© Palmer Marler Funeral Home Cushing, OK - Payne and Lincoln County November 2015 Donald Gene Hartgrave January 17, 1932 ~ June 23, 1993 Sand Springs _ Donald Gene Hartgrave, 61, formerly of rural Cushing, died on Thursday, June 23, 1993, in Oklahoma City. Services are Scheduled for 1 pm Saturday, June 26, at the Cathedral of Praise in Sand Springs with the Rev Mike Buie officiating. Interment will follow in the Glenwood Cemetery in Payne County under the direction of the Mobley~Dodson Funeral Sewrvice. He was born in a farmhouse in rural Cushing on January 17, 1932, the son of Jesse Monroe Hartgrave and Cora Francis [Murrell] Hartgrave. Hartgrave joined the US Marine Corps on March 20, 1952, and was honorable discharged on March 19, 1954. While in the service, he received the National Defense Medal. He was employed by K.W. Anderson Co, Tulsa Heat Transfer, Kentube Inc, Rahm Fab Inc, and then joined Henry Vogt Co in 1990. He attended the Cathedral of Praise in Sand Springs. He was also a member of the American Society fpr Quality Control, American Welding Society and Tulsa Junior College Welding Technology Advisory Committee and was a Sapulpa Vo-Tech welding judge. Hartgrave met Rachel Joan Courtright in church and married her on February 18, 1955, in Cushing. They lived in Cushing until April 1956, when they moved to Sand Springs where they have lived since that time He was predeceased by his parents, Jesse and Cora Hartgrave; two brothers in infancy, Luther and Dolan Hartgrave; and one sister, Ruby Clemens. Survivors include his wife, Rachel Joan Hartgrave, of the home' four daughters, April Jaunice Hutson, Shelley Joan Reeves and Darcy Jane Reichard, all of San Springs, and DoneldaJean Blair of Sapulpa' three sisters, Sylvia Roe of Muskogee, Virginia Miller of Roswell, NM, and Joanne Faye Little of Lufkin, Texas' two brothers, J. D. Hartgrave of Cushing and Jesse Monroe Hartgrave Jr of Guthrie' 10 grandchildren, Mandy, Amy, Autumn, Billy, Mark, Michelle, Lydia, Travers, Preston and Cassie. The family wishes to extend their sincerest thanks to all who contributed to the Don Hartgrave Transplant Fund. The funds received will be applied to his medical expenses. |
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