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Lana Beth (Lindsey) Waller
son to his first baseball game
there. She was a very caring, loving and giving person, always
thinking of and helping others.
Lana was preceded in death by
her father, James Winston Lindsey and Uncle Bill Lindsey. She is
survived by her mother, Julie Evelyn McCoy (Lindsey) and step-father, Michael Daum; her husband,
Otto Paul Strizek; her step-children, Shawn Paul and Stephanie Anne Strizek; her grandson,
Axton Blake Weber; her sisters, Denise
and Cindy Lindsey; her brother, Jimmy
Lindsey; her niece, Cassie Lindsey; and
her Aunt and Uncle, Doug and JoAnn Fiol.
A memorial service will be held at 10:00
am, Saturday, April 19, 2014, at All Souls
Unitarian. Because Lana was such as patriot
and supporter of the U.S. military, in lieu of
flowers the family suggests contributions in
Lana’s memory be made to Folds of Honor,
5800 N. Patriot Drive, Owasso, OK 74055.
Ninde Brookside Chapel, 918-742-5556,
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John F.Y. Stambaugh Jr.
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Age 68, of Montrose,
CO, died April 17, 2014.
Survivors include his wife,
Sue Stambaugh of the
family home. A Graveside
Interment Service will be
held on Saturday, April 19,
2014, at 3:00 P.M. at Grand
View Cemetery, west of
Montrose. Arrangements
are under the care of
Crippin Funeral Home &
Crematory, Montrose, CO.
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Nobel laureate Gabriel
Garcia Marquez dies at 87
BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
AND FRANK BAJAK
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, the Nobel
laureate whose intoxicating
novels and short stories exposed millions outside Latin
America to its passions, superstition, violence and social inequality, died at home
in Mexico City on Thursday.
He was 87.
Widely considered the
most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de
Cervantes in the 17th century,
the Colombian-born Garcia
Marquez achieved literary
celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and
Charles Dickens.
His lamboyant and melancholy ictional works —
among them “Chronicle of a
Death Foretold,” ‘‘Love in the
Time of Cholera” and “Autumn of the Patriarch” — outsold everything published in
Spanish except the Bible. The
epic 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” sold
more than 50 million copies
in more than 25 languages.
His stories made him literature’s best-known practitioner of magical realism,
the ictional blending of the
everyday with fantastical elements such as a boy born with
a pig’s tail and a man trailed by
a cloud of yellow butterlies.
The Mexican government
said Garcia Marquez died at 2
p.m. Thursday. A gray hearse
escorted by dozens of police
oicers in patrol cars and on
motorcycles left the author’s
home about three hours later.
“A thousand years of solitude and sadness because of
the death of the greatest Colombian of all time!” Colombian President Juan Manuel
Santos said on Twitter. “Solidarity and condolences to his
wife and family ... Such giants
never die.”
The irst sentence of “One
Hundred Years of Solitude”
has become one of the most
famous opening lines of all
time: “Many years later, as he
faced the iring squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was
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TULSA
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Lana Beth (Lindsey) Waller
was born June 4, 1956 in Falfurrias, TX to James Winston Lindsey and Julie Evelyn McCoy and
passed from this life April 11,
2014 in Tulsa, OK at the age of 57.
Lana was a self starter and
had to work hard for everything
she achieved in life. She went
to work for Hollywood Marine
in Houston, TX and put herself
through college. While working fulltime she passed the Certified Public Accountant exam on the first
time. She worked for Hollywood Marine
for 23 years and moved to Tulsa in 2000.
She went to work at Citgo Petroleum before going to ONEOK. She was an expert
in energy accounting (oil, natural gas,
petrochemicals, barge transportation)
and mentored many fellow employees.
She loved her step-children, Shawn and
Stephanie, and grandson, Axton Blake
Weber. She loved professional football
(Dallas Cowboys!) and baseball. She enjoyed Friday nights at the Tulsa Drillers
with her husband and took her grand-
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Garcia Marquez was
the 1972 winner of the University of Oklahoma’s
Neustadt Prize, a biennial award sponsored by
OU and World Literature Today. Winners of
the prize receive $50,000, a replica of an eagle
feather cast in silver and a certificate.
Anderson, Hazel Lorene, 87,
homemaker, died Thursday.
Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, First
Baptist Church, Catoosa. Floral
Haven, Broken Arrow.
