Memorials
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Kitty Mead (Scranton)
1955-10-17 2014-03-06
Kitty L. Mead, 58 year old Tulsa, Oklahoma resident, passed away Thursday, March 6, 2014 at Clarehouse in Tulsa. Kitty was born October 17, 1955 in Tulsa to Jack Scranton and Kathleen (Sheridan) Scranton. Kitty was an Attorney and later worked in Outside Sales for several companies. Kitty was united in marriage to David Mead on July 3, 1999 in Tulsa. Kitty is survived by her husband, David of the home; one daughter, Evan Scranton and husband, Sam Pettit; one step-daughter, Amanda Mead; and three brothers, Jack Adwon, Joe Scranton and wife, Teresa, and Steve Scranton all of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Denise Yocom (Smith)
1955-09-25 2024-12-21
Service for Denise Yocom will be 10:00a.m., Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at Life Changer Church. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Monday, December 30, from 1pm-6pm, with family receiving visitors from 2pm-4pm. Denise passed away on Saturday, December 21, 2024. She was 69.
Born on September 25, 1955, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Jim and Shirley (Cox) Smith. Her education was a testament to her commitment to personal growth, having graduated from Memorial High School in Tulsa and subsequently returning to school to further her academic pursuits.
On Valentine's Day in 1997, Denise married Jerry Wayne Yocom, and they built a loving home together in Claremore.
Denise...

Linda Suzanne Wyatt (Spearing)
1955-10-17 2022-10-27
Linda Suzanne Wyatt (67)), of Oklahoma passed away on October 17,2022 on her 67th Birthday after a short battle with Sepsis. Suzanne was born on October 17, 1955, to Ed and DeLois Spearing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After graduating from Tulsa Memorial High School in 1973 she went on to study Nursing at the University of Oklahoma. In 1980 she received her master's degree in Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, she worked for Children's Hospital, and then as the Clinical Education Coordinator for Norman Regional Hospital for over 15 years. She then worked 14 years in the NICU unit to finish her career at the Norman Regional Hospital Health plex.
Suzanne met Ric...

Scott Taylor (Taylor)
1955-06-08 2009-09-02
Scott was born in Tulsa. He attended Nimitz Jr High and Memorial. Following graduation he attended Oklahoma State University, majoring in marketing. While at OSU, Scott enjoyed working in ad sales at the Daily O'Colly. He was married to fellow classmate Kim Nail from 1976-1983. Scott was employed as a Corporate Credit Analyst at the time of his death. He is survived by his 2 children, 4 grandchildren and a brother.
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Gary Michael Trickel (Trickel)
1955-06-03 1996-11-06
Gary is buried in Owasso, OK.
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Emily Powell (Turk)
1954-02-11 2022-06-09
On Thursday, June 9, 2022, Emily “Millie” J Powell, loving wife, stepmother, aunt, and BoomMa, passed away surrounded by her family.
Millie was born February 1, 1954 in Tulsa, OK to Joe and Ellen Turk. She grew up in Tulsa and attended Memorial High School. Following high school, Millie attended Oklahoma University and later Tulsa Community College where she fostered her love for art and design while studying Mechanical Drafting and AutoCAD. She worked for Memorex - TelEx and DeShazo Tang and Associates Engineering, but her artistic skills lead her heart to pencil sketching, painting, jewelry making, cooking, and photography.
On June 5th, 1993 she married Steve P...

Janet Hunter (Vassar)
1954-11-12 1997-03-13
Janet, born November 12, 1954. Janet passed away on March 13, 1997 in the city where she resided, Indianapolis, IN. She is survived by: her husband, Fred; her daughter, Allison; her parents, Bob J. and Marcia Vassar of Tulsa; and numerous friends and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her brother, Clay. Jan owned an insurance agency in Indianapolis and had received numerous awards for her accomplishments in the property, casualty, and life insurance field. She was also active in church and other community affairs. After growing up in Tulsa she completed her education at the University of Oklahoma together with Oklahoma State, then worked in the dental business for several years...
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Deborah Blair (Warren)
1955-07-27 2019-02-11
Debbie Blair passed away February 11, 2019 in the home of her friend Paul Cowdin of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Deborah Dell Warren was born to Pinea & Donald Warren in Tulsa, OK on July 27, 1955.
Debbie attended college at NSU in Tahlequah, OK & OU in Norman, OK. She worked at The Mont in Norman, OK & catered for several concerts at the Lloyd Noble Center.
While living in Burbank, California she worked for Marriott Catering on the Disney Studios lot for TV shows such as Home Improvement and The Ellen Show, along with Disney movies such as The Little Mermaid.
Debbie was a resident of Estes Park, Colorado for over 13 years. While here, she worked at the Stanley...

Pete Westfall (Westfall)
1955-03-14 2016-10-25
Chester H. Westfall, III, or "Pete" to all who knew and loved him, lost the battle with cancer but passed on to the Next Great Adventure on October 25, 2016. A native Tulsan, he was born March 14, 1955 to Sally and Chester Westfall and lived here for most of his adult life. He attended Tulsa Memorial High School, class of 1973, and then went on to earn his degree from OSU in 1978. Pete worked as a landman in the oil business his entire career, but his career is but a small piece of his story. His was a life of great fun and adventure. As a child (and beyond), he and his brother, cousins and friends were always outdoors. Whether it was playing a variety of sports, building forts, having Ro...
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Mark Wheeler (Wheeler)
2005-03-24
Mark was cremated and his ashes scattered in Grand Lake.
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Richard Wood (Wood)
1955-11-24 1991-12-08
Richard Glen wood was born Nov 24, 1955 in Kansas City, KS and passed away on Dec 8, 1991 in Dallas, TX.
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Thomas Wright (Wright)
1955-04-24 2022-11-15
Thomas Nelson Wright, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away on November 15, 2022 at the age of 67. Tom was born on April 24, 1955 in Arkansas City, Kansas to Tommy Ray Wright and Marcia Thompson Wright. Early in his childhood, his family relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, Tom met his wife, Susan Williams, through mutual friends. They were engaged a few months after meeting and married on August 18,1979. They celebrated 43 years together last summer before Tom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on September 29, 2022.
In 1978, Tom was hired at Marshall Supply Company (Marsuco) in Tulsa. A few years later, he and Susan were transferred to Fort Worth, TX and Tom began...

Donna Pope (Yelton)
1955-01-29 2020-05-21
Donna E. Yelton Pope, 65 of Bartlesville, Oklahoma passed away on May 21, 2020 after battling ovarian cancer for over 4 years.
Donna was born in Tulsa, OK on January 29, 1955, to Jessie Denton and Edward O. Yelton. She attended Memorial High School, graduating in 1973. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech/Language Pathology from the University of Oklahoma, followed by a Master’s of Science degree in 1979 from the OU Health Science Center in Oklahoma City. She received her Certificate of Clinical Competence as well as her Oklahoma teaching certificate. Donna loved children and worked as a Speech/Language Pathologist for 14 years, the last 9 of which were with the...