Oklahoma Cemeteries Website
butterfly
image
Click here to break out of frames
This information is available for free. If you paid money for a
subscription to get to this site, demand a refund.

Norma Jean Strickland Curtis
©Enid News and Eagle
05-02-2009
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

©Glenn

A graveside service for Norma Jean Strickland Curtis, 81, of Ashland, Ore., will be 10 a.m. Saturday, May 9, 2009, in Short Springs Cemetery, Alva. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Cherokee.

She was born Aug. 1, 1926, in Alva, to John Francis and Eleanor Ridlen Strickland, and died May 11, 2008.

The family lived in Alva, Kansas and California. She attended San Jose State University, Cal State, Los Angeles, receiving her BA degree in education. She taught with an emergency-issued credential. She attended University of Southern California, receiving her master's degree in education with a reading speciality. She worked as a reading specialist. After retirement, she and her husband moved to Ash-land, where she became active in the American Association of University Women at Southern Oregon University. She received the Florence Schneider Award in 2000. She was a member of the Ashland Tudor Guild.

Surviving are her husband, Philip Curtis; her children, Robert and Joan Byard; and one sister, Marilyn Strickland Russell.

Memorials may be made to Norma Strickland Curtis Memorial Scholarship Fund at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Ore.

|Short Springs Cemetery Page|  |Alfalfa County Cemetery Page|  |Home|



This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma Cemeteries

The information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.