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Fern (Johnson) & Oscar
Phillip Kent, Jr
Tombstone photo
Memorial Park Cemetery
Bartlesville, Washington County, OK
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Obit for Oscar posted by Ann Weber
Dec 12, 1920 - Jan 9, 2015
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BARTLESVILLE EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)
Oscar
Phillip
Kent,
Jr. age
94,retired
employee
of the
Engineering
Department
for
Phillips
Petroleum
company,
and
longtime
Bartlesville
resident
died on
Friday
January
9, 2015
at the
Oklahoma
Methodist
Manor,
in
Tulsa.
Phillip
was born
on
December
12, 1920
in
Sulphur
Springs,
Texas,
the son
of Oscar
Phillip
and
Frances
Helen
(Thompson)
Kent. He
graduated
from
Sulphur
Springs
High
School
in 1939.
During
World
War II,
he
served
in the
United
States
Air
Corps
and
received
the
following
campaign
medals:
American
Campaign,
European
African
Middle
Eastern
and The
Victory
Medal.
He
attended
East
Texas
State
Teacher's
College,
graduating
in 1947
with a
degree
in
mathematics.
Phillip
and Fern
Johnson
were
united
in
marriage
on
September
12, 1953
in
Dallas,
Texas.
During
their
forty-two
years of
marriage,
Phillip
and Fern
traveled
extensively
throughout
the
United
States,
Canada,
Mexico
and
Europe.
They
have two
surviving
daughters,
Kathryn
Ann
(Kay)
and
husband,
George
A.
Starkweather
of
Cookeville,
Tennessee
and
Carol
Lynn and
husband,
Richard
J.
Stewart
of
Tulsa;
five
grandchildren,
Austin,
Kent,
Edward
(Ted)
Starkweather,
and
Benjamin
and
Jeffrey
Stewart.
Phillip
was an
active
participant
in
numerous
local
organizations.
He
served
two
terms
as
president
in the
Bartlesville
Genealogical
Society.
He also
served
as
anElder,
First
Presbyterian
Church,
Bartlesville.
As a
member
of East
Cross
United
Methodist
Church,
he
taught
Sunday
school,
chairman
evangelism
commission
and
member
Board of
Concern
Center.
After
retirement,
he
volunteered
for
twenty-two
years at
the Jane
Phillips
Medical
Center
and was
a docent
at
Woolaroc
Museum.
He was
preceded
in death
by his
wife,
Fern,
and
special
friend,
Sylvia
Cranmer.
Memorial
contributions
may be
made to
Oklahoma
Methodist
Manor,
4134 E.
31st
Street,
Tulsa,
Ok 74135
or
Wounded
Warriors.
Published
in
Examiner-Enterprise
from
Jan. 14
to Feb.
13, 2015
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