Obit of McCloy, Robert Burt - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>  16 Dec 2004
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McCloy, Robert Burt

Robert Burt McCloy, 88, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died Tuesday, 
September 17, 2002 in Norman, Oklahoma. Memorial Services will be held at 
4:00 P.M. Friday, September 20, 2002 at Havenbrook Funeral Home Chapel in 
Norman, Oklahoma with The Reverend Canon David A. Egbert officiating. 
Services are under the direction of Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman, 
Oklahoma. Mr. McCloy was born September 23, 1913 in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, to Edward and Davina Burt McCloy. He grew up in Pittsburgh 
where he graduated from high school. He attended the University of 
Pittsburgh and then graduated from Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh with a 
degree in Petroleum Engineering. He lived in Catoosa and Tulsa, Oklahoma 
where he worked for Gulf Oil and Standard of Indiana prior to moving to 
Oklahoma City. Once in Oklahoma City, he worked for Decem and Big X 
Drilling Company. He was a lifetime member of the board of directors of 
the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and was a founding member of the 
Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City, where he served as the club's second 
president. Mr. McCloy was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Alice 
Evelyn in 1997; and two brothers, Howard and Ed. Survivors include two 
sons, Robert B. McCloy Jr. and wife, Curtice, of Norman, OK and Stephen 
Paul McCloy and wife, Ming, of Oklahoma City, OK; two grandchildren, 
Allison Lafferty and husband, Todd, of Amarillo, TX and Laura Young and 
husband, Jason, of Oklahoma City, OK; four great grandchildren, Brennan 
Thomas Lafferty, Jackson Robert Lafferty, Austin James Young and Alaina 
Nicole Young; and his dear friend, Marjorie Jackson of Norman, Oklahoma.

Memorial contributions may be made in lieu of flowers to the Oklahoma 
Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73104-
9930.

Published in the Oklahoman on 9/20/2002.
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