er, 62, A 20 Monday, November 17, 2008 TULSA WORLD TRANSITIONS DEATHS Death notice policy The Tulsa World publishes death notices. Funeral homes may submit death notices from 4 to 10:30 p.m. daily. For information about news obituaries, call 581-8325. organ tissue donor TULSA Aldridge, Viola, 92, bookkeeper, died Saturday, Graveside service 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Memorial Park Cemetery, and memorial service 3 p.m. Wednesday, Ranch Acres Baptist Church. Stanleys. Aston, Jimmie 73, mechanic, died Wednesday. Memorial service 2 p.m.
Monday, Mowery Funeral Service Chapel, Owasso. Cambell, David, 66, died Sunday. Services pending. Midtown. Ebersole, Peggy, 63, homemaker, died Sunday, Services pending.
Moore's Eastlawn. Evans, Charles Robert "Bob," 85, retired Bethlehem Steel machinist, died Saturday in Olathe, Kan. Graveside service was held Friday. Heath-Griffith. Greiner, Ima, 84, beautician, died Saturday.
Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, both at Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home. Groblebe, Sylvia (Rosebrough) (Chesebro), 91, retired bank teller, died Nov. 8.
Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel. Add'Vantage. Hubble, Mary Eva, 84, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Lighthouse Church. Mark Griffith-Westwood. Kallenberger, Clinton, 88, petroleum engineer, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Moore's Rosewood Funeral Home, and memorial service 11 a.m.
Tuesday, John Knox Presbyterian Church. Moore's Southlawn. Madeira, Annabelle, 83, homemaker, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Heath-Griffith Funeral Home, and graveside service 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery. Madison, Barbara Jean, 74, homemaker, died Friday. No services planned. Add'Vantage. Oliver, Willie Clyde 65, died Nov.
4 in Fayetteville, N.C. Graveside service noon Friday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Keith D. Biglow. Olson, J.J., 29, former Bank of Oklahoma employee, died Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla.
Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn. Oolup, Jaan, 61, laborer, died Sunday, No local services planned. Moore's Eastlawn. Pierce, John 94, retired pharmacist, died Sunday.
Services pending. Moore's Rosewood. Royston, Barbara, 41, died Saturday. Services pending. Keith D.
Biglow. Williams, Earl Reece, 81, dry cleaning service employee, died Wednesday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, North Sheridan Church of Christ. Keith D.
Biglow. Wolfley, Helen Rita, 95, retired optician receptionist, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Church of St. Mary.
Fitzgerald's Southwood Colonial. Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted. Bartlesville Floyd Deal, 81, construction worker, died Saturday. Services pending. Walker-Brown, George, 84, retired min- ister, died Friday.
Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Bible Baptist Church. Stumpff. Beggs James R. Purdy, 74, retired grounds keeper, died Saturday.
Services pending. Mcdon-Winters Broken Arrow Charles Taylor, machinist, died Sunday. Services pending. Kennedy-AmisKennard. Elma N.
Watson, 88, homemakdied Sunday, Services pending. Hayhurst. Catoosa Jewell Baker, 83, homemaker, died Sunday, Services pending. Kennedy-Amis-Kennard. Claremore O'Dell Casto, 61, retired foundry worker, died Friday, Service 10 a.m.
Tuesday, First Assembly of God, Pryor. Rice. Dorothy Mae Graham, 83, died Friday, Graveside service 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oakhaven Memorial Gardens. Rice.
Kjell Tovander, 21, MIT student, died Sunday in Tulsa. Services pending. Musgrove-MerriottSmith. Seth Donald Wright, 28, construction worker, died Friday. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Monday and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, both at Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Home. Collinsville Nora Hiett, 88, farmer, died Nov. 11 in Costa Mesa, Calif. Service 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home Chapel, and graveside service 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tishomingo Cemetery, Tishomingo. Howard David Parker, 75, retired machinist, died Saturday. Services pending. Mowery, Owasso.
