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By Staff Reports
Published: 11/9/2009 2:20 AM
Last Modified: 11/9/2009 4:21 AM

TULSA

Ballard, Linda S., 65, homemaker, died Monday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Galilee Baptist Church. Jack's.

Barham, Edith Lucille (Massey), 98, nurse, died Friday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Rose Hill Cemetery. Reynolds Rose Hill.

Bayless, Guy O. Jr., 93, trust officer, died Saturday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Boston Avenue United Methodist Church. Moore's Southlawn.

Bruner, Frankie S., 89, homemaker, died Tuesday. Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Antioch Baptist Church. Jack's.

Davis, Carolyn, 59, died Saturday. Services pending. Keith D. Biglow.

Dunn, Jimmie Jr., 71, retired professional chauffeur, died Friday. Services pending. Butler-Stumpff.

Garrett, Eirner L., 61, supervisor, died Oct. 31. Service noon Tuesday, Jack's Funeral Home Chapel.

Goodwin, Jordan Nicole, 25, registered nurse, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Victory Christian Center. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Green, G. Lee., 55, Oklahoma Natural Gas data operator, died Sunday. Services pending. Green Hill.

Harbert, Aniece E., 80, clerical worker, died Thursday. Service 11 a.m. Thursday, Ebenezer Missionary Baptist. Jack's.

Hatchett, Price B., 55, Oral Roberts University maintenance engineer, died Sunday. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.

Herren, Kyle Alan, 22, J.D. Hair & Associates mechanical engineer, died Saturday. Visitation 5:30-7 p.m.

Tuesday, Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Funeral Home, and memorial service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Redeemer Covenant Church.

Lunt, Earlene, 72, Williams Cos. Inc. secretary, died Friday. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Reynolds Funeral Home Chapel.

Morehead, Vivian, 89, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Moore's Rosewood.

Parker, Charlie L., 81, certified public accountant, died Sunday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.

Richardson, Michael Leon, 43, died Friday. Services pending. Keith D. Biglow.

Terry, Edward R., 80, retired Texaco landman, died Friday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Wednesday, Memorial Park Cemetery. Ninde Brookside.

Thompson, Danny Lee, 58, died Sunday. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.

Walker, William H. Jr., 60, educator, died Tuesday. Service 11 a.m. Monday, Greater St. John AME Church. Jack's.

STATE/AREA

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

Bartlesville — Fred B. Duell, 80, died Saturday. Services pending. Stumpff.

— Duane Robert Johnson, 68, died Friday. Services pending. Arnold Moore.

— Conway Johnston, 82, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel.

— Lee Marshall, 55, died Thursday. Service 11 a.m. Friday, Dewey Cemetery, Dewey. Stumpff.

— Earline Andrews Simmons, 99, cafeteria worker, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Walker-Brown Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m. Friday, First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, Miss.

— Aubrey G. Smith, 68, died Saturday. Services pending. Stumpff.

— Forest Dale Williams, 75, died Sunday. Services pending. Stumpff.

— James Nicholas Zehren, 86, retired from TRW Reda Pump, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Arnold Moore Funeral Home, and funeral Mass 11 a.m. Wednesday, St. John Catholic Church.

Bixby — Jack Roger Williams, 63, Tulsa Community College business professor, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, First United Methodist Church. Bixby Funeral Service.

Bristow — Willis Fenton, 78, died Saturday. Services pending. Hutchins-Maples.

— James Monroe "Pete" King, 85, small engine mechanic, died Sunday. Graveside service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Magnolia Memorial Gardens. Hutchins-Maples.

Claremore — Leroy McClish, 94, retired carpenter, real estate agent and minister, died Wednesday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Home Chapel.

Coweta — Gary Wray, 35, janitorial company owner, died Friday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Hayhurst Funeral Home, Broken Arrow, and service 1 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church, Broken Arrow.

Henryetta — Margie Blakely, 83, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Integrity.

Jay — Shiloh Ancelet, 29, died Monday. Services pending. Funeral Services of Grand Lake.

— Naomi Cornell, 85, died Sunday. Services pending. Funeral Services of Grand Lake.

McAlester — Vincent Edwards, 45, died Saturday. Services pending. Bishop.

— Nettie Blanche Ray, 105, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Kiowa Church of Christ, Kiowa, and graveside service 3 p.m. Tuesday, Kiowa Cemetery, Kiowa. Bishop.

Miami — Beverly June Foster, 63, Foster's Package Store & Bev's Beverages owner, died Sunday. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Tuesday and service 11 a.m. Wednesday, both at First Baptist church. McClendon-Winters, Okmulgee.

Olive — Ted Walker VanMeter, age unavailable, Creek County road supervisor, died Oct. 7. Services pending. Michael's, Drumright.

Owasso — Andrew Riley Foyil Sr., 85, letter carrier, died Sunday. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Mowery Funeral Home Chapel.

Pawhuska — Junior Hill, 70, reverend, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Church of God. McCartney's Johnson.

Sand Springs — Richard Stecker, 65, retired Pepsi marketing manager, died Saturday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Thursday, Word of Life Fellowship.

Sapulpa — Sherri Jo Krafft, 51, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Hill.

— Donna E. (Pennington) Norks, 61, St. John Medical Center licensed practical nurse, died Saturday. Services pending. Mobley-Dodson, Sand Springs.

Tahlequah — Joyce A. Rose, 65, Talking Leaves Job Corps employee, died Saturday. Services pending. Hart.

Wagoner — Jeffery Brown, 31, emergency medical technician, died Sunday. Services pending. Shipman.

Welling — Gladys E. Murch, 83, homemaker, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Hart Funeral Home, Tahlequah.

U.S.-WORLD

Esther Hautzig , whose memoir of growing up in exile in Siberia, "The Endless Steppe," has become a classic of children's literature, died Nov. 1 at a New York City hospital. She was 79 and had Alzheimer's disease.

Hautzig had been born into comfortable circumstances in present-day Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of Poland, where her family ran a jewelry store.

In 1941, after the Soviet Union and Germany signed a nonaggression pact that put Vilnius under Soviet control, Hautzig's family was arrested for being capitalists. At 10, she was shipped with her parents and grandparents in a cattle car to the Siberian city of Rubtsovsk.

She spent all of World War II there, attending school and learning to live with hunger, privation and loss. More than 20 years later, after Hautzig had settled in the United States, she wrote "The Endless Steppe."

She wrote her book for children when publishers told her that her story would not appeal to adults. It won several awards and was acclaimed as a worthy successor to Anne Frank's powerful memoir, "The Diary of a Young Girl."

In the book, Hautzig told a gritty tale of exile and survival. As a child, she adapted to her new surroundings surprisingly well, learning Russian and attending a rigorous school that, as a New York Times reviewer wrote in 1968, "would make a New York City mother envious."

She wrote of trying to make money by selling books of Russian poetry, recalling that one man thumbed through a book before deciding not to buy it because the pages were not the right thickness to roll cigarettes.

The struggles of those wartime years affected her family in different ways. Her grandmother lamented a lost world of servants and grand houses, her father was sent to fight in the Soviet army and her mother worked in a gypsum mine and bakery. Her grandfather died at 72 in a forced labor camp.

After the war, her family reunited in Lodz, Poland, and discovered that their forced exile had probably saved their lives. Most of their relatives who had remained in Vilnius (then called Vilna) had perished in the Holocaust. Of the 57,000 Jewish residents of Vilnius at the beginning of the war, only 3,000 survived.

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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