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By Staff Reports
Published: 11/10/2009 2:19 AM
Last Modified: 11/10/2009 4:46 AM

TULSA

Beaumont, Peggy, 69, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Keith D. Biglow.

Benson, Dan Joedan, infant son of Shemirah and Daniel Benson, died Thursday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Chronister, Wesley C., 56, construction superintendent, died Sunday. Private family services. AdamsCrest Cremation.

Clardy, Rodwick K., 50, died Saturday. Services pending. Jack's.

Cripe, Ronald, 47, died Nov. 1. Services pending. Moore's Memory.

Cypert, James Brady, 68, elementary school principal, died Sunday. Memorial service 4 p.m. Thursday, Asbury United Methodist Church. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Delay, Dawson C., 62, meat cutter, died Sunday. Services pending. Serenity.

Dunn, Jimmie Jr., 71, retired professional chauffeur, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Friday, St. Monica Catholic Church. Butler-Stumpff.

Ford, Emma Jean, 76, died Nov. 5. Visitation noon-7 p.m. Wednesday, Keith D. Biglow Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Thursday, St. John Missionary Baptist Church.

Hatchett, Price B., 55, Oral Roberts University HVAC technician, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Ninde Brookside Funeral Home Chapel, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First United Methodist Church, Sand Springs.

Havlik, Vivian L., 89, switchboard and PBX operator, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.

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Jackie, 85, transporter, died Monday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

McQuigg, Yvonne L., 86, retired Tulsa Public Schools counselor, died Saturday. Memorial service 2:30 p.m. Nov. 21, Community Baptist Church. Cremation Society.

Moore, Cheryl Lynn, 50, homemaker, died Friday. Services pending. Moore's Memory.

Morehead, Vivian E., 92, homemaker, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Moore's Rosewood Funeral Home, and graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mott, J.A., 87, auto painter and World War II veteran, died Sunday. No services planned. Serenity.

Nash, Michael David, 50, maintenance worker, died Saturday. No services planned. Cremation Society.

Osborn, Dorothy Louise, 86, homemaker, died Monday. Private family services. AdamsCrest Cremation.

Parker, Charlie, 81, certified public accountant, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel.

Passiglia, Laura Mae, 82, technical writer, died Sunday. Private family services. AdamsCrest Cremation.

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

Teets, Ricky, 52, died Saturday. Private family services. Cremation Society.

Toppins, Harold "Coach Top," 69, maintenance worker, died Friday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Country Oaks Retirement Center. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Welch, Charlie, 82, real estate agent, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, New Haven United Methodist Church. Moore's Southlawn.

STATE/AREA

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

Bartlesville — Elmer George Anderson, 86, died Thursday. No local services planned. Stumpff.

— Fred B. Duell, 80, died Saturday. Memorial service 1 p.m. Tuesday, St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Stumpff.

— John W. Henshall, 79, died Friday. Private family services. Stumpff.

— Duane Robert Johnson, 68, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Thursday, Revival Time Outreach Center. Arnold Moore.

— Cliff R. Norris, 38, security officer, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel.

— Randy Rush, 22, died Saturday. Services pending. Walker-Brown.

— Earline Andrews Simmons, 99, cafeteria worker, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, Miss. Walker-Brown.

— Jerry Ison Stephens, 73, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Neekamp-Luginbuel.

— Forest Dale Williams, 75, retired letter carrier, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel.

Beggs — Katheryn L. Mitchell, 64, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Natura Baptist Church. Leonard and Marker, Bixby.

Bristow — Willis Fenton, 78, farmer, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Bristow Christian Center. Hutchins-Maples.

— James M. "Pete" King, 85, small-engine mechanic, died Sunday. Graveside service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Bristow City Cemetery. Hutchins-Maples.

Broken Arrow — William David Christy, 38, welder, died Saturday in Muskogee. Memorial service 10:30 a.m. Friday, Church at Battle Creek. Ninde Brookside, Tulsa.

— Imogene Floy Frazier, 85, homemaker, died Friday. Graveside service 1 p.m. Thursday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Shipman, Wagoner.

