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From Norman Transcript - Norman, Oklahoma February 26, 2004
JAMES ALLEN DEATHERAGE
James Allen Deatherage died Monday, Feb. 23, in Chickasha. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Chapel Funeral Service in Noble with the Rev. Rod Carroll officiating. Burial will be at the Noble IOOF Cemetery with military honors provided by Fort Sill in Lawton. Memorial Chapel Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
Mr. Deatherage was born Feb. 16, 1916, in Maud, the sixth of 10 children born to Stephen and Annie Morgan Deatherage. Mr. Deatherage enlisted in the Army during World War II. He achieved the rank of sergeant with the Army First Cavalry Division. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, and in the South Pacific before being honorably discharged. Mr. Deatherage and his wife, Jolene, returned to Norman and farmed many years near Hollywood Corner. Mr. Deatherage enjoyed baseball and played the sport while in high school. He worked for Sears and was a painter for the University of Oklahoma until he retired in 1985. Mr. Deatherage and his family moved to Noble in 1975. Mr. Deatherage and his wife lived in Noble until they moved in August 2003 to Chickasha to be near their daughter. Mr. Deatherage became a Christian in 1959 and was a member at Noble Church of Christ. Through the years, he kept in contact with his Army friends, Verle Reed of Hollandale, Minn., and Willard Gray of Childress, Texas.
Mr. Deatherage was preceded in death by his parents; eight brothers and sisters; and son-in-law, James L. Wood.
Mr. Deatherage is survived by his wife, Jolene of the home; daughter, Verna Wood of Chickasha; grandchildren, Thomas, Skye and Dusty Wood, all of Chickasha; brother, Rex Deatherage of Choctaw; and many other family members and friends.
Bearers will be Jiggs Leslie, Stick Nelson, Craig and Tommy Deatherage and Bill Williams.
Honorary bearers will be Dr. Joe Riddle and Dale Piper
From The Chickasha Express-Star - Chickasha, Oklahoma August 23, 2004
JOLENE WINIFRED GRAVES DEATHERAGE
Jolene Winifred Deatherage was born on April 29, 1923, near Quinton,
Oklahoma, to Clyde Graves and Clara Egbert Graves. She rejoined her
husband of 52 years, Jim Deatherage, on August 21, 2004. Jim passed away
on their 52nd wedding anniversary on February 23, 2004.
Jolene and Jim were married in 1952 at Palo Verde, Arizona. They have one
daughter, Verna Wood, and three grandchildren, Thomas, Skye, and Dusty
Wood, of Chickasha.
After living in Arizona and California for a few years, they returned to
Oklahoma in 1955, living in the Oklahoma City area. In 1959 they moved to
a farm north of Norman near Hollywood Corner, where they lived for many
years. In 1975 they purchased 10 acres at Slaughterville Corner, where
they resided until July of last year when they moved to Chickasha to be
near their daughter, due to failing health.
Jolene's growing up years were spent in Quinton, Oklahoma, and Ft. Smith,
Arkansas. She learned to play the piano at an early age as therapy for a
serious arm injury. She taught piano for many years. She loved gospel
music and played piano in her young adult years for one of the Stamps-
Baxter quartets. She and her family had their own quartet and sang for
the sick and shut-ins on Sunday afternoons.
Jolene worked for Montgomery Ward in Oklahoma City and Fresno, California
for several years. She spent seven and a half years at the University of
Oklahoma Book Exchange in Norman. Her favorite job was in downtown
Oklahoma City at Russell Stover Candies, where she worked for 11 years.
Jolene became a Christian as a teenager and attended the Ninnekah Church
of Christ after moving to Chickasha.
Mrs. Deatherage was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her
sister, Lena Graves, and her son-in-law, Skip Wood. She is survived by
her daughter and grandchildren, her brother, J. C. Graves, many nieces,
nephews, and friends.
Jolene loved people and loved to visit. She had a sweet smile and much
love for her family and friends. She will be missed a great deal.
