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 Carolyn Niebruegge May                      Michael L. May

Vol. 2, Is. 49                                                                                      June 21, 2013

 

 

From the Editor

 

I feel the urge to write a little about my Father’s Day.  The day started out like most other summer days--a cup of coffee, a little Fox and Friends (on the weekend and Morning Joe during the week), a trip to the pool to check skimmers and possibly blow the deck.  Don’t really remember if Nana in her “sleepy state” even remembered to say “Happy Father’s Day.”  To be safe, I’ll say she did.  After cleaning up for the day we were off to church.  That’s where my day dramatically changed.  We were on the early side and were in fact the first two in the auditorium.  This is a non-traditional, laid back, very casual Methodist church that holds its services in a local high school.  It’s a place where I can “fit in” wearing my shorts and sneakers.

 

Since we’re getting to the good part, I feel encumbered to start a new paragraph.  After being seated for only seconds, a cute little girl no more than 5 or 6 walked up with a smiling face and presented me with a little “baggie” which had enclosed two “gummy bear type” figurines of soldiers in “official OD Green,” with a matching green ribbon running through the baggie, and a bible verse on the front.  After her presentation, she said “Happy Father’s Day” to me, a total stranger to her.  That almost brought me to my knees and started the tears to flow--and flow.  The “gummy soldiers” I wouldn’t eat if I were starving.  I hate those things. However, what a sweet gesture that absolutely made my day.  My “hats off” to whoever had such a fantastic idea of letting “little ones” deliver this gift to fathers on “our day.”  Had this been the only event in my Father’s Day, my day would have still been complete.  However, it did not end there.

 

Karen brought Paige and her cousin Gianna over for a Father’s Day swim and that’s always an “event” for them.  The girls swim and Karen moves around the pool from place to place trying to keep up with the sun.  Unfortunately for her and fortunately for Nana and me, our pool is surrounded with trees that put sun at a premium.  Karen only has two rules for the kids when she’s sunning:  1) Don’t annoy me and 2) Don’t drown--seems simple enough.  With both of them being good swimmers, annoying Mom is their biggest challenge.

 

As the afternoon progressed Nana apparently noticed that I was starting to get bored.  Given her ability to “fix” all that is wrong, she suggested, “Let’s go shoot.”  Sounded good to me, so we left the sunbathers and swimmers (more had arrived) and headed to the range.  In typical form, Nana continued to let me relish “my day” by letting me do better shooting than her--not an every day event by any means, but thank you anyway, it made me feel good.  During our time up there, Nana received a text from Karen suggesting that we meet at Outback for dinner.

 

Outback is always good and such a thrill to watch Paige share medium rare Prime Rib with her Mother and “inhale” a number of loaves of bread.  This day, Paige followed up the Prime Rib and bread with a big scoop of ice cream.  A few hours in the pool brings on a great appetite.  I so remember when my cousins and I would visit our Grandparents in Elk City, Granddad Carpenter would take us over to the pool in the park for an afternoon swim--each of us with a dime for a candy bar.  I can still smell the chlorine in the hot sun and taste that candy bar.  One never tasted better. 

 

The day ended with a great hour long phone conversation from Kevin and yes, even a “Hi, PaPa” and “Bye, Bye” from both Raegan and Parker and a “Happy Father’s Day” from Raegan.  Those are a few too many words for Parker at this stage but the “Hi” and Bye” are getting really good.

 

What a GREAT Father’s Day!  Thanks to all of you who helped make it possible.

 

mlm

 

Editor’s note: Yes, the “gummy soldiers” are still lying on the kitchen table--uneaten…

 

 

 

Content Contributors for the Week

 

Charles Curtis, Class of 1965

Bill Hancock

Kate (Roberts) Stafford, Class of 1955

Jack Whitson, Class of 1953

All those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”

 

Thank you all!

 

 

 

Remembering

 

Bill Hancock Query

 

This Week’s Query:  Tell us what you remember about the monkey cage at Hunter Park?  Did you like the monkeys?  Did you feed them?  Were you scared of them?   Where was the cage, exactly?

 

What We Learned Last Time, About Toma Brothers Grocery:  Oh, my goodness.  Many of you remember the store, and its remarkable owner, Jim Toma

 

In September, 1929, Albert Zepp announced that he would construct a business building on the lots at the northeast corner of Fifth and Washington.  (Those lots formerly housed one of the early-day opera houses, where vaudeville acts played to the delight of the townspeople.)  Anyway, Zepp’s building would be home to Toma’s for more than 50 years.  The 84-year-old building is still there, of course.

