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Robert Glen Small
Feb 5, 2017
Robert Glen Small, MD died peacefully at home on Sunday, February 5, 2017 after an extended illness. He was born in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York. Bob graduated with honors from Mount Hermon School for Boys in Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts. At the age of 17, he enlisted as a Navy V-12 premedical student at Princeton University for 2 years....
Gary Don Magness
Feb 4, 2017
Gary Don Magness was born on Monday, November 3, 1941, in Olney, Illinois. He was the second child born to A.J. and Verna Magness. Gary's family moved to Oklahoma City when Gary was a teenager, where he attended John Marshall High School. Gary graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1963 with a degree in business administration. Following college, Gary...
Patricia Louise Casteel
Jan 31, 2017
Patricia Louise Johnson Casteel, 71, passed away peacefully January 31, 2017. She was born July 31, 1945, in Bronxville, New York to Jean and Vincent Johnson. Patricia moved to Oklahoma City at the young age of 3 and graduated from Harding High School. She went on to study at OSU. She married the love of her life, Len Casteel on...
Steven Bruce Haneborg
Jan 30, 2017
Ever faithful to his Rocky Mountain roots, Steve Haneborg was a lifelong Denver Broncos and Colorado State University Rams fan, a Coors vice president, distributor and connoisseur, and a hunter and fly fisherman extraordinaire who loved the New Mexico and Colorado mountain air as much as the magnificent Santa Fe sunsets. In addition to enjoying collecting Native American artifacts, French...
Sheila Glen Palmer Patterson
Jan 25, 2017
Sheila Glen Palmer Patterson passed away on January 25, 2017 in Oklahoma City surrounded by her loving family. Sheila was born on May 21, 1948 in Oklahoma City. Although spending most of her life in Oklahoma City, Sheila had a wonderful experience living in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for two years while her father served in the Foreign Service as a...
Edna Othelia Abrams
Jan 22, 2017
Edna Othelia (Gann) Abrams, 100, passed away peacefully Jan 22, 2017. She was born Feb 16, 1916 in Ninnekah, OK to Hettie Mae (Jeter) and Walter Laud Gann. After graduating from Ninnekah High School and Drawns School of Business in OKC, she worked as an accountant in OKC retiring from the City of Nichols Hills. She was preceded in death...
Velma King
Jan 21, 2017
Velma Lois Darr-King died peacefully in her home on January 21, 2017 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Velma was born on July 29, 1920 in Freedom, Oklahoma to Geoffrie and Ruth Darr. Velma and Willard were married in 1940 in Buffalo, Oklahoma. Velma is survived by her sister Betty Ann Gray and her husband Larry, her six children Norval King and...
Virginia Lois Meador
Jan 18, 2017
On January 13, 1941, God blessed this world and Lubbock, Texas with Virginia Lois Meador. Daughter of Claude James and Virginia Josey, Lois spent most of her childhood in the windy and dusty parts of west Texas, living in the great small towns of Lubbock and Post. Shortly after graduating Texas Tech in 1961 with an X-Ray Technician Certificate, Lois...
Robert Fulton, Jr.
Jan 15, 2017
Robert Fulton, Jr., 86, born July 20, 1930, in Tuttle, OK, went home January 15, 2017. Our patriarch was surrounded by his loving family. His beloved wife of 58 years, Betty June, will welcome him into Heaven's arms. Robert is also preceded in death by their son, Robert Mark; his parents, Robert, Sr. and Ruby May; and brother, Kenneth. The...
Patricia Ann Wantland
Jan 10, 2017
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, on November 19, 1928, Patty Ann White spent her growing up years in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Living through the depression, she thought her friend's mustard sandwiches were the best and feeding hungry strangers at her kitchen door was life as usual. She knew no lack with a mother who could reproduce dresses seen in store windows, a...
Rita Ann Kanaly
Jan 10, 2017
Rita Ann Kanaly, 93 years old, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Rita was born to Margaret and Richard Grellner in Okarche, Oklahoma on December 19, 1923. She was one of five children raised in a small German community. She graduated from Holy Trinity High School in 1941 and received her Bachelor Degree from St. Mary's College in 1945. After...
William "Bill" Thomas Speller
Jan 7, 2017
William Thomas "Bill" Speller was born in Tyler, Texas on October 28th, 1940 and passed away peacefully with his family at Mercy Hospital on Saturday morning, January 7th, 2017. Bill was born to Leola Nichols Speller and Frank Newman Speller Jr., and spent the happiest years of his life growing up in Tyler. Throughout his life, Faith was the most...
Diane Hardwick Hendrick Freeny
Jan 7, 2017
Born August 7, 1928 at home in Lexington, Oklahoma to Edgar and Beatrice Hardwick, Diane passed away on Saturday, January 7, 2017 after suffering a broken hip. Diane loved tap dancing, country dancing, needlepoint, the Sunday crossword puzzle, Crossings Community Church, her three daughters and her 30 grandchildren. She was proud of the fact that she had the most important...
Albert Joseph Smith
Jan 4, 2017
Albert Joseph "AJ" Smith was born on January 23, 1923 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and passed to the next life on January 4, 2017. He was born to Leo and Josephine Smith, the second of six children. He learned the values of hard work, respect, and duty at an early age, as evidenced by his participation in the Civilian Conservation Corp...
William "Bill" Bowles
Jan 1, 2017
Funeral Service will be held at 1:00p.m. on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at Smith & Kernke 23rd Street Chapel.
Mary C. "Connie" Wall-Dwyer
Dec 31, 2016
Connie Wall was born October 8, 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa to Clifford "Red" Wall and Dorothy Durkin Wall. The family moved to Oklahoma City in 1951. Connie started the 6th grade at John Carroll Catholic School. She graduated from Central Catholic High School (now Bishop McGuinness) in 1958 . She was a dear and true friend to many. She...
Jack Ray Byers
Dec 30, 2016
Jack was born March 4, 1928, in Pampa, Texas, and died December 30, 2016, in Oklahoma City. He was preceded in death by his parents Ralph Samuel Byers and Martha Sharp; brother, Jim Byers; and sister, Dorothy Edelman. He grew up in Duncan, Oklahoma. He began a lifelong passion for working on cars as a boy. He learned from his...
John Frederick Horrigan
Dec 28, 2016
John Frederick Horrigan died peacefully at his home. He was born in Magnolia, AR, and came with his family to Oklahoma City in 1959. He attended Rosary School and graduated from Northwest Classen High School where he lettered in cross country. John had the heart of a child; he was very helpful and couldn't tell a lie. He was very...
Sr. Elizabeth Koberstein
Dec 28, 2016
Sr. Elizabeth Ann Koberstein (born Myra Marie, August 31, 1930) returned to her Lord early in the morning of December 28, 2016. She was one of fourteen siblings being fifth in birth order to Henrietta (Bultman) Koberstein and Emery J. Koberstein both of whom preceded Sister in death. She left her Indiana home and entered the Carmelite Sisters of St....
Leslie Blair Hanstein
Dec 26, 2016
Leslie Blair Hanstein passed away at her home December 26, 2016 after suffering complications from a terminal illness. Born to Wesley and Dorine (Widney) Blair in Ada, Oklahoma on September 10, 1957, Leslie was the blue-eyed, blonde girl her mother had always wanted. Leslie was proud to be a State Farm Agent and member of the State Farm family for...
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