Services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, august 24, 2004, at Memorial
Chapel Funeral Chapel with Rod Carroll officiating. Interment will be at
Noble IOOF Cemetery under the direction of Memorial Chapel Funeral Service
of Noble.
Bryan-College Station Eagle March 15, 1959 — Aug. 5, 2002
ROBERT COOPER JR.
Services for Robert Cooper Jr., 43, of Bryan are set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Hillier Funeral Home in Bryan.
Dyrel Collins will officiate. Burial will be in the Bryan City Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. to the time of services Thursday at the funeral home.
Mr. Cooper died Monday in the Bremond Nursing Center.
He was born in San Diego, Calif., and lived in Bryan for two years. He formerly lived in Houston and was a security guard. He was a member of the A&M Church of Christ.
Survivors include two sons, Bobby Cooper and Jesse Cooper, both of Bryan; a daughter, Jamie Cooper of Bryan; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Kimberly and Bill Rodarmel and Melody and Peter Herb, all of Houston; his mother, Evelyn Cooper of Bryan; and his grandmother, Esther Atchison of Bryan.
Bryan-College Station Eagle September 8, 2003
MARY EVALYN COLLIE COOPER
Services for Mary Evalyn Collie Cooper, 82, of Bryan are set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at Hillier Funeral Home. A visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. Monday and from 8:30-10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Land of Memory Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
Mrs. Cooper died on Saturday at her home. She had been a resident of Bryan since 1958, and a longtime member of First United Methodist Church of Bryan.
Mary Cooper had an extensive education, receiving many honors and degrees during her lifetime with a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from Texas Women’s University. She did post-graduate work at Trinity University, Baylor University, Texas A&M University and others. She taught elementary school as well as junior high and high school classes. When she moved to Bryan, Mary worked at Texas A&M for a while and then got a job with the Bryan ISD as a speech pathologist for 13 years. She moved to College Station ISD as an education diagnostician where she worked for 10 years. She retired in 1968 after a total of thirty-five years in the educational profession.
In 1974, Mary began her family research studies. In 1977 she began teaching classes in Genealogy, first with the community education program and later from her home where she’d created a classroom with materials she’d collected for doing research. Mary developed and compiled materials from countless libraries and bookstores across the country on Genealogy resources. Through the years, Mary has taught hundreds of people how to search for their ancestors. In 1979, she organized the Brazos Genealogy Association and became the editor and publisher of the Brazos Genealogical advertiser, which was a forty page quarterly magazine until 1986. Mary also published several books including a listing of the Willowhole and Keefer cemeteries, Brazos County 1860 Census (1842 tax roll and 1850 index), Brazos County 1970 census, Bryan city cemetery books 1,2,3 & 4 and wrote a novel – Letters from Two Brothers dating from 1870 to 1973.
In 1990, Mary organized the Texas Research Ramblers, which is a local genealogy organization that met monthly to do research and to take trips together looking for their ancestors. The Ramblers were formed from class members that Mary taught and it continues to grow having been taken over by other members since Mary became ill in June of 2003.
Mary belonged to several genealogical organizations including the National Genealogical Society and several regional organizations. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the was of 1812, Daughters of the American Colonists, Magna Charta Dames, National Society of New England Women and Americans of Royal Descent. Mary Cooper donated all of her research materials to the Carnegie Library in Bryan so that it will be available for all that might wish to use it to do their own research in finding their own ancestors.
Mary is survived by one son, Clyde Russell Cooper, Jr. and wife Vivian Easley-Cooper; five grandchildren, Russell Wayne Cooper and wife Tina; Ronald Lee Cooper and wife Bonnie; Robin Denise Cooper-Gonzalez and husband Jose; Diane Lynne Cooper-Reyes and husband Lupe; and Donna Jean Cooper-Adams and husband Robert. Seventeen great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Most of the family resides here in Bryan, Texas.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Hospice Brazos Valley, 502 W. 26th. Street, Bryan, Texas 77803, Still Creek Ranch, 6055 Hearne Lane, Bryan, Texas 77808 or the memorial of your choice.
