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Joe Stone
Joe passed away Sunday 19 May 2013 at the Norman Veterans Center.
He was a good friend to the 1889ers. Incredibly tolerant.
Services will be at 2
p.m. Wednesday, May 22 at Memorial Christian Church, 1915 North Meridian.
From "The Oklahoman"...
March 8, 1930 - May 19, 2013 OKLAHOMA CITY
Joe J. Stone departed this life on May 19, 2013, in Norman, OK, at the Oklahoma Veterans Center, where he spent the last five months of his life. The family thanks the staff there under the direction of Dr. Adams for the loving care given to him during his final days dealing with the effects of Alzheimer's.
Joe was born March 8, 1930, in Shawnee, OK, to Franklin Olen and Mable Loreda (Wells) Stone. Following the early death of his father, Joe proposed at 3 years of age that William Arthur "Art" Crownover should be Dad to him and husband to Loreda, and he was the rest of his life.
Joe is survived by his wife, June (Cornwell) Stone, whom he married on Feb. 18, 1947. He leaves behind daughter, Billie (Stone) and husband Mike Fogarty; son, Joe G. and wife Barbara (Brentlinger) Stone; and grandchildren, Mike Stone, Natalie (Stone) Holt, Julie Stone, Richard Fogarty, Michaela (Fogarty) Pojezny, Kathleen Fogarty, and Daniel Fogarty; and 14 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by sisters, Frankie (Crownover) and husband George Chapman and Dana Sue (Crownover) and husband Pat Talley; two nieces, five grandnieces and nephews, and numerous other relatives and friends.
Joe served his country in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and following his retirement from the U.S. Army, he worked at Tinker Air Force Base. He was active in the American Legion Post #216 and the Britton Masonic Lodge #434. He also belonged to Disabled American Veterans and The 1889ers Society. He served for many years on the Children & Youth Committee of the American Legion and volunteered at Oklahoma Boys State. He served a number of years on the committee established to help survivors following the Oklahoma City bombing.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 at Memorial Christian Church, 1915 N. Meridian, Oklahoma City, with visitation from Noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday under the direction of Guardian West Funeral Home. Burial will be at Cashion Cemetery, Cashion, OK.
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April 20, 2013 Annual Banquet
- 20 April 2013
We all gathered for a group photo after Chad's excellent presentation on the opening of the Centennial Chest. There is a similar photo of The 1889ers Society of 1913 enclosed within the chest. We'll have more Banquet pictures soon (Click Here to download or view the large version of this photo.)
The 1889ers Society will play a prominent part in the
festivities surrounding the opening of the Century Chest on Monday, April 22 at
10:00 AM at the First Lutheran Church, 1300 N. Robinson, Oklahoma City, OK. If
you are able to come in person, please join us. But for those with a
computer and Internet access you can watch the event from home. Just go to
www.oeta.tv and watch the ceremony live at
10:00 AM CDT.
You can learn more about the Century Chest at:
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It's Banquet time!
Please join us for the 2013 Annual Banquet
Saturday 20 April 2013
Quail Creek Golf & Country Club
3501Quail Creek Road
Oklahoma City
Registration: 5:30PM
Dinner: 6:00PM
Welcome & Introductions: 6:50PM
Our guest speaker is Laura Martin, Deputy Director of the Research Division
Oklahoma Historical Society.
The Cost is $20 per person. (Children under 12 are half-price)
Reservations: Please call 405-946-7714 by Thursday 18 April.
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The 1889ers Society is invited to participate in the opening of the
Centennial Chest at 10:00 am Monday, April 22, 2013 at First Lutheran Church,
1300 N. Robinson, Oklahoma City. They will reserve a few seats for
us. If you would like to attend this grand event, please let me know as
soon as possible so that I can give them a number.
Parking is available at First Baptist Church across the street from First
Lutheran Church.
Here is information about the Centennial Chest
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Our website has moved to a new web server (computer).
It's quite a transition because nothing is ever as easy as one thinks it should be. Please be patient. There are a lot of things that don't work yet, but we're working to make them work... yes, it's all pretty redundant.
In the meantime, please be sure to mark your calendar for our 2013 Annual Banquet, Saturday, April 20 at 5:30pm.
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Here's what coming !!
