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Newberry McBroom, Darla S.

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Darla Sue McBroom, 80, of Friona, Texas, passed away on July 14, 2022, in Friona, Texas. Darla Sue Newberry was born April 26, 1942, in Amarillo, Texas to Carl and Mozell Dyess Newberry.

Darla was a homemaker and a teacher’s assistant. She retired from Lazbuddie ISD after a long, rewarding career. Darla enjoyed gardening and always had colorful flower beds. She learned to love putting puzzles together during the pandemic and completed dozens of them the last few years. She had an affinity for animals, and often donated to local animal shelters.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Orin “Okie” McBroom; a son, Troy McBroom, and brother, Merwin Newberry.

Those left to cherish her memory are her sons, Casey McBroom and wife, April, of Happy, Texas, and Patrick McBroom and wife, Ronna, of Canyon, Texas; her daughter, Lori Stormes and husband, Andy of Amarillo, Texas; grandchildren, Skyla and husband Dustin, Tamra, Tristan, Dallam and wife Abbie, Demi and husband Colby, Breena, Kathie and husband Andrew, and Kimmie; great-grandchildren, Troy, Brogan, Bennett, Kamden, Brynlee, Kelbi, Grant, and River. She is also survived by one sister-in-law, Carol Newberry, of Abilene, Texas; several nieces, nephews, special friends, and her dog and beloved companion, Allie.

Darla’s children invite you to join us to celebrate her life well lived on Friday, July 29th, at the Happy Methodist Church from 2:00-4:00 PM. The address is 2300 Happy West Road, Happy, TX 79042, just north of the football field. This will be a casual time of fellowship and reminiscing.

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Schroeder, Edgar P.-Ed

It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Edgar Paul Schroeder (Sapulpa, Oklahoma), who passed away on January 11, 2023. You can sign the on line guestbook provided and share it with the family. You may also light a candle in honor of Edgar Paul Schroeder,

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Lizar, Dwayne

Dwayne Lizar Bibliography for EHS 1960

In view of the fact that I will become 80 years old next month and have never attended a high school reunion, I thought it might be nice to reach out to my surviving fellow classmates from Enid High School and give a brief description of my journey since high school. Following high school, I attended Phillips University majoring in speech and hearing science.  My father died at an early age (47) and I left school for a short time following his death, graduating with a bachelor of science in 1965.  That’s right a B.S. from P.U. After accepting a vocational rehabilitation scholarship my studies were continued at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center and Phillips University with a Master’s of Science degree achieved in 1968. During my early college days, I married Linda Roberts and we had two sons, Jeffrey and Christopher.  When Jeffrey was three years old and Christopher was one month old my family and I moved to Nashville, Tennessee where I completed two years of post-graduate work in the speech pathology/audiology program at Vanderbilt University. My professional experiences have included work in hospitals, clinics, schools, and private practice.  From Enid we lived for a short time in Kansas City, Missouri prior to moving to Ponca City, Oklahoma where a group of us developed a speech pathology/audiology department within a community mental health program.  In 1975 my family moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I established a private practice.

Linda and I divorced in 1981 as I moved to California and she retained her residence in Arizona. Following a practice of eleven years in Arizona, I tested the waters in California where I have been affiliated with a variety of programs, including 17 years as a contract speech-language pathologist in various schools affiliated with Summit Speech Pathologists, Inc.

I informally retired in 2017 after over 50 years in my chosen profession.  I continue to have a limited practice in audiology performing central auditory processing evaluations for students in four school districts.  It keeps me as busy as I want to be, but not as demanding as before “retirement.”

Our two sons attended Arizona State University where Jeff completed a degree in business and Chris was involved in the music department and played on the drumline of the marching Sun Devils.  Jeff and his wife Stefanie live in Yorba Linda, California and have two sons, Colin, a student at UCLA and Parker, a sophomore at Foothill High school in Orange County.  Colin writes for the Daily Bruin covering water polo activities and Parker plays water polo at his high school.

Chris and his wife Monica live in Corona, California and have a son, Austin who is a seventh-grade honor student and plays soccer. They have a daughter, Sierra, a fifth-grade student  who is an excellent student and cheerleader performing at minor league baseball games and participating in competitions.

I currently live with my partner of twenty-one years, Robbie (a woman honestly) in a gated community in Murrieta, California.  We enjoy walks on the beach, traveling, dining out, and playing golf.  Our home borders the 17th fairway of the California Oaks Golf Club where we sometimes play.  Behind our home is a pond which attracts many different types of birds such as great white herons, Canadian Geese, ducks and in the neighboring trees we have red tailed hawks, owls and a variety of smaller birds.

