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Submitted by: Ann Weber

Pearl Fay (Killian) Baldrachi

Jan 23, 1918 ~ Jan 2, 2016

Pearl Baldrachi went to be with her Lord and Savior on January 2, 2016, after a short illness. Her daughter, son and daughter in-law were at her side.

Ms. Baldrachi had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Bartlesville, since 1955. She retired from Phillips Petroleum Company in 1984, after 28 years' service.

Born in Sayre, Oklahoma, to Oscar and Fleetie Groves Killian, she was the third of nine children. In 1942, after earning her Associates Degree in Secretarial Science from Sayre Junior College, now Southwestern Oklahoma State University, she traveled by train to Washington D.C. to assist in the war effort. She worked in the War Department and was among the first group of employees to work in the newly built Pentagon. Her position was in Secrets and Confidential, where she tracked the troop movements.

There she met and married Don J. Baldrachi in 1943. They subsequently divorced in 1959.

Ms. Baldrachi was preceded in death by her parents, 3 sisters, 4 brothers and a grandson.

She is survived by one brother, J.I. Killian and wife Gerry, of Eufala, a daughter, Donna Simmons and her husband Larry of Clarkston, WA, and a son, Michael Baldrachi and wife, Sue, of Bartlesville. She has 3 grandsons, 2 granddaughters, and 5 great grandchildren.

Pearl Baldrachi was cremated at the Stumpff Funeral Home, where a memorial service will be held in the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, January 7, 2016.

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 Jan. 5 to Feb. 4, 2016

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