Billy Joe Busby
Mar 31, 2015
Billy Joe Busby, known to friends and family as "Bill" passed from this life on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, after a brief illness. Bill was born January 13, 1928 near Cyril, Oklahoma to William Henry and Mary (Battenfield) Busby. He attended schools in Cyril and Cement and graduated from Chickasha High School in 1945. After graduation he entered the U....
Linda Lee Hockman
Mar 29, 2015
Linda Lee Hockman passed away peacefully at her home on March 29, 2015. Our gentle angel has found her way home to her mom, dad and sisters. Linda was born on September 5, 1960 in Kearney, NE to Warren and Dorothy Hockman. She lived her life with her family always by her side. For her first 40 years, she lived...
Bernice Kamp Wey
Mar 27, 2015
Bernice Kamp Wey was born Nov. 28, 1925 in Oklahoma City. She died Mar. 27, 2015. The only daughter of Henry H Kamp (founder of Kamp Bros. Grocery) and Anna Nolte Kamp. She was a graduate of Classen High School and Oklahoma City University. While at OCU, she was affiliated with Phi Delta Sorority and later Alpha Chi Omega. She...
Hildred Eugene Rayner
Mar 25, 2015
Hildred was born May 31, 1930 and after fighting a courageous battle with cancer, passed away peacefully on March 25, 2015 with her children at her side. She had a 30 year career as a teacher with various schools in Oklahoma City; she loved her job and touched many of her students' lives. She is preceded in death by her...
Ernilda Acosta Franks
Mar 24, 2015
Ernilda "Nelda" Acosta Franks, a British subject by birth. was born September 18, 1924 in Belize, British Honduras. She was one of the first students at St. Catherine's Academy in Belize, commemorated on a Plaque of Distinction. Courageously in 1952, she ventured to the U.S. and attended Loyola University while working at Shell Oil Co. On an Easter Sunday her...
Rev. David A. Cowden
Mar 23, 2015
Reverend David Armstead Cowden, died March 23, 2015, in Oklahoma City after a long illness. Father Cowden was born on October 30, 1950, in Hobart, Oklahoma, to Thomas Cowden, Jr. and Ruth A. (Holshouser) Cowden. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1982 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Father Cowden attended...
Mary Jo O'Connor
Mar 23, 2015
Mary Jo retired from The Village Metropolitan Library. Following retirement she volunteered 10 years at Mercy. She was also a volunteer at Christ the King for many years. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Vincent D. O'Connor and is survived by 2 daughters; 4 sons; 4 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Mass of Christian Burial will...
Jo Leta Tilley
Mar 22, 2015
Jo Leta Tilley, 86, departed to be with her Lord and Savior on March 22, 2015. She was born in Carnegie, OK on April 12, 1928 to Azzie and Vestal (Haney) Coe. She spent time as a youth working on the family farm and playing competitive basketball. After graduating from Eakly High School in 1946, Jo attended Southwestern State College...
Earl J. Gonzales
Mar 22, 2015
A member of the "Greatest Generation," Earl Gonzales was only seven years of age when the stock market crashed in 1929. He and his two brothers; Ferdinand and Max, joined the Louisiana National Guard in 1938 and so were called to active duty in 1940 and thus "extended for the duration" of the Second World War. During WWII Earl and...
Dr. David L. May
Mar 21, 2015
Dr. David L. May, of Oklahoma City, OK, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, March 21, 2015, after a gradual progressive decline from frontotemporal degeneration. David was a loving husband to Nancy and a devoted father to son and daughter Corey and Ellie, and a proud grandfather to Grace, Bonnie, Noelle, Coltrane and Emmett, all of Atlanta, GA....
Lyle Schaller
Mar 18, 2015
Lyle E. Schaller, an author and consultant who was widely cited as the most influential Protestant church leader of his era, died on March 18th in Oklahoma City at the age of 91. Medical staff said the cause of death was heart failure. He had been in declining health for several years. During a career that spanned half a century,...
Deborah Jean Faulkner
Mar 17, 2015
Deborah Jean Faulkner, 63, went to be with the Lord with her family at her side. She was born in Joplin, MO. She was part of the Theta sorority at OU, where she earned a bachelor degree in nursing and was a diehard Sooner Fan. Deborah was a nurse by trade and lifestyle. She grew up in the Catholic Church....
Mary Louise Johnson
Mar 15, 2015
Mary Louise (Specht) Johnson, age 97, passed away on March 15, 2015 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mary was born on February 25, 1918 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Louis F. and Bertha C. (Whelan) Specht. On Oct 18, 1945 Mary was united in marriage to Leamon S. Johnson. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Leamon S. Johnson; brother,...
Denise Mae Smith
Mar 15, 2015
Denise Smith passed away Sunday, March 15, 2015. She retired from Oklahoma Department of Human Services. She liked to fish and go to the casino. She is survived by son, Johnny Smith; daughter, Cristy Smith; grandson, Rueben Sherrell who she helped take care of; brother, Rod Evans; sisters, Linda, Carol, Dora, and Jane; and Jayson Burk and daughter Harley, Candice...
Kate E. Klingenberg
Mar 15, 2015
A faithful servant of her Lord and of her family went to be with her heavenly Father on March 15, 2015. Kathleen Elaine Berney was born September 14, 1954 to Paul and De Berney in Oklahoma City. Kate spent her life in OKC teaching Pre-K and Kindergarten in several OKC and Putnam City schools. She changed schools often as she...
Laurel Ann Van Horn Jaworsky
Mar 14, 2015
Laurel Anne Van Horn Jaworsky died following a brief illness on March 14, 2015. Laurel was born October 14, 1936 in Oklahoma City. Laurel is survived by her husband, Jerry Jaworsky, Oklahoma City; her daughter and son-in-law, Sara and Kevin Mulroy, La Crescenta, CA; her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Dorian Van Horn, Dumfries, VA; her daughter and son-in-law, Alyssa...
Dora Bernece Carey
Mar 13, 2015
Bernece Carey passed away in her home on March 13, 2015, with family at her side. She is preceded in death by parents, Wesley and Esther Helton of Guthrie, OK, sister Victoria Douglas, brother Johnny Helton and her husband of 59 years Paul Carey, Jr. She leaves behind her sister Shirley Mullino, of Edmond, OK, her two daughters, Karen Caesar...
Stephen Paul Hughes
Mar 9, 2015
Steve Hughes, of Oklahoma City, died at home after a brief illness with his beloved Jack and Jill nearby. Preceded in death by his parents, James L. Hughes and Mary Catherine Nicklas Hughes, he is survived by his adoptive mother, Shirley Hughes Miller and Bill J. Miller and four sisters: Diane (James) Kincel, Cynthia Webb, Kathryn (Gregory) Ahrens and Valerie...
Mary Odell Dougherty
Mar 5, 2015
Mary Odell Dougherty passed away surrounded by her family on March 5, 2015 under hospice care in Mercy Hospital. She was born October 21, 1923, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Charles and Ione Grundy Odell. She graduated from Southwestern State University in Weatherford in 1945 with a teaching degree in math and English. In 1946 she married her loving husband...
Patricia H. Kelley
Mar 5, 2015
Patricia Helen Kelley died peacefully on March 5, 2015. She was born on February 22, 1925, in Peoria, IL. She was the sixth of seven children born to Marguerite (Ryan) and John Kelley. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1935. Patsy attended John Carroll Catholic Schools. She then attended Business College for 2 years. It would be many years later...
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