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- THE PERKINS JOURNAL,
Thursday,
December 27, 2012
People
Clara Lou Simnitt Smith
1950-2012
Heather McNutt Corbett
1971-2012
Heather McNutt Corbett,
41, went to be with her
Lord and Savior December
23, 2012 at OU
Medical Center
in Oklahoma
city, Okla-
homa. Funeral
Services will
be held at 1:00
pm, Thursday,
December 27,
2012 at Sunny-
brook Christian
Church in Stillwater, Okla-
homa with Jonathan Dorst
and Mike D0dson presiding.
Interment will follow at
Fairlawn Cemetery. Strode
Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Heather was born on August
6, 1971 in Ponca City, Okla-
homa to her proud parents W.
Malcolm and Sharon Neal
McNutt. She attended Ponca
City Schools, graduating in
1989. She graduated from
OSU in May 2000 with a
degree in Education and
began her teaching career in
August 2000 at Skyline Ele-
mentary School. One of her
greatest joys was teaching
and developing her relation-
ships with her students.
She married Tracy Corbett
on February 19th, 2005 in
Ponca City.
She is survived by her
husband, Tracy Corbett,
daughter, Carson Johndrow,
and sons, Carl and Calvin of
Stillwater; mother, Sharon
McNutt of Ponca City;
sister, Michele
McNutt of
Ponca City;
in-laws, Gary
and Garalyn
Corwin; sister-
in-law and hus-
band, Megan
and Greg Stol-
hand of Ponca
City; uncle and
aunt, Roy and Janet Neal
of Bartlesville; cousins,
Robert, Lauren, and Lillian
Neal of Bartlesville.
She was preceded in death
by her father, W. Malcolm
McNutt in February, 1998.
With her many years of
teaching and her community
work through her church,
Grace Church Stillwater,
Heather truly blessed many
people. Her sense of humor,
listening ear, and compas-
sion for others will truly be
missed.
Memorials may be given
in her name to the Stillwater
Public Education Founda-
tion, Endowment Fund,
314 S Lewis, Stillwater, OK
74074 or Wings of Hope
3800 N. Washington, Still-
water, OK 74075
Condolences may be
emailed to and an obituary
may be viewed by visiting
www.strodefh.com.
Clara Lou Simnitt Smith
passed away on Friday,
December 14, 2012 in Tulsa,
Oklahoma at St.
Francis Hospi-
tal at the age
of 62.
Clara was pre-
ceded in death
by her beloved
husband; James
R. "Jim" Smith,
Jr. They met at
Smith's Caf6 which was
located for many years on
the northeast corner of 6th
and Main in Stillwater.
When he closed the cafr,
he founded Action Real
Estate Agency and AREA
Property Management in
Stillwater. Clara earned
her real estate license so
she could work with her
husband. Clara also earned
her bail bonds license. Both
were bondsmen for his com-
pany Jim Smith Bail Bonds
in Stillwater.
The daughter of the late
Clarence L. Simnitt of
Stillwater and previously
of Yale and Juanita Marie
Wright of Yale, Clara was
born in Yale on August 1,
1950. She attended schools
in Oklahoma and in Blythe,
California.• She earned
her cosmetology license in
Stillwater.
Clara was united in mar-
riage to Jim Smith on June
30, 1970. They enjoyed 24
years of marriage until his
passing in 1994. She is the
stepmother of four children:
James Richard Smith III
(Shannon) of Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma, Jamie Ron Smith
of The Colony, Texas, Jodi
Rae Smith Poore (Larry) of
Spring, Texas, and Jason
Russell Smith
(Sonya) of
Jenks, Okla-
homa.
Clara is the
grandmother of
ten grandchil-
dren: Jesse and
Crystal of Still-
water, Alecia
of The Colony, Texas, and
Jillian of Jenks, Oklahoma,
Saundra of Stillwater, Clint
Baxter of the Tulsa area
and Lauren Baxter of the
Oklahoma City area, Ryan
and Amber DiGiovanni
and Rebecca Poore of
Spring, Texas, She has
seven great-grandchildren:
Alyssa, Brooklyn, Logan,
Jaxtyn, Isabella, Hugh, and
Henry.
She is survived by her
sister, Connie Sue Smith,
of Pawnee; her brother,
Jerry, of San Francisco,
California; and her brother,
Danny Elliott, of Perry,
Oklahoma.
Clara is also preceded in
death by her parents and her
brother Keith Simnitt.