 

Zepp was a fascinating 43-year-old businessman.  He was a hard-working former Doughboy who came to Hobart after the war and opened a junk yard at Monroe just south of the railroad tracks.  Obviously, he accumulated enough money to spend $10,000 on the building.  There was significant construction activity on that corner in the last halcyon pre-Depression days, because T. H. Rogers’s current massive facility—said to the be the finest lumber yard in Southwest Oklahoma—was also rapidly coming out of the ground.

 

Harris and Ruby Grocery was the first tenant of the grand new Zepp building.  Harris and Ruby moved from a frame structure on Main Street, I believe.

 

Then Toma Brothers Cash and Cary Market opened May 5, 1934.  The Democrat-Chief reported, “The brothers now have stores at Snyder, Granite, Tipton and Eldorado.  Bob Toma is the manager, Kay Toma assistant manager.”

 

Jim Toma was born in 1904 and died in August, 1985.  He was a one-of-a-kind Hobart institution.

 

I suppose Jim Toma’s most famous employee was Jimmie White.  She was beautiful, sweet and smart—just like her daughter, Eura Lee.  Jimmie had beautiful ebony hair that may or may not have had assistance.  It didn’t matter.  Folks loved her.  Jimmie became Jimmie Muse later.

 

One friend said, “Jim Toma was a Hobart icon. I didn’t always get along with him, but I really missed him after he passed away.  He loved his sweet little girls.  They adored their daddy and he adored them.”

 

The girls are Aleda, Gigi and Mary, of course.  They and their mother, Georgette, live in the Oklahoma City area, we believe.  All four are lovely. 

 

Randy Elkouri is Jim Toma’s great-great nephew (Jim was Dempsey Elkouri’s great-uncle), “so he was Uncle Jim to us all.  He had Toma Brothers here and Uncle Joe had the Toma’s store in Snyder.  Joe’s kids still run it today.  My grandmother Nellie Elkouri was the butcher there.”

 

“I remember Walter Burrows working for Uncle Jim before his Safeway days and John Holt worked there also.  I remember Uncle Jim wearing his white apron head down walking to the cafe for coffee when I was younger.  No one who knew him can forget Jim saying " that’s a dollar oh nine ($1.09) kid, kid, kid!”

 

Joe Toma also operated a grocery store in Roosevelt; Dempsey Elkouri and Randy’s Uncle Tunney worked there. 

 

Cornell Tahdooahnippah:  “Jim Toma was a good man.”

 

Linda McCannon:  “Jim let you charge.  He had a little of everything, and cut his own meat.”  

 

Kelly Diane Green reported that her brother-in-law, David Harris, worked at Toma’s.

 

Cheryl Harris Duff:  “Remember their radio ad, others have had it too, don't know if it was original to Toma's or not but it went "right on the corner, right on the price and right on your way home in Hobart, OK’.”

 

Terry Jane Martin:  “My mother accidentally left me there once (after shopping.)  It was her favorite Toma’s story.”

 

Many people remember the meat counter.  Randy Elkouri said Toma’s had “the best sliced deli in the county.  A bunch of us used to walk over from Straub's gas station and get a loaf of bread and a stick of red (bologna) and eat sandwiches sitting around the gas heater and BS'ing during our down time from working on the farms.  There were lots of good times on that corner of Hobart.  Back then it was lunchmeat.  I think preppies changed it to ‘deli.’  The (Toma’s) store in Snyder even had the ‘butcher service’ meat counter, also.  I really enjoyed the time I ran the store.  Those days are gone as box stores and mass merchandisers have run them out.”

 

Juan Perez:  “Mr. Toma used to give me a paper sack and tell me to get whatever piece of candy I wanted every Halloween.

 

Rex Maxey:  “When I worked at the Esquire Twin, I used to go there every evening to buy the hot dogs, buns and chili we used in the concession stand.  I used to always get a kick out of Mr. Toma's accent on the word, ‘niiiiiiiiiine’ when reading out the prices while ringing them up!”

 

David Conner:  “I was told that, way back the Toma success was due to his giving credit and other groceries would not.”