Hillier Funeral Home
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Journal News - Carmel, New York Monday, March 8th, 2004
ROY LESTER DEATHERAGE
Roy Lester Deatherage of Carmel died March 6, 2004. He was 86. Roy was born March 15, 1917 to Ernest and Amy Rea Deatherage in Oakland, AR. He later married Rose Cincotta on May 27, 1945 in Brooklyn, NY. He served in the United States Navy receiving several medals. He is survived by his wife Rose and their two children John Deatherage of Carmel and Florence Barnao of Dover Plains, NY. Survived by one brother Victor Deatherage of California and one sister Erline Reed of Oregon and eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Visiting will be Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 pm at Adams-Cordovano Funeral Home, 15 Church Street (off Route 6), Carmel, NY. Funeral Mass will be Tuesday 11 am at 1st Kent Fishkill Baptist Church. Entombment Rose Hill Memorial Park.
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Modesto Bee and Herald-News - Modesto, California July 31, 1975
VERNON DEATHERAGE
Chiropractor Is Killed By Rig That Injured Kin
Modesto chiropractor Vernon Deatherage, 45, has been killed in an Alaska construction accident, crushed by the same blacktop roller that severely injured his father-in-law, Woodie Woodman of Ceres, two months ago.
Deatherage was operating the roller when it turned over on him last Thursday near Anchorage, according to work received by family friends. Burial services were held in Alaska Monday.
Deatherage, a native of Oklahoma, had worked on Alaskan construction jobs during the summer months for the past several years, as did his father-in-law. Woodman was paralyzed from the waist down in his accident. Subsequently Deatherage was assigned to operate the same piece of equipment.
He left his practice in the hands of another chiropractor while doing the construction work, taking his family from their 4401 Central Ave. home in Ceres to live with him in Alaska.
He is survived by his widow, Maudie Lee Deatherage, and five daughters, Mrs. Michael Gay of Modesto, and Mrs. Jeff Burel, Susan, Marla and Theresa Deatherage, all of Ceres.
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Semilole Producer - Seminole, Oklahoma July 2004
MILO MILTON MORGAN
Graveside services for Wewoka resident Milo Milton Morgan are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday at Little Cemetery.
Rev. David Brasfield will officiate.
Services will be under the direction of Stout-Phillips Funeral Home of Wewoka.
Morgan died Friday, July 2, 2004 at O.U. Medical Center in Oklahoma City at the age of 80.
Morgan was born to John Elmer and Virgille "Elledge" Morgan on April 1, 1924 in Haskell-Porter.
He attended elementary school at Cromwell.
Morgan has been a resident of Oakridge Home for the last 35 years and had many friends and family and will be missed dearly.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John Elmer and Virgille Morgan; one brother, Loyd Morgan; and one sister, Thelma Romero.
Morgan is survived by four nieces, LaDean Lasiter, Louise Morgan, Naoma O’Donnell, and LeAnn Webb; two nephews, Mike Romero and Albert Morgan.
Pallbearers include Gerald Morgan, Harold Lasiter, Hershal O’Donnell, Greg Morgan, Scott Lasiter, Jeff O’Donnell and Albert Morgan.
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The Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home, Arkansas November 19, 2007
DELLA MAY CONNER
A graveside service for Della May Connor, 95, of Gassville will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery. Visitation will from noon- 9 p.m. today at Roller Funeral Home with family receiving friends 6-8 p.m. Mrs. Connor died Friday, Nov. 16, 2007.
She is survived locally by three sons, Bill Conner, Melvin Conner and Bob Conner.
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The Tulsa World - Tulsa, Oklahoma Wednesday, June 16, 2004
JAY S. HENRY
JENKS -- Jay S. Henry, 81, Jenks Public Schools mechanic, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Regular Baptist Church, and graveside service 3 p.m. Thursday, Wetumka Cemetery, Wetumka. Hayhurst, Broken Arrow. Viewing at Regular Baptist Church.
