Joyce Yagle
Dec 10, 2016
Joyce Yagle, age 72 of Bethany, Oklahoma passed away December 10, 2016. She was born August 20, 1944 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to John and Ruth Dolan. Joyce was a graduate of Connellsville High school and moved to Oklahoma in 1992. Joyce was a loving mother to 5 children, but the true joys of her life were her 13 grandchildren and...
Richard Lee Hughes
Dec 10, 2016
Richard Lee Hughes, born October 16, 1927, in Paso Robles, CA passed away at home in Oklahoma City on December 10, 2016 surrounded by family. He was preceded in death by his parents, sons Gregory and Philip as well as his wife Carolyn. He is survived by his children Jon, Tim, Stephen, Jenny and husband Pete, Becky and husband Jason,...
James Martin Dolan
Dec 7, 2016
James M. Dolan died Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at the age of 91 in Oklahoma City. Born on January 14, 1925 and raised in OKC. James graduated from Notre Dame and was part of the Navel Task force preparing to invade Japan. When the war ended, he married his college sweetheart Patricia McCulloch and finished his aeronautical engineering degree. The...
Charles D. Lessly
Dec 5, 2016
Charles D. Lessly was born in Oklahoma City to James Ernest and Carrie E. (Oliphant) Lessly and passed away on December 5, 2016 at his home. Charles graduated from Classen High School and became a bank clerk. He enlisted in the army on December 4, 1942 at the age of 19 and served during WWII as a bomber pilot, flying...
Kevin L. Barnett
Dec 2, 2016
Kevin L. Barnett, age 54, lifelong resident of Oklahoma, passed away unexpectedly December 2, 2016. He was born March 15, 1962 to Daniel and Marilyn Kay (Mee) Barnett. He was a graduate of John Marshall High School and went on to attend college for business management. Kevin had a 26 year career with Albertsons Grocery Stores and most recently worked...
Korene Soter
Dec 1, 2016
Willie Korene Soter died suddenly on Thursday, December 1, 2016. Service: 10:00 am Saturday, Dec. 10th at The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation 4:00 - 6:00 pm Friday at the North May location of Smith and Kernke Funeral Home. Additional services in Fort Worth at Trinity Episcopal Church on Saturday, Dec. 17th. Memorials: In lieu...
Don G. Gross
Nov 29, 2016
Don was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma to Ted and Marjorie Gross. He was a graduate of Guthrie High School where he was an all-state basketball player. He went on to graduate from Central State University. Don worked as a Landman in the oil and gas industry. He retired from Continental Land Resources in 2015. He was a longtime member of...
Mary Marie White Johnson
Nov 28, 2016
Born in Maysville, Okla., Oct. 9, 1922, to Oscar D. and Dorathy M. (Hollaway) White, Mary Marie White Johnson was the second of three daughters and fifth of seven siblings. Passing away on Nov. 28, 2016, she was the last surviving member of her immediate family. The family is of Chickasaw descent, and Mary was proud of her Chickasaw heritage....
Florentine A. Nowacki
Nov 26, 2016
Our beloved mother, Florentine Nowacki, passed peacefully on November 26, 2016 at the age of 101. She was born to Hattie and Bronislaw Wonsiewicz on December 28, 1914 in Salamanca, New York. After graduating from business college and working as a legal secretary, she met and married a young Lt. Walter Nowacki. As an army wife she created a home...
James "Jim" Richard Mcginley
Nov 20, 2016
Jim was born in Oklahoma City to Dolores McGinley and James McGinley and he was one of nine children. He was a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma in 1976 and went on to receive his Masters from the University of Central Oklahoma. Jim was a teacher for nine years. During this time, he met and married the love...
Ernie Felix Mcguire
Nov 19, 2016
Ernest "Ernie" Felix McGuire passed away in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday, November 19, 2016 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Ernie was born in Oklahoma City on February 2, 1936, to James "Harry" and Elizabeth "Betty' McGuire. He was raised in Oklahoma City while spending his summers in Hydro, Oklahoma on the family farm. Ernie graduated from Catholic High School...
Larry R. Harmon
Nov 13, 2016
It is a daunting task to sum up who a person was in a short concise package, but in this case, it is an honor as well. Larry Harmon was an uncomplicated man in the best sense of the word and his needs were simple. His loves were first and foremost his wife Helen, his family and friends, and then...
Beryl Unell Porter
Nov 12, 2016
Beryl Porter was born at home in Cox City, Oklahoma in 1917 to Doyle and Maggie Harrison. Beryl rode a horse to Cox City School, which she attended through High School. She was the Salutatorian of her graduating class. Beryl was a proud member of the Choctaw Nation. She attended Droughn's Business School in Oklahoma City and worked at C.R....
Ernest L. Chastain, Jr.
Nov 11, 2016
Ernie Chastain was born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1931, to Ernest Chastain Sr. and Nora Spicer Chastain. He passed away November 11 at St. Ann's Nursing Home in Oklahoma City. He grew up in Joplin, Missouri and graduated from Joplin High School where he played baseball and basketball. He married Darlene Erdman in 1951. She was a wonderful, supportive...
Louise Rodesney
Nov 11, 2016
Louise Rodesney, longtime Oklahoma City homemaker, went home to her Lord on November 11, 2016 at the age of 92. She was born to Frank and Dorothy Jane Nolan Brown in Oklahoma City on August 31, 1924 and graduated from John Carroll High School. During WWII she worked at Tinker Field. Louise married the love of her life, Frank Rodesney...
John M. Hernandez
Nov 4, 2016
John M. Hernandez went to join his maker in heaven on November 4, 2016. He is survived by his brother, Frank M. Hernandez and his sister, Marguerite Hernandez; daughter Jamie Burger; grandson Hans Burger and wife Beth; granddaughter Heidi Lindsay and husband Kevin; great grandchildren Corbin, Adele, Brendan, Kylie, and Rylee; great-great grandchildren Samiyah, Adryanna, and Kamden; and numerous cousins....
Joan M. Barrett
Nov 2, 2016
Joan Myrel Frank Barrett, 89, born March 12, 1927, in her grandparents' home in Oklahoma City to Myrel and Howard Frank, passed away peacefully November 2, 2016. Joan was a loving and supportive wife to her husband, Dorman; a devoted mother to sons Bruce, Mark and wife Charlyn, all of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and daughter Jan Harrison and husband...
Donald Edward Copelin
Oct 28, 2016
Don passed away peacefully surrounded by friends in the same Edgemere Park home in Oklahoma City that his parents built in 1927. Don attended Edgemere Elementary, Harding Middle School, and graduated from Central High School in 1945. After high school Don attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity, and graduated with a...
Richard Lee Dugger Jr.
Oct 28, 2016
Richard L. Dugger, Jr. of Edmond, Oklahoma and Scottsdale, Arizona, passed away on October 28th, 2016 at the age of 70. Rick was born in Oklahoma City in 1945 and resided in both Edmond and Scottsdale. Rick was a member of the NW Classen graduating class of 1964. After receiving his degree from Oklahoma State University in 1968, he moved...
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