Sunday, June 19, 2011 TULSA WORLD OUR LIVES OBITUARIES Pastor David Wayne Emigh Pastor David Wayne Emigh, 58, a long-time resident, pastor and community leader in Sand Springs, passed from this life and into the presence of his Lord on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was born in Tulsa on October 2, 1952, one of seven children born to Clyde Emigh and Eula Mae (Walker) Emigh. David was a graduate of Tulsa Central High School and of Rhema Bible Training Center in Broken Arrow. Between high school and his education at Rhema he served in the United States Army, stationed in Germany. His entry into ministerial service was at Calvary Temple Assembly of God in Tulsa, where he served faithfully in the street evangelism outreach and the church's bus ministry.
He and his wife Sharon later pastored in Rosebud, Missouri where they served for one year. While serving in that pastorate David felt a call from God to return to the Tulsa area to establish a full gospel church in Sand Springs from which he would reach the world. That call was the beginning of Word of Life Church, which Pastor and Sharon founded at the old QuikTrip store near the intersection of Tenth: and Adams Rd. Word of Life is an 1 active full gospel church which indeed ministers to the local area and to the world through Life Ministerial Fellowship International, a ministry which Pastor David founded to offer leadership and counsel to pastors and church leaders in the United States and around the world. As the leader of that organization Pastor David traveled extensively to support Word of Life ministries in various countries.
In his leisure time, he enjoyed spending time with his family and riding his motorcycle on short trips around the northeastern Oklahoma area. He is survived by his wife, Sharon, a daughter, Amanda Schrepel and husband Patrick of Sand Springs, a son, Phillip Emigh of Sand Springs, a granddaughter, Macy Blaire Schrepel, his mother and father, Clyde and Eula Mae Emigh of Tulsa, four sisters, Nina Lewis and husband Larry of Florida, Janet Alphin and husband George of Arkansas, Brenda Odle and husband Donnie of Sand Springs, and Teresa Marcum and husband Thad of McAlester, two brothers, Clyde Allen Emigh of Tulsa and Ralph Emigh and wife Dianne of Owasso. Also surviving are his motherin-law and father-in-law, Austin and Sarah Maxey of Sand Springs, a number of nieces and nephews, other family members and a large number of friends, church members, and ministerial associates from around the world. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider a gift to Word of Life Church to be used for the publication of a new book that Pastor had written, but had not yet published. The title of the book is "The Fourfold Blessing Of The a message which Pastor has shared with every church that he ministered in, resulting in a greater time of prosperity and growth in the churches.
Gifts may be mailed to Word of Life Church, Box 1220, Sand Springs, OK 74063, or given over the internet by clicking on the "Make A Donation In Lieu Of Flowers" link on the church website, www.wolonline.net. Visitation is Saturday, 18th, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, Sunday, June 19th, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Monday, June 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at on Tuesday, June 21st at Rhema Bible Church, 1025 W. Kenosha St, Broken Arrow, OK. Rev.
Kenneth W. Hagin, Rev. Bob Yandian, Faron Kelly and Rev. Joe McGee will officiate. Interment will follow at Woodland Memorial Park in Sand Springs under the direction of Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service.
Condolences and messages to the family may be left at the funeral home website, www. Arrangements have been entrusted to MobleyDodson Funeral Service of Sand Springs. www.mobley-dodsonfuneralservice. com Ronald Wayne Thurman Ronald Wayne Thurman, known his love for people by offering as "Green Genes" by the clients of genuine acts of kindness and practhe wholesale produce business tical help to all who knew him. He that he owned, died Sunday, June was a man who loved life.
He will 12, 2011, at home surrounded by be missed. Survivors include his family and friends. He was 72. wife, Treva; four daughters, Leslie The son of William and Lillian Owens, Laura Zuniga and husThurman, he was born March band Roberto, Rony Kennedy and 26, 1939, in Van Buren, Ark. husband Chip, and Anna Khan.
He was married to Treva Other survivors include two sis(Devin) Thurman for 54 years, and ters, Geraldine Monticelli and worked for Texaco for 18 years. Jani Thurman, and 10 grandchilHe was baptized as one of Je- dren. He was preceded in death by hovah's Witnesses in 1962 and was serv- his parents and a son-in-law, Walter Owens. ing as an elder at the time of his death. A memorial service is scheduled for 7 An amazing husband, father and grandfa- p.m.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011, at the Tulsa ther with a great sense of humor, he showed Marriott Southern Hills, 1902 E. 71st St. IN MEMORIAM BIRTHS (Tulsans unless indicated) Myra and Adam Hawkins, Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center Alesha and Samuel Helm, Big Cabin, girl, Christian Huggins and Casey Crow, boy. Kelsey Terapin and Matthew Messer, Muskogee, boy.