— Linda K. Sebastian, 62, SouthCrest Hospital phlebotomist, died Monday. Services pending. Hayhurst.

Catoosa — Frances Schumacher, 64, educator, died Sunday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.

Checotah — Phillicine Warrior, 47, homemaker, died Wednesday. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church. Granger-House of Winn, Muskogee.

Chelsea — William Anthony "Bill" Moss, 63, mechanic and transmission specialist, died Saturday. Graveside service 2 p.m. Thursday, Ward's Grove Cemetery, Foyil. Chelsea Funeral Home.

Grove — Misty Nelson Jenkins, 25, cook, died Monday. Services pending. Funeral Services of Grand Lake.

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

Jay — James "Shorty" Asbury, 74, truck driver, died Saturday in Eucha. Service 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Free Holiness Church, Eucha. Worley-Luginbuel.

— Naomi Cornell, 85, retired nurse, died Sunday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Funeral Services of Grand Lake, and service 10 a.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church.

Kellyville — Bobbie Joanna Reed Wallace, 37, waitress, died Thursday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Bishop Funeral Home, McAlester, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Frink Baptist Church, McAlester.

Krebs — Crystal Lu Herandy Stapp, 38, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Brumley-Mills Funeral Home Chapel, McAlester.

Langley — Gayle Wilkinson, 95, died Sunday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Thursday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Key, Pryor.

Locust Grove — Betty Lynn Meldrum, 49, died Sunday. Services pending. Key Funeral Home.

McAlester — Charles Jacob Allen, 14, student, died Saturday. Services pending. Brumley-Mills.

— Vincent Lee Edwards, 45, welder, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Bishop Funeral Home, and graveside service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Tannehill Cemetery Pavilion, Tannehill.

Miami — Velma L. Cook, 78, homemaker, died Monday. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home, and graveside service 10 a.m. Thursday, GAR Cemetery.

Muldrow — Gerald "Jerry" Rofkahr, 64, retired Whirlpool Corp. repairman, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith, Ark. Agent, Sallisaw.

Muskogee — Betty Accintuno, age unavailable, died Monday. Services pending. Bradley.

— Gertrude "Trudy" Chapman, 83, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Grandview Tabernacle. Lescher-Millsap.

— Sarah Marie Johnson, 91, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Greenlawn Cemetery Pavilion, Checotah. Garrett Family, Checotah.

— Kathryn Leake, age unavailable, died Monday. Services pending. Bradley.

— Marsha Ann Loney, 54, child-care provider, died Nov. 2. Services pending. Ragsdale.

— Betty Virginia Stevens, 91, died Sunday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, Memorial Park Mausoleum. Bradley.

Okemah — Zack V. Spears, 82, retired educator, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church. Parks Brothers.

Olive — Ted Walker VanMeter, 81, Creek County road supervisor, died Saturday. Memorial service 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Michael's Funeral Home Chapel, Drumright.

Owasso — Raymond Wayne Dixon, 87, security guard, died Sunday. Services pending. Mowery.

Park Hill — Robert Eugene Catcher, 47, marine biologist, died Saturday. Services pending. Reed-Culver, Tahlequah.

Prue — Dorothy Christina Goff, 43, Bama Foods stationary engineer, died Monday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Riverside, Sand Springs.

Pryor — Mary Nellie Jackson, 105, died Monday. Services pending. Stephens.

— Thomas Eugene "Gene" Link, 78, died Monday. Services pending. Shipman's.

Sand Springs — Mona Jean Adams, 72, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Mobley-Dodson.

— Overton Washington, 90, retired minister, died Monday in Claremore. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Hale Station Pentecostal Church, Tulsa. Smith, Sapulpa.

— Edmond Russell Whitson, 46, parking lot resurfacer, died Thursday. Services pending. Moore's Memory, Tulsa.

Sapulpa — Sherri Jo Krafft, 51, homemaker, died Saturday. Memorial service 1 p.m. Wednesday, Green Hill Funeral Home Chapel.