Brinkley, Evelyn Sylban, 93,
retired teacher, died April 2 in
Harvey, Ill. Graveside service
11 a.m. Monday, Calvary Cemetery. Keith D. Biglow.
Carter, Charlesetta, 77, fencing
and dry cleaning company
owner, died Thursday. Services
pending. Butler-Stumpf.
Elmore, Ann, 75, homemaker,
died Thursday. Graveside
service 1 p.m. Tuesday, Floral
Haven Memorial Gardens,
Broken Arrow. Floral Haven,
Broken Arrow.
Gass, George, 89, retired
pharmacology and physiology
professor, died Friday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Wednesday,
Fellowship Congregational
Church. Stanleys.
Harris, Steven D., 39, welder,
died April 9. Service 2 p.m.
Saturday, Calvary Baptist
Church, Sapulpa. Jack’s.
Harrison, Demetria A., 55,
dietary cook, died Thursday.
Services pending. Reynolds.
Hill, Maxine Mae, 93, homemaker, died Friday. Services
pending. Bixby Funeral Service,
Bixby.
Hubbard, Olive Rose, 86, retired
from Tulsa Marine Co., died
Friday. Services pending.
Ninde Brookside.
LaBenske, Tom J., 86, retired
from Sunray Oil Co., died
Tuesday in Carrollton, Texas.
Services pending. Moore’s
Rosewood.
Martin, Ross, 47, died March
29. No services planned.
Martin, Vada Geneva, 87,
homemaker, died Friday. Services pending. Bixby Funeral
Service, Bixby.
Maslan, Herbert, 84, Stewart’s
owner, died Wednesday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Temple
Israel. Fitzgerald Ivy.
McCurley, Truman Lee, 73,
former Tulsa Cash Register Co.
owner, died Friday. Services
pending. Mark Griith-Westwood.
Nearing, Thelma Gertrude,
99, homemaker, died April
13. Visitation noon-6 p.m.
Sunday, Moore’s Rosewood
Funeral Home, and service 2
p.m. Monday, Memorial Park
Cemetery Chapel.
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to remember that distant afternoon when his father took
him to discover ice.”
Biographer Gerald Martin
told The Associated Press
that the novel was the irst in
which “Latin Americans recognized themselves, that deined them, celebrated their
passion, their intensity, their
spirituality and superstition,
their grand propensity for
failure.”
Like many Latin American writers, he transcended
the world of letters. Widely
known as “Gabo,” he became
a hero to the left as an early
ally of Cuban leader Fidel
Castro and a critic of Washington’s violent interventions
from Vietnam to Chile.
Garcia Marquez, among
writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, was also
an early practitioner of literary noniction now known as
New Journalism. He became
an elder statesman of Latin
American journalism, with
magisterial works of noniction that included the “Story
of A Shipwrecked Sailor,” the
tale of a seaman lost on a life
raft for 10 days.
Other noniction pieces proiled Venezuela’s larger-thanlife president, Hugo Chavez,
and vividly portrayed how cocaine traickers led by Pablo
Escobar shredded the social
and moral fabric of the writer’s native Colombia. In 1994,
he founded the Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism, which ofers training
and competitions to raise the
standard of narrative and investigative journalism across
Latin America.
“The world has lost one of
its greatest visionary writers —
and one of my favorites from
the time I was young,” U.S.
President Barack Obama said.
Garcia Marquez was born in
Aracataca, a small town near
Colombia’s Caribbean coast,
on March 6, 1927. He was the
eldest of the 11 children of
Luisa Santiaga Marquez and
Gabriel Elijio Garcia, a telegraphist and a wandering homeopathic pharmacist.
Just after his birth, his parents left him with his maternal grandparents and moved
to Barranquilla to open a
pharmacy. He spent 10 years
with his grandmother and his
grandfather, a retired colonel
who fought in the devastating
1,000-Day War that hastened
Colombia’s loss of the Panamanian isthmus.
His grandparents’ tales
provided grist for Garcia
Marquez’s iction and Aracataca became the model for
“Macondo,” the village surrounded by banana plantations where “One Hundred
Years of Solitude” is set.
Garcia Marquez lived in
Europe for part of the 1950s.
