Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

Bobby Gene 'Bob G. Burns' Burns

Bobby Gene 'Bob G. Burns' Burns

Jan 2, 2014

Bob G. Burns passed away in Oklahoma City on January 2, 2014. He was born October 27, 1927, in Oklahoma City to Amon and Myrtle (Harwell) Burns. He graduated from high school in Earlsboro, OK, in 1945 and then from Oklahoma A&M in 1950 with a degree in business. He served in the US Army from August 1950 until June...

Billy S. 'Bill S. Brown' Brown

Billy S. 'Bill S. Brown' Brown

Jan 2, 2014

Bill was born on September 29, 1941 in Shawnee, Okla. the son of David and Mildred Brown and passed away on January 2, 2014 in Oklahoma City. He attended Shawnee High School and Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. Bill retired from Oklahoma Gas & Electric Corporation after working as a public relations manager for 35 years. He also retired as...

Betty Fay Colvin

Betty Fay Colvin

Dec 29, 2013

Betty Fay Colvin was born in Wewoka, OK, on August 25th, 1942. Betty was a deeply committed Christian. After graduating from Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School in 1960, Betty began a 36-year career with DHS and retired in 2002. Throughout her life she was an active, spirited member of Memorial Christian Church and was known as a tremendously generous...

Icelone "Sally" Boaz

Icelone "Sally" Boaz

Dec 28, 2013

Icelone "Sally" Boaz was born in Perkins, Oklahoma to Clarence and Edith Hunnicutt. She was the second of their five children. Icelone married the love of her life, Wendell Boaz on Oct. 13, 1943, right before he joined the Army and their love continued for 66 years until his death in 2010.Icelone helped establish the family business in 1947, and...

Leonard Wayne 'Lennie Morgan' Morgan

Leonard Wayne 'Lennie Morgan' Morgan

Dec 28, 2013

Leonard (Lennie) Wayne Morgan was born July 3rd, 1963, in Kansas City Missouri. Son of Robert Eugene and Carolyn (Youngman) Morgan. He lived in Ottawa, Ks until moving to Enid where he attended and graduated from Enid High School. He then returned back to Ottawa and worked for several years before moving to Oklahoma City in 1995. He began working...

Carl B. Kendrick

Carl B. Kendrick

Dec 27, 2013

Carl B. Kendrick went to be with the Lord, December 27, 2013, from his residence in Oklahoma City. Carl was born October 2, 1922, in Haynesville, LA. He graduated from Haynesville High School and Louisiana Tech University. He married his true love Hazel Shaw of Ruston, LA and was happily married for nearly 70 years. As an active member of...

Anna C. Denelsbeck

Anna C. Denelsbeck

Dec 26, 2013

ANNA CLARA DENELSBECK left her earthly home on Dec 26, 2013 to take her place in Heaven with God and his Angels. She has joined her heavenly family and friends with great joy. Her accomplishments on this Earth are far too many to list, but in her 94 years she definitely left her mark on hundreds of people. Some things...

Irene Alice 'Irene Campbell Lemon' Lemon

Irene Alice 'Irene Campbell Lemon' Lemon

Dec 25, 2013

Irene Alice Campbell was born during a flood on May 14, 1918. The doctor hitched his buggy to a tree and waded in to the Kickapoo Mound Farm near Chandler, Oklahoma. Irene, always ahead of her time, had already arrived. Thus began a 95 year journey which ended in the ice storms of 2013. Irene died Christmas Morning from a...

Horace 'H.D.' Chandler

Horace 'H.D.' Chandler

Dec 24, 2013

Horace D. (Chan) Chandler was born August 13, 1917, Oklahoma City, OK. He passed away December 24, 2013, Oklahoma City, Ok. Chan was a long time residential home builder and developer in Oklahoma City. Chan is survived by his wife, Jean; his daughter, Suzie Sargent, of Oklahoma City; his daughter, Lorie Chandler, of Littleton, CO; his son, David Chandler, of...

Vickie Lou Ayres

Vickie Lou Ayres

Dec 20, 2013

Vickie Lou Ayres, 66, died in a car accident, Friday December 20, 2013. Miss Ayres was born on July 1, 1947, in Vinita, OK. She was raised in Bluejacket, OK. She then moved to Duncan, OK where she graduated High School. She worked at Honeywell, Western Electric, and then began her singing career with the popular Oklahoma City group "Maya."...

