75702. Orson Barnett Pratt Sr.
A Shawano newspaper
Funeral arrangements for O. B. Pratt, Consolidated Badger sales manager who died yesterday morning following a lingering illness, have been completed
Mr. Pratt is survived by his three children, Orson, Howard and Benita, and three brothers, Howard D. Pratt, Chicago; Dr. Harry Pratt, Grand Marais, Minn. And Marvin Pratt, St. Croix Falls, Wis.
He was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, 42 years ago and grew up in that community. He attended River Falls High School and the State Teachers college in that city.
A Shawano newspaper
Mrs. Orson B. Pratt, wife of the Consolidated Badger sales manager, died at 8:30 last night following an illness of only a few hours. Her sudden and totally unexpected death comes as a severe shock to the many in this community who had known this fine woman and liked and respected her.
The Pratts came to Shawano five years ago. Mrs. Pratt observed her 42nd birthday, two weeks ago, March 5. She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary, the Shawano Womans club and the Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Pratt had looked forward to day after tomorrow when her oldest son, Orson, was to have graduated from the army air corps technical school at Keeseler Field, Alabama. Orson had not been reached as late as this afternoon and because it is impossible to know when he will get home, funeral arrangements have not been made.
Mrs. Pratt was in apparent good health yesterday afternoon. Her small daughter Benita had stayed home from school because of a cold. Sometime after two oclock she heard her mother call from down stairs. Finding Mrs. Pratt unconscious, Benita called Mrs. Marshall Wallrich who came over, and called the doctor. Mrs. Pratt did not regain consciousness.
The deceased formerly Miss Henrietta Heitzmann was born March 5, 1900 in Newark, New Jersey. In that community she received her grade and high school education and later on the family moved to Delavan, Wisconsin. Before coming to Wisconsin she attended Columbia University.
The Pratts were married June 20, 1920. They lived in Colorado several years, later coming back to Wisconsin. The five years prior to their coming to Shawano, they lived in Neenah.
Survivors include her husband and three children, Orson, Howard and Benita.
The Dallas Morning News (TX)
April 15, 2009Pratt, Virgil Kathleen 94, of Dallas, formerly of White Bear Lake, MN passed away March 26, 2009 at home surrounded by family. She was born in 1914 in Ellsworth, WI to Sherman and Anastasia Teresa (Dunn) Goldsmith.
She was married to Marvin A. Pratt from 1933 until his death in 1961.She was married to Roy Novotny from 1963 until his death in 1982.
Virgil is survived by 3 children, Kathleen K. (Robert) Rortvedt of Dallas, TX, Terry T. (Carole) Pratt of Punta Gorda, FL and Dr. Daniel D. Pratt (Dr. Chris Lovato) of Vancouver, BC, Canada; 11 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by a son, Ralph, 2 grandsons, Thomas Allen Rortvedt and James Thomas Rortvedt, and a great-grandson, Benjamin Michael Rortvedt. She was also preceded in death by sisters, Vivian Goldsmith and Vera Alberg and a brother, Hartel Goldsmith.
75717. Corp. Carey Robert McClaran
1st Company, 139th Kansas Infantry, 36th Division, U.S. Army.
Attended the Western Star School in District No. 80, Culver Township, Ottawa County, Kansas, which was a one-room school.
Living in Herington, KS, he was a member of the Kansas National Guard; he was put into active duty Apr 26, 1917. He was Killed in Action in WW1 during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, which was the final Franco-American offensive of the war.
Borger News Herald
January 14, 1992WICHITA FALLS - Louis Marvel, 85, died Dec. 31, 1991 in Cartersville, Ga.
Mr. Marvel was born April 16, 1906 in Beaver County, Okla., and lived in Panhandle for 33 years. He lived in Banning, Calif. for 48 years before moving to Wichita Falls in 1987.
Survivors include a son, Herb Marvel of Wichita Falls; a brother, Ralph Marvel of Borger; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The Examiner (Independence - Blue Springs - Grain Valley, MO) - Wednesday
October 27, 2004Clarice N. McClaran, 96, Independence, died Monday, Oct. 25, 2004, at Rosewood Health Center at The Groves in Independence
The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
March 28, 2000McCLARAN Bernice N., joined our Heavenly Father and her beloved husband and son on March 26, 2000. She was born Sept. 22, 1912 in Centerville, IA. She married Robert W. McClaran in Dec. 1935 in Okla. City, OK.
They celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Dec. 1985. She started her medical career in 1953 at Lane's Clinic in Britton as receptionist and continued as receptionist and medical assistant to Dr. Ella H. Murray until 1962. She also worked for several other doctors in OKC until her retirement in 1974. From 1980 to 1985 she helped her husband in the mail room at Deaconess Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her husband Robert on Sept. 14, 1986, son Marion Wayne, grandsons Gary Wayne & Charles, her parents, 3 brothers & 2 sisters.
She is survived by 3 daughters and their husbands, 2 brothers, 1 sister, 9 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great grandchild.
Find-a-Grave
Gladys Irene (McClaran) Carr, second daughter and youngest of five children born to Chester Brantz and Ivy Dell (Moreland) McClaran, was born at approximately 2:00 a.m. February 23, 1916 on a farm at the edge of the Cheyenne Indian Reservation near Dane, Major County, Oklahoma.
