Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

Local Oklahoma City, OK Obituaries

John Richard O'Connor

John Richard O'Connor

Sep 22, 2016

John was born in the Bronx, NY to Olga Patricia and John Joseph O'Connor. As a young boy the family moved to Oklahoma City where his father started a small business, O'Connor's Pest Control. The family were devout Catholics, sending John to St. Gregory's in Shawnee, Oklahoma where he made lifelong friends. John had dreams of attending Seminary School or...

Walter Blaine Mccown, Iii

Walter Blaine Mccown, Iii

Sep 22, 2016

Blaine McCown passed away peacefully on September 22, 2016 in Oklahoma City. He was born on August 13, 1950 and was the only child of Bud and Sammie McCown. Blaine was a graduate of Harding High School class of 1968. He was a Kappa Sig and earned a degree in finance while at OU. Blaine was a stockbroker for 25...

Barbara (Brite) Elaine Paul

Barbara (Brite) Elaine Paul

Sep 20, 2016

Barbara Brite Paul, age 81, a loving wife, mother and grandmother, was born July 13, 1935 in Norman, Oklahoma, to Cecil H. and Ruth F. Brite. She died peacefully in Oklahoma City on September 20, 2016, after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, William G. Paul, two children and 5 grandchildren, a daughter, Elaine...

Jo Ann Gross Wine, M.D.

Jo Ann Gross Wine, M.D.

Sep 20, 2016

Jo Ann Gross Wine, M.D., a retired pediatrician, passed away on September 20, 2016, at the age of 76 in Oklahoma City after a 30-year fight with breast cancer. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 30, 1939 to parents Josephine and Jewell Prentice Gross. She graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology,...

Eric Ramon Shaw, Ii

Eric Ramon Shaw, Ii

Sep 19, 2016

Eric Ramon Shaw of Oklahoma City passed away from liver complications on September 19th, 2016, 13 days after his 34th birthday. He is survived by his wife Mandi Myers of Mustang and his 4 children, Thomas Lamkin IV 13, Bentley Lamkin 9, Khloe Bass 5 and Skye Shaw 3; his parents, Eric Shaw Sr. and wife Kimberly Shaw of Oklahoma...

Reverend Lowell L. Stieferman

Reverend Lowell L. Stieferman

Sep 19, 2016

After celebrating over 50 years of joyful service to God, Reverend Lowell L. Stieferman died on September 19, 2016. Father Stieferman was born on May 8, 1937 in Perry, Oklahoma to Leo and Pauline (Beier) Stieferman. He attended elementary school at Saint Joseph Catholic School, Perry, before entering high school at Saint Francis de Sales Seminary, Bethany. After three years,...

James Byron (Jim) Cupit

James Byron (Jim) Cupit

Sep 13, 2016

Jim was born in Topeka, KS to Annabelle Marie Whitney Cupit and James Cupit, Jr. Jim's father's Air Force career led the family to live in Kansas, Tennessee, Oregon and southern California, where Jim graduated Victorville High School in 1969. He attended the University of California San Bernadino and moved to Oklahoma City in the late 1970's to begin his...

Lillian Mulcahy

Lillian Mulcahy

Sep 12, 2016

Lillian Mulcahy passed away with her family at her side on Monday, September 12, 2016 at the age of 88. She was born on September 17, 1927 to William and Lillian Cobb in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lillian met her husband Bob at a dance in Washington, D.C. where they both worked for the F.B.I. They married on June 17, 1950...

Oleta "Boots" Fitzpatrick

Oleta "Boots" Fitzpatrick

Sep 10, 2016

Oleta "Boots" was born on April 28, 1925 in Denoya, Oklahoma the daughter of Otis Green and Edna Blanche Shaw and passed away on Sept. 10, 2016. Boots married Jim Hooper on April 12, 1945. In 1972 Jim and Boots moved to Singapore. They both loved to travel and the move allowed them to do that. They were Charter members...

