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DEATHS FOR: 8/19/2008
TULSA
Allen, Clarence Harold "Bill," 87, retired police officer, died Aug. 15. Service 10 a.m. Saturday, Canyon Road Baptist Church. Mark Griffith-Westwood.
Andretta, Ralph M., 86, gas and oil cash manager, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Angove, Donald D., 81, retired salesman, died Sunday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Thursday, Memorial Park Cemetery, and memorial service noon Thursday, Stanleys Funeral Home Chapel.
Brookman, Raymond Charles, 74, attorney, died Sunday. Celebration of Life service 4 p.m. Saturday, Unity Center of Tulsa. Cremation Society.
Chenoweth, Mark, 53, former paramedic, died Sunday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Thursday, John Knox Presbyterian Church. Moore's Southlawn.
Chibitty, Chebon Trey, 38, found dead June 27. Services pending. Midtown.
Clark, Leon, 79, Clark's Green Country owner, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Mark Griffith-Westwood Funeral Home Chapel.
Cooper, Marcia, 49, homemaker, died Sunday in Bristow. Services pending. Stanleys.
Ferreira, Christopher "Krys," 37, died Aug. 3. No local services planned. Richard Davis, Plymouth, Mass.
Hayes, John Thomas, 33, operating engineer, died Wednesday. Services pending. Freeman Harris.
Henley, Billy Ray, 74, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Memory.
Jackson, David Lee, 56, former Public Service Company of Oklahoma employee, died Sunday. Services pending. Butler-Stumpff.
Kelly, Thomas "T.J.," 23, plumber's apprentice, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Bixby Cemetery Pavilion, Bixby. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.
Kinkade, Wanda Lee, 59, Tulsa Public Schools bus driver, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Johnson Funeral Home Chapel, Sperry.
McKenney , Stan A., 91, Sears salesman, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Moyer, Ralph Leonard, 66, retired plumber and pipefitter, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn.
Musselman, Israel Andrade, 2, died Sunday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Newrider , Lucille, 76, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
Orcutt, Robert A., 47, carpenter, died Saturday. Services pending. Add'vantage.
Richards, Geraldine, 83, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn.
Schlorke , Michael Edward, 40, died Saturday. Services pending. Midtown.
Slavens, Samuel G., 63, died Monday. Services pending. Green Hill, Sapulpa.
Turner, H. Vollie, 86, principal and educator, died Monday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home. Services pending.
Wells , Mary L., 81, died Monday. Services pending. Ninde Brookside.
Wood, Mary Wilson, 77, homemaker, died Wednesday in Columbia, S.C. Services were held Monday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow. Floral Haven, Broken Arrow.
STATE/AREA
Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.
Bartlesville — William F. "Bill" Curtis, 82, died Monday. Services pending. Neekamp-Luginbuel.
Beggs — Pearl Dowland, 92, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. McClendon-Winters.
— Frank Taylor, 58, foundry mechanic, died Sunday. Visitation noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, McClendon-Winters Funeral Home. No services planned.
Bixby — Wanda Pauline Farmer, 68, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Bixby Funeral Service.
Blackwell — Esther Marie Rogers, 74, died Saturday. Service 10:30 a.m. Friday, First United Methodist Church. Roberts & Son.
— Tommy Ray Shouse, 57, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Roberts & Son Funeral Home Chapel.
Broken Arrow — Dylan Austin Adams, 29, Paragon Films senior operator, died Saturday. Service 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel.
— Ardis Beard, 86, accountant, died Monday. Services pending. Hayhurst.
— Donald French, 61, principal, died Monday. Services pending. Floral Haven.
— Randy Heller, 20, insulator, died Saturday. Services pending. Floral Haven.
— Nancy "Kay" Henderson, 55, music teacher, died Sunday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn, Tulsa.
— Glenn A. Reese Sr., 83, carpenter, died Sunday. Services pending. Floral Haven.
— Jim Sanseverino, 93, landscaper and nursery worker, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel, Tulsa.
Claremore — Peggy Joyce Dodson, 74, retired respiratory therapist, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Home Chapel.
Cleveland — Wilma R. Shipman, 92, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Chapman-Black Funeral Home Chapel.
Copan — Keith Newby, 88, farmer and rancher, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church, Caney, Kan. Stumpff, Bartlesville.
Coweta — Cecil G. Foster, 82, Veteran's Administration Hospital administrator, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Pleasant Valley Church of Christ, Haskell. Dowdy, Haskell.
— Dewey E. Swarer, 96, retired oil-field driller, died Saturday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Shahan Cemetery. Wright.
— Betty G. Roberts, 79, retired St. Francis Hospital housekeeping supervisor, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Wright Funeral Home Chapel.
Cushing — Kenneth Huckabay, 45, patient care worker, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Church of the First Born, Parkland. Davis.
— Dwayne Snelson, 76, insurance agent, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Presbyterian Church. Palmer & Marler.
Dewey — Sandra Carol (Richardson) Brown, 64, died Monday. Services pending. Stumpff, Bartlesville.
Fort Gibson — Maggie Lee Bailey, 88, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Calvary Faith Pentecostal Holiness Church. Millsap.
— Clint D. Yandell, 72, heavy-equipment operator, died Sunday. Services pending. Reed-Culver, Tahlequah.
Glenpool — Eddie Lee Wright, 65, retired roofer, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Schaudt's Funeral Service Chapel.
Grove — Michael Dane Jones, 53, died Sunday. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.
— Burl Dean Laughlin, 70, laborer, died Monday. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.