John R. Shelton, 68, Shelton Dental Lab owner, died Thursday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and service 10:30 a.m. Thursday, both at Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home, Tulsa.
Cookson Walter Kulp, 88, machine operator, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Country, Tahlequah. Haskell Pamela Sue Robison, Church. Waldrop.
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Kennedy-AmisKennard, Broken Arrow. Henryetta Johnnie Francis, 92, died Saturday. Services pending. Rogers. Lamar Jimmy Luna, 64, died Saturday, Service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Lamar Baptist Church. Hudson Phillips. Locust Grove Andrea "Creekkiller" Jackson, 40, Synergy Gas customer service representative, died Saturday in Vinita. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Shipman's Funeral Service, Pryor, and service 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Spavinaw Hills House of Worship, Spavinaw. Mannford Verona "Roni" Rolen, 71, died Friday, Private family services. Midtown. McAlester Lillian Inez Hazlewood, 87, medical insurance claim filer, died Thursday in Tulsa. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Monday, Bishop Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Main and Oklahoma Church of Christ. Okmulgee Benjamin Gardner Harned 83, Ben G. Harned Company Real Estate and Insurance owner, died Saturday in Tulsa. Services pending.
McClendon-Winters. Alina Martha Johnson, 32, restaurant employee, died Friday. Services pending. McClendonWinters. Owasso Irene Zola Thornburg, 94, Thorn Inc.
owner, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church. Mowery. Perry George F.
Bezdicek, 86, died Friday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church. Brown-Dugger. Ponca City Adel Popplewell, 86, homemaker, died Saturday.
Services pending. Trout. Porter Martha "Lucille" Garrett, 93, bookkeeper, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Church of Christ.
Shipman, Wagoner. Salina Marion Pritchett, 82, homemaker, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Shipman's Funeral Service, Pryor, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Salina Gymnasium.
Sallisaw Juanita (Copeland) Benge Watts, 93, homemaker, died Sunday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Agent Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oakridge Assembly of God. Sand Springs Irene Belew, 84, retired L.E.
Rader Center counselor, died Saturday. Visitation 6- 8 p.m. Monday and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, both at Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service. T.C.
Mieir, 86, retired welder, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Word of Life Fellowship. Mobley-Dodson. Tahlequah Joan Lenard, 75, homemaker, died Wednesday.
Service 2 p.m. Monday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel. Janet Sue Slover, 53, Curt's Oil Co. manager, died Friday. Service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Hart Funeral Home Chapel. Louise Smith, 88, homemaker, died Friday. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Monday and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, both at Hart Funeral Home.
Lana Tabler, 86, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Country. Vinita Willa "Billie" Lay, 75, retired waitress, died Friday. Visitation 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday, Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel, and graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Scott Cemetery. Wagoner Jewell Dene Steeley, 86, Wal-Mart greeter, died Saturday. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Mallett Funeral Home Chapel.
Wilburton Anne L. Florence, 76, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Highbridge Baptist who played a cheery co*ckney bus driver in the British sitcom "On the Buses," died Sunday, his daughter Jeanne Marley said. He was 92.
Marley said Varney died at a nursing home in Budleigh Salterton, in southwestern England, after a short illness. Varney was born in east London in 1916. He began his career as a singer, piano player and comic in the rough-and-tumble world of pubs, music halls and working men's clubs. He joined the Royal Electrical Engineers during World War Il but continued to perform as part of a touring show entertaining the troops. After the war he kept touring the music hall circuit and played a variety of television roles before becoming a household name in Britain with "On the Buses." Varney played Stan Butler, a happy-golucky driver tormented by the ire of his irascible boss, Inspector Blake.
With its cheeky humor and large doses of slapstick, the show was a huge hit, running for seven series between 1969 and 1973. It was exported around the world, spawned three feature films and a stage show, and remains enduringly popular. Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. She was 91.