After touring the Soviet-controlled east, he went to Rome
in 1955 to study cinema, a
lifelong love. He later moved
to Paris, living among intellectuals and artists exiled
from the many Latin American dictatorships of the day.
He returned to Colombia in
1958 to marry Mercedes Barcha, a neighbor from childhood days. They had two sons,
Rodrigo, a ilm director, and
Gonzalo, a graphic designer.
Garcia Marquez turned
down ofers of diplomatic
posts and spurned attempts
to draft him to run for Colombia’s presidency, though he
did get involved in peace mediation eforts between the
government and leftist rebels.
(Tulsans unless indicated)
Peggy V. Helmerich
Women’s Health Center
Connie Boatright and Cody
Webb, girl.
Michelle and Joshua Halfpap,
Cleveland, Okla., girl.
Khandi Storey and Steven Barns,
girl.
Stacey Morey, Chelsea, girl.
Nataly Muniz-Ledesma and
Josiel Morales-Perez, girl.
Lisa Prescott and Steven
Balentine, Okmulgee, boy.
Alexandria Solomon and Kale
Hickingbottom, Mannford, girl.
Ross, Jack, 79, laborer, died
April 14. Services pending.
Jack’s.
Stambaugh, John F.Y. Jr., 68, formerly of Tulsa, died Thursday
in Montrose, Colo. Graveside
service 3 p.m. Saturday, Grand
View Cemetery, Montrose.
Crippin, Montrose.
Waugh, Bobbie, 69, teacher,
died Thursday. Services pending. Jack’s.
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Funeral home, church and
cemetery locations are in the city
under which the death notice is
listed unless otherwise noted.
Bartlesville — Cora Frances
Atkin, 95, retired, formerly
of Bartlesville, died March 18
in Spring, Texas. Celebration
of life 2 p.m. Saturday, Davis
Funeral Home Chapel, Dewey.
— Gary Owen Babb, 66, retired,
died Tuesday. Memorial
service 11 a.m. May 3, 10872
N. 4010 Road, Dewey. Davis,
Dewey.
— Stephen Robert Reed, 84, retired Army aircraft mechanic,
died Friday. Services pending.
Stumpf.
— Larry Wayne Sartor, 84,
retired Phillips Petroleum Co.
draftsman, died Wednesday.
Service 10 a.m. Monday, First
Baptist Church. Stumpf.
— Caren K. Thompson, 71,
died Friday. Services pending.
Stumpf.
Bixby — Tracie Len Burge, 52,
Army veteran, died Friday in
Muskogee. Services pending.
Bixby Funeral Service.
— Rok Ja Choe, 69, homemaker,
died Tuesday. Service 4 p.m.
Sunday, Korean Church of
Tulsa, Tulsa. Hayhurst, Broken
Arrow.
Boley — Gene Edward Hicks,
82, retired Oklahoma City
Public Schools supervisor, died
Friday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, Amos Temple Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Parks, Okemah.
Bristow — Charles L. Crawford,
72, commercial and residential
painter, died Thursday. Graveside service 10 a.m. Saturday,
Magnolia Memorial Gardens.
Hutchins-Maples.
— Mary Louise Noyes, 76,
retired Community Bank loan
processor, died Friday in Tulsa.
Services pending. Michael’s.
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Chelsea — Julian Jerrold Clagg,
81, delivery truck driver, died
Thursday in Muskogee. Services pending. Add’Vantage,
Tulsa.
Claremore — Danny L. Barbee,
64, died Friday. Services pending. MMS-Payne.
Collinsville — Hazel Heinrichs,
85, homemaker, died Thursday in Tulsa. Services pending.
Collinsville Dolton.
Drumright — Johhna Darlene
Martin, 60, cross country
truck driver, died Thursday.
Services pending. Michael’s.
Erie, Kan. — Carol S. Gil, 71,
died April 11. Memorial visitation 7-8 p.m. Thursday, PierceCarson-Wall Funeral Home.
Gore — Jack Helton Walker,
83, AT&T technician, died
Thursday. Services pending.
Shipman’s, Muskogee.
Havana, Kan. — Velma Mae
Huferd, 91, died Thursday in
Independence. Visitation 6-8
p.m. Monday, Ford-Wulf-Bruns
Funeral Home, Cofeyville,
and graveside service 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Fairview Cemetery’s
Veterans Patio, Cofeyville.
Henryetta — James “Jim”
Leeper, 67, died Friday. Services pending. Integrity.
