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Obituaries

Services- Pending

 

Rosalie K. McCluskey, 85, of Bartlesville, died at 1:05pm, Friday, August 27, at the Forrest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey.  The family requests private family services.  Arrangements are under the direction of Walker-Brown Funeral Home.  Rosalie is survived by three children; Michael McCluskey, Katherine McCluskey Kemp and Kirck McCluskey, eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  Memorial contributions can be made to First United Methodist Church, Music Department, P.O. Box 136, Bartlesville, OK 74005. 

 

Services -Friday -September 3

Aleen Ruth Staton, 90, died Sunday, August 29.  Services will be held 2pm, Friday at the First Christian Church in Caney, Kansas, directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. 

Mr. George Leroy Hickman, 82, Bartlesville resident and retired insurance agent, passed away at 1:15pm, on Monday, August 30, in Bartlesville.  Funeral service will be held at 10am on Friday, September 3, in the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Buz Wierick as the officiant.   Graveside services and interment will be directed at 4pm, in the Osage Cemetery, Agra, Oklahoma with Rev. Hugh Welby as the officiant.  Military rites will be conducted at the graveside by the Ft. Sill Honor Guard.  Funeral services are entrusted to the Arnold MOore Funeral Service.  Memorial contributions are requested to either First United Methodist Church, PO Box 1136, Bartlesville, OK, 74005 or the Salvation Army, 101 N. Bucy, Bartlesville, OK 74003, in lieu of flowers.  Mr. HIckman will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold MOore Funeral Residence.  Vistiation with the family present will be from 4 to 8 on Thursday, September 2.  An Oklahoma native, George Leroy Hickman was born December 21, 1927 at Ripley.  He was the son of the late Ellsworth Hickman and Grace Annice (Mattocks) Hickman.  George was reared and received his education in the Agra, Oklahoma Public Schools.  He was graduate of the Senior Class of 1946 from the Agra High School.  IN 1948, George was enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Medical Corps until his honoorable discharge in 1952.  On August 16, 1952 he was united in marriage at Bad Hersfeld, Germany to Helga I. Hardtke.  George was employed by McDonald Douglas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1953 to 1956 while continuing his education at the University of Tulsa from which he received his B.S. Degree in Business Law and Accounting.  He then was an agent with the American National Life INsurance Company from 1956 to 1960 and First Investment INsurance Agency from 1960 to 1982.  In 1982 George began the George Hickman INsurance Agency and remained active until it was sold.  George was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Bartlesville; Bartlesville Masonic Lodge #284 A.F & A.M.; Uptown Civitan Club; and Life Member of the Salvation Advisory Board in Bartlesville.  Other awards and recognition included INternatioal Honor Key, Civitan INternation, District HOnor Key Civitan INternational, Harry Denman Evangelism Award from the United Methodist Church; Outstanding Citizen Award from the City of BArtlesville, and was twice named Civitan of the Year.  Survivors are his wife, Helga I. of BArtlesville home; two daughters, Freda (HIckman) Bretz and Grace (Hickman) Farmer also of Bartlesville. 

Dorothy Evetts Gillespie, 86, died Monday, August 30.  Graveside services will be 1pm, Friday, September 3, in the Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Odessa, Texas, directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. 

 

Services -Saturday-September 4

Norman Lee Sharpton, legal age, retired engineering machine shop manager for Reda Pump, died Friday, August 27.  Services will be held 10am, Saturday, September 4, at the Faith Free Will Baptist Church.  Arrangements by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. 

Mabel E. Colaw, 92, died Friday, August 27.  Memorial services will be held at 3pm, Saturday, September 4, at the First Wesleyan Church.  Arrangements directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. 

Edna Viola Kreps, 85, died Tuesday, August 31.  Services will be held 10am, Saturday, September 4, at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Bartlesville.  Arrangements with the Stumpff-Nowata Funeral Home.