bellmon, died Monday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Saturday, East Side Christian Church.
Moore, Lida Jean, 94, homemaker, died Wednesday. Service 3 p.m. Friday, First Presbyterian Church. Stanleys.
Muehlberg, Geraldine Alice, 80, retired from St. Francis Hospital, died Wednesday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Parrack, Lenora E., 66, nursing home licensed practical nurse, died Monday. Private family services. Mark Griffith-Westwood.
Pilant, Maxine (Stephens), 93, homemaker, died Monday. Service 3 p.m. Thursday, Agent & Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel, Sallisaw.
Ramsey, Thomas Byron, 77, insurance agent, died Wednesday. Private family services. Moore's Southlawn.
Robbins, Ronald Wayne, 71, pipefitter, died Tuesday. Memorial service 10 a.m. Friday, Solace Church. Mark Griffith-Westwood.
Rock, Evelyn Alice, 86, retired Sherwood Manor Nursing Home ward clerk, died Monday. Services pending. Heath-Griffith.
Rogers, Louis Everett, 68, Prescor Inc. steel burner, died Monday. Visitation 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Add'Vantage Funeral Home, and service 1 p.m. Friday, Christ United Methodist Church.
Smith, Jamal Sidney, 19, died Monday. Services pending. Crown Hill.
Steely, Kathryn Marie (Copple), 83, died Monday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church, Norman. John M. Ireland, Moore.
Stratman, Geraldyne A., 88, insurance executive, died Monday. Services pending. Add'Vantage.
Swanson, Bill Don, 83, retired T.D. Williamson supervisor, died Monday. Visitation 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Reynolds Rose Hill Funeral Home, and graveside service 1 p.m. Friday, Rose Hill Memorial Park.
Thomson, Thomas L., 82, aerospace technical writer, died Monday. No local services. Cremation Society.
Toomey, Margaret M., 90, high school secretary, died Monday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Friday and rosary 7 p.m. Friday, both at Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Funeral Home, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Mary Catholic Church.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Afton - Ted V. Wynn Jr., 73, retired minister, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday and service 2 p.m. Saturday, both at First Baptist Church, Miami, Okla. Adcock.
Bartlesville - Connie Jo Young, 68, died Tuesday. Services pending. Stumpff.
Baxter Springs, Kan. - Bobbe Jean Burnett, 77, Buy 4 Less and Love's convenience store employee, died Tuesday in Joplin, Mo. Graveside service 10:30 a.m. Friday, Fairview Cemetery, Melrose. Paul Thomas, Miami, Okla.
Big Cabin - Deborah Jean Johnson, 58, banker, died Dec. 27. Private family services. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
Blackwell - Neva Pearl (Ellington) Rourk, 80, died Tuesday. Service 11 a.m. Friday, Roberts & Son Funeral Home Chapel.
- Diatra O. (Layton) Williamson, 68, social worker, died Tuesday in Wichita, Kan. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, First Christian Church. Roberts & Son.
Broken Arrow - Jack C. Aday, 75, entrepreneur, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Leonard & Marker Funeral Home Chapel, Bixby.
- Helene Morris, 87, homemaker, died Wednesday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. Moore's Southlawn, Tulsa.
- Vera Speer, 92, Postal Service employee, died Tuesday. Services pending. Hayhurst.
Calvin - Mary Deatherage, 75, died Dec. 27 in McAlester. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Church of Christ, Stuart. Fisher, Holdenville.
Catoosa - Patricia E. Martin, 74, retail management worker, died Monday. Visitation 1-7 p.m. Saturday and prayer service 7 p.m. Saturday, both at Rice Funeral Home, Claremore.
- Shirley J. "Carney" Newton, 83, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Checotah - Raymond Carey, 87, retired teacher, died Wednesday. Services pending. Garrett.
Claremore - Jocie "Jo" Christy, 85, homemaker, died Wednesday. Visitation 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Rice Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church.
- Joyce Y. (Sumter) Lutz, 76, homemaker, died Wednesday. Services pending. Musgrove-Merriott-Smith.
Clearview - Elvia Bush, 104, died Dec. 27 in Midwest City. Service 1 p.m. Saturday, Clearview Community Center.