Her daughter, Shari Vogler, said Saturday that Wald died Nov. 8 of natural causes at her Branford home. A hospice volunteer was by her side to the end, Vogler said. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in the 1960s when she updated its curriculum to include a stronger focus on comfort for dying patients and their families. Wald's passion for hospice was sparked when she heard a lecture by the founder of St.
Christopher's Hospice in London. She later left Yale to study at that center. She returned to organize Connecticut Hospice in 1974 in Branford, widely accepted to be the first U.S. hospice program. Her husband and children also became deeply involved in the hospice movement, Vogler said.
Wald's recent work included efforts to bring more hospice care to U.S. prisons and train inmates as hospice volunteers. Wald has said that before hospice, many physicians were so focused on the evolving technology of medicine that their attention to patients' needs was being eroded. "It was difficult for them to give up the treatment even when they saw the patient was going down, down, down and suffering more, more, more," she told The Associated Press at her 1998 induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame. "There are times when the symptoms can't be controlled, and the physician and nurses and others need to meet that patient and let the patient decide for themselves what they want," Wald said.
BIRTHS (Tulsans unless indicated) Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center Nikeshia Jackson and Omar Flores, girl. Richa and Cody Gill, Cleveland, boy. Toni Hent and Kevin Kerr, Sand Springs, girl. Emily and Alan Lewallen, boy.
Samantha Joshua and Francisco Perales, girl. Jacqueline Bautista and Rodrigo Rodriguez, girl. St. Francis Hospital Angela and Justin Blagg, Wagoner, boy. Jessica Davis and Jose Diel, girl.
Rebecca and Jeffrey Horvath, boy. Lacey Bogle and Drew Mosco, Henryetta, girl. Heather and Cory Reedy, Broken Arrow, girl. Rebecca Aldrich and Jerimiah Seals, boy. Stacey and Tyler Tucker, Sapulpa, boy.
St. John Medical Center Lindsey Baber, girl. OSU Medical Center Angel and Richard Lewis, boy. Mark Ryan of Kingfisher makes his way north on Washington Highway 530, south of Conway, on Thursday. Ryan, his horse, Mister Doodles, and pack mule, Festus, started out from Oklahoma on June 2 for Ferndale, to visit a friend.
Ryan's horse is on its sixth set of horseshoes and his mule is on its third. FRANK Press Kingfisher er man treks 2,000 miles by horse BY MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE More than halfway through his 2.000- mile horseback journey across the West, Bell's Mark ranch Ryan stopped at Zeb outside a tiny town in southern Idaho. "He just showed up at my back door, all of the sudden there he was," recalled Bell, a pro rodeo announcer. "He introduced himself, and asked to just stay here for the night. It's not the first time we've had someone like him." Bell, 61, described Ryan as a long rider someone who rides horseback for hundreds or thousands of miles, echoes an era long gone.
For Ryan, riding across the West on his horse Mister Doodles to visit a friend was a chance to see the country in a way not many other people do. "It's part of life you just kind of get an urge to do something before you get too old," said Ryan, 46. "There's nothing like traveling 2 miles an hour." He also left an impression on the people he met as he rode through seven states, from Oklahoma to Washington. Ryan reckons that he camped at dozens of different places, stayed with more than 60 people, and his horse and mule wore down almost 10 sets of shoes. He took with him only maps: no Global Positioning System or even a cell phone.
At some places, Ryan said, he rode on highways where "It's part of life you just kind of get an urge to do something before you get too old. There's nothing like traveling 2 miles an Mark Ryan Cross-country horseback traveler cars were an arm's-length away from his horse. His border collie, Halfway, accompanied him to Kansas, where she blistered her feet on hot pavement and had to be picked up by Ryan's wife, Eva. In Wyoming, the prairie was full of rattlesnakes. At one point in the Idaho backcountry, Ryan got lost for a full day.
"It didn't seem like a big of a deal at first, but it was a lot of work," Ryan said. "Some of them mountains, boy, it got cold. Frost on the tent, rainy days and a lot of hot days. All we carried was 60 pounds of gear, at times 50 pounds of feed." He left his hometown of Kingfisher, on June 2 and didn't reach Ferndale, a small town about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, until mid-October, a trip of almost five months. "You can't believe he actually did it," said April Smith, one of the friends Ryan was visiting.