 

Dianna Futrell Fox:  “Dad’s car dealership (Futrell Chevrolet, at the southeast corner of Fifth and Main) was close by, and we would run over to Toma’s if we needed anything.  I wish my family had the options to bring my grandkids up in such a town.  But they have to be where they need to be.”

 

Pamela Oakes:  “Toma’s had the best beef cutlets, and my mom could make a mean chicken fried steak.  Dad would stop by on the way home and pick up some.  Such a treat.”

 

Junior Wolf:  “I don't remember when my folks did not buy groceries there.  I remember Mr. Toma would call out the price of every product as he entered the price into the register.  I loved hot links so I would remind mom to buy some.  He was nice and courteous, yet stern at times.  I also remember air raids on some Saturday nights during the war when the lights would go out and airplanes would drop pellets on the cars.   Later, my folks started to buy their groceries from Kouri's Market which was located next to Biddies Meat Market on Fifth Street.  You mentioned Lee and Lucy, and there was another sister named Nellie, not to mention Rose.  They were a really nice family.  Later, Mrs. Lindsey had a restaurant adjoining Kouri's on the west.  Mrs. Lindsey originally had her restaurant west of Pearson's Vegetable Stand on Fifth Street.”

 

Janice Carney Treadway:  “Toma's Grocery was five blocks from my house.  I lived at 501 S. Hitchcock and I would ride my bicycle to Toma's for my parents.  Once my Dad told me to go to Toma's to get some cheddar cheese.  I got to the store and walked to the back where the meat counter was and told the nice gentleman behind the meat counter that I wanted some ‘Barnyard Cheese’.  I remember that he looked at me real funny and said he didn't know what that was.  I was around 11 years old and I believe the year was 1954.  What did I know?  I was just a kid.  I had forgotten what my Dad had told me to get.  We got it all worked out (the nice gentleman behind the counter and I) and I walked out with cheddar cheese.  I have not forgotten that to this day.  I think it was Mr. Toma behind the meat counter.  He was a short stocky man with black hair.  Anyway, that is my funny memory of Toma's Grocery.”

 

Paul George:  “Loved going there with mother, even though I was not that young, but reminds me of several things. They had brothers or relatives in Snyder, too. What sticks in my mind was seeing the little ones there and how much dad loved them.  Years later, my dad had liver cancer, I know I have or must have posted this before, but my parents moved to Edmond to be here for treatments and to make it easier on myself and my sister.  Well, the point is after they moved I would take my Dad to the Oncologist, well, first visit for me with him and the Oncologist was one of the Toma girls, I mean she was the Oncologist!  Of course, she could not remember me but I remember her and sister in the grocery store.  I felt really good about my dad's care then.  Later on, she told us that Dad was her longest lasting patient and he was, she was not just being nice to us. God Bless the Toma's.”  (That oncologist was Aleda Toma, of course.)

 

Dee Morgan Dugan:  “I remember Toma”s Grocery because my father, Willis Morgan, delivered milk there in the 1940’s and in glass bottles with our name on them.  I went with him a couple of times but I was scared of Mr. Toma because he seemed so gruff.  But much later in life when I was much older, I went there to ask for a donation for group and he was the sweetest man and gave a big donation.”

 

Jerry McNutt:  “My adoptive mother, Edith McNutt, worked in the meat market for Jim in the 40's and 50's.  My Dad's furniture store was on the alley behind Toma's in the early 60's.  I used to walk down as a kid and buy sliced bologna.   Wade Stoops worked there in early 70's.  Jim would always call out the price as he rung it up.”

 

Keith Straub:  “One thing I remember very well:  Ole Jim Toma had a passel of gorgeous daughters.  Purty as a new John Deere tractor.”

 

Kathy Holman Barker: “My father always went to Toma's for our meats.  I remember once when I was very young, Mr. Toma had children's wood and rattan painted chairs hanging on the wall above the checkout counter.  That counter looked so high to me and Mr. Toma looked like a giant standing behind it, but he smiled from ear to ear at me and took down one of those chairs I had my eye on and gave it to me as a gift.  He wouldn't let daddy pay a cent for it.   That moment is like a photograph in my mind and I still have that little precious chair.  I later began school with Aleda and we were great friends, graduated together in 1977.  She was also my mother's oncologist.  Great memories of a great family.”

 

Who Worked at Toma’s?

 

One friend reported, “Jimmie White Mobley and Jim would get into arguments, which was never a good idea with Jim.  I worked there on and off for a few years and don't remember ever winning one.   A.J. Welch worked there.  He cut his own meat every day and he would cut it anyway you wanted it.”