A graveside service was
held at Lawson (Quay) Cem-
etery in Yale, Oklahoma at 2
pm on Friday, December 21,
2012. Dr. Tim Walker of the
First Baptist Church of Still-
water officiating. Services
were under the direction of
the Strode Funeral Home of
Stillwater.
You may share your con-
dolences with her family at
www.strodefh.com.
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Jessie May Schritter-Shields
1929-2012
Jessie May (Eyler) Schrit-
ter-Shields, a former Cush-
ing resident, passed away
on December
16, 2012 in Las
Vegas, NV at
the age of 83
years.
Funeral ser-
vices have been
entrusted to
the care of the
Palmer Marler
Funeral Home
in Cushing, OK and were
held at 2:00 p.m., Friday,
December 21, 2012 in the
Palmer Marler Funeral Home
Chapel, Cushing, OK with
Reverend Larry Eslinger
officiating. Burial followed
in the Euchee Valley Memo-
rial Park in Cushing, OK.
The daughter of the late
Ralph Eyler and Merl
(Moore) Eyler, Jessie was
born May !3, 1929 in Still-
water, OK and graduated
from Sumner High School.
She worked at Swan Hose
in Stillwater for several years
and also drove a bus for Per-
kins School System. Jessie
had been a member of the
Mehan Union Church and a
member of the Cushing VFW
Ladies Auxiliary.
Jessie was united in mar-
riage to LeRoy Schritter and
later married Jimmie "Sarge"
Shields. She loved growing
her own flowers
and watching
birds and butter-
flies. Jessie will
be remembered
as an avid OSU
Cowboy fan.
In addition
to her parents,
Jessie was pre-
ceded in death
by her husband Jimmie
"Sarge" Shields, two sisters,
Carol Tate and Charlene
Westmoreland and two
brothers, Roy Louis Eyler
and Lefty Eyler.
Jessie is survived by her
children, Katie Curtis and
her husband David of Broken
Arrow, Frank Schritter and
his companion Camilla
Stephens of Perkins, Linda
Holstrom and her husband
Bryan of Loveland, CO,
Tommye Woolley and her
husband Chris of Tennessee,
and Esther Schritter of Tali-
hina; one sister, Marybell; 10
grandchildren; several great-
grandchildren and numerous
nieces and nephews.
Condolences and an online
guestbook are available at
www.PalmerMarlerFH.com.
Tanya Louise Stone-Noles
1955-2012
Tanya louise Stone-Noles,
57 of Stillwater, OK went to
be with the Lord on December
20, 2012 at home
surrounded by
family and loved
ones.
She was bom
April 24, 1955 in
Ponca City, OK,
the daughter of
Melvin Eugene
& Nancy Louise
Stone. Tanya
graduated from Chaparral High
School in Harper, KS in 1973.
ON May 22, 1973, she married
Michael Noles in Harper, KS
and moved to Chicago, IL.
They were married 36 years.
They moved to Stillwater,
OK in 1977. She worked at
Stillwater Medical Center tmtil
retirement in 2009.
In her spare time, Tanya was
an accomplished baker, and an
avid scrapbooker. She was
famous for her chocolate chip
cookies. She served others and
touched the lives of many. She
dedicated her life to caring for
the ill by becoming a personal
caregiver.
She is survived by both par-
ents, one brother Rocky Stone
and wife Madai of Garden City,
KS; sister Melva Hawkins and
husband Allen of Ponca City,
OK; sister Pamela Curtiss and
husband Jerry of Circle, MT;
Four sons, Jeffrey Noles of
Winfield, KS, Jason Noles of
Ft. Worth, TX, Jonathan Noles
and wife Catie of
Stillwater, OK,
Jared Noles and
wife Natalie of
Stillwater, OK,
and daughter
Jackie Padgett
and husband
Rick of Stillwa-
ter, OK. She is
also survived by
grandchildren Michaela Noles
of Winfield, KS, Nathan Noles
of Ft. Worth, TX, Jaden, Kai,
and Gatlin Noles of Stillwater,
OK, Matthew and Stephanie
Padgett, Remington and Stet-
son Adkins all of Stillwater,
OK.
Tanya's passions were her
four sons, daughter, and grand-
children. The love•she had for
them will always bepressed in
their hearts. She will be greatly
missed by her parents, brother
and sisters, children, and many
friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family
requests donations in Tanya's
memory to Judith Karmen
Hospice, Inc., P.O. Box 818,
Stillwater, OK 74076.
Friends may leave condolences
for the family via an online
guestbook at www.pmcfh.com
or by commenting at
www.facebook.com/pmcfh.