Life is good and I have been blessed with family, friends, and good health.  My relationship with Robbie has opened my life to her children and grandchildren. One is a student at the University of San Diego and is an accomplished equestrian. (I don’t know where that came from, her parents are very city).  Two of her grandchildren are very accomplished water polo players and with Parker’s team making three we watch; we often spend weekends watching a lot of water polo. Including Robbie’s children, we have a total of nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Robbie and I are both originally from Oklahoma and will always regard the Sooner state as home.  We have made several trips back to visit family and friends. We are huge Sooner fans and bleed crimson and cream. Anytime a Sooner team gets close to where we are, we make it a point to attend the games. We followed the softball team closely this year and celebrated their sixth national championship.  My faith remains strong and my politics continue to be conservative in spite of all the craziness surrounding us here in California.

It is difficult to fathom how quickly life moves on when you are young. You always think you have more time, but sometimes that doesn’t work out.  I have always been proud to be a Plainsman and in spite of the lack of contact with old friends, have fond memories of my time in Enid, as a child, in high school, and in college.

I wish you all well and hope you are living the life you intended to live. 

Warm personal regards,

Dwayne

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Jack, John H.

 John Houston Jack
January 02, 1942 – January 26, 2018

Funeral service for John Jack, 76 of Enid, will be 1:00 PM Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dan Barrick officiating. Burial will follow in Hawley Cemetery under the direction of Anderson-Burris Funeral Home & Crematory.
John was born on January 2, 1942 in Enid to Allen and Ruth (Frazier) Jack and passed away on January 26, 2018 in Enid.
John grew up in Enid and graduated from Enid High School. In 1961 he started working at Vance Air Force Base as a computer operator. John retired after working there for 49 years. He was also a licensed plumber and worked for his father-in-law. He was a 32nd Degree Mason, member of Lodge #80, and Jack loved traveling and fishing.
He was preceded in death by his parents and grandson, Warren Jack II.
John is survived by his companion, Kay Hendricks; son, Warren Jack and wife, Gretchen, and their daughter, Heather Steele and husband Tyler; son, John Jack Jr. and his sons, Adam and Randy Jack; three step-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; and sister, Jo Ann Whitlock and husband Jim.

 

 

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Mitten, Ralph

Mitten_Ralph US Army, 1959-resize-70   Ralph Mitten           Mitten-R&R 2012-30resize

I did not get to walk and receive my graduation certificate like normal people; instead, I enlisted in the Army. I did, however, receive my HS equivalent (GED) certificate while in the Army.

After receiving an honorable discharge (that may surprise a couple of you), I returned to Enid, OK. I was working at George E. Failing Co. on East Main when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That is where I met Rosalie Dowe. She was George Doremus’s secretary. I asked her out on a dare from the guys in the shop, and we married a year later in 1965. Poor girl; I drug her all over the world and she has stuck with me through it all.

I became a pilot in 1968, and a commercial pilot/flight instructor in 1969. In 1970, I went to work for the Frisco Railroad, as a track hand. Six months later, I was enrolled in the Apprentice Engineer program. Eventually, Ben Haines and I took our written test to be a locomotive engineer. The examiner sat at the same table with us and didn’t even close the door when he went to the bathroom. The exam took two days. Later, I learned that Ben and I had made the highest scores ever recorded on the Frisco RR. (proud moment). An interesting tidbit – I worked with Beverly Gearheard’s daddy for 16 years on the Frisco/ Burlington Northern RR before leaving in 1986. I went back into the aviation field full time.

The last two years on the RR, I went to school and took the required tests to become an aircraft mechanic. Three years later, I took the exam to become an aircraft inspector. I have maintained both licenses to date. From 1986 to 1990, I trained and received my Airline Transport pilot license. I also received both Single Engine and Multi-engine, Land and Sea license.

From 1990 to 1992, we went to the South Pacific and served with Pacific Missionary Aviation as a life line to the outer island people. I carried missionaries to the outer Islands, did air medicine drops, sea search and rescue, and medical evacuations. I can honestly say that the Lord allowed me to serve Him in a much-needed ministry.

In 1992, we returned to the US, and I went to work for Groendyke Transport as a company pilot and aircraft mechanic. While there, I flew many missions for the company in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Sometimes, I flew alone, and sometimes, as captain or co-pilot with Mel Shipley, in the company Turbo-prop and Jet airplanes.