— Donna E. Pennington Norks, 61, St. John Sapulpa licensed practical nurse, died Saturday. Memorial service 10 a.m. Friday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service Chapel, Sand Springs.

— Lynda Joan (Blackwell) Osborne, 75, Goodwill Industries employee, died Oct. 27. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Smith Funeral Home Chapel, and graveside service 2 p.m. Friday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson.

— Bonnie Bay Romine, age unavailable, homemaker, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Westside Free Will Baptist Church. Green Hill.

— Alex Brandon Stevens, 23, recording artist, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Hill.

Siloam Springs, Ark. — Doris Edith Weaver, 85, homemaker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Seventh-day Adventist Church. Wasson.

Spiro — Ivan "Ide" Ridenour, 98, factory worker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Murry Spur Free Will Baptist Church. Mallory-Martin.

Stilwell — Dick Taylor, 87, agriculture laborer, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Roberts/Reed-Culver Funeral Home Chapel.

Talala — Jacqueline Hudson, 80, died Monday. Services pending. Collinsville Dolton, Collinsville.

Tahlequah — Joyce A. Duffield Rose, 65, Talking Leaves Job Corps employee, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Talking Leaves Job Corps Gymnasium. Hart.

Vian — Preston Davis Jr., 69, furniture upholsterer, died Saturday. Services pending. Agent, Sallisaw.

Vinita — Eva Jayne Carrigan Morgan, 88, former Eastern State Hospital administrative aide, died Monday. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Luginbuel Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Thursday, Trinity Baptist Church.

Wagoner — Jeff Wayne Brown, 31, emergency medical technician, died Sunday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Thursday, Coleman Cemetery, Porum. Shipman.

— Jordan Robert Leland, 22, Fine Arts Engraving master engraver, died Friday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Wednesday, First Presbyterian Church. Mallett.

— John "Mike" Rice, 47, electrician, died Monday. Services pending. Shipman.

Welling — George Alvin Orcutt, 78, horticulturist, died Saturday. Services pending. Reed-Culver, Tahlequah.

Wilburton — L.E. Bullard, 81, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Bowers Baptist Church. Waldrop.

U.S.-WORLD

Dr. Donald Baim , a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday in Natick, Mass., of adrenal cancer. He was 60.

Baim, a former Harvard medical school professor, most recently was chief medical officer for Boston Scientific Corp., a leading manufacturer of pacemakers, defibrillators and other implants. He joined the company in 2006.

Baim joined Harvard Medical School in 1981 and established the interventional cardiology program at Beth Israel medical center, a teaching hospital for Harvard students. The program specialized in training surgeons to use new medical devices, including stents. The mesh-metal tubes are used to prop open arteries after they have been cleared of fatty plaque.

Baim edited the standard medical textbook for using the devices.

Art D'Lugoff, whose famed New York City nightclub, the Village Gate, featured performers from jazz great Duke Ellington to 1960s counterculture rocker Jimi Hendrix, died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 85.

D'Lugoff, who lived in the Bronx, hired blacklisted singers Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger and fired Dustin Hoffman as a waiter. Hoffman, then a struggling actor, later said he was so distracted by the performers that he neglected customers.

D'Lugoff booked jazz greats John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk and standup comics Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. Hendrix and Jim Morrison performed at a 1970 benefit the club hosted for counterculture icon Timothy Leary, a proponent of LSD experimentation.

Music lovers flocked to the Village Gate from 1958, when D'Lugoff opened the Greenwich Village club, until it closed in 1994.

Manuel Solis , who served briefly as Panama's president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday in Panama City. He was 91.

Solis was education minister during the military regime dominated by Noriega and then was named acting president in February 1988 after President Eric Arturo Del Valle was fired. He ruled until Sept. 1, 1989.

Solis fought for Panama's sovereignty and led the movement in the 1940s against U.S. military presence in the Central American country, where the U.S. built and ran the Panama Canal for generations.

His brief term as president ended with the U.S. invasion that ousted Noriega.

Solis went on to serve as education minister from 2004 to 2009 in Martin Torrijos' administration.

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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