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Funeral Services for former Wewoka resident Jacqueline Sue Davis-Beaver are scheduled for 2p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Stout-Phillips Funeral Home with Rev. Malcolm Tiger officiating.
Wake services were scheduled for Monday Oct. 6, at 6:30p.m. at Stout chapel.
Beaver was born Aug. 10, 1969, in Wewoka to Jack Floyd and Mary Sue (Camp) Davis. She died Friday, Oct. 3, in Tulsa.
She was a member of Little Wewoka Methodist Church, and worked at various restaurants.
Her Mother Mary Sue and brother Jackie Davis Jr precede her in death.
Survivors included her father Jack Floyd Davis, of Wagoner; Children Kristopher Tiger, of Hartshorne, Ursula and Nahla Tiger, of Ada; and two brothers Chris and Emerson Davis, both of Tulsa,
Arrangements by Stout-Phillips Funeral Home.
Wayne Day
Funeral services for longtime Seminole resident and college administrator Wayne M. Day are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Seminole with Rev. Gary Wilburn to officiate.
Interment is to follow at Maple Grove Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home, Seminole.
Mr. Day passed from this life Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2008 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He was born Nov. 25, 1932 in Woodward, Okla., to parents John F. Day and Villa K. (Johnson) Day.
Following graduation from Woodward High School, Wayne joined the United States Army and served stateside during the Korean Conflict. Mr. Day went on to earn his Bachelor of Science degree from Panhandle A&M College, now Panhandle State University.
He married JaNene Shuyler on May 25, 1956 in Buffalo, Okla.
Education was very important to Mr. Day he earned a Master Teaching Degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Okla. Mr. Day commuted to graduate classes at the University of Oklahoma while working at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Okla.
During this time is when Mr. Day met Dr. Elmer Tanner, then president of a two-year college, which was struggling to build a campus and a student body.
In their conversations between classes, Day learned that the local community was voting a sales tax to support the new college and he decided to accept an offer from Tanner to come to work at Seminole Junior College where he worked until his retirement on June 30, 1996 after 25 years.
During those years he had served the College in 1971 as the Director of Cooperative Education and the Director of Federal Programs.
In July of 1977, Day began service as Dean of Admissions and Records and was the College’s official Registrar. His duties were expanded in 1987 when he became Dean of Students. Since 1990, he served as Vice President of Student Affairs.
In addition to supervision of the admissions office, Day was responsible for the areas of financial aid, campus police, housing, Affirmative Action compliance and the college’s federally funded Trio programs.
Throughout his years at Seminole Junior College, Day also served periodically as an instructor in mathematics and continuing education for realtors.
Mr. Day has seen a lot of changes through the years. In the area of enrollment, the numbers have sky rocketed, the campus has grown well beyond anything he could have ever imagined.
Mr. Day has played a pivotal roll in making Higher Education in Seminole what it is today at Seminole State College. Never dreaming that in 1971 when he moved his family to Seminole he would become such an icon and a well-respected member of our community.
Mr. Day was a very active member of the community and in civic affairs. He is a past chairman of the administrative board of the First United Methodist Church. He is a former member of the Lions Club; he had also been active with the Chamber of Commerce, he is also a charter member of the Seminole Elks Lodge where he served as the lodge’s first secretary.
He was involved in local youth activities; he is a former youth soccer coach and spent ten years coaching pony league baseball. Mr. Day was serving as the current President of the Seminole Housing Authority, where former Seminole Mayor Gene Price appointed him a member many years ago. Mr. Day was also on the Library Trust Committee until his death.
During the 1977 national observance of the country’s bicentennial, he served as chairman of the Seminole Bicentennial Committee. In the early 1970’s, Day was appointed by the late United States Senator Dewey Bartlett to serve on the state’s seven-member Academy Selection Board.
In the mid-1970’s, Day was elected president of the state Association of Higher Education, an affiliate of the Oklahoma Education Association.
Mr. Day leaves to cherish his memory his wife of 51 years, JaNene Day of the home; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Brad Day of Seminole, and Craig Day and his wife Anissa Day of Owasso; and two daughters and sons-in-law, JoLynn and husband Billy McCarver, Jr. of Wapanucka, Okla., and LaDawn and husband Bill Fulgenzi of Yukon, Okla.
