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Graveside services for Seminole resident Sarah Belle (Jones) Hall are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Maple Grove Cemetery.
Chris Stinnett will officiate the services.
Services are under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home.
Hall died Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at Seminole Medical Center at the age of 90.
She was born to Leni Jones and Edna (Literal) Jones on July 19, 1912 in Arkansas.
Hall moved to Seminole 79 years ago after living in Arkansas and California.
She married Louis Hall on Sept. 20, 1942 in California.
Hall did alterations and sewing, was a homemaker, and a member of the Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and three brothers, Allen, Harry, and Ben Jones.
Hall is survived by one brother, Milton Jones, Seminole; and one sister, Loyal Harden, Grand View, Idaho.
Hump Halsey
Memorial services for Hump Halsey, 82, of Guthrie will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 28, 2003, at the First Christian Church, 402 E. Noble, in Guthrie. Arrangements are under the direction of Smith Funeral Home of Guthrie.
Halsey was born May 28, 1921 in Seminole to Neal and Edna Mae (Sandlin) Halsey.
He died Monday, July 21, 2003 after a long battle with Parkinsonas disease.
He graduated from Varnum High School, where he was active in 4-H.
It was then he developed his love for cattle and rodeo.
He began contesting in rodeo and trick roping in the late 1930s and contested in every event, finally settling into roping and bulldogging.
He was a charter member of the International Trick and Fancy Ropers Association and a member of the first professional rodeo cowboys association, the Cowboy Turtles Association.
He worked his way through college as a member of the Oklahoma A&M Student Entertainers with his trick ropes and bullwhip act.
They traveled all over Oklahoma and the surrounding states.
His rodeo career was interrupted in 1942 by World War II.
He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve while at Oklahoma A&M and continued his rodeoing and trick roping until called to active duty in early 1943.
While clowning at a Labor Day rodeo in Guthrie, he met his rodeo queen, Eddie Lou Pritchett of Mulhall.
Already being a pilot, he would land in the pasture in back of her house in a Porterfield airplane to pick her up for a date.
In January 1943, he won enough money roping and bulldogging at the Stockyards Coliseum Rodeo in Oklahoma City to buy her an engagement ring.
Soon after he was called to active duty with the Air Corps and sent to California for aviation cadet training. Hump and Eddie Lou were married on July 24, 1943 in King City, Calif.
The day after the wedding he was featured as a trickroper and rode a bull in the King City Rodeo.
He wanted to fly big bombers and got his chance starting in B-17s and then the B-29 Superfortress.
He was soon overseas in the China-Burma-India theater of operations.
He flew from home bases in India over the hump to forward bases in China from where they flew missions against the Japanese homeland and the coast of China.
He made 23 round trips over the hump, as well as 28 bombing missions over mainland Japan, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Malaya and Sumatra.
His second tour of duty overseas was on the island of Tinian in the Marianas.
He was there when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and flew over the battleship USS Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945 when the treaty between Japan and the Allied Nations was signed.
Halsey was released from active duty in 1946 and returned home to build his familyas home on Wild Cat Curve south of Mulhall.
He continued rodeoing and flying in the Air Force Reserve on weekends out of Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.
He began farming and acquiring a herd of Black Angus cattle and taught veterans agriculture in Guthrie.
He started back to A&M to finish his degree in animal husbandry and was again called into active duty with the Air Force for the Korean War.
Having had over 2000 hours in four-engine bombers, he was assigned to fly the largest bomber ever built, the 10-engine B-36.
The B-36 was called the Peacemaker because it helped win the Cold War with the Soviet Union without ever firing a shot.
When he was separated from active service he had amassed over 6, 000 pilot hours in the air, a record of which he was very proud.
Everywhere he went, He carried his trick ropes and his bullwhips.
He performed on every continent and several islands in the Pacific.
It was just natural for him to have a rope in his hand.
His love for rodeos led him to serve 19 years on the Oklahoma Cattlemenas Range Round-Up committee.
He had also been involved with the S89er Celebrations in Guthrie for many years up until ill health kept him as a bystander only.
He was a great promoter of youth, working closely with many young people in showing and fitting cattle for shows.
His love of children led him to perform for them at Make Miracles Happen and for handicapped or ill children at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital. Hump and his faithful dog ‘Dog’ were favorites with children everywhere.
Halsey and his wife made their home at Wild Cat Curve Angus Farms south of Mulhall for 51 years before moving to Guthrie because of Humpas declining health.
He was a member of the Guthrie Lions Club, the American Legion, the Rodeo Historical Society, the Oklahoma Cattlemenas Association and the First Christian Church of Guthrie.
He was past president of the Oklahoma Angus Association and a life member of the Oklahoma State Alumni Association.
The family requests no flowers and that donations be sent in his name to the Organ Fund at First Christian Church or the charity of your choice.
Bertha Hanna
Funeral services for longtime Seminole resident, Bertha Faye Hanna are scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31 at the Swearingen Funeral Chapel with Dr. Bruce Sanders assisted by Rev. David McDougal officiating.
Interment will follow at the Vamoosa Cemetery under the direction of the Swearingen Funeral Home.
Hanna died Monday, Dec. 29, 2003, at the age of 95, at the Seminole Medical Center.