Commerce - Lonnie James Johnson, 77, retired from B.F. Goodrich, died Tuesday. Visitation 9-10 a.m. Friday and service 10 a.m. Friday, both at Paul Thomas Funeral Home, and graveside service 2:30 p.m. Friday, Bowers Cemetery, Eufaula. Thomas, Welch.
Coweta - Bert I. Gillenwater, 92, died Sunday in Tulsa. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday, Wright-Brown Funeral Home. Services pending.
Cushing - Fay Annette Cearley, 80, secretary, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Oak Grove Baptist Church. Palmer Marler.
Drumright - James Delbert Green, 86, state of Kansas heavy-equipment operator, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Saturday, First Free Will Baptist Church. Michael's.
- Paula Walls, 68, Drumright Nursing Home housekeeper, died Dec. 25 in Tulsa. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, Michael's Funeral Home Chapel.
Eucha - Tom Taylor, 47, died Sunday in Salina. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel, Jay.
Eufaula - Isaiah Okoluk, infant son of Elizabeth Okoluk and Matthew Strobl, died Friday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Fairfax - Pheobe Rosalee Clepper, 91, homemaker, died Tuesday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Hunsaker-Wooten Funeral Home Chapel.
Glenpool - Juanita Frances Taylor, 83, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services pending. Schaudt's.
Grove - James Bowling, 91, draftsman, died Tuesday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel.
- Mildred Jackson, 92, homemaker, died Tuesday. Service 2 p.m. Friday, Nichols Funeral Home Chapel.
- Jack White, 88, Stewart-White & Associates owner, died Tuesday in Tulsa. Visitation 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Friday, First Christian Church.
Henryetta - Elsie Mae Lowery, 77, cook, died Monday in Weleetka. Wake 6-8 p.m. Thursday and service 2 p.m. Friday, both at Northside Worship Center. Integrity.
Jay - Ronald Fuller, 58, flint knapper, died Saturday. Private family services. Nichols, Grove.
- Carl Hicks, 85, died Wednesday. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.
- Sorena "Cathie" Loftis, 55, died Tuesday in Bentonville, Ark. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.
Jenks - Delbert A. Goad, 80, Ridley's Sound Inc. general manager, died Tuesday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn, Tulsa.
Ketchum - Bill L. Hendricks, 84, convenience store owner, died Tuesday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, Ketchum Seventh-day Adventist Church. Luginbuel, Vinita.
Miami - Malissa E. Crow, 71, homemaker, died Tuesday in Grove. Visitation 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Brown-Winters Funeral Home, and service 1 p.m. Saturday, First Christian Church.
- Ethel B. Farmer, 89, homemaker, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday and service 1 p.m. Friday, both at Adcock Funeral Home, Fairland.
Milfay - Preston Neil Smythe, infant son of Racheal and Robert Smythe, died Sunday in Stroud. Graveside service 10:30 a.m. Friday, Stroud Cemetery, Stroud. Parks Brothers, Stroud.
Morris - Yvonne Lee (Holland) Guthrie, 51, homemaker, died Tuesday in Brownsville, Texas. Services pending. McClendon-Winters.
Mounds - Linda Mae Fugitt, 65, licensed practical nurse, died Tuesday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Thursday, Summit View Cemetery, Guthrie. Schaudt's, Glenpool.
Muldrow - Peggy Ann Jones, 69, died Tuesday in Fort Smith, Ark. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday and service 10 a.m. Saturday, both at Agent & Mallory-Martin Funeral Home.
Muskogee - Mary "Faye" Reece Anderson, 95, educator, died Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas. Services pending. Ragsdale.
- Lloyd Bullard, 66, handyman, died Tuesday. Services pending. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
- Edward Neal Fulkerson, 73, died Tuesday. Service 10 a.m. Saturday, Calvary Baptist Church. Lescher-Millsap.
- Herbert Leroi Hughes, 69, carpenter, Dec. 26. Visitation noon-6 p.m. Thursday, Keith D. Biglow Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Friday, Faith Deliverance Christian Center.
- Charles Donald "Don" Langston, 67, Muskogee Regional Hearing Aid Lab owner, died Thursday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Monday, Elm Grove Assembly of God. Keith D. Biglow.
Nowata - Carol A. Lee, 75, retired from the Nowata County Assessor's Office, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Living Word Family Church. Stumpff.