He is also survived by seven grandchildren: Sharlotte Fulgenzi, Adrian Day, Andrew Day, Rebecca Fulgenzi, Jackson Day, Addison Day and Audrey Day.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter ZoeLinda Day (1957) and by one brother Gerald Day (2004).
Casket bearers will be: Neal Day, John Firquain, David Griebel, Adrian Day, Andrew Day, and Jackson Day.
Honorary bearers will be all former and current administration and staff of Seminole State College.
The family has designated the Wayne Day Memorial Scholarship fund as appropriate for memorial donations in care of Seminole State College, Educational Foundation, P.O. Box 351, Seminole, OK 74818-0351.
The casket will remain open until service time and will not be re-opened following the service.
Brandon DeLana
Funeral services for Brandon Ray DeLana were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Stout-Phillips Funeral Chapel, Wewoka, with Pastor Billy Coon and Rev. Timothy Coon officiating.
Services were under the direction of Stout-Phillips Funeral Home, Wewoka.
Beandon passed away Monday, May 5, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born July 8, 1991 in Ada to Marilyn Natalie (Coon) DeLana.
He was a resident of Bethany Children’s Center since he was three years old and was transferred to Countryside Nursing Home, Warner, Okla., in May 2007.
Brandon was loved by his family very much and he enjoyed listening to his sister on their visit with him..
Surviving is his mother: Marilyn Delana of Wewoka; siblings: Cheyenne Coon, Travis Malone Jr., and Coody Malone; grandparents, Walter and Mary Coon; aunts and uncles: Rhonda Coon, Robert and Patricia Coon, and Walter Coon III; and cousins: Jennifer Littrell and Samuel Coon.
Pall bearers will be: John Littrell, Samuel Coon, Robert Coon, Walter Coon III, Travis Cole Malone Jr., and Eric Wise.
Mary DeLoach
Graveside services for county resident may La Juana DeLoach will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 10 a.m. in Little Cemetery under the direction of Fisher Funeral Home of Holdenville.
Chris Stinnet will serve as officiating minister.
DeLoach passed away on Friday, Dec. 28 at Midwest City Regional Hospital in Midwest at 73 years of age.
She was born on Nov. 26, 1934 in Bald Knob, Ark. to Howard Edward Griffin and Opal (Merideth) Griffin and married Edward Dewayne De Loach on Feb. 9, 1970 in Shawnee.
DeLoach worked ten years at the Addington Shoe Factory in Arkansas, the Boise Kingsberry Homes in Holdenville and Akers in Wewoka before retiring. She was a member of the Church of Christ, Seminole.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and youngest daughter, Tammy Miner.
DeLoach is survived by her husband of thirty years, of the home; four daughters, Janice Kay Brumley, Holdenville, Connie Marie Cheatham, Bixby, JoWanna Morris, Wewoka, Terry Lynn Perry, Seminole; one brother, Marvin Griffin; one sister, Anita Williamson; nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Billy DePrater
Billy Lenard DePrater, age 72, died on Tuesday, Aug. 26, in Valley View Regional Hospital in Ada.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10a.m. on Friday, Aug. 29, at the Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel in Konawa.
Ed Bray will officiate. Burial will follow at 2p.m. at South Heights Cemetery at 1815 S. Ridgeway Street in Sapulpa.
DePrater was born Oct. 4, 1935, in Sapulpa, to William J. and Maude DePrater.
He lived in Keifer until he was twelve years old when his family moved to Konawa. He attended Vamoosa schools and graduated in 1953. He then attended Bethany Penile (now known as Bethany Nazarene) in Bethany. He graduated with a BS in Chemistry from East Central University in 1958, and was employed by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
He received a Public Health Service Grant to attend the University of Oklahoma where he received a Masters Degree in Sanitary Science and Public Health (Industrial Hygiene).
He continued his career with the Bureau of Mines at the Helium plant in Keys, and later he transferred to the Bartlesville Petroleum Research division where he worked in Physical Chemistry in the development of rocket fuels and propellants.
He was co-author on several scientific papers out of this facility. He transferred to the Public Health Service and was the Chief Chemist on the Delaware Estuary Study working to clean up the Delaware and Raritan Rivers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He developed several tests to study estuary waters. He also taught mini classes in Mass-Spectroscopy at Rutgers University and CC&Y. He transferred to the Robert S. Kerr Regional Laboratory in Ada, in 1965, and worked there until 1982.