1. Saturday, September 29, 2012 picnic at Will Rogers Memorial Park,
North Picnic Pavilion reserved from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
PLEASE, we need someone to be willing to coordinate the picnic food and fixings for
September 29th, it would be a wonderful example of the 1889er
spirit! Anyone ready to come to the aid of this Society?
2. Saturday, Dec 1, 2012 holiday party has been set at Memorial
Christian Church, 1915 N. Meridian, Oklahoma City. Noon to 2:00 pm.
3. Saturday, April 20, 2013 annual banquet at Quail Creek Golf and
Country Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Please mark your calendar!
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Dear 1889ers Society Member,
Come
join us for the 1889ers Holiday Party Saturday, December 1, 2012, at
Memorial Christian Church, 1915 N. Meridian, Oklahoma City, from noon to 2:00
PM. It is an old fashioned pot luck
luncheon so just bring your favorite dish and come celebrate as your ‘89er
ancestors did! Family and guests
are welcome!
Have you
heard about the Centennial Chest? The program will feature Chad Williams, Deputy
Director of the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society, who will
tell all about the amazing contents that were sealed into the Centennial Chest
that is to be opened in April 2013. It is a program that you will not want to
miss! The secrets are about to be
revealed and The 1889ers Society will play a role in the unveiling! Come hear what all the excitement is
about.
Thank
you for being a part of this great organization. Have you registered your children and
grandchildren yet? We need them as
members to carry on the legacy!
Reservations are not required, but it sure helps us plan better if
we know whether or not you are coming.
Email the president at
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or call 405-203-1274 to tell
us or to ask questions.
Billie
Fogarty
President
****Be
sure to mark your calendar for the Spring Banquet!
Saturday,
April 20, 2013
Annual Banquet, Quail Creek Golf and Country Club, 5:30 to 7:30
pm
Do you
have a new email account? We
received several email bounces on our latest contact with our members. We try to keep our expenses to a minimum
while still keeping you informed and up to date on our efforts to get the word
out about the history of our state and the part the 1889ers played in that
history. Giving us your email
address helps with that. We do not
sell it or flood you with too many emails, but it sure cuts down on our
costs. Just send your email address
to
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or
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For the first time in 30 years we were unable to picnic at the Harn Homestead and 1889ers Museum. We picniced at the North Pavillion at Will Rogers Park in Oklahoma City. Yes, it rained...or misted...and there were only 8 people in the pavillion, but they were the cream of the crop.
We had new people: Sandy and Diane Harris. Sandy is the brother of Gaytro Gootos Coggins and the son of Marianne Harris. Also attending was Bob's Friend Larry Shavers. And specal thanks go to Hannah who took our pictures.(Not shown: Larry Shavers.)
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Marianne Lytle Harris
...just wanted you to know Mother passed away @ 2:30 am Thursday, 6/21 resulting from her auto accident injuries on March 19. She endured unimaginable pain from her broken neck. She gave recovery a valiant fight, but her frail little body just could not overcome the injuries inflicted by a texting driver who swerved into the path of the car she was in. Services will be 4:00 Sunday at Smith-Kernke, 164th and May.
Gaytra Coggins
 February 15, 1918 - June 21, 2012 OKLAHOMA CITY Marianne (Lytle) Harris passed away at the age of 94 years.
She was born to A.E. "Bert" Lytle and Opal Wheeler Lytle. She grew up on her family's farm called Lytle Haven at Melrose Lane and MacArthur, a property staked out in the Land Run of 1889. Marianne graduated from Putnam City High School in 1934 and attended Oklahoma A&M where she belonged to Kappa Delta Sorority. She later attended U of Montevallo in AL, known then as Montevallo College of Women. Marianne married her childhood sweetheart, the love of her life, Roy C. Harris, Jr., in a garden wedding at Lytle Haven on June 14, 1936. They were married for 67 years before he passed away on Aug. 24, 2003.
Marianne was a wonderful homemaker, had a talent for color and design. As a talented seamstress she could look at a garment in a store window and copy it without benefit of a pattern. Marianne always delighted in the spring season when she could extend the invitation to "come see the azaleas", a garden showcase started by Roy and now continued by her son, Sandy. She loved to apply her artistic talents to home decorating. She was a mentor to many young girls and women about table settings, and how to entertain. She was always ready to travel to see interesting sites. She was Frontier Hospice volunteer for the past 5 years, visiting home-bound patients, and also working in the office. In addition, she was nominated for the Andrus Volunteer of the Year Award, sponsored by AARP. Even in her 90's, she was an active volunteer.