Jeinisha Walker, girl. Rachael Waters, boy. St. Francis Hospital Danual and Calvin Becktold, girl, Angela and Bryan Chesnut, Jenks, girl. Kendall and Joey Cochran, boy.
Casey Crump and Sean Flatt, Broken Arrow, boy. Jennifer and Casey Hanoch, Broken Arrow, boy, equivalent of one end zone. With more than 350 crews working from dawn to dusk, seven days a week, debrisremoval will take until midAugust, Stammer says. Rebuilding will take years. "There's going to be a scar through the middle of town," Stammer says.
"But it will fade over time. It will." In the meantime, FEMA trailers began arriving last week to provide temporary homes for some victims. But officials aren't sure how many people will wind up living in them estimates range from a few hundred to a few thousand. The first trailers will be allocated to some of the 55 people who remained at the Red Cross shelter last week. "It's only been a month, but it feels like six months, maybe a year," says Debbie Melton, who's been sleeping on a cot in a junior high school gymnasium, along with her 18-year-old daughter.
"We have nowhere else to go and no family or friends to help. We have each other and the clothes on our backs, that's pretty much it." DEATH NOTICES TULSA Anderson, Moby, 69, machine shop owner, died June 3. Memorial service 10 a.m. Tuesday, All Souls Unitarian Church. Moore's Southlawn.
Anderson, Paul D. "Buddy," 76, banker, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home Chapel. Arend, Patricia age unavailable, died Saturday.
Services pending. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial. Bond, Elsie Regina, 75, private nurse, died Thursday. Services pending. Dyer.
Bundy-Codrey, Dorothy 81, homemaker, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery. Moore's Southlawn. Debrosse, Mary, 73, Microfilm Service Duplicating owner, died Saturday.
Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn. Ennis, Tinsley Jane, infant daughter of Farrah and Damon Ennis, died Wednesday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow.
Floral Haven, Broken Arrow. Ford, Paul, 94, retired Star Cleaners owner, died Saturday. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Stanleys Funeral Service Chapel. Larue, Connie Kay, 59, cashier, died Saturday.
Service 4 p.m. Thursday, Bible Believers Pentecostal Church. Add Vantage. Morgan, Carmen, 84, nurse practitioner, died Friday. Private family services.
Matthews, Edmond. Norris. Donnie, 63, retired Sundance Trash Service employee, died Friday. Services pending. Moore's Eastlawn.
Panchoo, James John "Jim," 75, taxi driver, died Friday. Graveside service 11 a.m. Monday, Rose Hill Cemetery. Reynolds Rose Hill. Scrivner, Helen 86, homemaker, died Thursday.
Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Moore's Eastlawn Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, St. Mark's United Methodist Church. Shea, Milton E.
"Gene," 50, died Tuesday. Service 3 p.m. Monday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow. Smith, Elizabeth Whitlow, 90, died Thursday. Memorial service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Country Club of Woodland Hills. Ninde Brookside. Switzer, Jerrie Nell, 80, homemaker, died Tuesday. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Thursday, St.
Mary's Catholic Church, and graveside service 2 p.m. Thursday, Resurrection Cemetery, Oklahoma City. Ninde Brookside. Timmers, John Ill, 70, commercial painter, died Friday. Private family services.
Serenity. Whittle, Dorothy, 91, retired registered nurse, died May 14. Memorial service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Cremation Society.
Williamson, Nova Lee, 90, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow. Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted. Avant Raquel Gonzalez Cantu, 68, U.S.
Army Corp of Engineers press operator, died Friday. Rosary 7 p.m. Monday, Sien-Shelton Funeral Home Chapel, Skiatook, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Tuesday, Calvary Cemetery Mausoleum. Bartlesville Josef Eugene Derryberry, 86, retired Josef Derryberry Jewelers owner, "For days afterward," Bowman says, "the neighbors were all wandering around with blank stares on their face, in shock, not knowing what to do.
"But not me." His instincts kicked in from 12 years in the Marine Corps. Bowman quickly began removing debris from inside what was left of his house little more than an empty shell of walls. And he immediately applied for a building permit. "I know the system," he says. "And I wanted to be first in line." Around the corner, at 23rd and Main streets, a handwritten sign announces that TintN- -More is open for business, despite having no electricity not to mention the entire second floor of the building is scattered down the block.
"Tinted windows are kind of a luxury thing and not at the top of anybody's list right now," admits manager Chris Anderson. "We're not very busy right now, but it's a matter of principle. We can be open, so we are." died Friday. Services pending. Stumpff.
Frances Caroline "Fran" (House) Fargo, 64, retired educator, died Saturday. Services pending. Neekamp-Luginbuel. Marie Juanita (Franklin) Floyd, 97, retired sales clerk and bookkeeper, died Friday. Services pending.
