Joan Elizabeth Gilmore-Mclaughlin
May 9, 2022
Joan Gilmore McLaughlin passed away in Oklahoma City on May 9, 2022, just days short of her 95th birthday. Born in 1927 to Helen and Joseph Gilmore, Joan spent most of her childhood in Waukegan, Illinois along with her brother Robert. Joan graduated from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri with a degree in English. Joan began her career as a...
Dolores Ann Orr
May 4, 2022
Dolores "Dodie" Orr entered eternal rest May 4th in her home of 60 years. She was born April 14, 1936 in Kansas City, MO to John Joseph and Mary Agnes Gleason. The family moved to OKC shortly thereafter where Dodie attended John Carroll Catholic School, Bishop McGuiness and graduated from Central High School. She ignored her mother's request to attend...
Sr. Mary Henry Simoneaux
Apr 30, 2022
Sister Mary Henry Simoneaux was born Marguerite Marie Simoneaux to Henry Paul Simoneaux and Rita Cecile Blanchard in Plattenville, LA, on September 25, 1922. She was the youngest of four children; Eileen Cecile, Henry Paul (who lived only a few hours); and Lillian Therese. Sister attended four years of grammar school at Plattenville. In October of 1932 after her father...
Raymond Robert Dolan
Apr 29, 2022
Raymond Robert Dolan, Sr. (Bob) passed away peacefully on April 29, 2022, in Oklahoma City, where he raised his family and lived his entire life. He was 90 years old.Bob was born on September 12, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame, earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1955. He...
Roger Lee Etling
Apr 27, 2022
Roger Etling passed away April 27, 2022, in Oklahoma City, OK. Roger was born to Larus and Helen Etling on May 13, 1950, in Amarillo, Texas. In 1952 Roger contracted polio. He had several adverse effects from the paralyzing disease. However, he was able to achieve his life's dream of becoming a physician in spite of the polio. He graduated...
Phuoc Thi Nguyen
Apr 26, 2022
Phuoc Thi Nguyen, 80, of Oklahoma City, passed in peace on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, April 29, at Smith & Kernke 23rd Street Chapel. Phuoc was born on July 20, 1941 in Saigon, Vietnam, where she spent much of her life. She married Phac Nguyen in 1965, became a mother...
Sharon Elaine ""Fluff"" Feland
Apr 24, 2022
Our beloved Sharon Elaine Feland, affectionately known as "Fluff" peacefully passed away on April 24, 2022 at Heritage Point Memory Care at the age of 79. She left this earth with daughter Tamara holding her hand and her son Scott lovingly by her side. Anyone who was privileged to know Fluff knew of her love and devotion to her children...
Elsie Louise Simon
Apr 23, 2022
Elsie Louise Cohlmia Simon passed away with her family by her side on April 23,2022. She was born on November 19,1927 in Gate, Oklahoma to Adeeb and Najeeba Cohlmia (Ghoulmieh). Upon graduating from Watonga High School with many honors, including homecoming queen her junior year, she attended the University of Oklahoma for one year until she went back home to...
Wanda Rose Hughes-Ray
Apr 23, 2022
Wanda Rose (Clark) Hughes-Ray, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to many, passed away April 23, 2022, just shy of her 94th birthday, with her loving family by her side. She was born April 30, 1928 to Clarence and LoEva (Goss) Clark in Tupelo, Oklahoma. Wanda married Richard E. Hughes on April 26, 1952. She earned an Associate Degree to...
Debra Ann Cardenas
Apr 22, 2022
Debra Ann Cardenas passed away April 22, 2022 in Oklahoma City. She was born November 27, 1959. Debra loved listening to music, dancing, going to powwows, watching her Spanish soap operas, going on vacations, spending time with her family and spoiling her grandkids. We lost an amazing wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. Debra was preceded in death by...
Harold Everett "Skip" Hayes
Apr 20, 2022
Harold "Skip" Everett Hayes, 78, of Edmond, Oklahoma passed away peacefully in his home on April 20, 2022. He was born in Comanche, Oklahoma on December 23, 1943, to Harold and Erna Hayes. In 1963, he enlisted into the United States Army, serving multiple tours to Vietnam with the Army Security Agency. In 1967, Skip met and fell in love...
Coy Alson Meeks Jr.
Apr 19, 2022
COY ALSON MEEKS, JR.September 21, 1939 – April 19, 2022Coy Alson Meeks, Jr. peacefully passed away at the age of 83 on April 19, 2022, in Midwest City, Oklahoma. He is predeceased by Jane Rogers Meeks, his beloved wife of many years. Coy will be lovingly remembered by his daughters, Karen, Robin, Tracey Meeks-Pace, and Kristin McAtee; his son-in-law Stephon...
Connie Mae Vann Jackson
Apr 19, 2022
Connie Mae (Vann) Jackson, 86, of Oklahoma City, OK, passed through the veil to the glorious life beyond shortly after midnight on April 19, 2022. She died with grace, dignity, and peace in her home and surrounded by the love of family. Connie was a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, descended from the Vann and Chambers families....
Robert Edward "Bob" Swatek
Apr 18, 2022
Robert E. Swatek, known as Bob, passed from this life at the Reminisce Center in Norman, Oklahoma on April 18, 2022 at the age of 90.Bob was born September 12, 1931 to Willie Elizabeth and Roy Edward Swatek. Sharing the nursery with him at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City was his lifelong close friend and neighbor Albert Welsh –...
Michael Ray "Mike" Overby
Apr 16, 2022
Mike was part of a military family, born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in Midwest City, Oklahoma, and went to MWC high school. Mike worked hard all his life and was a superintendent of a large construction company. He married the love of his life Elizabeth in 1998. He loved going on last minute trips, especially to the beach,...
Vicky Shadid
Apr 14, 2022
Victoria Helen "Vicky" Shadid fell asleep in the Lord on April 14, 2022, at the age of 95. Vicky was born on March 19, 1927, in Ft. Wayne, IN, to Assad and Adel David. She spent her early years in Alva, OK, until the family moved to Wichita, KS. In 1951, Vicky married her true love, Kaleem M. "Kelly" Shadid....
John Manuel Salmeron, M.D.
Apr 13, 2022
John Manuel Salmeron, who left his native Spain to realize a fulfilling life as a pioneering anesthesiologist, dedicated husband, caring father of three, and community servant in Oklahoma City, passed away the morning of April 13, 2022. He was 93.John mindfully lived life to its fullest. To him, that meant not only his personal experience, but enabling others to do...
Larry Wayne Willis, Sr.
Apr 11, 2022
Larry W. Willis, Sr., passed away April 11, 2022, at the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born September 1, 1960, in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Midwest City High School in 1979. He was a member of ROTC. Larry was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He earned an associate degree in electronics.Larry is survived by his life...
Sam Sameer Shadid
Apr 11, 2022
Sam Sameer ShadidFebruary 26, 1932 - April 11, 2022Sam Sameer Shadid fell asleep in the Lord on April 11, 2022, joining his beloved wife, Nadia. He was born on February 26, 1932, to Alexandra and Hafeeth Shadid in Oklahoma City, and recently celebrated his 90th birthday with all of his family by his side.Sam attended Classen High School, where he...
Ricky Delancy
Apr 10, 2022
Rick Delancy, 74, passed away peacefully in his favorite room in the house on April 10th, 2022. He was preceded in death by his parents; survived by wife Sheryl, sister Sherry Carter and husband Dennis, children Kelli Watkins, Allison Ratliff and husband Mike, Jeff Delancy and wife Jennifer; five grandkids, Ashlee Byrd and husband Dillon, Crosby, Quinn, and Mercer Delancy,...
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