ULSA WORLD Tuesday, December 16, 2014 A 9 DEATHS FROM A8 ENID Thomas, Earl, 90, fence builder, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Calvary Baptist Church, and graveside service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Fairlawn Cemetery, Cushing. Davis, Cushing.
EUFAULA Friend, Earnest Lewis, 63, Gates Rubber Co. employee, died Dec. 9. Service 11 a.m. Saturday, Wayland Baptist Church.
Hunn Black Merritt. FAIRLAND Sampson, George 78, rancher, died Monday in Joplin, Mo. Services pending. Brown-Winters. FORT GIBSON Briscoe, Donald 74, retired operating engineer, died Sunday.
Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel, Muskogee. GLENPOOL Ryan, Patrick Gregory, 63, salesman, died Monday in Tulsa. Services pending. Schaudt's.
Shanks, Wanda Lee, 86, died Sunday in Broken Arrow. Graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Park Grove Cemetery, Broken Arrow. Schaudt's. GROVE Graham, Jimmie Edward, 67, RV salesman and business owner, died Sunday.
Services pending. Grand Lake Funeral Home. Kennedy, Robert 88, retirement home owner, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m.
Friday, Delaware Baptist Church. Murphy, Frances, age unavailable, homemaker, died Monday. Memorial service 3 p.m. Friday, Ellis Family Funeral Home Chapel. Putsche, Otto Chris, 88, retired regional general superintendent of transportation, died Friday.
Private family services. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa. HAILEYVILLE Dement, Mary 93, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Holy Rosary Cemetery Pavillion, Hartshorne.
Brumley-Mills, Hartshorne. HARTSHORNE Duffy, Patrick, 63, carpenter and painter, died Sunday. Services pending. HOWE Wright, Gustavia "Gussie," 79, died Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Dowden-Roberts Funeral Home, Heavener. INDIANOLA Bynum, Roy, 85, civil service budget director, died Friday in McAlester. Visitation 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Brumley-Mills Funeral Home, McAlester, and graveside service 3 p.m.
Thursday, Indianola Cemetery, INOLA Wilson, Pamela Ruth (Hardison), 59, homemaker, died Sunday. Visitation 1-8 p.m. Thursday, Inola Funeral Home, and funeral Mass 11 a.m. Friday, Church of the Madalene, Tulsa. JENKS Bruce, Etta, 86, real estate agent, died Sunday.
Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Leonard Marker Funeral Home Chapel, Bixby. KIEFER Pierson, Melissa, 58, retired Department of Human Services secretary, died Saturday in Glenpool. Private family services. Schaudt's, Glenpool.
LONGTOWN Kelley, Donnie 61, rock mason, died Saturday in Tulsa. Memorial service 2 p.m. Wednesday, The Church Purchased by Christ, Haskell. Wright-Brown, Coweta. MCALESTER Busby, W.A., 74, retired sales manager, died Monday.
Services pending. Brumley-Mills. Shepherd, Frank, 81, retired construction contractor, died Friday. Services were held Monday. Brumley-Mills.
Thaxton, Lena "Doris," 81, retired certified nursing assistant, died Monday in Indianola. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Brumley-Mills Funeral Home. Wright, William Albert, 66, died Sunday.
Celebration of life 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Bishop Funeral Service. MIAMI Burtrum, Wilkie "Bill" age unavailable, died Friday in Joplin, Mo. Memorial reception 2 p.m. Saturday, Quapaw Tribal Complex, Quapaw.
Paul Thomas. Mahurin, Margaret 84, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending. Brown-Winters. Wheeler, Susan Jane, 64, homemaker, died Saturday.
Service 10 a.m. Thursday, First Christian Church. Brown-Winters. MOUNDS Fuller, Coy Edward, 24, machinist, died Sunday. Services pending.
Schaudt's, Glenpool. MUSKOGEE Davison, Randall Shelton, 52, Oklahoma School for the Blind head of security, died Sunday. Services pending. Cornerstone. Etchison, Florence Elizabeth, 85, self-employed, died Saturday.
Services pending. FosterPetering. Orr, Alyssa 25, retail salesclerk, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel.
Wagner, Werner 96, retired Buick dealer, died Saturday. Services pending. Foster-Petering. OILTON Howard, Glen Ray, 68, construction worker, died Friday. Service 2 p.m.
Thursday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel, Tulsa. Add'Vantage, Tulsa. OKEMAH Massey-Holt, Benita Kae, 50, homemaker, died Sunday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel.
OKMULGEE Cochran, Larry James, 67, safety coordinator, died Dec. 10 in Mounds. No services planned. McClendon-Winters, Beggs. Myrter, Charles Norman, 68, died Sunday.
