Billy Gene Taylor
Feb 10, 2017
Billy Gene Taylor. Bill passed away Friday, February 10th. Bill was born in Florence, Colorado on July 14, 1925 to Charles U. and Eva Taylor. Bill graduated from Seminole High School and enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in the Pacific Theatre. After the war, he returned to Seminole and married the love of his life, Earnestine. They celebrated their...
Lisa Louise Flusche' Moran
Feb 3, 2017
Lisa Louise Flusche' Moran, 66, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away peacefully in her home of 36 years on February 3, 2017. Lisa was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on December 18, 1950, to Frank August and Anita Louise (Gray) Flusche'. She graduated from Bishop Kelly High School and continued on to receive a Bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University and a...
Erma Lee Smither
Feb 2, 2017
As a self-proclaimed "country girl", throughout her life, Erma Lee was faithful in her upbringing with hard work, ethics, strong values, and faith in her God. As a young couple, she and her husband, James A. Smither, moved from the comfort of their home in Missouri, to Tulsa. Living and working in the Cherry Street District, their growing family attended...
Benny Taylor
Jan 31, 2017
Benny Taylor passed away January 31, 2017, peacefully with his children by his side. He was 77 years old. Born in Tulsa, Benny was the first of six children to Amos and Louise Taylor. He went to Central High School, and then on to Oklahoma State University where he received his degree in Metallurgical Engineering. After college he worked for...
Louie Caplin "Cap" Baxter, Jr.
Jan 31, 2017
Louie Caplin "Cap" Baxter, Jr., 75 passed away on January 31, 2017, after a brief battle with lung cancer. Cap was born in Fort Worth, TX, to Caromae Reese and L.C. Baxter on December 30, 1941. He graduated from Edison High School in 1960. Cap and Linda married in 1961 and Cap went on to earn a business degree from...
Marvin J. Mencher
Jan 26, 2017
Marvin Joel Mencher, age 90, passed away on January 26, 2017, at the Tulsa Jewish Health Care Center (Zarrow Pointe). Marvin was born November 2, 1926, in New York City, to parents, Meyer H. and Mildred B. Mencher. In 1944, Marvin started working as a mechanic for American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. He transferred to Tulsa...
John F. Godfrey
Jan 25, 2017
John F. Godfrey died peacefully at Porta Caeli House in Tulsa, OK, on January 25, 2017, at the age of 82. He was born November 21, 1934 to Roy F. Godfrey and Vivian (Scholtz) Godfrey, in Tulsa. John is survived by: his loving wife of 54 years, Jan; his children, John M. Godfrey (wife Gina) and Jeff D. Godfrey, both...
Patrick Engel
Jan 23, 2017
Patrick B. Engel, 41, passed away Monday, January 23, 2017 in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. Patrick was born to Michael Engel and Linda Engel, October 20,1975, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is survived by his parents Mike and Linda, his sister Kerri Dugan and husband John of Boulder CO, and his sister Carla Engel of Coweta, Ok. He is also survived by...
Colleen Elizabeth O'Malley Burke
Jan 20, 2017
Colleen Elizabeth O'Malley Burke was born August 30, 1929, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to James Edward and Anna Margeret (Niklas) O'Malley. She died January 20, 2017, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is survived by her children Kathleen Burke, Marblehead, MA, Diane Patterson and her husband Robert, Inola, Oklahoma, Jim Burke, Jr. and his wife Kiki Kilgore, Ada, Oklahoma, Linda Bott, Hurst, Texas,...
Virginia "Jenna" Dickinson
Jan 19, 2017
Virginia "Jenna" L. Dickinson age 54 of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma died Thursday January 19, 2017 in Broken Arrow, OK. Jenna was born March 2, 1962 in Paola, Kansas. She is the youngest of three born to John A. Dickinson and Evelyn Virginia Smith. She grew up in Osawatomie where she attended school. She graduated with the Osawatomie High School class...
Martha Maria Unklesbay
Jan 16, 2017
Martha Maria Unklesbay, age 74, of Jenks, Oklahoma passed away on Monday, January 16, at Saint Saint Francis Hospital after a long and courageous battle against illness. Martha was born in Dallas on June 26, 1942. She moved to Oklahoma at an early age and happily spent the rest of her life living in Tulsa and then in Jenks. She...
Eleonore Bravo
Jan 13, 2017
To celebrate and honor the life of Eleonore Bravo Eleonore was born in Chicago on February 8, 1932 to Thaddeous and Blanche Sadowski. She joined Leonard Bravo in blissful matrimony on August 30, 1952. They were blessed to celebrate 64 years of marriage last year. The fruits of that marriage resulted in 6 children. Her daughter and son-in-law Linda 'Teri...
William R. "Bill" Reichard
Jan 11, 2017
William R. "Bill" Reichard died peacefully at Porta Caeli House in Tulsa, OK at the age of 83. He was born on April 28, 1933 in Springfield, Missouri to Porter Layton Reichard and Nancy Ann O'Donnell Reichard. Bill is survived by his children: Billy Reichard & wife Stacey of Shreveport, LA and Theresa Reichard & husband David of Broken Arrow,...
Daniel Ziegler
Jan 10, 2017
Daniel Edward Ziegler, Sr., 87 years old, a resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma passed away on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dan's peaceful death occurred after a short illness. Dan was born on August 2, 1929 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His parents were the late F.C. Ziegler and Julia Naughton Ziegler. He grew up in...
Robert M. Joels
Jan 9, 2017
Robert Joels, loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather passed away on Monday, January 9th, at the age of 95. Bob was born to Charles and Thelma Joels in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 27, 1921. He grew up with his brother, Irving, and sister, Mary, in Clarinda, Iowa where his family owned a dry goods and clothing store. Bob played...
Frances Jeanette Ice
Jan 9, 2017
Mass of Christian Burial for Jeanette Ice will be held at Noon on Thursday, January 12, 2017, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Graveside service will be at Calvary Cemetery, with arrangements by the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home, of Enid, Oklahoma. Frances Jeanette O'Connor Ice died Monday, January 9, 2017, at the age of 99. She was born in Enid on...
Frimi Apt
Jan 9, 2017
Frimi Alamar AptAugust 9, 1929 – January 9, 2017 Words to live by according to Frimi:"I shall pass through this world but once.Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness thatI can show to any human being, let me do it now.Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."(Stephen Grellet 1773-1885)...
Mary C. "Maryce" Kinney
Jan 7, 2017
Mary Cecilia "Maryce" Kinney, born December 20, 1924 in Tulsa to Walter and Mary Schott, died January 7, 2017 at her home of the past five years, Montereau, in Tulsa. Maryce was raised in Tulsa and graduated high school from Marquette in 1942. She accepted an academic scholarship to the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, MN, and graduated with...
Elizabeth Ann Harris
Jan 3, 2017
Elizabeth Ann Harris our beloved Mother, died January 3, 2017, the day after celebrating her 95th birthday at home in Tulsa. She was born to Thomas and Bertha Eastham in Mounds, OK. She went to Draughans School of Business in Tulsa. She met Homer Howard Harris and they married in 1944. Elizabeth is preceded in death by her husband in...
