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Obituary
Memory Lane Cemetery, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Sandi Carter
© The Chickasha Express-Star 28 June 2004 Billie M. [Hanes] Schlitt Funeral services for Billie M. Schlitt, 86, of Chickasha, Okla., are pending with McRay Funeral Home. Billie M. Schlitt was born Jan. 21, 1918, and died on Monday, June 28, 2004. © The Chickasha Express-Star 29 June 2004 Billie Hanes Schlitt Funeral services for Billie Hanes Schlitt, 86, of Chickasha, Okla., will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 1, 2004, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. Billie Hanes Schlitt was born Jan. 21, 1918, and died on Monday, June 28, 2004, in Chickasha. Services are under the direction of McRay Funeral Home. © The Chickasha Express-Star 30 June 2004 Billie Hanes Schlitt Funeral service for Billie Hanes Schlitt, age 86, of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 1, 2004, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Don Horton will officiate. Billie was born the daughter of James B. Hanes and Mae Lee Killian Hanes on January 21, 1918, in Buchanan, Virginia. She died on June 28, 2004, in Chickasha. Billie graduated from high school in Dallas, Texas. After her marriage to Andrew Schlitt on August 16, 1941, they lived in Texas for several years before moving to their farm north of Verden upon retirement in 1974. After retirement, they spent a lot of time traveling. After her husband's death in 1999, Billie moved to Christian Care Assisted Living Center. Billie was a member of the Verden United Methodist Church. She was very active in the community as a leader of activities and was a civic volunteer for numerous organizations. She was preceded in death by her parents, James B. and Mae Killian Hanes, one brother, James Benjamin Hanes, and two sisters, Margaret Killian Hanes and Mary Alice Lair. Survivors include her daughter and husband, Margaret and Joe Davi of Chickasha; grandson, Jeff Davis, of Chickasha; sister, Jane Hanes Mason of Plano, Texas; sister, Katheryn Hanes Gammon of Plano, Texas; sister, Roberta Hanes Bruce of Virginia; brother, H. Randolph Hanes of Dallas, Texas; brother, Col. Wallace M. Hanes of Arizona; brother, Martin Edward Hanes of Dallas, Texas. Interment will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko. Services will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. |
Obituary
Memory Lane Cemetery, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Sandi Carter
© The Chickasha Express-Star Monday, 11 March 2002 Rev. Robert T. Schlitt "Father Bob" Rev. Robert T. Schlitt, 77, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church and longtime chaplain to Catholic high school and university students, died Sunday, March 10, 2002, at his rectory in Stillwater. A vigil for the deceased will be conducted at St. Francis Xavier Church at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated by Most Rev. Edward J. Slattery, bishop of Tulsa, at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis Xavier Church. Interment will be at Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko at 3 p.m. Thursday. He was born Feb. 6, 1925, in Anadarko, to Andrew W. and Regina (Holland) Schlitt. He received his early education at St. Joseph's Academy in Chickasha. He attended the University of Oklahoma, and in 1949 he entered the seminary at San Antonio, Texas. He was ordained to the priesthood by Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa on March 17, 1956, in Oklahoma City. His first temporary assignment was to the parish in which he would later serve as pastor, St. Francis Xavier in Stillwater. In June 1956 he was assigned as associate pastor at St. Francis Xavier parish in Tulsa, where he served four years, at the same time performing pastoral duties to the Spanish-speaking congregation of the nearby Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. From 1960 to 1964 he was chaplain at the newly-opened Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa. After one year as pastor of St. Helen's parish, Frederick, he returned to serve as chaplain of Catholic students at the University of Tulsa, resuming as well his care of parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe. In 1973 he was named pastor of St. John's University parish in Stillwater, a post he held for 14 years. Always zealous in encouraging young men to consider the priesthood, he caused Oklahoma State University to become a major source of Catholic priestly vocations. Many of the men who were eventually ordained came to the school as Protestants, and they became Catholic through his example and guidance. From 1987 to 1992 he was pastor of St. Francis Xavier in Tulsa, while continuing his campus ministry at the University of Tulsa. In 1992 he returned yet again to Stillwater, this time as pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, where he had begun his priestly ministry in 1956. Known universally as "Father Bob," he was a remarkably approachable and gregarious man, much in demand by young people as a confessor and as a presider at weddings. He is survived by two sisters-in-law, Billie H. Schlitt and Anna Lee Schlitt, both of Chickasha; two nieces, Margaret Davis and her husband, Joe, of Chickasha, and Roberta Kirby and her husband, Dick, of Whitney, Texas; and four great-nephews and two great-nieces. A memorial mass is planned in Tulsa at a day and time to be announced. In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to contribute to the Infirm Priests' Fund of the Diocese of Tulsa. |
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