 

Richard Chase:  “Jimmie and Jim Toma had a love-hate relationship and they would scream and yell at each other, she would walk out and he would eventually go get her to come back.”  (Jimmie later worked at Dark’s Grocery when it was hooked onto Peet’s Station.  Several remembered her coal-black hair and beehive hairdo, “always perfect; never a hair out of place.”)

 

Richard:  “Jimmie could run an old manual cash register faster than a modern-day scanner.”

 

Pam Hazle McClellan:  “My mom, Lorene Gather Hazle, worked for Jim for several years—I think in the meat market.  And I think Corene (Lorene’s twin sister) worked for him, too.  Mom said both Jim and Georgette were so good to her and Daddy.  They were a great family!”

 

Frank Williams worked at Toma’s, sacking groceries, “and carrying them out to people’s cars.  He would give me two bags of groceries at the end of the day.  I remember the brick chili the butchers made.  When I could I would cut off some and put it between two crackers and that was my lunch.  I remember him as a good boss.”

 

Dora Rosales:  “My brother, Pete Maldonado, junior, worked there for many years, during his junior high and high school years.  He started as a sack boy and ended up on the meat department.  Mr. and Mrs. Toma were some of the people I grew up knowing.  They were real home-town folks.”

 

Jim Perry:  “My grandfather, Arthur Perry, worked for Jim after his grocery store (thankfully) burned.  Those two could have some serious arguments!  In 1998, Aleda was the doctor who diagnosed my father's cancer after so many others could not find it, and shot it to me straight in an old friends' reunion.  Thankful I will be to her forever.”

 

Richard Chase:  “Andrew Ramirez, whose family moved to Hobart in about 1953, worked there.  (He was part of) a large family of migrant workers who lived in a shack in the beginning on Jefferson Street. The father got a job cooking at the Hovaka Cafe and they settled in Hobart.  Andrew was a stock boy at Toma’s and joined the National Guard.  In 1958, the mother died in childbirth and the family moved to California.  Ronnie Gilbert also worked there.  Jim Toma would have a sale on pork chops for five cents each.  They were thinly sliced but a bargain even in 1958.  Jay Welch was the butcher in the late fifties.”

 

In Summary, here is a partial—way partial—list of people who worked there:  Walter Burrows, Orbie Dark, Lorene Gather, Corine Gather, Ronnie Gilbert, David Harris, John Holt, Jerry Lankford, Pete Maldonado, Beulah Northcutt, Arthur Perry, Melton Stockton, Wade Stoops, Dean Taylor, Gene Taylor, Jay Welch, Jimmie White, Frank Williams, Larry Willis. 

 

Let us know who you can add to that list of Toma’s employees.

 

Joe Hancock on Jim Toma and the Store.  Few people knew Jim Toma better than my brother Joe, who worked with Jim on the store’s advertising for more than 30 years.  Joe has written a wonderful piece about Jim.  I know you will enjoy it as much as I did!  Here’s what Brother Joe had to say:

 

Bill, it's been so much fun remembering good experiences with Jim Toma.  I called on him every week until his death in the 1980s.  We became good friends and I thought a lot of him.  When I went to the store to write his weekly grocery advertisement he always wanted to go for coffee. Usually, we went to the A. and B. cafe.  Walked in the back door, though the kitchen.  Usually Louie Thompson was with him.  Some time he wanted to go to Maw George's cafe across the street south of the store on Fifth Street.  Some time we went to the City Cafe, just south of Caudill Motor Co.

 

He was so entertaining.  Was a great merchant.  He subscribed to a Lebanese newspaper.  I always looked at it but of course, couldn' t read it.

 

I went to his mother's funeral in Snyder.  It was Orthodox. 

 

He had lots of kinfolks who visited him in the store.  One I liked particularly was Danny Swiden from Granite.  Danny was a farmer in the Granite community.    Danny helped him out in the store sometimes.

 

He had at least one brother, Joe, I knew pretty well.  Joe had a grocery store in Snyder.  I never knew for sure but I thought Joe came to Hobart to get money from Jim.  I think there was another brother, a merchant in Snyder but I can’t remember his name.  I think his son was a coach in Snyder and maybe had some problems.  (Note from Bill:  R.T. Toma did coach at Snyder, and later coached the Cameron women’s team.)