"It's kind of a John Wayne story." She and her husband didn't believe Ryan when he said he would ride his horse to Washington. While the Smiths waited for him, Ryan was meeting all sorts of people. There was a county sheriff and the rodeo announcer in Idaho, a widow in Kansas, and many others. He's kept the names and addresses of all of them. In Laramie, residents called animal control after seeing Mister Doodles and the mule named Festus resting at a park in town.
An animal control worker, Terese Bingham, said she found Ryan reading his Bible and that the animals were fine. "It takes a lot to pull off a trip like that being alone like that," Bingham said. Outside Brush, Floyd Pickett helped Ryan get new shoes for Mister Doodles and Festus. "I had a lot of admiration because he had the guts to go do it," said Pickett, a retired ranch foreman. "I'm 67 years old, and I always wanted to do it." Ryan stayed with the Smiths for a few weeks, but because the weather was getting cold he decided not to ride his horse back to Oklahoma.
He looked for rides, but ended up buying an old truck, with a horse trailer for Mister Doodles and Festus, his wife said. But the truck broke down in Oregon. "He doesn't have the money to buy another or fix the engine," Eva Ryan said "'He's waiting there for a ride. If he wants to ride back, he'll have to wait still spring, wait until at least May." Two die in separate highway crashes One man died in a singlevehicle crash Sunday in Delaware County, and another man died Sunday from injuries he suffered in a crash Wednesday in Pittsburg County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. Dead are Roxy Dale Case, 20, of Eucha and Isaias Martinez-Ortiz, 27, of McAlester.
Case was traveling west on Oklahoma 20 six miles west of Jay in a 1987 Buick when the vehicle went off the right side of the road about 7 a.m. and skidded into a ditch, troopers said. Case was ejected and trapped under the vehicle for six hours. He was pro- ENERGY SAVING "WINDOWS" REPLACE THOSE OLD WINDOWS NOW Custom Built Windows VINYL SIDING Save Energy And Lower Your Utility Bills! Since Made Proudly in Save 98 1946 Oklahoma Saving As Low As Insta PUBLIC SUPPLY COMPANY 10934 E. 55th Place Tulsa (918) 622-4847 Now Direct to the Public at Wholesale Prices Free In-Home Estimates WINDOWS DOORS Are you a Tell your story at tulsaworld.com/7 nounced dead at the scene from massive injuries, the OHP said.
Michael Lee Bales, 22, of Jay, who was also in the Buick, was taken to St. John Medical Center in Tulsa in serious condition, troopers said. The OHP said it did not know which man was driving. Martinez-Ortiz was driving a 1991 GMC Sonoma truck Wednesday west on Oklahoma 31, seven miles east of Krebs, when it struck a 2005 Chevy truck driven by David Chamlee, 24, of Crowder, who was attempting to turn left onto a county road, troopers reported. A third vehicle, a GMC Jimmy driven by Aileen Mize, 44, of McAlester, crashed into Martinez-Ortiz's vehicle, which burst into flames, troopers said.
Martinez-Ortiz suffered severe burns and was taken to Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, where he died, the OHP said. Chamlee and his two passengers were not injured, troopers said. Mize, who suffered minor injuries, was taken to a hospital and was later released. All drivers and passengers in the crash were wearing seat belts, troopers said. GET YOUR VNA FLU SHOT! Visiting Nurse Association Visiting Nurse Association 7875 51st Street (51st Memorial) Fontana Shopping Center Monday 9am to 6pm Tuesday Friday 9am to Reasor's Grocery Stores (All Tulsa metro area) Monday Friday 10am to 6pm Saturday 10am to 2pm October 6th November 21st file Medicare! Flu Shots $28 Flu Mist $30 www.vnatulsa.org 918-743-9810.
