Arlette Srouji
Oct 15, 2020
Arlette Effat Srouji passed away peacefully at her home in Oklahoma City on Thursday, October 15, 2020. She was 98. Born in September 1922 in Rio De Janeiro to a Brazilian mother and a Lebanese father, she lived a long and fruitful life. Early in her life, the family relocated to Lebanon where she blossomed. She graduated with a BS...
David Bunn Talbot, Jr.
Oct 13, 2020
David Bunn Talbot, Jr. passed away October 13, 2020 peacefully in his home after a lengthy illness. David was born February 27, 1938 in East Liverpool, Ohio. He attended Harding Junior High, Classen High School and was a member of the first graduating class of NW Classen High School in 1956. He attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and graduated...
David Cooper Salter
Oct 12, 2020
David Cooper Salter was born July 27, 1930, in St. Petersburg, FL, and passed away on October 12, 2020. He served in the US Army. He graduated from UCLA and made a career as a geologist. His profession took him many places, but the years in Venezuela were some of the best. There, he met his wife Ellie and had...
Velma Taylor
Oct 10, 2020
Velma Taylor was born on July 31, 1926 to Fr. Naymetallah and Kh. Hafeetha Shadid in Oklahoma City. As a young child, Velma's family moved to Marjayoun, Lebanon, where she was raised along with her four siblings. Upon moving back to Oklahoma, Velma attended and graduated from Classen High School in Oklahoma City. In 1949, Velma married Jimmie Taylor at...
Helen Joanne "Joanne" Round
Oct 6, 2020
Joanne Penisten Round, a long-time resident of Ponca City, died peacefully on October 6, 2020, after a period of declining health. Her family was by her side.Born to Pauline Opal Barrick Penisten and Colen Elwood Penisten on November 3, 1933, Joanne spent her early childhood in Newkirk, Oklahoma, with her two sisters, Colleen and Joyce, and her brother Glenn. Their...
Brenda Kaye Rivas
Oct 6, 2020
Brenda Kaye Rivas passed peacefully from this life in the arms of her loving husband on Tuesday, October 6, 2020. Brenda was born in Ada, Oklahoma on November 1, 1951 to Wanda and Kenneth Puckett. Brenda married Ryland Rivas on August 17, 1968 and had two children: Ryland Rivas II and Meredith Brockman. Brenda was a graduate of Lawton High...
Blake Burgess
Oct 4, 2020
Robert Blake Burgess, 21, of Edmond, unexpectedly passed into eternal life on October 4, 2020 at Norman Regional Hospital from complications associated with a pulmonary embolism.Blake, affectionately known as "Blaker," "Blakester," "QB1," "Bert," or "Nixon," was born on April 27, 1999.Blake lived his brief two decades to the absolute fullest! His life was filled with deep friendships, humble competition and...
Jack Hughes Coleman
Oct 4, 2020
Jack Hughes Coleman, 88, passed quietly at his home on October 4th in Oklahoma City. Jack was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1932 to Ruth and William Coleman. His family moved to Oklahoma City in the middle of a dust storm in 1945 where he attended Taft Jr. High and Classen High School. Jack went to OU, joined Phi...
James Daniel "Danny" Dilley
Sep 30, 2020
James "Danny" Daniel Dilley peacefully passed away in his sleep on September 30th, 2020, at his home. Danny was born November 8, 1954, in Winnsboro, Louisiana, to Elsie (Bruce) and OJ Dilley. Danny spent his entire career in the oil and gas industry beginning in Louisiana, transferring to North Dakota, and eventually settling down in Oklahoma in 1985, where he...
Kathryn Rae Yowell-Baker
Sep 28, 2020
Kathryn Rae Yowell Baker was born on June 24th, 1927, in Cromwell, OK, to Ray and Clotile Yowell. She passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of September 28th, 2020. She was 93.Katie was the first of three children. Her family moved to the towns of Shawnee and Tecumseh before settling in Oklahoma City. During her senior year...