Mitchell Dee Martin

Mitchell Dee Martin

Dec 19, 2013

Mitchell Martin was born November 5, 1956 in Tulsa, OK and passed away from this life on December 19, 2013. The meaning of Mitchell is "gift of God" and he was a wonderful gift to his family. He was the middle child of John and Shirley Martin, with older sister Lynnda and younger sister Rita. During his school years he...

Enrico Joseph 'Rick' Romano

Enrico Joseph 'Rick' Romano

Dec 18, 2013

Enrico "Rick" Joseph Romano peacefully departed this world on December 18, 2013 at the age of 89. He was born February 14, 1924 in Longano, Italy to Angelo and Philomena Romano. He was brought to the United States at the age of 2 and was raised in Norristown, PA with his brother, Albert and sister, Mary. He joined the United...

Mildred Sylvester

Mildred Sylvester

Dec 17, 2013

Mildred was born on January 2, 1932 in Bassett, Nebraska, the daughter of George and LaVona McGuire and passed away on December 17th in Oklahoma City. On December 16, 1952 she married William Sylvester and they moved to Oklahoma in 1958. She worked for several years at the Ammunition Depot in McAlester. Mildred also volunteered for 15 years at OU...

Marcile V. Horton

Marcile V. Horton

Dec 17, 2013

Marcile V. Horton passed away December 17, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Ok. She was born on April 18, 1919 to Charles and Bessie Vonasek of Sterling, NE, where she resided until her junior year of high school. She then moved to Table Rock, NE with her parents where she graduated Table Rock High School in 1937. Her parents owned a...

Charline Lindsay

Charline Lindsay

Dec 15, 2013

Charline Lindsay, 87, was born in Healdton, OK, on July 23, 1926. She passed away December 15, 2013, in Oklahoma City. She was a long time resident of the Village and a member, elder and deacon of the Village Christian Church. Charline was an avid bridge, bunco and mahjong player. She enjoyed being a member of book, garden clubs and...

Ida Jo Mcmurrain

Ida Jo Mcmurrain

Dec 12, 2013

Jo passed away Thursday morning December 12 after a recent surgery at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was married to her true love, Hugh for 55 wonderful years as they faithfully served the Lord together on staffs of various churches across the country including Nashville, Tenn., St. Louis, Missouri, Beaumont, Texas, and Dallas, Texas; for the past 42 years,...

Gwendolyn M. Degruy

Gwendolyn M. Degruy

Dec 11, 2013

Gwen DeGruy died peacefully at home on December 11, 2013 after a long struggle with COPD. She was 76 years old. Gwen was born on a farm in northwest Oklahoma on April 20, 1937. She married young and had three sons. She moved to Oklahoma City in the mid-seventies. During the Oklahoma oil boom, Gwen worked as an oil and...

Margaret A Rothermel

Margaret A Rothermel

Dec 10, 2013

Margaret Jirik Rothermel was born on January 21, 1928, to Louis and Agnes Jirik in Bison, OK. On December 10, 2013, she left this life on earth to meet our Lord and Savior. She married Sherman Rothermel and they made their home in Enid, Ok. They had seven children. After her children were grown, she moved to Oklahoma City. Margaret...

Jerry Shebester

Jerry Shebester

Dec 7, 2013

Jerry passed away in Oklahoma City on Dec. 7, 2013. He was born June 2, 1936, in Ardmore, OK, the son of Ralph Shebester and Mildred (Lansford) Shebester. He graduated from Pauls Valley High School and earned his degree in Petroleum Engineering from OU where he was a member of ATO. He is survived by his wife, Susan of the...

John Arthur 'Jack O'Toole' O'Toole

John Arthur 'Jack O'Toole' O'Toole

Dec 6, 2013

John Arthur O'Toole, known as Jack or JA to his friends, was born to John and Ernestine O'Toole on October 13, 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He passed away on Friday, December 6, 2013, in Oklahoma City, OK surrounded by his family. He grew up in Duluth, Minnesota and was a talented athlete participating in soccer and basketball. His high...