In 2000, I went to work at Flight Safety, International (training pilots in jets) in Wichita, Kansas. I retired in 2008 (65 years old) and Rosalie and I moved back to Enid. We have lived at Golden Oaks Retirement village since then. My final achievement, while in Wichita, was to fly a Citation CE680 Sovereign Jet from Wichita, KS to London, England. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the night at 45,000 feet.

I did, however, become very bored after retirement; and eight months later, I went to work for Aircraft Structures, International, at Woodring Airport  (Mickey and Kay Stowers), where I worked six more years.

Rosalie and I have been blessed with fifty wonderful years together. We have two children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. We have been members of Emmanuel, Enid since 1980, where Dennis Luckinbill is the leader of my community group.

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Corporon Taylor Stevens-Parker, Suzi

Corporon-Parker, Susie '60SUZI (now S.) CORPORON TAYLOR STEVENS-PARKER

Suzi Corporon , EHS Class of 1960
Now Known As:  S. Taylor Stephens-Parker
Dear EHS Class of 1960,


Though we will not physically be there, we will be thinking of all of you who are !  My husband, Stan Parker, and I fly to Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 7with the Dallas Friendship Force group for a 2 ½ week visit.  We will take a 10 day private group tour with an English speaking guide.  Then we will meet our hosts on October 17 at their home for a 7 day Homestay.  The husband is a Dr. and his wife is a Registered Pharmacist.  We will learn more about their culture from them and they will learn more about our culture while we take our meals with them, visit important icons of theirs like the Blue Mosque and Saint Sophia’s Mosque, and converse with them about their culture.  Though none of the 4 of us are fluent in the others’ language, each of us can make ourselves understood!
Now for the Bio:
I went to Phillips University for 1 full year after EHS graduation   As a sophomore, I transferred to the University of Kansas, and was planning on nursing.  I also met my 1st husband there.  Married in Dec. 1962, we moved to Kansas City.  I worked at TWA for 2 years while my husband, John H. Burkle, Jr finished his business degree.  I quit my job and went back to KU in the Spring of 1965, this time on the KU Med Center Campus in Kansas City, KS.  After 2 years and 3 months there, 92 of us student nurses graduated with a BS in Nursing on June 5, 1967!  Just 3 days later, our daughter Amy was born at KUMC.
We lived in the KC area for 2 years, during which time our son, John III, was born in Dec. 1968.  Six weeks later John got a promotion and a transfer to Chicago where it was freezing cold in February 1969.  After 4 years of long winters, John landed a promotion in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area in Texas.  My BFF, Eileene (Crook) and her husband, Phil Carey, sang the praises of the Arlington schools.
Amy was 5 and expecting to go to Kindergarten, but Texas didn’t have public Kindergarten!  Amy was enrolled in a private school.  Solution found!
So, for the most part, I have lived in Arlington for 37 years.  I can tell you that a mild Winter in Texas appears to mean a hotter than Hell Summer!  My goal is to spend the hottest months in COOL places in 2011.  If your Summer and Fall are COOL,  I just might have to visit you!
They say that when you buy a new house it is followed by a new baby. Yup.  It happened to me.  They were right:  our 3rd child, Annabeth, was born in Oct. 1973.  Anna moved from Austin to Boston this past Summer, trying to achieve COOL temperatures.  She is a much-in-demand hair dresser at a large salon and loving her new digs in the NE.
In 1980, after 18 years of marriage and two years of counseling, I filed for a divorce from John.  Very shortly thereafter I finished up my Masters Degree in Psychiatric and Mental Health and had launched my career as a Nurse/Clincian at Tarrant County MHMR.
Fourteen months later, a $5000 raise in pay got me 2 stints at John Peter Smith Hospital, the County hospital.  There I served in the Psych ER & also as Charge Nurse of the Acute Adult Psychiatric Unit.  What a trip that was!!
My next job was as a Weekender at Willow Creek Hospital, in far South Arlington, I was the Charge Nurse on the Adolescent Girls Unit.  I can tell you some pretty good stories about those days!!
After 5 ½ years at Willow Creek, a new administration took over.  I was hired by a former colleague at Medical Plaza Hospital for the Day Shift Weekend Charge Nurse on the Adult Acute Unit. I worked there for 10 months before the administration closed the unit.  I took advantage of being laid-off permanently.