Liberty, Kan. — Flossie A.
(Newland) Burton, 105, died
Friday in Independence.
Graveside service 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Richland Cemetery,
Angola. Ford-Wulf-Bruns.
Marble City — Zeke Honeycutt,
83, retired Air Force technical sergeant, died Thursday
in Roland. Visitation 5-7 p.m.
Saturday and service 10 a.m.
Monday, both at Agent Mallory Martin Funeral Home,
Sallisaw.
McAlester — Gayle E. Cox, 73,
McAlester Army Ammunition
Plant employee, died Tuesday.
Private family services. Hunn
Black & Merritt, Eufaula.
— Virginia Kathryn Sam, 78,
died Thursday. Service 2 p.m.
Monday, Chaney-Harkins
Funeral Home Chapel.
Miami, Okla. — Cynthia Louise
Mahurin, 63, homemaker, died
Thursday. Visitation 6-8 p.m.
Monday, Luginbuel Funeral
Home, Vinita, and graveside
service 2 p.m., Tuesday, Timpson Chapel Cemetery, Vinita.
Morris — Onema Greenlee, 77,
died Friday in Tulsa. Visitation
5-7 p.m. Monday, Jackson
Funeral Home, Okmulgee.
Services pending.
Saint Francis Hospital
St. John Medical Center
Teresa Brown and Josh Gardner,
girl.
Jennifer and Xander Buck, boy.
Jacie Lawley, Sapulpa, girl.
Candy Lopez and Daniel
Malato, boy.
Carisa and Cody McClain,
Kellyville, girl.
Randi and Christopher Nelson,
girl.
Shannon and Carl Newman,
Sand Springs, girl.
Shelby Piel and Timothy Phipps,
Broken Arrow, boy.
Kristen Templeman and
Thomas Ayala, boy.
Jennifer and Cody Widener,
Sapulpa, girl.
Nicole and Robert Brizendine,
Broken Arrow, girl.
Kathryn and Patrick Jessonge,
Broken Arrow, boy.
Kortney and Charles Miller Jr.,
Skiatook, girl.
Patricia Moody and Timmy
Buttram, Beggs, boy.
Sara Schneeberger and Victor
Howell, Bixby, boy.
St. John Owasso Hospital
Leanne Layton and Orlando
Ballesteios, Collinsville, boy.
Amy and Steven Sherrill,
Skiatook, boy.
Candace and Tracy Townsend,
Collinsville, boy.
Bus system readies for cuts
• Service changes
will depend on the
2014-15 city budget.
BY JARREL WADE
World Staf Writer
Tulsa’s public transit system is responding to pending
city budget cuts by preparing to cut some routes, reduce the frequency of other
routes and raise fares.
The exact makeup of
changes is dependent on the
cuts the organization will
be expected to take in next
year’s budget. Mayor Dewey
Bartlett is expected to make
his budget proposal to City
Council on May 1, with the
iscal year starting July 1.
Debbie Ruggles, assistant
general manager of the Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Au-
thority, said changes won’t
be made until after July 1.
MTTA and other departments were told to come up
with scenarios for three levels
of cuts. Tulsa Transit is facing
scenarios of an 8 percent cut,
a 10 percent cut or about a 13
percent cut, Ruggles said.
“We found out that we may
actually be cut at the highest
level,” Ruggles said. “If that
becomes a reality … unfortunately we would then be
looking at some combination
(of scenarios).”
Regardless of which scenario, Ruggles said the authority would be cutting the
Nightline route, which runs
from 8:30 p.m. to midnight
on most routes.
“We are trying to impact
the lowest number of people,” Ruggles said.
The Nightline route accounts for about 2 percent of
Tulsa Transit’s annual ridership, she said.
The problems there is that
many riders have contacted
the authority to say that their
jobs are dependent on the
night route, Ruggles said.
“There’s no question that
the kind of message we’ve
heard from our customers
is that this is going to have
a real dramatic impact on
their lives,” Ruggles said.
Other options being considered by the authority include reducing the frequency of some routes, increasing
fares from $1.50 to $1.75 and
cutting back the times routes
run into the evenings.
“We’re still hopeful that
there is going to be an opportunity for the cuts not to
be as deep,” Ruggles said.
Jarrel Wade 918-581-8367
[email protected]
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