Jack CUTBIRTH

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

04-21-2013

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Funeral service for Jack Cutbirth, 82-year-old Enid resident, will be 11 a.m. Thursday, April 23, 2009, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church with Father Steve Samples officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.

Jack was born Nov. 16, 1926, in Topeka, Kan., to Robert and Winnifred Cutbirth. They moved to Enid shortly thereafter, where Jack attended Enid schools and played the trumpet in the Enid High School band. Jack shortened his senior year to join the Merchant Marines, afraid the war would end without him.

He attended the University of Oklahoma and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He graduated from Phillips University with a degree in geology and went into the oil business. He worked first for Champlin Petroleum Co. and later for Carl Gungoll. Jack credited Carl and Henry Gungoll and Jack Choate with teaching him all he needed to know about the oil business. He was a successful oil man, a yacht captain, airplane pilot, elephant rider and a good friend to many people in Enid. Jack was benevolent in supporting communal charities, such as the Cherokee Strip Museum. He was the kind of man who never turned his back on a person in need. He also was a longtime supporter of the YMCA and an avid runner, up until the day before he passed. As he noted in his journal, "It was a good sweat!" Jack loved to tell a good joke and have a hard laugh. His laughter was contagious to those around him and he will be missed and loved by those who knew him.

Jack is survived by his wife of 59 years, Evelyn, of the home; four daughters, Jacquelyne Kay Butts of Oklahoma City, Jan Nicholson and her husband Larry of Sea Island, Ga., Jyl and her husband Keith Calcote of Houston, Texas, and Julie Lafferrandre and her husband Robert of Oklahoma City. To his amazement, he also is survived by "two" granddaughters, Leah Nicholson and Katie Lafferrandre; seven grandsons, Cade Calcote, Jack and Robert Lafferrandre, Eric and Blaine Butts and William Evan and Robert Cutbirth Nicholson.

Evelyn Rose Wagner Cutbirth

© Enid News and Eagle

02-07-2018

Submitted by: Glenn

© Enid News and Eagle

February 23, 1930 - January 16, 2018

The graveside services celebrating and honoring the life of Mrs. Evelyn Rose Wagner Cutbirth, 87, of Enid will be held 2:00 P.M. Friday February 9, 2018 in the Memorial Park Cemetery with The Reverend Philip Louis officiating. Rosary services will be held 7:00 P.M. Thursday February 8, 2018 in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Deacon Val Ross officiating. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home. A special memorial reception in honor of the beautiful person she was and of her life will be held March 2, 2018 in the Brown-Cummings Reception Center, time to be announced at a later date.

She was born to John Michael Wagner and Viola Lehenbauer Wagner, February 23, 1930 in Enid, Oklahoma and passed from this life January 16, 2018 in Sea Island, Georgia. She was raised and educated in Enid graduating from St. Josephs Catholic High School in 1947, she attended a Catholic affiliated college and achieved her associates degree in music. She married the love of her life Robert G. Jack Cutbirth August 10, 1950 in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Her faith, membership at St. Francis, and her education at St. Josephs were very important to her whole life. She, at a very young age, along with her sister Georganna, helped their mother raise their siblings after their fathers death. This was a role she continued in her marriage to Jack, lovingly raising their four daughters. She always had a love for music that was reflected in the hours she enjoyed spending playing classical music on the piano at a concert level. She was a life long member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and later attended St. Mathews Episcopal Church with Jack. She was a long-time member of Chi Beta study club, Junior Welfare League, Local bridge club, P.E.O. Chapter DB and a long-time supporter of the Enid YMCA.

She is survived by her and Jacks four daughters, Jacquelyne Kay Butts of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jan Nicholson and her husband Larry of Sea Island, Georgia, Jyl Calcote and her husband Keith of Houston, Texas, Julie Lafferrandre and her husband Robert of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; two granddaughters, Leah Nicholson and Katie Lafferrandre Doar and husband Michael; seven grandsons, Blaine Butts, Eric Butts, William Evan Nicholson, Robert Cutbirth Nicholson, Cade Calcote, Robert Lafferrandre, and Jack Lafferrandre; her siblings, Letty May, of Burbank, California, Bernard Wagner and wife Mary Helen, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Bernice Martin and husband Jonnie of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband of 59 years, sister Georgeanna, her brother, John Michael Jack Wagner Jr., grandson Benjamin Lafferrandre, two nieces, Jennifer Martin and Laeticia May and one nephew Jason Wagner.

Memorial contributions may be made in lieu of flowers to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Tourettes syndrome fund, or the Enid YMCA. with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodians of the fund.

The family would like to thank both Saint Ann Retirement Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Marshs Edge Retirement Center in Sea Island, Georgia and The Hospice of The Golden Isles in Brunswick, Georgia for the loving care and support they showed Evelyn and her family during her extended illness.

Condolences may be made to the family online at WWW.Brown-Cummings.com.

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