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Obit for Robert posted by Ann Weber
Jan 13, 1924 - Mar 16, 2016
BARTLESVILLE
EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)
Interment will
be in the Oglesby Cemetery where full military rites
will be accorded by the James H. Teel American
Legion Post # 105 and directed by the Stumpff
Funeral Home & Crematory.
Visitation will be held at the Stumpff Funeral Home
until 8 P.M. on Saturday.
Mr. Pierce was born at Hominy, Oklahoma on January
13, 1924 the son of Roy Glenn Pierce and Sylvia
Belle (McGuire) Pierce. He grew up and received his
education in the Oglesby area attending Pleasant
Valley School and Ramona High School. He then worked
in CCC Camps until moving to California where he
worked until entering the U.S. Army of May 26, 1943.
He served in the European Theatre at Rome-Arno,
Southern France and Rhineland and was awarded three
Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart prior to his
Honorable Discharge on May 1, 1946. He then returned
to Oglesby and was employed in bridge construction
projects on Highway 75 and then in Kansas, Missouri
and Arkansas until suffering an injury on the job.
He returned to this area and was employed with
Durrill Feed Store in Bartlesville until his
employment with Reda Pump for nearly 40 years until
his retirement. He was married to Daisy Beatrice
Margwarth in Bartlesville on November 28, 1947. They
made their home in Bartlesville and then in Dewey
for six years until returning to Oglesby to make
their home. They returned to Bartlesville to live in
2008. He was a member of the Oglesby Assembly of God
Church.
Mr. Pierce is survived by his wife, Daisy Beatrice
Pierce of Bartlesville, one daughter, Janice Rey and
husband Isidro of Bartlesville, two sisters, Doris
Young of Oglesby and Patricia Davidson of Fort
Gibson, and one brother, Forrest "Johnny" Pierce of
Oglesby.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
six brothers, one sister and his son, Dennis Pierce
in 2010.
Friends who wish may sign the online guest book 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 Mar. 18 to
Apr. 17, 2016
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