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Edith Maxine (Gray)
(Weeks) & Paul Eugene Geymann
Tombstone photo
Memorial Park Cemetery
Bartlesville, Washington County, OK
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Photo © Joe Todd |
Obit for Paul posted by Ann Weber
Jul 27, 1921 - Jun 8, 2016
BARTLESVILLE
EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)
Paul Geymann led a rich full life.
He was born in Oil Hill, Kansas on July 27, 1921 and
grew up with his two sisters and four brothers where
he went to junior college before contacting the
legendary Henry Iba and asking for a scholarship to
play basketball at Oklahoma A&M, where he also pole
vaulted on the track team.
He was on the
Oklahoma A&M NCAA championship basketball team in
1946.
Following college, Geymann coached several years at
the high school level in Topeka Kansas. He returned
to Oklahoma and coached several years at the
University of Oklahoma where he met his wife Helen.
They married in 1961 while he was coaching at the
university of
Missouri. While in Missouri, Paul added two
children, Greg and Kelley, to his family before
taking the Athletic Director position in
Bartlesville.
He was inducted to the Bartlesville Sports Hall of
Fame in 2015 for his contribution to the community
as Former athletic director (1965) of the
Bartlesville public schools where he started a
groundbreaking large school sports program for girls
several years before the 1972 Title IX legislation
was passed. His decision to divert funding from boys
sports to create a girls sports program was not
popular with many but Paul Geymann strongly believed
that girls should not be denied the opportunity to
play sports. Sports for girls in Oklahoma had
previously only been in smaller school districts.
In 1987, Geymann was a founder of the Senior Men's
Golf Association at Adams Municipal Course.
Golfing was a lifetime passion of Paul.
He was preceded in death by his mother and father,
Ida Gloie and Arlie Geymann, wife Maxine, wife
Irene, and his stepson Max Weeks.
He leaves his two children Greg Geymann of Norman
and daughter Kelley Falk and husband Dr. Richard
Falk of Edmond, grandchildren Paul, Kyle, Gregg
Geymann, Jeremy, Garrett, Wylie Falk, and Jamie
Weeks Nettles, Kailey, Chase, Hudson, Parker,
Hayden, Huntleigh.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 AM, Monday,
June 13, at Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel,
Bartlesville, OK. Friends who wish may sign the
online guestbook and leave condolences at
www.stumpff.org.
Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory
1600 Southeast Washington Boulevard
Bartlesville,
OK
74006
(918) 333-4300
Published in Examiner-Enterprise from June 12 to
July 11, 2016
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