Henryetta — Gary Henry, 47, died Monday. Services pending. Shurden.
Holdenville — Alex Lowe, 84, minister and welder, died Sunday. Wake 7 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Wetumka Indian Baptist Church, Wetumka. Hudson-Phillips.
Idabel — Ruth Billingsley, 95, Warren's and Piggly Wiggly sales clerk, died Sunday. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Conley-White Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bypass Church of Christ.
Independence, Kan. — Norma Lee (Orr) Holloway, 76, swim instructor and Cherryvale swimming pool manager, died Saturday. Rosary 7 p.m. Tuesday, Potts Funeral Home Chapel, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Andrew Catholic Church.
— Kenneth E. Shook, 70, laborer, died Friday. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Wednesday and service 10 a.m. Thursday, both at Potts Funeral Home.
— Lance Allen Walters, 21, heavy-equipment operator, died Saturday. Visitation 3:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Potts Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Epiphany Episcopal Church.
Jay — Corrinn Earp, 85, homemaker, died Friday. Services pending. Funeral Services of Grand Lake.
— Thomas Ray "Tom" Laughlin, 61, oil-field worker, died Sunday in Eucha. Memorial service 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Laughlin residence, Eucha. Worley-Luginbuel.
McAlester — Carl Willard Capers, 85, Army Ammunitions Plant supply worker, died Monday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Bishop Funeral Service, and service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Main & Oklahoma Church of Christ.
— Jeannine Carris, 78, homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Bishop.
Miami — Melvin Holbrook Jr., 76, production control employee, died Monday. Rosary 7 p.m. Wednesday and memorial service 10 a.m. Thursday, both at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Paul Thomas.
— Mattie Kirk, 74, retired from Bama Pie, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Broken Arrow Nursing Home, Broken Arrow. Cooper-Althouse.
Mounds — F. Max Todd, 73, heavy-equipment operator, died Sunday. Graveside service 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Duck Creek Cemetery. Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby.
Muskogee — Kathleen Osborn, 93, bookkeeper, died Sunday. Graveside service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery. Bradley.
— Lloyd W. Taylor, 78, retired from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Division, died Sunday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Greenhill Cemetery. Foster-Petering.
— Brandy Wiedel, 33, nail technician, died Sunday. Services pending. Bradley.
Okemah — William Shelby Ray, 101, retired educator and coach, formerly of Okemah, died Saturday in Chickasha. Graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Greenwood Cemetery, Porter. Comanche Nation Funeral Home, Lawton.
Okmulgee — Mary Lou Nelson, 80, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. McClendon-Winters.
Porter — John Paul Lacefield, 63, dairy farmer, died Sunday. Services pending. Mallett, Wagoner.
Prague — Cynthia Mae Davis, 43, Bass Pro Shop shipping and receiving assistant manager, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel.
Quapaw — Rose Marie Stevens, 59, homemaker, died Sunday. Visitation 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home, Picher, and graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Baxter Springs Cemetery, Baxter Springs, Kan.
Roland — LaVerne Peal, 69, homemaker, died Aug. 9. Graveside service 1 p.m. Monday, Greenlawn Cemetery, Checotah. Agent, Sallisaw.
Sand Springs — Doy Wheeler, 76, retired BF Goodrich plumber, died Monday. Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home Chapel.
Sedan, Kan. — John David Thomas, 22, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Greenwood Cemetery. Barnes.
Siloam Springs, Ark. — William Eli "Bill" Couch, 78, dairy farmer, died Sunday. Visitation 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday and service 3 p.m. Wednesday, both at Wasson Funeral Home.
Sperry — David R. Sanford, 64, died Monday. Services pending. Johnson.
Stigler — Alice "Marie" Morrison, 79, retired educator and counselor, died Monday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Antioch Baptist Church. Mallory-Martin.
Warner — Quinton James Seabolt, 68, retired carpenter and painter, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Church of Christ, Fort Gibson. Hampton, Checotah.
Wister — Billye G. Caudell, 82, homemaker, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, First United Methodist Church. Evans & Miller, Poteau.
U.S.-WORLD
Dr. Joan Hodgman
,
a pediatrician who pioneered guidelines for newborn care, died Aug. 10 of what is known as Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 84.
Hodgman died at a family cabin in Oregon of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, according to her daughter Ann Schwartz.
The longtime Arcadia, Calif., resident worked for 60 years at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and served as the director of its newborn division from 1957 to 1986. There she helped develop Los Angeles' first intensive care unit for sick and premature babies — one of the first in the country.
Her efforts are credited with reducing the hospital's infant mortality rate by 50 percent within a decade, affecting thousands of babies.
Hodgman was born Sept. 7, 1923, in Portland, Ore. She enrolled at Stanford University at age 16 before going to medical school at University of California San Francisco.
In 1999, Hodgman received the American Academy of Pediatrics' Apgar Award, the highest honor in neonatology.
James Busch Orthwein
, the former New England Patriots owner who played a role in the Rams' move to St. Louis, has died. He was 84.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said Orthwein died Friday at his home in Huntleigh, Mo., after a long battle with cancer.
Orthwein bought the Patriots in 1992 and sold the team two years later.
He played an important role in the Rams' move from Los Angeles to St. Louis by donating his 65 percent ownership of the stadium rights to FANS Inc., the nonprofit group that persuaded the team to move.
Orthwein's mother, Clara Busch, was the granddaughter of Adolphus Busch, a founder of Anheuser-Busch. Orthwein was a longtime member of its board.
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