Neekamp- Everett Hailey, 80, retired aircraft mechanic, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Calvary Community Church, Bowring. Stumpff. John Carleton Hayes, 57, ConocoPhillips systems analyst, died Friday.
Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel. Jacquelyn Ann (Murray) Keever, 38, bartender, died Saturday. Memorial service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Neekamp-Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel.
Alice Marie Willcut, 80, retired Phillips Petroleum Co. secretary, died June 11. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel. Boley Helen Mouser, 75, retired Tinker Air Force Base supervisor, died Friday.
Services pending. Shurden-Jackson, Henryetta. Broken Arrow Sandra Sue (Mason) Cotner, 68, bookkeeper, died Wednesday. Service 12:30 p.m. Monday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel.
Luzett Adith "Lou" (Coomer) Foster, 82, homemaker, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Church of God of Prophecy, Coweta. MobleyDodson, Sand Springs. Caney, Kan.
Wilma L. Perkins, 82, died Thursday in Bartlesville, Okla. Services pending. Claremore Jack L. Lawrence, 55, nursing home housekeeper, died Friday.
Services pending. Add' Vantage, Tulsa. B. Smart, 80, died June 15. Service 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Rice Funeral Service Chapel. Coffeyville, Kan. Juanita O. Hall, 86, died Friday. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Monday and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, both at Penwell-Gabel Ford-WulfBruns Funeral Home. Robert William "Bill" Urquhart, 86, retired co-op refinery store room clerk, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
PenwellGabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns. Commerce Christine E. Webb, 87, former seamstress and waitress, died Friday in Alba, Mo. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home Chapel.
Coweta Michael G. Dillard, 64, Bama Pies lead operator, died Friday. Services pending. Moore's Southlawn, Tulsa. Dearing, Kan.
Lois Irene Testerman, 77, died Saturday in Coffeyville. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Home Chapel, Coffeyville. Fairfax Peggy Pauline Prater, 72, teacher's aide, died Thursday. Service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, First Osage Baptist Church. Hunsaker-Wooten. Foyil Imogene Riddle, 87, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Friendly Foyl Baptist Church.
Rice, Claremore. Heavener Bryor Augustus Watkins, infant son of Ginger and Eric Watkins, died Friday in Verdigris. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Independence Baptist Church, Independence, Kan. Dowden.
Eric Augustus Watkins, 21, died Friday in Verdigris. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Independence Baptist Church, Independence, Kan. Dowden. Independence, Kan.
Ruth Jean Townson, 87, died Friday. Services pending. Potts. Jay Geneva McGuire, 80, homemaker, died Saturday in Grove. Services pending.
Worley-Luginbuel. Jenks Bette Bristol, 84, retired dental office manager, A few blocks away, a Walgreens has managed to reopen, too, even as workers continue rebuilding its roof. And across town on Ridge Line Road, the Home Depot has set up a temporary lumber yard in its parking lot, in front of a smashed storefront. "Joplin will bounce back faster than people think," Anderson says. "We're a small-business community, and small businesses are resilient you have to be to make it." 'The way it was' Donations last week ranged from $25 to a check worth tens of thousands, bringing the Tulsa Community Foundation's Joplin Relief Fund to more than $150,000.
Nationwide, various community foundations have raised more than $1.5 million. Phil Lakin, the Tulsa foundation's chief executive officer, recently drove to Joplin to meet with the city manager and other officials not so much to decide how to spend the money but to decide how died June 11. Visitation 1-5 p.m. Sunday and service 2 p.m. Monday, both at Add'Vantage Funeral Service, Tulsa.
Miami James Alexander Shoultz, 84, retired from B.F. Goodrich, died Thursday. Services pending. Luginbuel, Vinita. Myrtle Taylor, 86, homemaker, died Saturday.
Visitation 7-8 p.m. Monday and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, both at Paul Thomas Funeral Home, Commerce. Muskogee J. Doyle Ervin, 79, retired meat cutter, died Thursday.
Service 2 p.m. Monday, Bradley Funeral Service Chapel. Jean O. Jones, 83, homemaker, died Thursday. Graveside service 10 a.m.
Monday, Citizen's Cemetery, Fort Gibson. Bradley. John Harvey Kilmartin, 74, bricklayer, died Friday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, Elm Grove Cemetery, Stillwater.
Bradley. Allen Wayne Ward, 34, died Friday. Services pending. Bradley. Nowata Linda Lou (Rogers) Evans, 63, homemaker, died Wednesday.
Memorial service 11 a.m. Friday, First Methodist Church, Owasso. Sien-Shelton, Skiatook. Okmulgee Charles Epperson, 88, died Saturday in Tulsa. Ser- vices Thomas pending.
