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| Don R. Stein |
© Published in Enid, OK. News |
Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes |
© Glenn
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Don R. STEIN
Cherokee Municipal Cemetery
The funeral for Don R. Stein, 80, of Cherokee, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at First Christian Church, Cherokee. Dr. Ron Hansen will officiate. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Cherokee. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 10 am. to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m.
He was born Oct. 2, 1926, in Cherokee to Pete and Mable Sapp Stein and died Friday, Dec. 22, 2006, after a short illness.
He was raised on a farm east of Cherokee and graduated from Cherokee High School. He served in the Navy during World War II, primarily stationed in San Diego. Following the war, he returned to Cherokee to operate a farming and Angus cattle-ranching partnership with his brother on the family farm. He retired in 2005.
He married Geneva J. Myers Oct. 27, 1946. He served in numerous civic and church leadership positions. He held terms as board president of Cherokee Farmer’s Cooperative Associa-tion and was president and board member of Cherokee Public Schools. He was a 54-year member and past post commander of American Legion Post No. 33 in Cherokee. He was a member, deacon and elder at Cherokee First Christian Church, sang in the choir and taught Midway adult Sunday school class nearly 40 years.
He married Norma Pollock Brown in December 1994 and continued to work in Cherokee.
Surviving are his wife, Norma; one daughter, Deborah Boeken of Ardmore; three sons, Gary of Lahoma, John of Frederick, Md., and Jimmy of Alva; three stepdaughters, Constance Loveall of Fort Mill, S.C., Kathy Adair of Wichita, Kan., and Teresa Myers of Greenfield, Mo.; one brother, Leroy Stein of Cherokee; three grandchildren; 11 stepgrandchildren; and 17 stepgreat-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Geneva, two sisters, one brother, one half brother, three half sisters, one stepbrother, and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Midway Sunday school class of First Christian Church.
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