Okmulgee - Maxine Gasaway, 87, died Sunday in Weatherford, Texas. Service 11 a.m. Friday, Shurden-Jackson Funeral Home Chapel.
Owasso - Michael Hacker, 69, former Tulsa Madison Middle School principal, died Tuesday. Service 12:30 p.m. Friday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.
Pawhuska - Jonathan Darius "J.D." West, 25, food service worker, died Saturday. Traditional Indian service 8 a.m. Friday, Indian Camp Chapel, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Friday, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. McCartney's Johnson.
- Samuel Joseph "Sam" West, 31, food service worker, died Sunday. Traditional Indian service 8 a.m. Friday, Indian Camp Chapel, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Friday, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. McCartney's Johnson.
Perkins - Patsy J. Owsley, 76, died Monday in Tulsa. Service 9 a.m. Friday, First United Methodist Church. Palmer Marler, Stillwater.
Ponca City - Dorothy "Dot" Mahnke, 85, homemaker, died Monday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday, Grace Funeral Home Chapel, and service 10 a.m. Saturday, First Church of God.
- Melvin Simpson, 85, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Foraker Cemetery, Foraker. Trout.
Roland - Imogene Grace Wilson, 98, Gerber Foods employee, died Wednesday in Fort Smith, Ark. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Agent Mallory-Martin Funeral Home, Muldrow, and service 2 p.m. Friday, Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
Sand Springs - Paula Starnes, 52, died Wednesday in Tulsa. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday, Smith Funeral Home, Sapulpa, and service 2 p.m. Saturday, Prattwood Assembly of God.
- Lima Lavae (Enyart) Treat, 99, homemaker, died Tuesday in Jenks. Services pending. Mobley-Dodson.
- Ruby P. Watson, 79, homemaker, died Monday. Service 1 p.m. Friday, Stanleys Funeral Home Chapel, Tulsa.
Sapulpa - Pete Belk, 84, retired auto mechanic, died Monday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday and service 10 a.m. Saturday, both at Smith Funeral Home.
- Vicki (Stanley) Houser, 63, homemaker, died Monday in Tulsa. Service 1 p.m. Saturday, Smith Funeral Home Chapel.
- Margaret (Ritz) Morrow, 86, retired secretary, died Tuesday. Visitation 2-8 p.m. Thursday and service 10 a.m. Friday, both at Reynolds Rose Hill Funeral Home, Tulsa.
- Margaree Sellers, 87, retired Southwestern Bell supervisor, died Monday in Tulsa. Service 10:30 a.m. Friday, Smith Funeral Home Chapel.
Skiatook - Robert McDoulett, age unavailable, died Sunday. Services pending. Reynolds, Tulsa.
Stigler - Juanita Elizabeth Sharp, 87, homemaker, died Tuesday in Forth Smith, Ark. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Assembly of God. Mallory-Martin.
Stroud - O.V. Crass, 97, retired from Kerr-McGee Oil Co., died Wednesday. Service 11 a.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church. Parks Brothers.
Tahlequah - Jerry D. Harreld, 81, Northeastern State University professor, died Monday. Services pending. Hart.
- Willie Ryder, 83, welder, died Tuesday. Services pending. Reed-Culver.
Verdigris - James R. Brock, 90, foreman, died Monday. Visitation 1-7 p.m. Thursday and service 10 a.m. Friday, both at Rice Funeral Home, Claremore.
Wagoner - Roger Lynn Brown, 72, retired from the Army, died Tuesday. Services pending. Shipman's, Muskogee.
Welling - Frankie Lee Weir, 71, Frankie's Sewing and Alterations owner, died Tuesday in Tulsa. Service 2 p.m. Friday, Reed-Culver Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah.
Wetumka - Betty White, 73, died Wednesday in Laredo, Texas. Services pending. Williamson-Spradlin.
Wister - Earl Curry, 77, carpenter, died Wednesday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday and service 10 a.m. Saturday, both at Evans & Miller Funeral Home, Poteau.
Yale - Finley Charles Morrow, 72, retired oil-field worker, died Tuesday in Cushing. Graveside service 2 p.m. Friday, Assembly of God. Palmer Marler.
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.
