System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!Maurine Wall
Maurine Wall, 89, retired Shawnee business woman died Tuesday, July 8 in a Shawnee hospital.
Memorial services are scheduled for Friday, July 11 at 10:30 a.m. at the Immanuel Baptist Church of Shawnee. She will be laid to rest beside her husband in the Holdenville Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Roesch Funeral Chapel will conduct the services.
Mrs. Wall is the former president of the Newton Wall Company, operator of Wall’s Bargain Centers, retail discount stores located in several cities of Oklahoma and Mississippi.
She was born Nov. 24, l907 in Ada, to Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Tucker. She married Isaac Newton Wall in l924.
Together, they built a tiny "Mom and Pop" grocery business into one of Oklahoma’s earliest and Holdenville’s first super market.
Maurine and Newton Wall were pioneers of numerous innovations in the retail merchandise business. Their many promotional ideas included a wild animal zoo fenced behind the grocery store where a black bear drank soda pop directly from the bottle and children hand-fed peanuts to the monkeys, all animal food purchased from the store. There was also a coyote and raccoons.
Maurine and her husband, Newton Wall were co-founders of Wall’s Bargain Centers, opening their first store in Shawnee in l951.
She was his devoted companion and partner, working side by side with her husband until his death on Jan. 1, l959.
Having traveled with her husband for several years and assisting him on buying trips, she had already earned the reputation of a skilled business woman and had won the respect of her competitors as a fair dealer and a person of highest honesty.
Assuming the role of company president, and with the help of her three sons, B.K., Harold and James, she built the company into one of the country’s leading retailers of salvage merchandise. Her daughter Charlotte’s husband, Jim Lowe, is the secretary-treasurer of the corporation.
Maurine Wall’s remarkable successful business career never prevented her from excelling as a mother and a homemaker. She found time to serve her church and the community where she lived.
She was a member of the Cartwright Hi-Noon Business and Professional Women’s Club, a longtime member of the Altrusa Club and has been a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church since l951 and was an active member of the Women’s Missionary Circle. She also taught a Bible class for many years.
Mrs. Wall was preceded in death by her husband, Newton, two sons, B.K. and Harold, and a daughter, Patricia, who died in infancy.
She is survived by a son who is active with the company, James N. Wall of Shawnee and his wife, Mary Ellen. Also surviving is a daughter, Charlotte Lowe, who has her own real estate career in Shawnee, and her husband, Jim, and a daughter-in-law, Zelpha Wall, Shawnee. Thirteen adoring grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren will miss her very much.
Mrs. Wall’s grandsons are casketbearers.
7/9/97
James Wilkerson
Funeral Services for James Wesley Wilkerson, 61, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. Bible Temple Church in Shawnee.
Wilkerson died Monday at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
Rev. Guy Cagle and Rev. Doyle Long will officiate the services.
Burial will take place at Little Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home.
Wilkerson was born in Beggs, Oklahoma on August 22, 1935 to Wesley and Flossie May (Miller) Wilkerson. They preceded him in death.
He worked in the oil field and as a farmhand.
Wilkerson lived most of his life in Seminole before moving to Shawnee in 1990.
Survivors include 2 brothers, Robert Wilkerson, Seminole and Tommy Wilkerson, Shawnee; and one sister, Nancy Quinalty, Shawnee.
8-19-97
W. B. Williams
Graveside services for lifelong Wolf resident W. B. "Brannie" Williams, 89, are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Wolf Cemetery, under the direction of Knight Funeral Home.
Rev. W. L. Lowe will officiate the service.
Williams died Monday at Seminole Municipal Hospital.
He was born Oct. 29, 1907, at Wolf I.T. to Thomas W. and Martha Jane (Robertson) Williams.
He married Edith Edgmon in Dec., 1926, at Wolf. She preceded him in death Nov. 10, 1978.
Williams was also preceded in death by his parents, two infant sons, two sisters and 10 brothers.
Survivors include one son, Harold G. Williams, Ada; one daughter, Velda Hale Price, Centerville, Texas; eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The family requests that memorials be made to Alzheimer’s Association, Oklahoma City Chapter, 4900 N. Portland - Suite 116, Oklahoma City, OK 73112.