Frances "Fran" Coffey

Frances "Fran" Coffey

Sep 9, 2016

Frances Davis (Fran) Coffey, our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend died on Friday, September 09, 2016. Fran was born in Hobart, Oklahoma on October 30, 1934 to Harold and Vernice Davis. She spent much of her early life in Cooperton, Oklahoma before her family moved to Roff prior to her senior year in high school. Fran graduated from...

Gerald Marshall

Gerald Marshall

Sep 9, 2016

Gerald R. Marshall was widely known and respected in the Oklahoma City business community. During his fifty year career in banking, he served as President, Chairman or CEO of what were (at the time) Oklahoma City's three major banks, and more recently as Vice Chairman of the Midland Group of Companies, which includes MidFirst Bank, currently its largest. The oldest...

Bobbie June Margo

Bobbie June Margo

Sep 8, 2016

Bobbie June (Cravens) Margo was born August 23, 1922 to Mr. and Mrs. RD. Cravens in Wetumka, OK. The family moved to Oklahoma City when Bobbie was 4 years old. She has been attending St. Luke's United Methodist Church since then. She attended Edgemere, Harding and graduated from Classen High School in 1940. She then attended Lindenwood College in St....

James Benton Briscoe

James Benton Briscoe

Sep 6, 2016

James Benton "Jim" Briscoe "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" on September 6, 2016, in Oklahoma City, OK, at the age of 94. He was the child of James Lawrence Briscoe and Roxie Benton Briscoe, and was born on April 7, 1922, in Tucumcari, NM, where he grew up. Jim attended the University of New Mexico before joining U.S. Army...

Louise (Nayfa) Andeel

Louise (Nayfa) Andeel

Sep 3, 2016

Louise (Nayfa) Andeel, age 86 of Oklahoma City, died September 3, 2016. She was born in Depew, Oklahoma to Fred and Adeena (Shadid) Nayfa on November 19, 1929. She married Alvin Andeel in 1955 and was a devoted wife and mother. She worked beside Alvin at Andeel's Department Store and The Gentry House. She was a lifetime devoted member of...

Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Kierl

Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Kierl

Aug 29, 2016

Elizabeth Anne Brackett Kierl (Betty) was born in Chicopee, Kansas on January 5, 1921 to Elizabeth Moore and Pete Brackett. She and her sister Peg cared for their family dogs, chickens and the occasional visiting horse on their land next to St. Barbara's Church. Betty came from a family of talented musicians, was an accomplished dancer and teacher of ballroom,...

Suzanne Wolf Nix

Suzanne Wolf Nix

Aug 26, 2016

Suzanne Wolf Nix died August 26, 2016. She was born February 6, 1933 in Oklahoma City to Walter and Ruth Barr. She graduated from John Carroll High School and attended Oklahoma State University and the University of Central Oklahoma. She was a long time member of Christ the King Church where she served on the Parish Council, the Christ the...

William C. Brown

William C. Brown

Aug 25, 2016

William C. Brown passed away peacefully at his home in Oklahoma City on August 25. He was born Jul 27, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY, the only son of Ethel Mae (Ryan) Brown and William J. Brown. Bill attended the University of Notre Dame both before and after an enlistment in the US Navy at the end of WWII. While at...

Colleen (Foss) Norris

Colleen (Foss) Norris

Aug 21, 2016

Colleen (Foss) Norris passed away Sunday, August 21, 2016 at her home surrounded by her family. Colleen was born October 22, 1928 to Arthur and Lucille Morris in Lawton. In 1947, Colleen married Darrell Foss, a soldier stationed at Ft. Sill. Darrell and Colleen eventually settled in Oklahoma City where they raised their daughters. Colleen was a loving wife and...

Bryan William Gay

Bryan William Gay

Aug 15, 2016

Bryan William Gay was born June 5th, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas and died on August 15th, 2016, in Edmond, Oklahoma surrounded by his loving wife and children. Bryan is survived by his Wife, Saundra, of Edmond, OK; his son, Robert, of Oklahoma City, OK; his son, Rhys, daughter-in law, Neely, and Granddaughter, Lillian, of Kansas City, MO; his daughter, Laura,...