Billy was married to Ann Brewer in 1956.
He is survived by two sons; William DePrater, of Ada, and Bruce DePrater of Fresno, Calif. three daughters, Cindy DePrater, of The Colony, Texas, Cheryl Gurley, of Redondo Beach, Calif., and Stacy Shelton, of Norman, and two sisters, Vera Bland and Margaret Paxton.
He was preceded in death by his mother and father.
Mildred Diaz
Funeral services for Mildred Diaz will be held Monday in the Swearingen Funeral Chapel, Seminole, at 2 p.m.
Graveside services will be held in New York. Mildred will be laid to rest next to her husband in Willet, N.Y.
Services are under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home, Seminole.
Mildred Gofgosky Diaz, 81, of Bowlegs, formerly of Willet, New York, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, at Seminole Hospital.
Mildred was born in Willet, N.Y. on Oct. 22, 1926, to the late Stanley and Bessie (Sorosigk) Gofgosky.
She married Jesus "Jesse" Diaz of Solon Pond, N.Y. on July 15, 1946, they enjoyed 61 years together.
Mildred grew up and lived most of her life on the Family Dairy Farm in Willet, N.Y., where she and Jesse raised seven children.
Mildred also worked at the old Smith Corona Plant in Cortland, N.Y., Cresent Corset in Marathon, N.Y. and farmed for a few years in Marathon, N.Y.
She lived her last twenty plus years with Jesse in Bowlegs. She loved to bowl, play pitch and bingo with the many wonderful friends she enjoyed during her lifetime.
Mildred had two green thumbs and one of her greatest joys was her flowers; she could make anything green thrive and did.
She also enjoyed crocheting and making dolls. In her younger years she was an avid basketball player while attending Cincinnatus Central School.
She is survived by her brothers, Leon and Mary Gofkowski of Willet, N.Y., and Walter and Patricia Gofgosky of Texas Valley, N.Y.; children: Diane Johnson of Seminole, Jesse Diaz of Syracuse, N.Y., Kenneth and Patricia (Gilbert) Diaz of Cincinnatus, N.Y., Donna Goff of New Milford, Pa., Darla and Larry Rutan of Willet, N.Y. and Debi and Michael Docalavich of Maiden, N.C.; 20 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and other family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jesus "Jesse" Diaz on May 24, 2007; her son, Stanley Jess Diaz in 1973; her great-granddaughter, Jessica Mae Rice in 1994; her brother, Edward Gofgosky; her sister, Stella (Gofgosky) Landers; and her sister, Helen (Gofgosky) Whitaker.
Aleene Dillard
Aleene Dillard, a native of Rogers and long-time Temple, Texas resident, died Friday, Nov. 21 at 12:25 p.m. after a brief bout with pneumonia, just a few days short of her 101st birthday. Her parents were John D. and Ora Mabel Lynch, of Rogers, Texas.
She wanted to celebrate that milestone with a pizza party at Park Place Manor, the Belton nursing facility that has been her home since May. Instead, the family will gather for a private graveside service at the Bartlett Cemetery on Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 12:30 p.m.
While her body will be at the Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home on 31st Street in Temple, Texas until time for the service, there will be no somber family visitation. Instead, the family will gather after the service for a celebration of her life and sharing of stories at Lois and Jerry's on Clark Street, in Bartlett, Texas over hamburgers.
Hamburgers were a large part of her life, and Lois and Jerry's is only yards away from the spot where her husband started his career making burgers when he was 16.
For more than 30 years, she was in the hamburger business in Temple, Texas with her late husband, Clarence Y. (Cy) Dillard, first at Hamburger King, located on Central Avenue and later at Cy's Drive-In on South 1st Street. She continued to operate Cy's for five years after her husband's death in 1960.
She requested that instead of flowers, gifts should be directed to the Clarence Y. and Aleene Dillard Scholarship Fund at South Texas Children's Home, in Beeville, Texas. The fund provides scholarship gifts for children there who want to attend a Christian college but have no family to assist them.
She is survived by her children, Douglas Dillard, and Doris Edwards; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.
