Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  DELLA MAE DIAZ

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DELLA MAE DIAZ

OCNS - November 13, 2001 - Funeral services with Pastor Bill Benefiel 
officiating will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, November 15, in the New 
Hope Assembly Church in Dewey, Oklahoma, for Mrs. Della Mae Diaz, 58, 
resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, who died Saturday, November 10, 2001, 
at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa.

Della was born June 4, 1943, at Wallace, Idaho, the daughter of Gonzlas 
Porter and Maggie Irene (Moore) Cross and moved to Oklahoma when she was 
five years old.   She attended school in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, and Central 
Junior High School in Bartlesville.   August 20, 1966, in Nowata, 
Oklahoma, Della married Henry Diaz who survives at the home.   The couple 
attended the Pentecostal Tabernacle Church in Bartlesville.

Survivors in addition to her husband include:   one son, Henry Diaz, Jr., 
one daughter, Helen Diaz and her husband, Terry Nordyke all of 
Bartlesville; her mother, Maggie Irene Cross of Copan, Oklahoma; her son-
in-law, Charles Boggs, Jr., of Pawhuska, Oklahoma; two brothers, Floyd 
Cross and George Cross both of Bartlesville; one sister, Helen Gibson of 
Copan, Oklahoma; seven grandsons and one granddaughter.

Della was preceded in death by her father and one step-daughter, Crystal 
Malicoat.

Burial will be in the White Rose Cemetery, Bartlesville, directed by the 
Stumpff Funeral Home.