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By Staff Reports
Published: 9/2/2008 2:14 AM
Last Modified: 9/2/2008 2:14 AM

TULSA

Alaniz, Pedro A., 57, restaurant owner, died Sunday. Rosary 7 p.m. Tuesday, Fitzgerald's Southwood Colonial Funeral Home Chapel, and funeral Mass noon Wednesday, St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church.

Arroliga, Laura, 17, student, died Monday. Services pending. Midtown.

Baldwin, Wanda Mae, 85, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home Chapel, Miami, Okla.

Barnes, Sharon A., 57, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Friday, Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel, Sallisaw.

Beavers, Laverne, 81, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.

Bessler, Randle Miles, 73, banker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Daniels, Vera J., 64, Kmart assistant manager, died Sunday. Services pending. AdamsCrest Cremation.

Lawless, Kathryn, 75, retired secretary, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, First Presbyterian Church. Moore's Southlawn.

Mooney, Mary Sue, 76, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Reed-Culver, Tahlequah.

Spielmann, John, 58, former Tulsa World Circulation Department assistant manager, found dead Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Taylor , Mary Lou Barton, 75, retired from the Tulsa City-County Library, died Saturday. Service 3 p.m. Thursday, Berryhill Baptist Church, and graveside service 4 p.m. Friday, West Fork Sutterfield Cemetery, Reynolds, Mo. Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Turner, Maggie, 35, bookkeeper, died Sunday. Services pending. Heath-Griffith.

White, Sandra K., 62, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

STATE/AREA

Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.

Bartlesville — Robert "Bob" Earley, 61, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Bartlesville Southern Baptist Church. Stumpff.

— Margaret Rose Gibbins, 68, retired Safeway checker, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First United Methodist Church. Stumpff.

— Naomi Hynes, 88, real estate agent, died Saturday. Service 10:30 a.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church. Walker-Brown.

— Myrl Pinney, 93, homemaker, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Javine Cemetery, Barnsdall. Walker-Brown.

— Nancy E. Rogers, 70, retired bakery clerk, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel, and graveside service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bryan Chapel Cemetery, Boatman.

Blackwell — Rose Marie Sutton, 59, welder, died Saturday. Services pending. Blackwell Funeral Home.

Bristow — Floyd Williams, 68, mechanic, died Monday. Services pending. Hutchins-Maples.

Broken Arrow — Doris "Nat" Silk, 83, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Hayhurst.

Claremore — Larry M. Allen, 62, truck driver, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn, Tulsa.

Coffeyville, Kan. — Everett W. Burrows, 82, farmer and rancher, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Christian Church, Tyro. Barnes.

Eufaula — Dorothy A. Brown, 96, retired restaurant owner, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church. Johnson's.

Krebs — Carrie Smith, 82, Pete's Place waitress, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Chaney-Harkins Funeral Home Chapel, McAlester.

LeQuire — Beulah Ward, 92, store owner, died Monday. Services pending. King & Shearwood, Stigler.

McAlester — Geneva Marie Rockley, 97, deli/meat market owner, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Bishop Funeral Home Chapel.

Okmulgee — Sheeree Natalie Haynes, 32, Okfuskee County deputy court clerk, died Wednesday. Memorial service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Shurden Funeral Home Chapel.

— Gladys Irene Ledbetter, 95, homemaker, died Sunday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Thursday, Greenlawn Cemetery, Checotah. Shurden.

— Edith G. Moore, 89, retired from Ramsey Department Store, died Monday. Service 11 a.m. Thursday, McClendon-Winters Funeral home Chapel.

— William Perry, 79, died Monday. Services pending. Shurden.

— Carrie Cleoria Riley, 63, homemaker, died Sunday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Free Will Baptist Church. Shurden.

Oologah — George Howard Williams, 90, retired American Airlines machinist, died Sunday. Services pending. Collinsville Dolton, Collinsville.

Owasso — Harris Guston Bergeron, 94, industrial worker, died Sunday. Services pending. Churchill.

— Jason Douglas Knight, age unavailable, found dead Sunday. Services pending. Churchill.

— Granville Lee "Bud" Rigsby, 79, farmer, died Saturday. Services pending. Churchill.

— Betty "Jo" Ruah, 69, customer service manager, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Mowery Funeral Service Chapel.

Perry — Robert H. Weinkauf, 87, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Zion Lutheran Church. Perry Funeral Home.

Proctor — Jerry L. Gatewood, 77, horse trader, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Hart Funeral Home Chapel, Westville.

Pryor — Hazel A. Harrell, 91, caregiver, died Thursday in Memphis. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Stephens Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Pentecostal Church of God.

— Wayne Phillips, 61, retired Phillips Heat & Air owner, died Friday. Visitation 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday and service 10 a.m. Thursday, both at Stephens Funeral Home.