Marianne was a member of Olivet Baptist Church and later, Nichols Hills Baptist Church. She was a member of The American Glass Club, LeMidi Book Club, Dixie Chapter of UDC, and charter member of Col. John Starke Chapter of DAR. Throughout her many endeavors, Mrs. Harris embodied grace, intelligence, warmth and compassion. She loved gardening, collecting china and crystal, beautiful sunsets, reading, and commited to learning something new every day.
Marianne is preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and a sister, Agnes Keller. She is survived by her two children, Gaytra Coggins and husband, Jim of Poteau, OK, Roy C. "Sandy" Harris, III, and wife, Diane of OKC; two grandsons, Peter J. Gootos, II, M.D. and wife, Leslie of Grapevine, TX, and Christopher J. Gootos of Long Island, NY; five great grandchildren, Philip, Madeleine, Andrew, Christopher J. II, and Nicholas Gootos; brother-in-law, Bud Harris and his wife, Norma; sister-in-law, Patricia Harris; and numerous nieces, nephews and countless friends.
The Visitation will be on Sat., June 23, 2012 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. where the family will greet visitors. Funeral Services will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, 2012 at Smith & Kernke Chapel, 164th and May. Marianne will be laid to rest with her husband, Roy, at Memorial Park Cemetery in OKC. Memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice . Published in The Oklahoman on June 23, 2012
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 Sept 20, 1913 - May 17, 2012 OKLAHOMA CITY Edyth Mary Peery, 98, passed peacefully at home May 17, 2012. She believed, "What you send into the lives of others will return into your own," and she brought blessings into all the lives she touched.
Her accomplishments were many - 50 years in her own beauty shop, OK Retired Citizens Travel Club Director, Nova Eastern Star Chapter lifetime member, Past Noble Grand in the Rebecca's, OK Homemakers Extension active member, 1989er's Society member, Harn Homestead Museum Docent, and St. John's United Methodist Church devoted member.
She will be greatly missed by her daughter, Sheila Barbour & family; her granddaughters, and their husbands, Emmah & Randy Hackbarth, Valerie & Mike Monday, Edy Dawson & Robert Williams; her many great and great-great-grandchildren; and her many dear friends, including her Frontier Hospice care team. A Memorial will be held Sunday, June 24th, 1-3 p.m. at her home. Published in The Oklahoman on June 10, 2012
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Come learn about your family, meet people and help the 1889ers!
We're looking for a couple of volunteers to attend our table at the 2012 Ancestry Fair on Friday August 3 at the Oklahoma History Center. Nothing to it! Just sit at the 1889ERS table to pass out brochures & talk to people. 10am - 4:45pm. Rusty Hayes helped out last year and he enjoyed doing it. Call June Stone (946-7714) or Billie Fogarty (203-1374) for details and times.
And more news !!
Here's a note from Liz Codding of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society...
You may have been hearing about our Ancestry Days Friday & Saturday, August 3 & 4, 2012. We are really excited to have speakers from Ancestry.com here, and we're expecting a big crowd on Saturday at the Biltmore Hotel, 401 S. Meridian, in OKC. On Friday, we’re having our Ancestor Fair (Returning to August! ) and we hope a lot of out-of-town and out-of state people will come a day or two early and attend this event which will be at the Oklahoma History Center.
You can learn more about the event by going to the OGS web site to see a video of Billie Fogarty being interviewed on KSBI last Wednesday. Registration forms have been posted on the website - go to http://www.okgensoc.org/. To register, you can go online to the website and use PayPal or a credit card, or send the form with your check to OGS, P.O. Box 12986, OKC, 73157-2986.
As you know, the Ancestor Fair has been a good way for societies to contact prospective members. We hope the same will happen this year.
To reserve a table for your society, please state the name of the Society to be placed on the table name tag, and let us know how many tables you want. This will work best by mailing your information to our P.O. Box.
Please inform the members of your society or chapter as soon as you can.
If you have questions, please call the OGS phone 405-637-1907.
Hope to see lots of societies and their members on August 3 and 4.
I haven't sent this information to every society member I know, but I hope you will spread the word to the members of the societies to which you belong.
Thanks,
Liz Codding
OGS Secretary
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