Margaret Ellen Debee
Sep 28, 2020
Margaret Ellen Rieger DeBee peacefully passed away on September 28, 2020. Margaret was an Oklahoma City resident since birth February 16, 1927, was the 2nd of 5 children born to Alois and Martha Rieger. A true Sooner, her grandfather Aloysius Rieger, laid the train tracks through Norman before the Oklahoma Land Run. Margaret was blessed with her brothers and wives,...
Patricia Jane Nicholson
Sep 28, 2020
Pat Nicholson, loving wife, mother and grandmother went peacefully at home to be by her Lord's side on Monday, September 28th. She was born on October 25, 1937 in Glenwood, MN to Martin and Mayme (Bísek) Holden. She graduated from St. Cloud State University with a BS in Education. Pat was a natural athlete and an accomplished ice skater. While...
Adeeba Raysse Samara
Sep 26, 2020
We lost the beautiful matriarch of our family, Adeeba Raysse Samara, on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at the age of 102 years. She died peacefully of natural causes surrounded by her loving family. Adeeba was born in Damascus, Syria on February 20, 1918 to Assef and Bahia Raysse. She married Nabeeh Esber Samara, on Christmas Eve in 1933. Soon after,...
Joseph Harroz, M.D.
Sep 24, 2020
Joseph Harroz, M.D. fell asleep in the Lord September 24, 2020. Born December 27, 1929, he lived a life of love, care, healing, humility and humor that defines a life well-lived. He was a faithful Orthodox Christian, a devoted husband, and a role-model patriarch of a family that he shaped and guided through wisdom, and limitless and enduring love. As...
Diana Harvey Spencer
Sep 23, 2020
Diana, "Di", Harvey Lynn Spencer entered into eternal peace on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 at Integris Baptist in Edmond, Oklahoma. Diana was born on July 20, 1956. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Lorene Harvey. She graduated from Mount Healthy High School and The University of Cincinnati. She worked as a RN for 33 years in the...
Cathy Jo Wicks
Sep 23, 2020
Cathy Jo Wicks returned to the open Arms of her Heavenly Father on September 23, 2020. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to John William Wicks and Betty Jo Wicks. At the age of two they moved to Brewster, Kansas and began a life of ranching and farming. She was always grateful for all the lessons learned about God's...
Christine Denise "Chris" Smith
Sep 19, 2020
Daughter, sister, wife, stepmother, friend, & dog lover. Christine finished her struggles with health problems on her dad's birthday, after reminding her sister to put flowers on his grave. Chris worked for many, many years at OPUBCO, and volunteered at Free to Live in Edmond. Her constant companion in recent days was her beloved dog, Dusty. She will be missed...
Lawrence Edward Debault
Sep 18, 2020
Dr. Lawrence Edward DeBault, born February 16, 1941, in Yoakum TX, passed away in OKC, OK on Friday September 18, 2020. Lawrence was preceded in death by his father Lawrence DeBault, mother Marie Sanders DeBault, brothers John (wife Donna) and Ray (wife Pam). He leaves behind his sisters Joan Dees, Martha Ann Stewart and Kathleen Blakeney (husband John), eight nieces...
Catherine Dolores Hawkins
Sep 18, 2020
Catherine Dolores was born on November 24th, 1928 in Oklahoma City to Joseph Amadeus and Mary Alice (Fried) Scholtes. She was the second of eight children. She grew up in Capitol Hill, across the street from Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where her father was the choir director and organist. She attended Sacred Heart Elementary School,...
David Andrew Dyda
Sep 16, 2020
David was born on October 3, 1958 at Southside Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA the youngest child of Joseph Michael Dyda and Anna Victoria (Olewska aka Oleska) Dyda who made their family home in Bethel Park, PA.
David loved everything mechanical, enjoyed playing his saxophone, and loved listening to music. David attended St. Anne Catholic School. He graduated from Bethel...
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