Sand Springs — Melba C. Barton, 83, Sand Springs Children's Home dining room matron, died Monday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.

— Wilma Jean Wofford, 77, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service Chapel.

Skiatook — Mary Susan Davis, 90, S.H. Kress salesclerk, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church. Sien-Shelton.

— Mildred Leona George, 90, accounting clerk, died Wednesday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel, Tulsa. Sien-Shelton.

— Bonnie Jean Scott, age unavailable, died Monday. Services pending. Sien-Shelton.

Stigler — Velma Durant, 89, machinist, died Sunday. Services pending. King & Shearwood.

— Sherry D. Terrell, 43, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 1 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church. King & Shearwood.

Stillwater — John Elbert Bailey Jr., 61, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church. Strode.

Stilwell — Douglas Keith Gritts, 47, machine operator, died Monday. Services pending. Green Country, Tahlequah.

Tahlequah — Georgia Brown, 64, day-care owner, died Sunday. Services pending. Reed-Culver.

— Ray Albert Coldwell, 81, service manager, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel.

— Nellie Fisher, 88, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Reed-Culver.

— Nona Rue Villa, 76, died Sunday. Services pending. Green Country.

Vian — Dortha L. Church, 61, retired IRS auditor and tax technician, died Saturday. Memorial service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Westside Church of Christ. Agent, Sallisaw.

— Marie Ellen (Birdtail) Elbon, 64, Tahlequah City Hospital nurse's aide, died Saturday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Box Cemetery. Agent, Sallisaw.

— Boyd A. Reed, 87, furniture manufacturing employee, died Saturday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sallisaw City Cemetery, Sallisaw. Agent, Sallisaw.

Wagoner — Murl Frank Sanders, 70, Sanders Janitorial Co. owner, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 11 a.m. Wednesday, both at Mallett Funeral Home.

Wilburton — Thomas Leroy Jergenson, 82, commercial building owner and builder, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Bishop Funeral Home, McAlester, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Southside Baptist Church.

Yale — Ralph Eugene Doutey, 77, veterinarian, formerly of Yale, died Sunday in Yukon. Wake 7 p.m. Tuesday, Yanda & Son Funeral Home Chapel, Yukon; funeral Mass 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church, Yukon; and graveside service 4 p.m. Wednesday, Lawson Cemetery.

U.S.-WORLD

Morris F. Sullivan > , who helped establish an animation studio in Ireland populated by former Disney artists, died Aug. 24 in suburban Los Angeles. He was 91.

In 1979, three of Disney's top animators — including Don Bluth — left the company with a group of artists who felt that production values were being compromised for the bottom line. The maverick studio they set up was struggling financially when the semiretired Sullivan was persuaded to step in.

The animators screened their 1982 film "The Secret of NIMH" for him, and Sullivan responded: "I'm your guardian angel. I'm going to make this work for you." Bluth told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. "He came along at a time when we were desperate, and he saved us."

Sullivan became owner-president of what eventually was known as Sullivan Bluth Studios, which produced "An American Tail" in 1986. The studio soon moved to Ireland, where animated features could be made for less.

At its peak, the studio employed about 400 people. Its films included "The Land Before Time" (1988) and "All Dogs Go to Heaven" (1989). The company struggled after a major investor withdrew financing, and Bluth and another animator left to set up an animation studio for 20th Century Fox. Sullivan Bluth closed in 1995.

Edwin O. Guthman , a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative jour- nalist whose aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories earned him the enmity of President Nixon and the No. 3 spot on Nixon's infamous enemies list, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

Guthman, who also was a longtime University of Southern California professor, earned a Pulitzer for proving the innocence of a victim of McCarthyism. During a brief hiatus from journalism, he worked for Robert F. Kennedy as a Justice Department spokesman and became a Kennedy confidant.

He went on to serve as national editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1965 to 1977. David Halberstam, in "The Powers That Be," wrote that Guthman gave the paper "instant prestige.".

A decorated World War II veteran, he was profiled in the bestselling 1998 book "The Greatest Generation," by former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, who wrote: "In any accounting of the good guys of American journalism, Ed Guthman is on the front page."

Guthman joined the Seattle Times in 1947 and covered the Washington state Committee on Un-American Activities, one of many bodies formed to root out communists in the McCarthy era.

The committee had targeted University of Washington philosophy professor Melvin Rader, who was alleged to have attended a Communist training school in New York. Rader denied the charges but could not disprove them.

Guthman found that the committee had confiscated pages from a hotel registry that could have corroborated Rader's alibi.

Guthman's stories saved Rader's career and netted Guthman the Pulitzer for distinguished reporting on national affairs.

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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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.

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