Feb 1, 2013

Sister Mary Mark McGuire CST died February 1, 2013 at Grace Living Center, Bethany. Daughter of Harry James and Elizabeth J. Cole McGuire, Mary Elizabeth McGuire was born October 6, 1937 in Oklahoma City. She attended Bishop John Carroll Elementary School, and graduated from Bishop McGuinness High School in 1956. She entered the convent of the Carmelite Sisters of St....

Jan 31, 2013

Georgia Sue Whitten, "Susie", was born to Richard and Betty Eaton in Pratt, KS on January 26, 1944. Susie graduated from Pratt High and was a proud Greenback. Her family moved to Wichita, KS where she married and had 3 children. Oklahoma City became her permanent home in 1975. Susie is preceded in death by her parents; her only son,...

Jan 30, 2013

John A. Coakley Jr., 94, formerly of Overland Park, Kansas died Jan. 30 at St. Ann's Home in Oklahoma City. John was born November 5, 1918 in City Island, New York. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and served during the Korean conflict. He was preceded in death by Mary, his wife of 44 years, and...

Jan 30, 2013

Joan Mary Kershaw Putnam, 79, died peacefully January 30, 2013, after a valiant seven-year battle with cancer. She was born to L.R. and Clara Kershaw, of Muskogee, OK. One of five children, she was the youngest by 4 minutes in a family blessed with two sets of twins. She graduated from Muskogee's Central High School in 1951, and St. Mary's...

Jan 26, 2013

Janice Marie McGee passed away January 26, 2013 in Oklahoma City. She was born on January 19th, 1930, the daughter of Patrick R. McGee and Bertha Menz McGee. She went to Rosary School, graduating in 1945, and St. Joseph's High School, graduating as valedictorian of her class in 1948. Her college education included St. Mary of the Woods College in...

Jan 26, 2013

Mary Martini Cirksena was born June 17, 1908 in Edgerton, MO to Max Frederick and Ada von Bothimer Martini. Mary passed peacefully from this life on January 26, 2013. The sixth of nine Martini children, Mary graduated from Sioux Falls College in Sioux Falls, SD. She taught Latin and English full time in Pierre, SD for one year, and later...

Jan 20, 2013

Wendell Don Cavin was born July 5, 1955, in Bartlesville, Okla., and passed away Jan. 20, 2013, in Edmond, Okla. He was the son of Donald Lee Cavin and Loretta Gayle (Love) Cavin. Wendell was raised in Oklahoma City and graduated from Southeast High School in 1973. He attended the University of Houston and later the University of Oklahoma where...

Jan 19, 2013

Shirley Lewayne James, 78, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2013, at her home in Oklahoma City. Shirley was born October 15, 1934, in Optima, Oklahoma, to Alfred and Letha Mouser and was raised in Guymon, Oklahoma. Shirley was an independent and self-reliant individual, who made a career as a legal secretary and as an administrative assistant in the oil and...

Jan 13, 2013

Elizabeth Jane "Betty" Dillon Stockard passed away peacefully after a brief illness surrounded by her family on Sunday, January 13, 2013 at the age of 94. Betty was born on July 16, 1918 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma to John Joseph & Alice Egan Dillon. She was second generation of Irish immigrants from County Kerry, and was always proud of her Irish...

Jan 12, 2013

Paul Francis Sprehe, Sr., 82, passed away January 12, 2013 in Oklahoma City, OK. The oldest son of Francis Louis Sprehe and Estella Marie McGuire, he was born August 8, 1930 in OKC. He attended Rosary School and Classen High School and was an Eagle Scout. Awarded a full scholarship by the US Navy to attend the University of Oklahoma,...

Jan 12, 2013

Jan 10, 2013

Trina Lorraine (Wingo) Martin, 98, passed away on January 10, 2013. Trina was born to Harvey and Neetice McIntosh Wingo in Pawnee, Oklahoma on November 19, 1914. She graduated from Pawnee High School and entered Nurses training at Oklahoma General Hospital (now called Mercy). She graduated with an R. N. degree in 1937. In 1939 she met and married Dr....

Jan 8, 2013

Gail Marie Davenport Adams died peacefully January 8, 2013 in Grapevine, TX in the company of her children. Gail was born November 17, 1933 in Pottawatomie County. She grew up in Oklahoma City and attended Bishop John Carroll School and graduated in 1952 from "Catholic High" Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School. Gail was married to John C. Adams, Jr. for...

Jan 5, 2013

She was born on September 22, 1938 in Canton, Oklahoma to Orval & Delores Smith. Sally grew up with her family of three sisters (Judy, Jere, and Emmadee) on a farm in the Canton/Eagle City area. She was educated in Eagle City and Canton public schools. As an adult, Sally attended some college related to travel, business and creative writing....

Jan 4, 2013

Maxine Sexton of Oklahoma City, passed away peacefully at her home on January 4, 2013. She was 99. She was born on June 1, 1913 to Frank Kassel and Rhoda Deveres in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Maxine was married to Kenneth Sexton for 40 years and had three children. She loved hosting, and preparing big dinners on Sundays and holidays, for...

Jan 4, 2013

Leona Lucille Marie was born to George Toelle of O'Fallon, MO and to Ursula Orf Toelle of Dardenne Prairie, MO. In this loving family of eight children, Sister was the fourth daughter. She happily related that she was baptized the next day. Sister moved when she was 4 years of age to Sulphur, OK and then moved to the rural...

Jan 3, 2013

Robert Wallace King, M.D. (Bob) passed away Jan 3, 2013, at St. Anthony Hospital following a short illness. Born in OKC on Sept. 27, 1921 to Olga Wykert King and Arthur King, Bob graduated from Classen High School in 1939, and then OU in 1943 with a degree in engineering. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He married...

Jan 2, 2013

Dora Grant was surrounded by family as she left to walk with her Lord on January 2, 2013 after suffering complications following a series of strokes. Dora was born August 11, 1927 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma; the second youngest child of John Russell Higgins and Henrietta Wood Higgins. Dora's life was blessed by her twin sister, Nora Wilcox. They were raised...

Jan 1, 2013

J. William "Bill" Conger passed away January 1, 2013. Bill was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on March 6, 1945. Bill, the son of George and Lil Conger, moved with his family to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in the summer of 1961. There he met his high school sweetheart, the love of his life, and his wife of 45 years, Sherry Martin. Together...

Dec 31, 2012

Frances L. Bissonnette passed away peacefully at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City on December 31,2012. Frances, or Fran as she preferred to be called, was born in the dining room of her family farmhouse in Selma, California to Margaret and Charles Clinkenbeard on December 9, 1920. Her family moved to Fresno, California when she was six years old. Fran attended...