I now had time to plan, plot, and polish my return to the workforce!
My last nursing job for hospital nursing was with Tarrant County MHMR, in July of 1994 thru 1997. This time as Nurse Clinician in the Psych Crisis Clinic.  These were some of my most enjoyable years.  Our staff was very cohesive and almost like family.
I was looking for something which would be nurturing to myself and others as well.  The next day I answered an ad for a live in caregiver for a 94 year old woman.  I interviewed with her son, and he hired me on the spot!  I started working the next Monday and ended up working there for 4 more years!
In the years since then I have –much to my surprise—(1) become a Master Gardener in 2002 AND become (2) a Citizen Ambassador to the World as a member of Friendship Force International!  My dear husband and I have been traveling widely for the last 8 years and hope to keep doing it into our 80s!
This may come as a surprise, but true—I had a baby girl and gave her up for adoption.  I had a lot of time to think about it, but doing it was not easy.  I was able to find her in 1997 pretty quickly—Trish Belden Rice was 37 when we first talked about our relationship would or could be.  Trish was married to Mike Rice and they had a 22 month old girl, Danielle, and they lived in Omaha, NE.  It was a VERY EMOTIONAL reunion for both of us in January 1998.  They now live in Tomball,TX ,. about 1 hr NW of Houston.—Danielle is 15 and Matthew is 10.  Mike works for HP and Trish works for a MD in a family practice clinic nearby.  You would know her if you saw her—-she looks just like me!!
Amy is now 43 and is married to Trey Hancock.  They live in El Paso, TX, and have 2 children:  Josh is 12  and Katie will soon be 10.  Amy graduated from UTA  and is now home schooling both children.  I have to say that I admire her very much—don’t think I could’ve done that!  Trey owns his own business, Physical Therapy. Both are now learning how to play tennis.
John will be 42 in Dec.  He lives and works in the San Francisco area.  He has always liked to take things apart and see what’s up with things.  His specialty is working on motorcycles, snowmobiles, and other sport machines.  He has 1 son, Johnathan.  I feel deep sadness when I think of him.  I haven’t seen him since he was 19.  Our relationship is pretty pitiful. Though I’d like to mend the relationship, I doubt it will actually happen. I’m grateful I at least know he’s alive and working!
Annabeth is 37.  She moved from Austin, TX to Boston, MA just five months ago after  passing her GED with flying colors.  She quickly found a job with an upscale hair salon in Dedham and now lives enjoys not having a big yard to care for—it gives her time to spend at Cape Cod!  She is clearly enjoying living in Boston!
I was divorced for over 20 years when I rescued Judge Hugh Stanton Parker from being single!  I had only known him for 19 years when he proposed to me on Feb. 28, 2000.  Knowing that this “rescue” could morph into a retreat, I arranged for a friend of mine to officiate at our home wedding March 21, 2000.  We wrote our own double ring vows, but when shopping for rings, he was reluctant to buy one for himself!  Why?  Because he had never worn one before.  So I told him that if he didn’t want to wear a ring, then we could just go to a pawn shop and find one for him to use at our double ring wedding, and then just toss it.  At this point, he said, “I think I’ve changed my mind.  I’ll buy a ring for me, too.”  Stan is the best procrastinator I have ever known!!  He is also a wonderful husband, Dad, and Grandpa.  We’ve enjoyed 10 ½ years of wedded bliss.  In those years we have found great pleasure in traveling the world with Friendship Force, International for the past 8 years!
Now that the Entire Class Members of 1960 are of retirement age, I’d like to invite ALL of you to find a Friendship Force Group in your city, state, or region—wherever you are.  Start with this website: www.thefriendshipforce.org  There are over 350 chapters world wide.  We have found that if you put your feet under your hosts’ table, you sleep in their home, you spend time with them, you will come to learn that ALL people want most of the things that we, too, hold near and dear to our hearts.  We begin with:
PEACE ON EARTH!   AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME!Corporon-Parker, Susie '10
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Gearheard Davis, Beverly

Gearheard-Davis, Beverly '60BEVERLY GEARHEARD DAVIS

Sorry my bio assignment is so late. As a retired & tired  English teacher,  I know that assignments turned in late only get partial credit.  But at this stage of life, who cares?