The Jenks Journal - Jenks, Oklahoma Wednesday, Thursday, June 24, 2004
Services for J. S. "Jay" Henry, 81, of Jenks, were 10 a.m. Thursday, June 17, at Regular Baptist Church in Jenks. Pastor Troy Hayes officiated.
Burial followed at Wetumka Cemetery under the direction of Hayhurst Funeral Home.
Jay Henry was born March 28, 1923 at Wetumka, Okla., son of Alfred L. and Alberta (Crownover) Henry. He died Monday, June 14 at his home in Jenks.
Mr. Henry was a veteran of the United States Army, serving during World War II. He married Lucille Holden on Aug. 21, 1946 at Holdenville, Okla. They moved to Jenks in August of 1954. Lucille preceded him in death on Feb. 8, 2000.
J.S. was a mechanic supervisor for Jenks Public Schools for 26 years before retiring in 1987. He enjoyed fishing, repairing clocks and sewing machines and working for his church.
He was a member of Regular Baptist Church. Memorials may be made to the church, 11808 S. Elm, Jenks, OK 74037.
He is survived by two sons, Lonnie and his wife Mary Henry, Jenks, and Sam and wife Vicki Henry of Crosby, TX; one brother, Ray Henry of Port Hynemie, Calif.; 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Dolly.
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The Amarillo Globe-News - Amarillo, Texas Tuesday, June 1, 1999
SHELTON PENN BURKE
MORTON - Shelton Penn "Jack" Burke, 91, died Saturday, May 29, 1999.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church with the
Rev. Danny Jackson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Morton
Memorial Cemetery by Ellis Funeral Home. Mr. Burke was born in
Sapulpa, Okla. He moved from Quanah to Morton in 1926. He married Iva
Mae Lackey in 1929 at Portales, N.M. She died in 1990. He served in
the Army during World War II. He was a member of Morton Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post. He was a heavy-machine operator for the city of
Morton and Cochran County. Survivors include four sons, C.E. Stevens
of Cranfills Gap, Kenneth Burke of Morton, Dewayne Burke of Sapulpa
and Penn Tom Burke of Gainesville; nine grandchildren; 14 great-
grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
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The Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home, Arkansas March 11, 2006
MARVIN E STAFFORD
A graveside service for Marvin Stafford, 70, of Monkey Run will be 2 p.m. today at Pilgrim?s Rest Cemetery. Mr. Stafford died Wednesday, March 8, 2006.
Arrangements are by Roller Funeral Home.
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The Baxter Bulletin - Mountain Home, Arkansas January 20, 1972
EARNEST FRANKLIN MCMAHON
Services were conducted last Thursday at the Whiteville Baptist Church for Ernest Franklin McMahon, 59, of Route 1, Gassville, who died Monday of last week at the Baxter General Hospital.
The son of Christopher C. McMahon and Lou Giller McMahon, he was born at West Plains, Mo., May 14, 1912, and was a lifetime resident of this area. He was single, and a member of the Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Roberts of Gassville and Mrs. Lucille Zirsczirschky of Clinton; a brother Bill Bridgeman of Union Mo.; several nieces and nephews.
Bro. Otha McCracken, a Baptist minister, officiated at the funeral service. Interment was in the Whiteville Cemetery under the direction of the McClure-Smith Service.
Pallbearers were Laurel Reed, Rex Reed, Johnnie Reed and Harvey Smith.
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The Amarillo Globe - Amarillo, Texas Tuesday, July 15, 1947
WALTER ANGLIN
Anglin Rites at 4 O'clock
Final rites for Walter Anglin, an employee of Lane Ice Cream Co., were scheduled at 4o'clock this afternoon in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. Rev. Frank Godsoe, pastor of Central Baptist Church, was to officiate.