 

He would build up a big balance with us and Daddy would worry about it.  He could usually collect from Jim.  I had trouble being paid.  Daddy talked to the president of the First National Bank about that balance one time.  The bank told him not to worry about it that Jim could get money from wealthy nephews in California.  I think Jim sent them to school.  They were all doctors.

 

Jim was real active in the Baptist church here.  He spoke to civic clubs and churches all across western Oklahoma.  I asked him one time how he became a Baptist and he said they were the only ones who asked him.

 

I took the ad back for Jim to proof read so I saw him at least twice a week for lo those many years.

 

I’ve tried to remember some of the people who worked for him, including Corene and Lorene Gather, Jimmie White, Beulah Northcutt, Orbie Dark, and Butch the butcher.  I can’t remember his last name but will keep trying.  Jim worked several high school boys but I can’t name them.

 

He was a good cook.  Several times he fixed a meal in the back of the store and invited several businessmen including Boone Hazlette and Laddie Gwinn.

 

Grocery business was real competitive back then.  Each store would send an employee to the other stores to check on prices.

 

When Safeway employees came to the store Jim insisted they wear an apron with the store name on it so his customers would know Safeway was comparing prices.  When the Safeway employees came into the store Jim would announce the fact in a loud voice so all in the store could hear.

 

We were so shocked when he brought that pretty wife to town.  Georgette was good for him.  Jim was so proud of those three girls and well he should have been.  They have all done well.  They worked in the store but Jim always said Mary Kay was the best hand.  She worked just as hard as the men, unloading trucks, stocking shelves, etc.

 

After Toma’s

 

Randy Elkouri bought the store from Georgette Toma in 1984 and ran it for two years.  “Mark Berna worked for me, and he was the last employee of Toma’s in Hobart.”

 

J. Paul Everhart and Regina Berna opened “Meats and More” in January of 1988.

 

The Chinese restaurant is there today, of course.  (It’s still open, right???)

 

Jerry’s Tackle Shop

 

Wayne Fuchs was among those who remembered that Jerry Williams owned that tackle shop next door to Boothe Drug.

 

Jerry Perkey told us the business moved from Jerry to Jerry:  “Jerry Williams bought that business from me.  It was located on South Broadway across from the cotton gin then.  I sold the property to Arlene Millermon who put The Sweet Shop business there for several years.  Jerry Williams never operated from the South Broadway location.  I think it’s a Beauty Shop now.  I had the Tackle Shop from 1982 until I sold it to Jerry Williams.  It was first located in my garage at 120 S. Bailey.”

 

Ladd’s Men’s Wear

 

Gloria Fiorello:  “When we moved in after getting the store ready to open, I was beginning to set up an art studio in the upstairs, so I could teach there.  It had a skylight, which would be perfect.  I came to work one morning and my husband (Laddie Gwinn) told me he had just rented the upstairs to General Jim Styron and Cecil Laughlin so they could set up to buy cotton there.  (The address of the cotton office was 405 ½ S. Main.) 

 

“Jim, of course, was retired by then.  Anyway I freaked out and had to move my things out and rent space where the old hospital had been over where Tate’s Hardware had been (where OTASCO was later).”

 

“Before I knew it there were long wooden bins upstairs and people would come and look at cotton samples.  General Styron kept a little office up there and would come down and use the phone every day to call his stock broker.  He loved sitting at the back of our store where I had my office and sewing for alterations.  I think it gave him something to do in his retirement.  I think his wife was gone by then.”

 

Mama’s Food Store

 

Jim Harris:  “Steve Finefrock always had candy money.  One time in Mrs. Gold’s second grade class, Steve filled up on candy from Mama's before he got to school and got sick right in the middle of the classroom floor.  What a crowd-pleaser Steve was for a bunch of second-graders.  

 

“During the years dad was Cubmaster, Lee was the Entertainment Committee.  He was responsible for the little skits that the pack meetings always had.  I remember one that Lee did which was to get three or four men and the same number of women up on the Francis Willard Auditorium stage, give them all suit vests and ask them to button them up.  The women buttoned them from the top and the men buttoned them from the bottom.  Lee said women always button their blouses from the top and men button their shirts from the bottom.  We sure knew how to live it up back then!!”  

