Obit of Ash, Stephen Douglas - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 1 May 2005 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star 14 December 2004 STEPHEN DOUGLAS ASH Memorial service for Stephen Dougas Ash, age 57, of Anadarko, will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, December 17, 2004, at the First United Methodist Church in Cache with Rev. Jennifer Long officiating. Interment will be at 2:00 P.M., in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, with Chaplain John Cahill of the Family Faith Hospice officiating. Services will be under the direction of Jackson Funeral Home, Frederick. Mr. Ash passed away at his home on Friday evening, December 3, 2004, after a lengthy illness. Stephen Douglas Ash was born on December 12, 1946, in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Boyd Dean and Betty Jo (LeFors) Ash. He attended grammar school at Altamont, Kansas, and graduated from high school in Oswego, Kansas, in 1964. He attended Ft. Hayes State University in Hayes, Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in speech and philosophy and a master's degree in speech. As a commissioned officer, Stephen served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. After returning from war Mr. Ash received his Ph.D. in counseling and psychology from Southwestern University in Metairie, Louisiana. On April 1, 1996, he and Bernice D. Evaro were united in marriage in Colusa, California. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, Bernice, of the home; two daughters: Beverly Michelle Ash Saigman of Topeka, Kansas, and Heather Elizabeth Ash Wyrick of Long Beach, California; his father and mother, Boyd and Marian Ash, of Chickasha, Oklahoma; his biological mother: Bette Jo LeFors Hall of Colusa, California; two brothers: Philip Warren Ash of Pasadena, Texas, and Jonathan Mark Ash and his wife, Carol, of Lincoln, Nebraska; one sister, Mary Denise Ash Lindseth and her husband, Richard, of Wichita, Kansas; two stepdaughters: Angela Henthorne of Orland, California, and Ramona Bartletta of Orland, California; two stepsons: John Rivera of Williams, California, and Timothy Walker of Orland, California; 17 grandchildren: and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. Memorial contributions may be made to the Family Faith Hospice of Anadarko or the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Cancer Division, in memory of Stephen Douglas Ash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html