Thomas Morris Jr.

The Rev. Thomas Morris Jr. was born November 23, 1934, in Pawnee, Okla., and died Wednesday, September 9, 2020. He was 85 years old. Morris, the son of Thomas Sr. and Bessie (Grant) Morris, married Beatrice Devore on December 22, 1962, in Shawnee, Okla.

Tommy Dewayne Phipps

Tommy Dewayne Phipps of Chandler was born October 1, 1943, in Petaluma, Calif. He died Saturday, August 29, 2020, at the age of 76 years. Phipps, the son of Curtis and Jeannine Phipps, married Beaulah (Stiner) Phipps in 1969. He worked as a cement truck driver.

Edith Mae Phipps

Edith Mae Phipps was born September 3, 1929, in Yukon, Okla., and died Thursday, September 3, 2020, in Chandler. She was 91 years old. Phipps, the daughter of Jim and Ethel (Major) Welch, married Wayne Orrin Phipps on May 6, 1960.

Cal Francis Guthrie

Cal Francis Guthrie was born April 28, 1935, in Moore, Okla. He died Friday, September 4, 2020, at his home in Chandler. He was 85 years old. Guthrie, the son of Carl “Carlie” Francis and Ruth “Ruthie” (Gordon) Guthrie, married Peggy Guthrie on August 2, 1959.

Cheryl Jean Murphy

Cheryl Jean Murphy was born to Samuel Darrell and Beverly Jean (Hicks) Craven on Sept. 10, 1956, in Chandler. She died Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Stillwater, Okla., at the age of 63 years. Murphy, a graduate of Perkins-Tryon High School, studied at Langston University and St.

Gerald Arthur Zimpel

Gerald “Jerry” Arthur Zimpel was born September 30, 1938, in Curtiss, Wis., and died Sunday, August 9, 2020, in Chandler. He was 81 years old. Zimpel, the son of Arthur and Carrie (Nelson) Zimpel, married Wilda Donnell Sparks on September 4, 1976.

Marguerite L. Russell

Marguerite L. Russell, age 92, passed away on September 1, 2020 in Mission, Kansas. Marguerite was born in Chandler, Oklahoma in 1927 and graduated from Carney High School in 1945. She lived on a farm near Chandler from 1970 to 1993, then moved to Shawnee where she lived from 1993 to 2018.

Kenton Dale Hoisington

Kenton Dale (K.D.) Hoisington, horseman, welder, farmer, husband, father, follower of Christ and friend to all, went home on September, 2020, at the age of 85. K.D. was born near Ames, Okla.

Marietta Jewel Scruggs Spencer

Marietta Jewel Scruggs Spencer of Meeker was born to Manuel and Jewel Hanley Scruggs on September 3, 1941, in Lindsay, Okla. She died Thursday, August 27, 2020, at the age of 78 years. Spencer, a 1959 graduate of Lindsay High School, worked for REC in Lindsay and Western Electric in Oklahoma City.

Johnny Darrell Byford

Johnny Darrell Byford was born to Vernon and Bonnie (Miller) Byford on November 25, 1941, in Davenport. He died Wednesday, September 2, 2020, in Chandler at the age of 78 years. Johnny was raised by his grandparents, Levi and Smantha (Clarkson) Miller and graduated from Chandler School in 1959.