Named as pallbearers were Lonnie Lee, Lloyd Lee, Ogle Lemons, Curtis Pond, Randy Ray and Frank McCartey. Burial was scheduled in Llano Cemetery.
Amarillo Lodge No. 731, AF&AM was to conduct graveside Masonic services.
Mr. Anglin, 34 years old, had been a resident of Amarillo for five years. He moved here from Wheeler, where he was a member of the Masonic order.
He died yesterday afternoon in his home, 838 Lipscomb, apparently victim of a heart attack. He had been ill only a short tiem.
Surviving relatives include his widow, Mrs. Fay Anglin, a son, Raymond; a daughter, Betty Marie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Anglin, 737 North Arthur; and three brothers, Clarence Anglin, Clovis, NM; Paul Anglin, Amarillo, and Leon Anglin, Albuquerque.
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The Amarillo Globe - Amarillo, Texas March 21, 1956
JAMES T. ANGLIN
James T. Anglin Dies at Age 70
James T. Anglin, 70, a retired farmer, died at 3 a.m. today at his home, 730 N. Arthur.
He had been a resident of Amarillo since 1943.
Mr. Anglin was bonr Sept. 16, 1885, Cassville, Ark.
He was a Baptist.
Arrangements for funeral services are pending with N. S. Griggs and Sons.
Mr. Anglin is survived by his wife, Mrs. Donna Anglin; three sons, Leon Anglin of Amarillo and Clarnece and Paul Anglin of Seminole, Okla; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Cooper of Compton, Calif., and Mrs. Jessie Powell of Cassville; a brother Walter Anglin of Wheeler, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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The Press-Courier - Oxnard, CaliforniaJune 8, 1960
JAMES W. STAFFORD
James Willard Stafford, 31, 3630 Pringle, San Diego, died Saturday at the Sand Diego Naval Hospital.
Mr. Stafford was born May 5, 1929, at Humansville, Mo. He had been stationed at the Port Huenme Naval Base.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Staffford, of San Diego; his mother, Mrs. Edna Stafford of Oxnard; his father Williard J. Stafford, of Dallas, Tex.; two brothers, Donald, of San Diego, and Larry, of Tulsa Okla; four sisters, Mrs. Betty Hume, of Garden Grove, Mrs. Wanda Fifield, Oxnard, Mrs. Genevie Barnes, of Tulsa, Okla, and Miss Linda Stafford, also of Oxnard; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Belle Stafford, of Tulsa, Okla.
Funeral services are pending at Payton's Mortuary.
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The News Press, The - Stillwater, OklahomaMarch 21, 2004)
WILMA UNDERWOOD GRACE
Wilma Underwood Grace, 90, of Cushing died on Thursday March 18, 2004 at the Linwood Village Nursing Center in Cushing. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Sunset Memorial Gardens in Lawton.
Visitation will be on Sunday from 1 to 6:00 p.m. at the Palmer Funeral Home of Cushing.
Services will be under the direction of the Palmer Funeral Home of Cushing.
She was born January 23, 1914 in Drumright to Charlie and Millie Underwood. After graduating from the Drumright High School, she attended nursing school and became an LPN. She was married to Paul J. Grace on May 4, 1934 in Bristow.
They lived in Lawton until 1982 at which time they moved to Drumright and then later to Cushing.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her daughter, Patricia; her brother, Delvin Underwood; her sister, Lela Rudell; and by her husband, Paul.
Survivors include two grandsons, Cliff Rose of Jefferson, Ga. and Mike Rose of Austin, Texas; two great-grandchildren, Audrey Ann Rose, Emily Kay Rose and their mother Debra Kay Rose of Newnan, Ga.; four sisters-in-laws, Lula Grace Martini of Philadelphia, Pa., Lela Grace Chambers of Sacramento, Calif., Darlene Grace and Loscille Grace, both of Cushing; one brother-in-law, Alec Grace of Cushing; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to the Oak Street Baptist Church, 1442 East Oak Street, Cushing, Oklahoma 74023.
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