She was born Sept. 20, 1908, in Konawa to F.G. Morrow and Ivah Schornick.
She was married to Frank Earnest Hanna on Sept. 23, 1923, in Dora.
She was a retired housekeeper for Oklahoma University Dorms.
She was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church and attended senior citizens activities, loved to garden and up until last month, she crocheted hand towels.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Frank Hanna in 1974; one son, Ansil Hanna; two sisters; and one brother.
He is survived by one son, F.J. Hanna of Novice, Texas; four daughters, Charlsey Sutton and Delores Sanders of Seminole, Geneva Leonard of Lancaster, Texas and Betty Evans of Palestine, Texas.
She is also survived by one brother, F.G.Morrow of Coleman; five sisters, Flossie Potter of Seminole, Dessie Ogle of Coleman, Lois Cockran of Ardmore, Alta Sebastian of Borger, Texas and Thelma Reeves of Arlington, Texas; 13 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.
Casket bearers will be Johnny Sanders, Jerry Sutton, Dennis Evans, Dan Shumaker, Frank Perry and Earl Leonard.
Honorary bearers are John Hanna, Gary Hanna, Roger Hanna and Eddie Herring.
Lorene Hannah
Graveside services for longtime Seminole resident, Lorene L. Hannah are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens in Seminole.
She died April 4, 2003 at the age of 85 at Norman Regional Hospital.
Hannah was born on March 22, 1918 in McAlester to John Berryman and Louella (Long) Berryman.
She grew up and attended school in McAlester.
She retired from Gibson Discount Store in Midwest City.
She moved to Seminole in 1979 from Midwest City.
Her parents and her sister, Hazel Coble, preceded her in death.
She is survived by one nephew, Butch Coble and his wife, Roberta of Seminole; brother, Richard Berryman of Lakewood, Colo.; two great nieces, Debbie Robertson and Lea Ann Presley, both of Seminole; and several great great nieces and nephews.
Kenneth L. Hanson
Funeral services for longtime Seminole County resident, Kenneth L. Hanson of Wewoka are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Stout-Phillips Chapel, Wewoka.
He died Aug. 6 2003, at the age of 89 at the Kindred Hospital in Oklahoma City.
He was born Aug. 20, 1913, in Olsburg, Kan. to Oscar and Mabel Holm Hanson and attended school in Garrison, Kan.
He lived in Wewoka for over 40 years and was a retired bus driver for the Greyhound Bus Lines.
He attended the First Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his wife Elizabeth Hanson on Oct. 28, 1994 and one sister, Doris McCardle.
He is survived by six children, Ken Hanson of Randolph, Kan., Melvin Hanson of Hutchinson, Kan., Wanda Murphy of Milwaukee, Ore., Shirley O’Guin of Bartow, Fla., Gene Hanson of El Dorado, Kan. and Steve Hanson of Lawood, Kan.; one sister, Rose Roth of Oskaola, Kan.; and one brother, Eldon Hanson of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Wewoka under the direction of Stout-Phillips Funeral Home.
William Hardgrove
Graveside services for William "Bill" Wallace Hardgrove, a long-time Seminole County law enforcement officer, are set for 2 p.m. Friday.
Rev. Dan Factor will officiate the services.
Interment will follow at Oakwood Cemetery under the direction of Stout Funeral Home of Wewoka.
Hardgrove died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003 at the age of 73 in the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City.
He was born Nov. 25, 1930 near Pharoah in Hughes County to Frederick William Hardgrove and Maude Ellen (Moore) Hardgrove.
Hardgrove moved to Wewoka in 1936, at the age of six and grew up in the old Butner community.
He graduated from Butner High School in 1949 and attended East Central University at Ada.
Hardgrove was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having trained as a paratrooper with the 511th Airborne Division from 1951-1953.
On May 5, 1969, he married Betty Lou Keys in Wewoka.
He began his law enforcement career with the Wewoka Police Department in 1957 under Chief of Police George Lawson.
In 1959, he joined the Seminole County Sheriff’s office under Sheriff Bill Nicholson.
Except for a period from 1964-1967 when he worked in law enforcement in Del City, the rest of Hardgrove’s law enforcement career was in Seminole County.
He served as Wewoka Police Chief, Deputy Sheriff and Undersheriff for Nicholson, Sheriff Bill Merryfield and Sheriff Charles Sisco.
The last years before his retirement, Hardgrove was jailer for the Seminole County Jail.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Thelma Geraldine Wooten and Winona Ruth Hubbard; and a daughter, Shari Gayle Hardgrove.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Lou Keys of the home; two sons, Micheal William Hardgrove and William Keys Hardgrove, both of Wewoka; two daughters, Teresa Joyce Rothrock of Seminole and Mary Kathleen Hardgrove of Las Vegas, Nev.; one sister, Cora Olive "Toby" Davenport of Greeley, Colo.; three grandsons, Starr William Hardgrove of Fayetteville, Ark., Brandan Rothrock and Logan Rothrock, both of Norman; and two nephews, Bobby Merl Wooten Jr. and Monte Scott Davenport of Greeley, Colo.
Members of the Seminole County Sheriff’s office will serve as pall bearers.
