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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Wednesday, September 23, 2006 April 11, 1906 ~ September 17, 2006 Ouida Procter, age 100, died peacefully on Sunday, September 17, 2006, in Centennial, Colorado where she has lived since moving from Chickasha in 1994. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Chickasha at McRay Funeral Home, 110 S. 8th Street, with burial at the Fairlawn Cemetery. Born April 11, 1906, in Earlsboro, Oklahoma, she was the youngest of six children, including Ethel, Vera, Maude, Leland, and Jo. Most of her childhood was spent in Konawa, where her father owned and managed the town grocery. Her parents, Lucy and Levi (Lee) Orville Howell, moved their family to Ada to open another grocery, and later returned to Konawa. She married C. Dan Procter March 5, 1927, and lived in Ada where they both attended East Central State Teachers College. After graduating from East Central in 1930, she taught school. In Ada she began raising her two sons, Dan H. Procter, now a retired geologist in Colorado, and Richard (Dick) Procter, a prominent Oklahoma attorney, who preceded her in death in 1980. Also, she loved being an adoring aunt. For the rest of her life, she remained close to her nieces and nephews, including Leonard Limes, Dr. Barney Limes, Carolyn Goss, Claudine Hayden, and Charles Procter. In addition to being the mother of two boys, she was the wife of the superintendent of schools, a role that initiated her lifelong pursuit of civic and educational activities. In 1943 her husband accepted the presidency of the Oklahoma College for Woman (now USAO) in Chickasha. As the president's spouse, she shouldered a broader range of responsibilities over the next 15 years during which OCW expanded a building program that added a new library, student union, and fine arts facilities. The Jane Brooks School for the Deaf was added to the OCW campus during this time. Ouida and Dan moved in 1958 when Dan accepted a new job with the Star Engraving Company of Houston, Texas. This move subsequently led him to the presidency of that firm. During their two decades in Houston they frequently traveled within the United States and abroad, often in connection with Rotary and Boy Scouts of America events. After retirement they returned to Chickasha, where they enjoyed seven happy years together before Dan's death in 1987. She is missed by her surviving son, Dan H. Procter and her daughter-in-law, Genelle Procter, her four grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and many other family members and their friends. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent in Ouida Procter's memory to the Dan Procter Memorial Scholarship at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. |
© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Wednesday, January 20, 2010 November 25, 1931 ~ January 10, 2010 Genelle L. Procter, 78, died January 1 0, 2010, at her home in Highlands Ranch, CO, surrounded by her family. Burial service will be 11:00 AM Saturday, January 23, 2010, at Fairlawn Cemetery in Chickasha. The funeral service was held on January 16 in Highlands Ranch, CO. Arrangements are under the care of Ellis Family Services of Littleton, CO. A retired teacher and the wife of Dan H. Procter, Hazel Genelle Lanier was born November 25, 1931, at her family's home on Dakota Street in Chickasha. Her parents were Jewel and Bill Lanier. Genelle graduated from Chickasha High School, where at age 16 she met her future husband, Dan. They married in 1952 at Epworth United Methodist Church and celebrated their 57th anniversary together in October 2009. Graduating from the then-Oklahoma College for Women in 1953, Genelle declined job offers to work for the Hallmark Card Company. Instead she moved to Norman and later to Midland, TX, as she and Dan raised their new family. She began her teaching career in Hobbs, NM, and continued teaching in the public schools of Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Her enthusiasm for helping children to learn stretched beyond the classroom walls to her own children, her grandchildren, and scores of neighborhood kids. She recited poetry and sang goofy songs to make kids laugh. Her patience with a child learning to read or to play the piano was never exhausted. She unraveled the bureaucracy of higher education to secure a full scholarship for the daughter of a window washer she met because the young woman deserved an education. In her classrooms she touched off sparks--literally with a lesson about volcanoes--but more often she ignited an interest in ideas and learning. Getting into hot water with her principal never slowed her pace. Her students dirtied their hands with literature, building sandbox replicas for stories like "Treasure Island". History lessons came alive when students interviewed their own grandparents and invited them to school to share first-hand accounts of Oklahoma history. A four-letter word blurted aloud by a student prompted a spontaneous lesson in linguistics and a discussion of Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, during which chins dropped but no eyelids drooped. In retirement, Genelle and Dan set out to explore the United States in a Winnebago. Between RV trips they traveled to New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii. She is survived by her husband, her daughter, Linda Burns of Highlands Ranch, her son, Dan L. Procter, of Austin, TX, her grandchildren Haley and Taylor Burns, of Highlands Ranch, her brother, Bill Lanier, of Fort Worth, Texas, and many more family members and loving friends. In lieu of flowers, suggested memorials include the Denver Hospice, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. |
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