After graduating from OU, I married a recently graduated lawyer, Don Davis, and we moved to his hometown of Lawton.  He practiced law and was a member of the OK House of Representatives for ten years, and then in 1980 became President of Cameron University for 22 years.
I taught Sr. High English for 20 years and volunteered for many efforts. Don’s careers have been really fun for me as well.  We’ve entertained hundreds of people, been involved in exciting ventures, traveled a great deal, and “raised” two great sons, both lawyers.  Casey is assistant general counsel with the Grand River Dam Authority at Grand Lake, and Josh is an Assistant District Attorney in Enid.  (Don’t plan on getting picked up by the police while in Enid; however, if such should happen, I’ll see what Josh can work out. Judge Ron Franklin is retired, so he’ll be no help at all.)  We live in OKC now where Don is Special Counsel to Governor Brad Henry.  I’ve been so blessed in my life, and as I read your bios, it’s obvious we all have been.  HERE’S TO THE CLASS OF ’60.  See you soon.


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Hartman Steele, Carol

Hartman-Steele, Carol '60CAROL HARTMAN STEELE

 

 

Following graduation from OSU with a degree in journalism, I took off for Washington, D.C. to seek a career in journalism and my fortune.  I never got very far into  the journalism career and I’m still looking for that fortune,  but along the way I discovered my husband, John,  (we married in 1967) and a fascinating 30-year career working for the U. S. Agency for International Development.  John and I were both U.S. foreign service officers working in developing countries for four-year stints in Vietnam, Kenya, Jordan, Swaziland, and El Salvador, with occasional positions in Washington, D.C. We adopted our son, Chris, in 1974.  He grew up in all of those places, married last year, and lives and works in San Diego.

John and I retired to a tiny community on the north Oregon coast.  We’ve become involved in a number of volunteer activities.  We also thoroughly enjoy all sorts of hiking, fishing, clamming, crabbing, and other outdoor opportunities in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

That’s enough for now.  I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.  It has been way too long since I returned to Enid or saw any of you.Hartman-Steele, Carol '10

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Crook Carey, Eileene

Carey-Crook, Eileen '60Eileene Crook Careycurrent-carey-crop

 

After graduation I attended University of Oklahoma for my freshman year; I was intending to get a degree in nursing.  That summer I worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in the addmission office.  I found I was not a nurse candidate – too much empathy.  A chance to be a Flight Attendant with TWA appeared – I decided to try.  I flew for two and a half years until Phil and I married in 1964.  It was great fun!  I think the experience was very good training for my real career as a wife of a pilot.  I knew about crazy schedules, time zones, strange hotels, working holidays(no extra pay), spaceavailable travel, and the “care and feeding” of the crew – the most important passengers on your plane.  Friends would ask me, “Where’s Phil?”, I didn’t always know, but I did know when he should arrive home.

We have two children.  A daughter, Annette, graduated from University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing . She worked in Open-heart ICU until she married and had a son, Charlie (age 15); and a daughter, Abigail (age 13).  Now, Annette is a Jr. High School nurse.(Remember Jr. High?)
Our son, David, is also a Longhorn graduate with an MBA.  He is a Manager of Training with Fannie Mae.  He is married and has a son, Michael(age 17);  and a daughter, Rachel (age 15).

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Herschberger Edelen, Lexy

Herschberger-Edelen, Lexy '60Lexy Herschberger Edelen

I have just read all of the bios and am more excited than ever to see
everyone!  I must say Suzi Hockmeyer Law gets the award for the
funniest!  I can’t wait to order her husband’s book.
Here’s my life in brief:  I graduated from OSU in 1964 with a
degree in Music Education, taught one year in Jefferson County,
Colorado, married my current & favorite husband, Ed, in 1965.  (He was
one of those pilots from the base who we weren’t supposed to date,
remember?)  He was a fighter pilot and an airline captain with Eastern
Airlines.  We lived in Maryland and New York and most of our lives in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  We have two daughters, Kyle & Lexy Lee,
and five grandchildren.  Kyle lives in South Carolina near us.  Lexy
lives in Bermuda.  Her husband is a foreign service diplomat there.
I have always been involved in music, as so many of you are.
Currently I am the Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Michael Catholic
Church, with an Adult and a Youth Choir.  I really enjoy my work.  Who
knew when I was playing piano for Miss Morrow that I would be using all
of her words of wisdom in choirs of my own.
I am so looking forward to seeing everyone.  My husband won’t be
attending.  He went through chemo & radiation treatment last year and
isn’t up to it.  The good news is all of his tests and blood work are
OK.  Hallelujah!  I will be rooming with Beverly Palecek Tuggle, my best
friend in high school.  Some things change but good friends stay the
same!
See you all in October!        Fondly, Lexy