The
funeral services honoring and celebrating
Kent E. Hisey will be held 11:00 A.M. Friday
in the Open Door Church with Pastor Mike
Miller officiating.
Burial will follow in
the Park Grove Cemetery of Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma. Military honors will be conducted
by the United States Army National Guard.
Services are under the direction of
Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Kent was born to Gene and Norma (Foltz)
Hisey on December 1, 1952 in Enid, Oklahoma
and went to be with his Savior on October 3,
2021 in Oklahoma City.
During his early years, he was raised and
educated in Hunter, Oklahoma on a wheat and
cattle farm. While growing up, along with
his siblings, he learned to feed hogs, milk
cows and work alongside his hard-working
father and mother on the farm. In his high
school years, he went on the wheat harvest
with his Grandma and Grandpa Foltz all the
way to North Dakota cutting wheat.
After graduating from high school in Hunter
in 1971, he went on to study at Northeastern
A&M in Miami. He then completed his degree
by receiving a BS in Engineering Technology
from OSU in 1976. He also served in the
United States Army National Guard from
1972-1978.
He then worked for the Corps of Engineers
for 6 years before working for Bryon Jackson
Pump Division as a Project Manager, which
later became Ruhrpumpen. He loved his job,
co-workers and solving complex problems and
retired after 37 years.
After marrying the love of his life, Janis
Dickens at Tulsa Baptist Temple on March 4,
1978, they resided in Tulsa. Kent and Janis
shared many interests together as they
raised their two children. They participated
in softball leagues, served as youth leaders
for over 30 years, and enjoyed traveling all
over the United States and the world. They
were blessed with 41 years of marriage.
With his driven personality and positive
spirit, he was a man of many interests and
was seemingly up for any new challenge or
adventure. You could find him at church,
golfing, bike riding, attending Cardinal’s
baseball games, OSU football games, his
grandchildren’s sporting events and
researching new places to explore. His love
for acoustic guitar was passed down to his
son and grandsons. As a dedicated family
man, he was an involved son, husband,
father, brother, uncle, grandfather, and
great-grandfather. At any significant family
event, Kent would be found behind the camera
documenting the special occasion.
He ambitiously decided to further his
education and received his MBA from Southern
Nazarene University in 2002.
Anyone who knew Kent felt loved, accepted,
and encouraged, which emanated from his deep
desire to follow Jesus and love others well.
The legacy of faith he left behind is
encapsulated in II Timothy 4:7, “I have
fought the good fight, I have finished the
race, I have kept the faith.”
He is survived by his mother, Norma, his two
children and their spouses, Pastor Kevin and
Meagan Hisey, Kristin and Curt Sharp, 8
grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, his
siblings, Debbie, John, Darla and a very
close-knit extended family that dearly loved
him.
