Deaths
BY Staff Reports
Monday, January 14, 2013
1/14/13 at 2:59 AM
TULSA
Brodsky, Marion, 93, accounting firm owner, died Sunday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Ivy.
Carter, Louise, 90, retired, died Sunday. Services pending. Crown Hill.
Gray, Emily L., 90, chemist, died Tuesday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Monday, Christian Chapel. Cremation Society.
Hill, Ronald Chief, 51, died Saturday. Services pending. Powell, Hominy.
Lemons, Wanda Jean, 83, retired Oral Roberts University instructor and Tulsa Public Schools teacher, died Sunday in Vinita. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.
Lewis, Willie Lee "Dill," 85, retired from Ford Glass, died Saturday. Services pending. Crown Hill.
Medlock, David Michael, 34, process server, died Saturday. Services pending. Christian-Gavlik, Broken Arrow.
Ogden, Lester, 69, retired, died Friday. Services pending. Green Hill, Sapulpa.
Prader, Catherine Theresa (Abear), 88, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Ivy.
Richards, Carolyn, 52, died Sunday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Riverside, Sand Springs.
Smith, Mary Lois, 82, receptionist, formerly of Muskogee, died Jan. 9. Service 1 p.m. Wednesday, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home Chapel, Muskogee.
Suitor, Johnny J., 71, died Sunday. Services pending. Johnson, Sperry.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Bartlesville - Margaret L. Patterson, 86, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Walker-Brown.
- Donald J. Pratt, 81, died Sunday. Services pending. Stumpff.
Blackwell - Cathryn Irene (Thomas) Tiemann, 92, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Trinity Lutheran Church. Roberts & Son.
Boynton - DeeAnn Morgan, 61, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Liberty Baptist Church, Morris. Dowdy, Haskell.
Broken Arrow - Allen Edward Lockhart, 73, grocery store retail salesman, died Saturday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens. Add'Vantage, Tulsa.
Checotah - Charles "Chuck" Schlotter, 83, retired Air Force aircraft mechanic, died Sunday in Muskogee. Services pending. Garrett Family.
Davenport - Aubrey August Hyde, 86, carpenter, died Saturday. Graveside service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Davenport Cemetery. Parks Brothers, Stroud.
Dewar - Alex Harjo, 58, died Sunday in Henryetta. Services pending. Integrity, Henryetta.
Grove - Joie Sharp, 83, B.F. Goodrich tire builder, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Independent Baptist Church. Nichols.
Henryetta - Frances June Stewart-Payne, 73, licensed practical nurse, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Shurden Funeral Home Chapel.
Holdenville - Terry Lanier, 61, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Church of the Nazarene. Hudson-Phillips.
- Tresa Robinson, 54, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home Chapel.
Hominy - Rosa Raye Hill-Pledger, 61, died Saturday. Rosary 7 p.m. Monday and service 9 a.m. Tuesday, both at Matin/Waller residence; and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Tuesday, St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Chapman-Black, Cleveland, Okla.
Jay - Clydella Martino, 65, died Saturday in Joplin, Mo. Services pending. Worley Luginbuel, Jay.
Langley - Charles Marion Hatcher, 80, former Hammer Head Marina boat mechanic, died Saturday in Joplin, Mo. Services pending. Luginbuel.
McAlester - Joan Harper, 76, retired McAlester Regional Medical Center food service worker, died Friday in Indianola. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Monday, Garrett Family Funeral Home, Checotah, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church, Indianola.
Muskogee - Marjorie Jean Niece Ashman, 85, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Cremation Society, Tulsa.
- Michael Cooper, 59, truck driver, died Sunday. Services pending. Garrett Family, Checotah.
- Ona Helen Harrison, 94, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church. Cornerstone.
- Vancie Hayes, 94, homemaker, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, South Bethel Cemetery Chapel, Braggs. Lescher-Millsap.
Okemah - Johnny Harjo Sr., 62, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Little River Church, Seminole. Hudson-Phillips, Holdenville.
Perry - Bobby Dayton Webb, 78, trucking company owner, died Friday in Oklahoma City. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dowden Funeral Home Chapel, Heavener.
Porter - Doris Geraldine (Thompson) Riley, 79, retired Braden beautician, died Sunday in Muskogee. Services pending. Mallett, Wagoner.
Quinton - Thomas Jerome "T.J." Coplen, 71, retired oil-field worker, died Thursday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church, Kinta. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.
Sand Springs - Rita Dolores (Beavers) Dobbs, 76, retired Rader cottage life supervisor, died Saturday in Tulsa. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dillon & Smith Funeral Home, and graveside service 10 a.m. Thursday, Woodland Memorial Park Cemetery.
- Lori Walters Hattaway, 63, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial.
- Margaret (Branscum) Robinson, 80, retired Rader arts and crafts instructor, died Friday in Tulsa. Visitation 3-8 p.m. Tuesday, Dillon & Smith Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Calvary Baptist Church.
Skiatook - Frances Marie Gage, 78, died Sunday in Tulsa. Services pending. Sien-Shelton.
Slick - Exie Lee Maxfield, 94, housekeeper, died Sunday in Bristow. Services pending. Michael's, Bristow.
Spiro - Edgar P. Gregory, 95, manager, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel.
Tahlequah - Doris Gulager, 81, Cherokee County Treasurer's Office employee, died Wednesday in Tulsa. Graveside service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Tahlequah City Cemetery. Hart.
- Gann Littlejohn, age unavailable, died Sunday in Tulsa. Services pending. Reed-Culver.
- Ruth W. Pruitt, 77, registered nurse, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church, and visitation 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, Hart Funeral Home.
Vinita - Billy F. Minson, 86, retired from Western Area Power Administration, died Jan. 9 in Watertown, S.D. Visitation 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Luginbuel Funeral Home.
Wagoner - Lorraine Thomas, 71, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Mallett.
Wainwright - John "Jiggs" Ramsey, 92, farmer and rancher, died Sunday in Fort Gibson. Services pending. Garrett Family, Checotah.
Wilburton - Helen Nadine Arrington-Johnson, 69, died Sunday. Services pending. Jones-Harkins.
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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