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Richard W & Zorita (Zevely) Simunek
Tombstone Photo
Calvary Cemetery
Hennessey,
Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
© W Carlile |
Oct 18, 1946 - Mar 30, 2012
Obit for Zorita submitted by Jo Aguirre
©
Enid News & Eagle
Posted:
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:49 pm
Funeral service for Zorita Zevely Simunek, 65, of Miami
Beach, Fla., will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2012,
at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Hennessey. Rev. Joseph
Arledge will conduct the funeral mass.
Burial will be in
Calvary Cemetery of Hennessey. Visitation 5-7 p.m.
today, April 3, 2012, at Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home,
Hennessey. Donations to American Cancer Society in lieu
of flowers are requested.
Pall Bearers are John Craun, Wilfred Janky, Larry
Simunek, James Macy, Jacob Frost and Tommy Bohnstedt.
Zorita was born Oct. 18, 1946, in Bowie, Texas, to Quay
V. and Anita Hill Zevely Sr. She died at her home on
Friday, March 30, 2012, surrounded by adoring friends
and her loving husband of 45 years.
Zorita was tragically diagnosed with ovarian cancer on
Feb. 21, 2012, and passed away 38 days later.
Her father sold and serviced oil well pumps throughout
Oklahoma before the family moved to Hennessey in 1963.
Zorita was a twirler with the Hennessey High School
band, band president, basketball cheerleader and a
member of the student council. She was football queen in
1964. Two five-year-old children carried the crown,
Melinda Pollard and Bert Gritz, current owner and
director of the Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home. In a way, it
might be said that Bert escorted Zorita onto the stage
of life and will now escort her off the stage of life.
Zorita graduated from Hennessey High School in 1964. She
received her B.S. in art education from Oklahoma State
University in 1968 and her MFA in graphics art from
Washington State University in 1971.
Zorita was featured twirling her chrome-plated machete
knives with the Oklahoma State University Marching Band
at the Cowboy football games. She financed her college
education at Oklahoma State University in part by
twirling her machete knives for student entertainers.
She taught freehand drawing in the architecture
department at Washington State University and also held
a teaching assistantship in the fine arts department.
Zorita married Richard W. Simunek, also a 1964 Hennessey
High School graduate, on Nov. 19, 1966.
In 1971, Zorita and her husband moved to Washington,
D.C.
Zorita worked as a graphics artist for the
Transportation Institute and the U.S. Postal Service.
She also accompanied her husband on two foreign
assignments with the U.S. Agency for International
Development in Ethiopia and Liberia.
Following their return from overseas, Zorita and her
husband became real estate agents in Washington, where
she also renovated and restored old run-down and
abandoned Victorian townhouses in the Dupont Circle,
near the White House and Capitol Hill area, next to the
Capitol Building. Zorita, with her husband and team
members, continually ranked among the top selling agents
in Washington.
Two homes, renovated and lived in by Zorita, were
featured on the Capitol Hill House Tour and Washington
Times newspaper. Zorita was a real estate agent for 28
years in Washington. She was a member of the Greater
Washington Capitol Area Association of Realtors and the
Capitol Hill Restoration Society.
After 38 years in Washington, D.C., Zorita and her
husband moved to the South Beach neighborhood in the
city of Miami Beach, Fla.
Following a cooking passion inherited from her mother,
Zorita completed the Cordon Bleu Chef School in Miami,
Fla., and then started her own catering business.
Zorita will always be fondly remembered for her spunk,
sense of humor, creative art, real estate skills,
gourmet meals and grand parties. Her ability to put all
and anyone at ease and to bring everyone into her world
of fun, friendship and trust will never be forgotten.
She was a unique combination of spontaneity and superb
business organization skills. We will miss her so.
A memorial service will be held later in Miami Beach,
Fla., and Washington, D.C., by her many friends and
colleagues.
Surviving are her husband, Richard W. Simunek; brother,
Quay V. Zevely Jr. and wife Robbie of Sulfur, Okla.;
brother-in-law, David Simunek and wife Sandra Gabriel
Simunek of Hennessey, Okla.; and five wonderful nieces
and their children.
Zorita’s husband made a small walnut jewelry box for
Zorita in his high school shop class and carved a poem
inside the lid.
The poem is titled “The Coin,” by Sara
Teasdale.
Into my heart’s treasury,
I slipped a coin.
That time cannot take,
Nor a thief purloin.
O better than the minting,
Of a gold crowned king.
Is the safe kept memory,
Of a lovely thing.
(Submitted by family)
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