Mary Frances Roberts
Sep 15, 2022
Mary Frances (Goeppinger) Roberts, age 95, left her earthly home on Thursday, September 15th, 2022, after a long battle which started with Covid in January. Mary was born February 27, 1927, in Sabinal, Texas, to William Frederick and Catherine Frances Goeppinger. After going to school in Santa Rita, Mary moved to San Angelo, Texas, to find work. While there, Mary...
Marilyn Sue Nieto
Sep 15, 2022
Marilyn Sue Wright was born on September 13th, 1946 in Howell, Michigan to Russell Orlo Wright and Eva Elizabeth Dingman Wright. She passed away September 15th, 2022 in Jenks, Oklahoma. Marilyn went to school in Fowlerville, Michigan. She was married to Jimmy Ray Reaves on April 20th, 1963 and had a son, Scott, and a daughter, Renee. The family relocated...
Berenice Mary Walton
Sep 11, 2022
Berenice Mary (Fulton) Walton, age 97, left this earthly home on Sunday morning, September 11th, 2022. She was born May 16th, 1925, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Berenice graduated from Mount Saint Mary's High School in 1942. She married in 1952 and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Berenice worked for Meadow Gold Dairy as a keypunch operator for 35 years, until her...
Norman Lee Dunitz
Sep 10, 2022
Norman L. Dunitz, M.D. died peacefully at his home on September 10,2022. He was born to Ida and Philip Dunitz, the oldest of three children, on September 25, 1927, in Newton, Iowa which is also the home of the Maytag washing machine and the internationally famous Maytag blue cheese. Maytag played a pivotal role in Norm's childhood; his earliest job...
Avrom David Brodsky
Sep 9, 2022
Avrom David Brodsky of Palm Beach Gardens, FL passed away peacefully on Sept 9, 2022. Avrom was born in Tulsa, OK in 1933, to his parents, Israel and Frances Brodsky. He is survived by his wife Rosetta, his children, Rick Brodsky and Susan Brodsky, sisters Claire Kaplan, Rosalie Hanson and his brother, Daniel Brodsky. He attended B'nai Emunah religious school...
Fern Lucille Bilyeu
Sep 8, 2022
Fern Lucille Bilyeu, 104, died on September 8, 2022 at Porta Caeli Hospice House in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born September 12, 1917 in Decatur, Illinois to John and Mamie Rozanski. She married Cecil R. Bilyeu on May 31, 1934. He preceded her in death on September 28, 1972. Seven of her eight brothers and three of her sisters also...
Gerald Mark Kollmorgen
Sep 5, 2022
It is with extreme sadness but the blessed assurance of his Heavenly reward that we announce the passing of Gerald Mark Kollmorgen ("Mark" as he was known by his family and friends). Mark was born on June 23, 1932, near Bancroft, NE. Mark passed away on September 5, 2022, in Tulsa, OK at the age of 90. Mark is survived...
Helen Joan Nevins
Sep 4, 2022
Helen Joan Nevins, age 89, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 4th, 2022 at Canoe Brook Assisted Living in Broken Arrow, OK. Joan was born on Oct. 6th, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri to Joseph and Helen Gavin. She was the second of four children. She moved to Tulsa, OK as a teenager and graduated from Marquette Catholic School. Joan married...
Robert W. Prater
Aug 31, 2022
Bob Prater passed away peacefully in his home on August 31, 2022 with his loving wife by his side. Bob was born on February 24, 1937 on a farm in Missouri to Leonard and Ida Prater. When Bob was six, the farm house burned, and the family moved into the town of Meta. Bob proudly served in the United States...
Tony Dale Pipal
Aug 26, 2022
Tony Dale Pipal, age 69, passed away on August 26, 2022, at his home in Coweta, Oklahoma. Tony was born on October 16, 1952, in Fremont, Nebraska to Ed and Gladys (Drummond) Pipal. He graduated from Logan View High School in Nebraska in 1971. In 1972, he started working at Valmont Industries in Valley, Nebraska where he worked for 42...
Leslie John Wharton
Aug 22, 2022
Leslie John Wharton was born in Drumright, OK, to Carlton Earl and Mary Ann Collins Wharton on February 13, 1927. He always felt especially close to his mother and made her a priority throughout his life. A lifelong Catholic, he graduated from Holy Family Catholic School in 1944. The youngest of four boys, Les grew up wanting one thing in...
John Robert Bennett
Aug 19, 2022
John Robert Bennett was born November 15, 1948, to John William Bennett and Evelyn Rose Heller Bennett, in Chicago, Illinois. He died on August 19, 2022, at the age of 73, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. John was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Robert. He is survived by his wife, Vicki, and his children, Michael Bennett, of Middle...
Alma Louise Schmitz
Aug 11, 2022
Alma Louise Schmitz, 89, passed from this life surrounded by family on August 11, 2022, at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born on March 7, 1933, to Walter Allen Cope & Nellie Natalie Nisbett in Breese, Illinois. Alma was the seventh of eight children, all of whom as well as her grandson, Adam Schmitz, have preceded her...
Cynthia Pierce Johnson
Aug 10, 2022
Cynthia P. Johnson was born on March 20, 1939, in Boston, Massachusetts. She left us bound for heaven on August 10, 2022. Cynthia was preceded in death by her parents, Bette and Harold Joseph Gaudette; her husband, Chester Neal Johnson, Jr.; and her brother, Harold Henry Gaudette, Jr. She is survived by her loved sister, Meredith Ann Ryan, of Collinsville,...
James Cecil Bray, Jr
Aug 8, 2022
James Cecil Bray, age 87, passed from this life after a brief illness on August 8, 2022, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was born on April, 3, 1935 in Wilson, Oklahoma to James "Jake" Bray, Sr. and Bessie Walton Bray. He was preceded in death by his parents, his loving wife Norma, and his brother, Robert D. "Bob" Bray. James grew...
Helen Sue Brown
Aug 6, 2022
Helen Sue Brown passed peacefully on August 6,2022 surrounded by her loving family. She was 83. She was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma on January 9,1939, one of four children of Leon and Helen Dennis. She married in 1958 and had two children, David and Diana. She had a forty year career as an executive secretary and business owner, but her...
James Theodore Umbarger
Jul 26, 2022
James T. "Jim" Umbarger, 88, passed away July 26, 2022 at St. Francis Hospital. He was born April 10, 1934 in Sioux Valley, MN to Max and Lillie (Schroeder) Umbarger. Jim retired as a Neuro-Psychiatric Specialist with Sandoz Pharmaceutical. He served in the USAF for four years. Jim graduated from Lake Park High School and then later from Morningside College,...