 

Miscellaneous

 

Lynne Morris owns the old Ladd’s Men’s Wear building next-door south of Boothe Drug today.  It’s used only as storage.  It escaped serious damage when Gaines Drug caught fire but was infested with pigeons because the damaged windows weren't repaired in a very timely fashion.  Only recently has the building been boarded up properly to keep pigeons out. 

 

Debbie Ivie operated the Video Plus store that was just south of Boothe Drug in the early 1990s.

 

 

 

Thoughts from the Squirrel Lair

 

Perfect Way to Start the Day

 

I think you will appreciate this.  Absolutely beautiful and true.

 

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.htm

 

 

 

Alumni Website

 

We have renewed the account that Wanda Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the Roosevelt Alumni:  http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni.  She had posted many pictures from past reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about them.  We thought you might find these interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.

 

 

 

Cooperton Valley Picture Trail

 

The “Cooperton Valley” Picture Trail site has been renewed for all to enjoy.  Thanks to Karen (Johnson) Mason for funding this site for the coming year.  This site has many pictures from past Cooperton School reunions.  We hope that you will find these photos interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past (or if you have and wondered where it went).  Go to http://www.picturetrail.com/coopertonvalley to visit the site.

 

 

 

Interesting Tidbits

 

84 Year Old Sniper

 

Watch this guy.  Remember, it's been about sixty years since he's done this.  You may wish this guy was your next door neighbor.  Unless you've tried to hit a target at 300 yards with a modern rifle and scope...you can't appreciate what this older gentleman did with a WWII rifle and scope.

 

Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the lower right of the You Tube screen)

 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/MQRpAxGVg4M?rel=0

 

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The Problem with Socks

 

Mrs. Bush opens A Celebration of Reading in Houston on April 18, 2013 with a humorous Sock Story and "tribute" to America's favorite Sock-Lover in Chief.

 

This is so cute and funny!  Please take the time to watch and listen to it.  You will smile!!

 

Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the lower right of the You Tube screen)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx5ZE5nE9X8

 

 

 

News

 

Roosevelt Senior Citizens

 

The Roosevelt Senior Citizens center is closed for the summer.  They will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 3 for lunch. 

 

 

 

Birthdays and Anniversaries

 

We have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from Wanda’s files.  We are sure we are missing some.  Please send us the birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as complete as list as possible.  We are going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please send us the information so we have it for the news next year.  In addition, should any of the birthdays we list be wrong, also please let us know.

 

Happy Birthday To:

 

June 22 – Olivia Alonzo
June 22 – Pam (Stroud) Jackson, Class of 1979
June 22 – Scott Cox
June 23 – Ricky Simmons, Class of 1977
June 23 – Jason Morgan, Class of 1990  
June 23 – Mickey May, Class of 1969
June 23 – Tim Neyers
June 24 – Melba Curtis Harken
June 24 – Alfred J. Miller
June 25 – Dillon Brown

June 25 – Bobby Paul Ford
June 26 – Kaisen Walker
June 26 – Edwin James Marx
June 26 – Sandra Locklin
June 26 – James Brooks
June 26 – Phyllis (Barnes) Krehbiel, Class of 1987
June 27 – Donna Ray

 

Happy Anniversary To:

 

June 21 – Don & Marilyn (Morgan) Lester, Class of 1964 – 50th Anniversary

 

 

 

Humor

 

Leroy’s Hearing Problem

 

In a Detroit church one Sunday morning, a preacher said, “Anyone with ‘special needs’ who wants to be prayed over, please come forward to the front by the altar.”

 

With that Leroy got in line, and when it was his turn, the preacher asked, “Leroy, what do you want me to pray about for you?”

 

Leroy replied, “Preacher, I need you to pray for help with my hearing.”  The preacher put one finger of one hand on Leroy’s ear, placed his other hand on top of Leroy’s head, and then prayed and prayed and prayed.  He prayed a “blue streak” for Leroy, and the whole congregation joined in with great enthusiasm.

 

After a few minutes, the preacher removed his hands, stood back and asked, “Leroy, how is your hearing now?”

 

Leroy answered, “I don’t know.  It ain’t ‘til Thursday.”

