Obit of Kassanavoid, Lavell - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 20 Nov 2005 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lawton Constitution 7 Dec 2003 Lavell Kassanavoid OKLAHOMA CITY — Funeral for former Indiahoma resident Lavell Kassanavoid, 72, Oklahoma City, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Comanche Nation Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Reaves Nahwooks officiating. Mr. Kassanavoid died Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, in Oklahoma City. Burial will be at Post Oak Cemetery, Indiahoma, under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home. He was born Aug. 22, 1931, to James and Mary Kopaddy Kassanavoid. He attended school at Indiahoma and Fort Sill Indian School. He served in the Navy from July 12, 1950, through May 12, 1954. He was a Ship’s Serviceman Third Class, USN. He was stationed in San Diego, Calif., and NSCS Bayonne, N.J. He also served aboard the USS Meniaus and the USS Leyte. He married Dorothy Pratt Kassanavoid on Nov. 10, 1966, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He has sold furniture in Oklahoma City since 1956. He was a member of the Comanche Tribe and the Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church. Survivors include a son, Vernon, Oklahoma City; a granddaughter, Malissa Whiteshirt, Harrah; two great-grandsons: Joseph and Bruce; a special cousin, Geneva Radney, Oklahoma City; a special aunt, Edith Kassanavoid, Indiahoma; two step-daughters, Judy; and Jacquline Gatlin and her husband, Randy; and many other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; two brothers: Forrest and Merritt Kassanavoid; a sister, Imogene Harris; and a great-grandson, Warren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html