Services pending. Jackson. PAWHUSKA Starr, Blueford M. IV, 65, retired Oklahoma Department of Transportation maintenance worker, died Saturday. Rosary 7 p.m.
Tuesday and traditional Indian service 8 a.m. Wednesday, both at Indian Camp Chapel; and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Wednesday, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. McCartney's Johnson. PORTER Goings, Sam, 74, rancher, died Sunday.
Service 2 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church. Shipman, Wagoner. PRYOR Garner, Alvin Lee, 76, retired from Homeland, died Sunday. Visitation 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday and service 2 p.m. Thursday, both at Stephens-Key Funeral Home. SALLISAW Glasgow, Melva Jean Holt, 72, homemaker, died Sunday, Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Agent Mallory Martin Funeral Home.
Watkins, Beverly, 56, early childhood development counselor, died Friday in Muskogee. No services planned. Agent Mallory Martin. SAND SPRINGS Bizzell, Ralph 82, retired Sheffield Steel Co. supervisor, died Saturday in Tulsa.
Visitation 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, MobleyDodson Funeral Service, and service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Crosspoint Church. Horn, Jackie Ray, 66, machine shop plant supervisor, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m.
Thursday, Harvest Church. Mark GriffithRiverside. SPERRY Juby, Billy Joe, 52, truck driver, died Sunday. Services pending. Johnson.
VERNON Fields, Jane Elizabeth, 72, healthcare provider, died Monday, Services pending. House of Winn, Okmulgee. VIAN Atcheson, Robert 75, salesman, died Sunday. Services pending. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial, Tulsa.
WAGONER Bryan, Jerald "Jerry," 76, Muskogee County Transit driver, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Thursday, Shipman Funeral Home Chapel. Smith, Evelyn 94, homemaker, died Sunday in Broken Arrow. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Tuesday, Mallett Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Immanuel Southern Baptist Church. WARNER Patterson, Dale 55, residential carpenter, died Friday. Services pending. Cornerstone, Muskogee.
WELEETKA Jenkins, Larry, 57, died Thursday in Tulsa. Memorial service 2 p.m. Dec. 22, Hillcrest Cemetery Arbor. Williamson-Spradlin, Wetumka.
Strangulation at private prison in Holdenville probed HOLDENVILLE Authorities are investigating the strangulation of an inmate at a southeastern Oklahoma private prison as a homicide. Tory Czernecki, 22, died Oct. 26 following an assault in his cell at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, according to report released Friday by the state Corrections Department. It says an inmate in the same cell admitted attacking Czernecki and told a corrections officer, "I Sal RAT Robbie Dildine collects food at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma in Tulsa for the Barnsdall-based food pantry where she works. The food bank supplies many food pantries in this region of the state.
MATT World FOOD FROM A7 The agency had to suspend increases to its Senior Servings program, where it currently provides food to 32 sites twice a month. "We could do more, but we don't want to take on more than we can sustain," said Eileen Bradshaw, executive director of the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. While the need doesn't necessarily increase during the holiday season, it's an important time for the food bank because it relies on donations from this time of year to keep supplies flowing to food pantries year round. "This is the time of year we gather around the table with our families and talk about gifts and giving," Bradshaw said. "This is the time to talk about others who want to gather in the same way but don't have adequate food to get them through the week, let alone have a turkey dinner." The agency has kicked off its Fill the Plate campaign this month, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation has NEEDY FROM A7 sure how it occurred.
They were outside near where a trash fire had been burning earlier; she turned her back for a few seconds, she said, and Andrew, perhaps stumbling, came into contact with the still-smoldering ashes. He didn't cry, and at first it wasn't clear the injuries were bad. But when they rinsed the ash from his hand, Michelle was horrified to see the skin come off, too. From a hospital in Owasso and then Saint Francis in Tulsa, Andrew would be sent to the Shriner's Hospital for Children in Galveston, where he would spend the next month. Michelle was encouraged, she says, by the Shriner's facility, adding that "I cannot say enough about them." But even with Andrew receiving first-rate care, she knows "it's going to be a long road." As he grows up, he will Food and finances A recent survey of clients from the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma's more than 450 partner agencies found that: 33 percent of households report choosing between paying for food and paying for school loans, tuition or other educational expenses.
percent of households report choosing between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care. 61 percent of households reissued a $150,000 challenge grant that will match, dollarfor-dollar, donations from new donors and increases in donations from those who have given previously. Typically, the food bank can provide four meals for $1. With the grant, each donor's dollar will provide eight meals, Bradshaw said. "For a $25 gift you can provide a meal for 200 people who get to eat that day.