 

 

 

From the Email “Bag”

 

June 13, 2013

 

It would be nice if the doctors would get their heads together first and stop changing up the story/process.  Received this from Phil Thursday, the next step in his "Shoe Drop" Saga.  Geary McDowell

I had an appointment with my Chemo Oncologist this morning.  I have a different Oncologist for Radiation.  This Chemo guy called the Radiation Oncologist while I was there and they decided that it would be good to try 15 more treatments of a different radiation (or maybe it was a stronger dose of radiation, I didn’t catch that part) and follow up with a different chemical for chemo therapy.  When they do that there will be no way to tell if it killed what is left of the original cancer except to wait and see whether it comes back or not.  A PET scan will only show it up if it is a certain size or larger and they don’t think what is left is big enough to show up on a scan.  However, if any is left it can act like yeast and cause additional cells to grow.  I have to wait until 6 weeks after the surgery that I had last Friday (for it to heal) before they will start the additional radiation.  At least they are doing something.  The ENT surgeon from yesterday couldn’t think of anything that could be done until the cancer came back.  He suggested that I ask this Chemo Oncologist about it.  The Chemo guy is supposed to be the cancer expert.  Going this way I’ll at least have a chance of killing it and not having it come back at all.  If it comes back we’ll cross that bridge when it happens, but that would be on down the road in weeks or months or years.

 

Phil

 

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June 18, 2013

 

Dear Mike and Carolyn,

 

First of all let me thank both of you for writing the news for all of us from the Roosevelt area.  I've enjoyed it so much.  Since father's day just past I began to think of my father and I remember Mike asking me to write a little bit about him.  I've thought about what I wanted to share and here it is. 

 

Don Nash was a man that loved and believed in his country, his town and his family.  He abhorred lying and the lack of integrity.  He loved all people and always taught my brother, Joe, and I to treat everyone with respect.  He was a fair man, a kind man, and generous to a fault.  Many a night we would hear a knock on our back door and there would be someone needing a few dollars.  He always gave it to them.  He loved my mother, my brother and I unconditionally.  He loved the town of Roosevelt.  He came back from Sapulpa, OK, where I was born to help his dad build a business and help build a thriving town.  For a while it really was a very active and thriving town.  I think Roosevelt was the best place in he world to grow up.  My dad was the most influential person in my life.  I miss him and wish I could sit down and have a long conversation with him.

 

Judy (Nash) Williams

 

(Editor’s Note:  We really appreciate Judy sharing thoughts of her dad with our readers.  We invite any and all of you to share memories of your family or fiends from Roosevelt.)

 

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June 19, 2013

 

Mike and Carolyn,

 

I always look forward to the latest edition of the Roosevelt News.  I think we share very similar views about our politicians.

 

I grew up and went to school in Cooperton all 12 years, graduating in 1964. I married my husband, Ken (a Ft. Sill Soldier) when I was at Okla. College for Women.  We lived in Lawton and Okla. City before we moved to the Cleveland, Ohio area in 1968.  I have always made frequent trips home to spend time with my parents, Perry & Louise Smith.  Mom loved it when they moved to Roosevelt because she had several buddies in town.  Glenna Miller, Charlett Story and mom went everywhere together.  J R and Joanne Howard accompanied mom on several trips.  Dad has been gone 9 years now and mom has been a resident of Plantation Village Assisted Living since her strokes.

 

I used to take Wanda Jackson and mom to listen to the music in Altus and Mtn. Park when I came home.  I know Wanda would be proud that you have undertaken this job of compiling the Roosevelt News.  Keep up the good work.

 

Sincerely,

 

Bonnie Sue Smith Pickett

Poinciana, Florida (Dec-April)

N. Ridgeville, Ohio (May-Nov.)

 

 

 

Food for Thought

 

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

 

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the s
trong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." ... Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

Obituaries

 

Norma Jean (McWright) Jurczewsky, 76, Roosevelt

http://lakeview.tributes.com/our_obituaries/Norma-McWright-Jurczewsky-95994993

 

Useful Links:

 

Becker Funeral Home of Snyder, OK

http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder

 

Peoples Cooperative Funeral Home of Lone Wolf, OK

http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history

 

Ray and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart, Mt. View, and Carnegie, OK

http://rayandmarthas.com/

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Layout

http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Markers (Picture Trail)

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery

 

Centerville Cemetery (west of Mt. Park) on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2176228

 

Cooperton Green Valley Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98552&CScn=Green+Valley+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&CScnty=2165&

 

Cooperton Spring Hill Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&

 

Gotebo Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98525

 

Hobart Rose Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Hobart Resurrection (Catholic) Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Mountain Park Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Roosevelt Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Saddle Mountain KCA Intertribal Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439

 

Snyder Fairlawn Cemetery on Find A Grave

 

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