G. Shurden Hummel, 82, retired from the Military, died Saturday. Services pending. McClendon-Winters. Owasso Charles R.
Walker, 79, retired truck driver, died Friday. Services pending. Cremation Society, Tulsa. Park Hill Paula Davis, 57, died Saturday. Services pending.
Hart, Tahlequah. Pawnee William J. "Bill" Jen- nings, 65, oil and gas leasing employee, died Thursday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Highland cemetery.
Poteet. Porum Corbyn Zayne Chapman, infant, died Thursday. Services pending. Cornerstone, Muskogee. Sand Springs David Wayne Emigh, 58, Word of Life Church founder and senior pastor, died Wednesday in Tulsa.
Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Rhema Bible Church, Broken Arrow. Mobley-Dodson. Sapulpa Elmer G. Horn, 81, insurance salesman, died Friday in Tulsa.
Graveside service 11 a.m. Wednesday, Green Hill Cemetery, Smith. Freeda Marie Woolman, 91, homemaker, died Thursday in Oklahoma City. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Smith Funeral Home, and service 11 a.m.
Wednesday, First Church of God. Smith. Skiatook Harold Raymond "Doc" Sutton, 67, welder, died June 12. Private family services. Sien-Shelton.
Spiro Henry Joe Harrison, 27, construction worker, died Monday. Service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Mallory Funeral Home Chapel. Vinita Jere Lee Turnbough, 40, automotive paint and body worker, died Wednesday. Memorial service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Luginbuel Funeral Home Chapel. Luginbuel. Wagoner James R. Goins, 60, insurance company manager, died Thursday. Private family services.
Add'Vantage, Tulsa. Bruce Alan Nixon, 50, tile setter, died Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Wednesday, Shipman Funeral Home Chapel. Westville Jackie D.
Martin, 69, paint contractor, died June 15. Visitation 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 2 p.m. Wednesday, both at Hart Funeral Home. Yale Fenton E.
Lann, 65, housing construction worker, died Friday. Services pending. Add'Vantage, Tulsa. Broken Arrow, boy. Alicia and Bryan Mangrum, boy.
Suzanne McDermott and Guy Blagg, boy, Elisabeth and Brian Philpott, girl. Deanna Robinson, Owasso, girl. Dale L. Bass HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD! It's been 2 years since we lost your giggle, smile and big blue eyes. There is not a day that goes by that you are not in our thoughts.
Your girls and little buddies miss and love you! Love, Mom and your 3 girls! BUILD: Debris removal will take until August with crews working around the clock. FROM A6 The streets are clear and even some of the sidewalks. Much of the debris has been pushed into piles and some of it even sorted into recyclables and trash. Construction crews are busy re-roofing and rebuilding, especially in the lesserhit neighborhoods on the outskirts of "ground zero." "The progress has been amazing when you consider what we started with," says Keith Stammer, the city's director of emergency management. "But yeah, we still have a long, long way to go." Dump trucks have hauled away more than 448,000 cubic yards of debris.
Scale "ground zero" down to the size of a football field, and officials have cleared the St. John Medical Center Jacee and Uzziel Gomez, Broken Arrow, boy. Kara and Adam Hamilton, Beggs, girl, Sheree and Glen Hanco*ck, Skiatook, boy. Brittany Jackson, girl. Deborah Potter, girl.
Kelsey and Clark Smalling, Broken Arrow, boy. Angela and Charles Webber, Elkins, girl. 'Will bounce back' A table saw, plugged into a portable generator, sat between two piles of debris, with freshly cut two-by-fours stacked on top of the rubble. Bowman stood in his living room and looked straight up at a new support beam for a new roof, being nailed into place by his cousin from Oklahoma. "The whole family's in the construction trade," Bowman explains.
"That helps a lot." Three weeks after the storm, his single-story, redbrick home became a landmark, visible for blocks all around as the only house with a roof if only a skeletal one at the moment. "The roof is the most important part," Bowman says. "Rain is the biggest enemy we have right now." Hearing freight -train rumble of the tornado last month, Bowman and his wife ran to the basem*nt with their 9- and 12-year-old sons. They survived inside a 3-by-7-foot room that used to store coal for the old home's original furnace. to decide how to spend it.
"We're looking at ways to identify the long-term needs a year, two years, five years down the road," Lakin says. "When all the volunteers have gone home and all the donations have stopped coming, Joplin is still going to need help. And that's where we come in." But the people of Joplin aren't waiting for official help. By the end of the week, Bowman had ordered new windows and was nailing shingles on his new roof. Staying with his in-law for the time being, his family will start renting a threebedroom apartment July 1.
But if all goes according to plan, they might move back into the house by the end of August. That's about the time Joplin officials expect to finish clearing all the debris. "I want everything back the way it was, exactly the way it was," Bowman says. "Well, I guess it will never be quite the same. But close." Michael Overall 918-581-8383 michael.overall@tulsaworld.com.