During the morning of the 23rd, Chief White Eagle of the Cheyennes came through the yard and asked if the white papoose had been born; when told she had, he asked to see her. She was indeed a 'white' papoose, and to White Eagle this was a good omen. He tried to barter his most prized possessions- his dogs, his hunting knife, and his horse- for her; and when she became a toddler she was watched very closely to insure that the Chief did not steal her.
In August 1919, Gladys moved to Baca County, Colorado with her parents, her sister, and her brothers, Chester and Robert, where she lived until September 1935. She attended grade schools at Fairview (which burned down), Prairie Queen, and Pritchett. High School found her at Pritchett for two years, Kim for one year, and graduating from Princeton, Missouri High School in 1934. A deep admiration for a cousin, Edith Cobb Hughes, a school teacher turned secretary; caused her to decide at a very early age she was going to be a secretary.
Born: February 23, 1916 Death: March 23, 2016
During her final year of high school she had the opportunity to learn shorthand and typing, and for 44 years the secretarial field was her principal endeavor. Three weeks after graduating from high school she was employed in the office of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Springfield, Colorado, where she worked for a little more than a year. Having received from the Methodist Church a two-year half-tuition scholarship to Denver University, she enrolled for the winter quarter of 1936 in the School of Commerce. But working as a waitress in a hotel dining room for board and room, and in the office of the College Registrar for the other half of her tuition did not leave sufficient time for study; so she dropped out of college at the end of the summer term and went to work at the Mine and Smelter Supply Company at 17th and Blake Streets in Denver.
It was during this time she met and married Dale Francis Schneck of Denver. The marriage did not work out, and in the summer of 1940 she went to California where she lived and worked in Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego and Pasadena for the next fourteen years. In 1948 she became executive secretary to the Production Manager of Dicalite Division, Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, Owned by the Skakel Family of New York.
In this capacity she met James Arthur Carr who was superintendent of the firm's diatomaceous earth plant at Terrebonne, Oregon. On August 27, 1954 they were married at Powell Butte, Deschutes County, Oregon, and lived for approximately on year in Redmond, Oregon before Art joined the Kenite Company, another diatomaceous earth plant in Quincy, Washington.
The crude in the various quarries became quite wet, making processing a quality product very difficult, if not impossible. The owner was convinced that the bureau of Reclamations' irrigation project in the area had caused the water table to rise sufficiently to create the wetness; and he was planning to sue the United States Government for damages. Art did not agree, and he was discharged. Later, Art was called by the Government as an expert witness in the case. In the fall of 1957, Art was hired as Consultant for a pozzalin (low-grade diatomaceous earth) plant. A sub-contractor supplying additive for concrete being used in the construction of the power plant at Priest Rapids Dam on the Columbia River in Grant County, Washington. In November 1957 Gladys became Office Supervisor for another of the sub-contractors, English Electric, Ltd. of England, and Art and Gladys moved from Quincy to the dam site; and within a few months into the small town of Mattawa. Art;s work came to an end in the fall of 1959 and they bought a rooming/boarding house to give Art something to do with his time. Gladys continued working for English Electric until the end of the contract in February 1962. in the summer of 1962 she started counting fish at Priest Rapids Dam, and in 1963 when an opening developed in the office of the owner/operator, Grant County Public Utility District, she became Departmental Secretary for the two-dam project (Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams), which position she held until her retirement on April 30, 1978. In March of 1963 Gladys and Art ventured into the chinchilla business on a limited scale, but with plans for considerable expansion as time went on.
Things were proceeding according to planned when Art died of a heart attack on July 3, 1964. Gladys continued with the chinchillas until late in 1975 when she began to phase out the operation in preparation for retirement. After winning many ribbons and trophies at branch and regional shows, the crowning achievement came in March 1976 when, at the Empress Chinchilla National Mutation Show in Seattle, Washington, she had the Grand Show Champion, a black male. From October 1962 until July 1977, Gladys was Clerk-Treasurer of the Town of Mattawa, performing those duties evenings and weekends in addition to her other responsibilities. She retired April 30, 1978 and returned to the land of her childhood-Baca County, Colorado- to make her home among the nieces and nephews living there; and to be closer to the rest of her family from whom she had been so far away for far too many years. After returning to Baca County for a few years she continued to move around making Pueblo, Colorado, La Junta, Colorado, Springdale, Arkansas, Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, and Walsh, Colorado her home until returning back to Springfield in 2012 where she remained until her death on March 23, 2016 at the age of 100.
Gladys is survived by two nieces, and her many great nieces and nephews as well as great-great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Art Carr; siblings, Nelson, Robert, Chester, and Lilly Mae; and several nieces and nephews.
News-Press
December 15, 1994Claude James Higgins, formerly of Fort Lauderdale, had lived in LaBelle for 20 years. He was a retired sheetmetal worker.
Claude was survived by his wife, Oda M. Higgins; daughter, Gail Pellegrino of LaBelle; three granddaughters, Anita Loux of LaBelle, Theresa Perez of Feld and Melinda Patterson of Riverview; and nine great-grandchildren.