That's a hugely significant gift," she said. One of the food bank's focuses heading into the new year is continuing to work port choosing between paying for food and paying their rent or mortgage. 75 percent of households report choosing between paying for food and paying for transportation or gas for their car. 76 percent of households report choosing between paying for food and paying for utilities. Source: Feeding America Hunger in America 2014 Client Survey with its partner agencies not just to provide hunger relief, but also to provide ways to "shorten the line." "In addition to feeding people, a lot of our partner agencies are offering things like GED classes to help people get a better job so they won't need help in the future," Bradshaw said.
"I don't think hunger is OK, and we need to continue feeding those who need it, as well, (but) we need to educate and empower them so they don't need help forever." According to a recent report from Feeding America, About the Neediest Families Fund Drive The Neediest Families Fund Drive was established in 1928 to provide assistance to families in need during the holidays and the coming year. Each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday through the holiday season, the Tulsa World will spotlight families chosen by the Salvation Army to receive have to have yearly surgery on his hand. "The skin graft won't grow with him," Michelle said, adding that every annual procedure will require a month in the hospital. Currently, Andrew receives daily physical therapy at his day care facility. He has slowly regained mobility in his hand but can't yet fully extend it.
The situation has set back the family financially. Because of the time demands of Andrew's treatment, his mother could not work and eventually lost her job and her home. help through this year's fund. Donations may be made by sending a check or money order to the Neediest Families Fund, in care of the Tulsa World, P.O. Box 1770, Tulsa, 74102.
Donations may also be made online at tulsaworld.com/ neediestfamilies. "I fell behind on my rent payments," said Michelle, who recently returned to work as a referral nurse at Axis Healthcare. "It was like a chain reaction, one thing and then another." The family including her other children Liseanne, 16, Nelson, 13, and Anselm, 8 currently lives with Michelle's brother. Looking back at the last few difficult months, Michelle sees some silver linings. "If it had to happen," she said, "it's good it happened when it did, they told me.
At The former Tulsa Fire Department stations at 1401 N. Lewis Ave. (left) and 1712 S. Phoenix Ave. stand vacant Monday.
auctioning off the stations, along with other unused properties in town. MICHAEL World AUCTION FROM A7 with them," Twombly said. Cindy Dees, vice president of marketing for Williams and Williams Real Estate Auctions, said her company is conducting the auction on 69 percent of those seeking assistance at a food pantry have a working member in the household, and 27 percent of veterans returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are food insecure meaning they don't always have adequate resources to obtain food. Additionally, 1 in 4 children in Oklahoma is at risk of going to bed hungry. "There are a lot of people working and doing what they are being asked and with the veterans more than they've been asked yet hunger is still a huge reality for them," Bradshaw said.
"Hunger isn't isolated, it's part of a host of issues. I don't think we can solve the attendant problems until folks are fed." Sand Springs Community Services, which provides a food pantry for its clients, has served about 3,300 people this year, a 212 percent increase from last year, Executive Director Valerie Thomas said. "Without the food bank, we would send people away hungry," Thomas said. "I guarantee it." Mike Averill 918-581-8489 mike.averill@tulsaworld.com TULSA WORLD THE Neediest A ARMY Families Christmas Fund 2014 I would like to brighten the holiday of Tulsa's less fortunate. Donation amount enclosed Name Address City State Zip.
01 wish to remain anonymous mI wish to have my name published in the Tulsa World Mail to: Neediest Families Fund P.O. Box 1770 Tulsa, OK 74102 2014 GOAL $325,000 Andrew's age, it's easier to learn to live with it." So far, that has proven true. "It doesn't slow him down," Michelle added, laughing. Tim Stanley 918-581-8385 tim.stanley@tulsaworld.com did a number on my cellie." Davis Correctional Facility is owned by Corrections Corporation of America. Hughes County District Attorney Chris Ross said the cellmate, Joshua Wheeler, 25, is expected to be charged this week.
Wheeler is serving a 10-year prison sentence for robbery in Pittsburg County and a five-year sentence for assaulting a corrections officer in Payne County. THE OKLAHOMAN The city is site and online with no reserve meaning it's a "true auction" and a property could go for a penny. "They are pretty cool little buildings," Dees said. "I think every buyer is going to come with their own vision for this property." The auction of the Phoenix Avenue station is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Thursday, and the Lewis Avenue station auction is set for 3 p.m.
that day. A third auction of city property on Thursday is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. for undeveloped property at 136 E. Mohawk Blvd. According to the auctioneer's website, the Phoenix Avenue station is larger at 2,670 square feet than the North Lewis Avenue station at 2,230 square feet.
"It's really going to come down to what the market is going to pay for these properties," Dees said. Jarrel Wade 918-581-8367 jarrel.wade@tulsaworld.com.