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Betty Dema McCalister, 83, passed away January 15, 2020, in Oklahoma City, OK. She is now in Heaven and no longer in pain. Betty was born July 27, 1936, in Oklahoma City, OK to Oscar and Beulah (Holland) Greenwood. She attended Capitol Hill High School and was a member of Southwest Church of God (now called Southern Hills Church of God) where she met the love of her life, Vencil McCalister. Vencil and Betty married in 1953 and soon began their family. Betty was a wonderful wife and mother...

Florence Jennie Myers Crossfield, beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother passed away at the age of 89 on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, at her home in Oklahoma City, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Flo was born on February 26, 1930, in Fredonia, Kansas. She was one of four children of Theodore and Mary Marie (Fryer) Myers. After graduating from high school in Lafontaine, Kansas, she met and married her husband of 52 years, Billy Lee “Bill” Crossfield on...

Chloe Irene Driggs James-Fry May 17, 1921 - January 13, 2020 Chloe spent the first 17 years of her life on the land her grandfather claimed in the Oklahoma land run of 1891. After graduation from high school in Cushing, OK, she married Archie James on Christmas Eve in 1938. After several moves, their family made their home in Pauls Valley in 1953 until Archie passed in 1989. After she moved to Oklahoma City to be near her daughter, she reunited with a lifelong friend, Chester Fry, at a...

  Mary "Pauline" Slayter passed away after suffering more than 10 years from Alzheimer’s Disease.  She was born in OKC to James Virgil and Ethel Candies Hopkins.  On April 16, 1946 she married Odell Slayter. They were married almost 69 years until his death in 2015. Mom will be remembered for her great laugh, as a wonderful mother & grandmother, creative homemaker and faithful wife to Odell.  Mom was a beautiful example of a “helpmate.”...

Steven Preston Noles of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma passed away January 3, 2020 at the age of 39. He was born January 4, 1980 in Hawthorne, California. Steven attended schools in Gardenia, California. He worked in food management. Steven enjoyed football and baseball. He was a devoted fan of OU Football and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Steven is survived by his father, Steven Noles and wife, Nova of Oklahoma and mother, Janet Moore Noles of California; sisters, Shannon Noles Carter of California,...

Bobby Scott Haney, age 31, of Norman Oklahoma, passed away on January 2, 2020. He was born on October 26, 1988, the only child of Bobby Lee and Tracey Fields Haney of Norman. Bobby went to Norman North High School and continued on to a successful career as an IT Expert. He had a personality bigger than life itself, leaving a smile on the faces of anyone who had the pleasure of meeting him. His lifelong friends since childhood are a true testament to the kind and loving soul he...

Forrest Lee, 83, passed away Tuesday, December 31st, 2019, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was born February 17, 1936 in Ada, Oklahoma, the son of Everet and Dorothy Lee. Forrest graduated from Central High School in Oklahoma City in 1954. He married Joyce “Jo” Lee on September 9, 1961. Forrest served in the United States Army in his early adult years. He was employed as a sheet metal worker/aircraft mechanic at Tinker Air Force Base for 35 ½ years. A lifetime resident of...

Cheri L. Osteen of Oklahoma City Oklahoma, loving wife and mother of one, passed away the afternoon of Sunday, December 29, 2019 at the age of 70 after battling an illness for 7 months. Cheri was born on April 13th, 1949 in Kenton Ohio to Douglas and Helen Thompson. She was raised in Bellefontaine Ohio with two younger brothers and younger sister where she graduated from Bellefontaine High School in 1967. She met the love of her life, Donald R. Osteen, at a baseball game who was stationed...