Caloosa Belle (LaBelle, FL)
Oda Mary Higgins, 98, of La-Belle, died Sept. 29, 2007 in La-Belle. She was born May 7, 1909 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Henry and Victoria Henrietta Wilhelmina (Rohman) Heileman.
She was a resident of LaBelle since 1974. Oda was an active member of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in La-Belle with her late husband, Jim. She helped with Bingo, clothes for the needy and helped make thousands of rosaries that were given to Catholic missions.
Survivors include her daughter, Gail Marie (Jesse) Cuello of LaBelle, granddaughters, Teresa (Randy) Dobson of Glenville, Ga., Anita (David) Loux of LaBelle, Melinda (Alec) Patterson of Riverview, great-grandchildren, Jessica Vasquez, Thomas Loux, Jacqueline Ford, Gerran Perez, Erin Loux, Crystal Perez, Lizann Perez, Allie Loux, Kelsey Patterson and Duncan Patterson and great-great granddaughters: Nadia and Jailee Vasquez.
Shaw Funeral Home
Naomi (Owens) Clark Nabors, daughter of W. R. (Bill) and Mable (Rogers) Owens was born December 14, 1921 near Rhea, Oklahoma and passed from this life on December 11, 2007 at her home in Taloga, Oklahoma at the age of 86 years. Naomi's family lived in Dewey County and she attended Taloga Public Schools in Taloga, Oklahoma. Naomi was baptized at a young age and was a member of the Taloga First Baptist Church.
On April 8, 1937, Naomi and Dean Monroe Clark Sr. were united in marriage at Arapaho, Oklahoma. They made their home in Taloga, Oklahoma. They were blessed with one son, Dean Monroe Clark Jr. and later they were blessed with one grandson Michael W. Clark. After the death of her husband Dean Naomi married J.B. Nabors on November 14, 1986 in Athens, Texas. They made their home in Taloga, Oklahoma. Naomi was a homemaker and she loved flowers, and was a great lover of dogs and cats. She also enjoyed spending time with her grandson.
Naomi was preceded in death by her parents, Bill and Mable Owens; by her two husbands, Dean Monroe Clark Sr. and J.B. Nabors; and by her only son, Dean Monroe Clark Jr.
Amarillo Globe-News
December 27, 2015John R. Everitt, 91, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015.
John R. Everitt was born April 18, 1924, in Bartlesville, Okla., to James and Nellie Clark Everitt. He was a veteran of the Army serving in the 82nd Airborne during World War II. He married Bettie Moore on Nov. 26, 1976, in Amarillo and was a member of Saint Stephen United Methodist Church.
He retired from Equifax after 26 years. John was an avid reader and loved fishing and spending time with his family.
He was preceded in death by two grandsons, Eli Moore and Brian Everitt; and a brother, Laverne Everitt.
Survivors include his wife, Bettie Everitt; three sons, Stephen Everitt, David Everitt and wife Luann and Mark Everitt and wife Teresa; two stepsons, Doug Moore and wife Debbie and Max Moore and wife Vicki; a stepdaughter, Melony Swasey; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Brooks Funeral Directors
Bettie Jean Everitt, 88, of Amarillo, passed away on Friday, October 14, 2022.
Bettie was born January 17, 1934 in Randall County, Texas and was the third daughter of C.R. "Hap" and Audrey Lee Hancock. She resided near Arney as a girl and could frequently be heard sharing tales of the one-room schoolhouse there before it was lost to a fire.
After graduating from Happy High School, she was a clerk for Retail Credit Company for many years while married to Charles Z. Moore, who helped her create a wonderful legacy of family with their three children.
She later married John Everitt in 1977 and they spent thirty-eight blissful years together before he preceded her in death in 2015.
She loved her tribe of kids and grandkids fiercely. Bettie Jean was also well known for her incredible sewing, knitting and crochet skills. She was frequently found at a sewing machine or with her knitting needles and crochet hooks in her hands.
Her longest-held membership was with the crew called "The Aunts," or "That Other Grandma" from which any child at any of the humongous family gatherings could rely on any one of the six sisters to give cooking advice, sweets, hugs, or a handmade craft.
She was also preceded in death by her brother, Clyde Hancock, her sister, Deloris "Jackson" Hancock, her daughter, Melony Zea Swasey, her son, Doug Moore, as well as her grandkids: Eli Moore, Brian Everitt, Pete Stewart, and Mandy Etheridge.
Survivors include her sisters, Billye Waldron of Strafford, NH; Charlotte Morris of Littlefield, TX; Carrolee Waters of Amarillo, TX; Sue Lilley of Little Elm, TX; a son, Max Moore and wife Vicki, of Sanford, TX; grandchildren Josh Moore and wife Christine of Alamogordo, NM; Abe Moore and wife Juliett of Alamogordo, NM; Nicky Moore of Amarillo, TX; Cody Craig and wife Niki of Amarillo, TX; Jackson Swasey of Lake Worth, TX; and Amber Jolley and husband Bengy of Amarillo, TX; as well as eleven great grandchildren, and numerous nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends.