Obit of Basden, Jo Treece - Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips   <okarchives@comcast.net>   18 Dec 2005
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:Floral Haven Cemetery--Tulsa OK
Norman Transcript
October 4, 2003

Jo Treece Basden

Jo Treece Basden, 73, of Tulsa and formerly of Norman died Thursday, Oct. 
2, at her home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at John Knox 
Presbyterian Church with Jeffrey K. London officiating. Burial will be at 
Floral Haven Cemetery in Tulsa. Moore Funeral Directors in Tulsa is 
handling arrangements.

Mrs. Basden was born July 10, 1930, in Fayetteville, Ark., to James 
Sherman and Hattie Watts Treece. She married Gene B. Basden July 27, 1952, 
in Fayetteville. They moved to Norman in 1965 where Mr. Basden was a pilot 
in the Air Force and later in the Federal Aviation Administration. They 
raised two children in Norman and moved to Tulsa in 2001. Mrs. Basden was 
a member of John Knox Presbyterian Church and a member and donor to the 
Oklahoma University Foundation, Inc. She graduated with a bachelor's 
degree in education from University of Arkansas in 1952. She taught in 
Topeka, Kan., Denver, Bossier City, La., and Marietta, Ga. She was a 
member of several genealogical societies and was a contributing author to 
several state and county genealogical histories. She was active in the 
national, Oklahoma and Cleveland County Republican party. Her interests 
included her home, family, gardening, genealogy and politics. Her greatest 
joys were her husband, children and grandchildren. Special mention is made 
of her friends in "Thursday Therapy."

Mrs. Basden was preceded in death by her father and mother, James Sherman 
and Hattie Watts Treece; brothers, Clyde, Garrett and James Sherman Treece 
Jr.; and grandson, James Kenneth Basden.

Mrs. Basden is survived by her husband, Gene B. Basden of the home; sons, 
Gene Kenneth Basden and wife, Kathy, and David Treece Basden and wife, 
DeAnna, all of Tulsa; grandchildren, Brittney Ann, David Sterling, Alyssa 
Treece and Juliet Anastasia Basden of Tulsa; brother, Bob G. Treece and 
wife, Katherine, of Little Rock, Ark.; and sister, Hattie Lee Gilbreath 
and husband, Milton, of Fort Smith, Ark.

Memorial contributions may be made to the John Knox Memorial Fund.
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