Obituaries for 01/14/08
Pearl Scott Van Derveer Johnson
Pearl Scott Van Derveer Johnson, 96, of Blackwell, Okla., died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at the Blackwell Regional Hospital.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at the Roberts and Son Funeral Home Chapel with James W. Roberts officiating. Interment followed in the Braman Cemetery.
She was the fifth of six children born to the 1893 Land Run pioneers, Charles Franklin Scott and Mary Wolf Scott. She was a pilot with a commercial rating in air navigation and meteorology and flew with the Civil Air Patrol. She held various supervisory jobs for United States Engineering Companies and the U.S. military throughout the Middle East and Europe, spending her last two years in Alaska. She served as a land examiner adjudicator for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. In Kerrville, Texas, she ran an art studio and gallery and taught art. Survivors include nieces, Shirley Scott Fuller, of Blackwell, and Brook Farm, England, and Madeline Danner, of Corvallis, Ore.; two nephews, Lloyd Scott Jr., of Oklahoma City, and Robert Majors, of Oklahoma City; and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two husbands, Charles Sherman Van Derveer and George W. Johnson; her parents; two brothers,
Roy and Lloyd Scott; three sisters, Nellie Majors, Elsie Scott Shields and Anna Scott Worley; and a niece, Mary Ann Scott Petrey.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Roberts and Son Funeral Home. On-line condolences can be made at www.robertsandsonfh.com.
Harold Duane Lee
Harold Duane Lee, 81, of Sapulpa, Okla., formerly of Oxford, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, in Prescott, Ariz.
Arrangements are pending and under the direction of the Oxford Funeral Service. On-line condolences made be made at www.oxfordfuneralservice.com.
Anna Mae Wolf Horack Roseberry
Anna Mae Wolf Horack Roseberry, 88, of Emporia, formerly of Oxford, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Presbyterian Manor in Emporia.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, at the Oxford United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bob Conelley officiating.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Monday. The family will receive friends from 6-7:30 p.m.
Anna Mae Wolf was born Aug. 4, 1919, to Henry and Amy Fredrickson Wolf, of rural Ashton, Kan. She graduated eighth grade from Kinkaid Rural School and attended South Haven High School, graduating in 1927. She lived with her sister, Doris and brother-in-law, Harold Haines, in Wichita, where she was employed at Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Anna Mae married Ernest Horack on June 9, 1943. They farmed until 1960, when they purchased Donley Hardware and moved to Oxford. Ernest died July 11, 1962, leaving Anna Mae and their four daughters, Amy, Anita, Alane and Andrea. Anna Mae worked as treasurer for the City of Oxford and bookkeeper for Riverview Manor in Oxford. In 1964, she started working full time for Oxford Dehydrating Co., where she was employed for 21 years, until her retirement in Dec. 1984.
In 1985, she married Paul Roseberry. They continued living in Oxford until September 2005. She enjoyed her life with her four daughters, their families, and her two step-sons, Alan and Ben Roseberry and their families.
Paul Roseberry died Dec. 19, 2005.
Anna Mae was a member of the Oxford Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School and served on various committees. She enjoyed her years as a member and president of United Methodist Women.
Survivors include her daughters, Amy and husband, Marshall Meades, Vermontville, Mich., Anita and husband, Cliff Bales, Oxford, Alane and husband, Steve Kemp, Kennewick, Wash., Andrea and husband, Roger Cerretti, Emporia; stepson, Ben Roseberry and wife, Beverly, Tecumseh; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; sisters Harriet Coulter, Oxford, Lois Jordan and husband, James, Wichita; and brother, Henry Wolf, Caldwell, and many loving nieces, and nephews and dear friends.
In addition to both husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Doris Haines; brothers, Wallace (Bud) Wolf, Carl Wolf; step-son, Alan Roseberry; daughter-in-law, Sharon Roseberry; and stepgrandson Jeff Roseberry.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford United Methodist Church. Contributions can be made through the funeral home.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Oxford Funeral Service, Oxford. On-line condolences may be made at www.oxfordfuneralservice.com.
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Pauline Warren
Pauline Warren, 94, Arkansas City, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2008.
Arrangements are pending and under the direction of the Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home, Arkansas City.
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