10-29-97
Houston "Bill" Wood
WEWOKA - Funeral services for Houston "Bill" Wood, 80, a long-time Wolf resident, are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Stout Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Arthur Wayne Carpitcher officiating.
Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery under the direction of Stout Funeral Home.
He died Friday at Seminole Municipal Hospital.
Wake services are scheduled to be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Stout Funeral Home Chapel.
Wood was born Sept. 9, 1916 in Wolf to Emmit and Sissy Wood. They both preceded him in death. He was a great grandson of Seminole Chief John Jumper.
Wood lived in Oklahoma until 1939, when he moved to Clovis, N. Mex. He came back to this area in 1951 and had lived here ever since. He had worked as a pipeliner and a rancher.
He was preceded in death by one son, Curtis Wood, one daughter, Cindy Camp, four brothers and four sisters.
Survivors include two sons, Sterlin "Buddy" Wood, Wolf, and Eastman Harjo, Konawa, two brothers, Lewis "Shagg" Wood, Wewoka and Arthur Fenton, Oklahoma City, one sister, Susie Wood Harjo, Wolf, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Robert Wood, Ricky Harjo, Raymond Fox, Frank Moppin, Jessie Moppin and Glen Gibbs.
10-29-97
Mattie Woody
Funeral services for life-long Seminole resident Mattie Lee Woody, 86, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Assembly of God in Prague.
Rev. Doyle Seeley officiated the service.
Burial was at Little Cemetery under the direction of Parks Funeral Home in Prague.
Woody died Sunday in Shawnee.
She was born Nov. 24, 1910 in Seminole County to Jessie Edgar and Mary (Stailey) Ellis. She was a member of First Assembly of God in Little.
Woody married Jessie Daniel Woody on Feb. 28, 1941. He preceded her in death on June 21, 1979.
Also preceding her in death were her parents, four brothers, Jack, Marvin, Clyde and James; two sisters, Gladys and Ethel; one son, Ken; and one daughter, Lou Nell.
Survivors include three sons, Jack Woody, Seminole, Danny Woody, Prague, and Billy Joe Woody, Beggs; one daughter, Pat Hall, Seminole; 14 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren.
9-2-97
Wayne Wyrick
Graveside services for Wayne Allen Wyrick, 36, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Oakwood Cemetery. Rev. George Jesse will officiate.
Interment is under the direction of Stout Funeral Home.
Wyrick died Friday at his home south of Wewoka.
He was born and reared in Louisiana until the age of 5. He moved to Wewoka and attended Wewoka schools through the eighth grade. He attended and graduated from high school in California.
Survivors include his wife, Darline Wyrick, of the home, two sons, Patrick Allen Wyrick and David Allen Wyrick, Wewoka, his father Charlie Wyrick, Wewoka, his stepmother Faye Mulins, Wilburton, two stepsisters, Wilma Joe Mulins and Johnie Mulins and one stepbrother, Steven Mulins.
4/13/97
Anna Woods
Funeral services for former Seminole County resident Anna Joyce Woods, 80, are scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Mayes Funeral Home Chapel of Remembrance, Norman.
Bishop K. Kent Richardson will officiate the service. Burial will be in Blanchard Cemetery.
Woods died Sunday in a Norman nursing home.
She was born Dec. 25, 1916 in Thayer, Kans., to Walther Lee and Jessie Ann (Ford) Votaw. The family moved to Prairie Valley in Seminole County in 1926.
Woods graduated form Prairie Valley High School in 1935 and attended Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater.
She worked for Douglas Defense Plant during World War II and was honored by President Franklin Roosevelt for an efficiency program she designed for the plant.
She married James O. Woods on Dec. 18, 1944 in Shawnee.
Woods moved to Norman in 1965.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Ora Belle.
Survivors include five children, Clayton Woods, Cashion, Donna Woods, Irving, Texas, James Woods, Moore, Robert Woods and Eloise Woods, both of Norman; seven sisters, Pat, Norene and Irene, all of Casper, Wyo., Aline and June of Shawnee, Opal, Anaheim, Calif., Vashti, Memphis, Tenn.; one brother, Walter Lee, Casper, Wyo.; 19 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Mayes Funeral Home in Norman.
The family requests memorials to be made to Cleveland County unit of the American Cancer Society, Suite 212, 2221 W. Lindsey, Norman, 73069.
9-9-97
