Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  HAZEL V. MAKER

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HAZEL V. MAKER

OCNS - Archives - Hazel Virginia "Turbie" Maker, 78, died June 4, 1998 in 
the Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Funeral Mass was held June 8, 1998 in the Immaculate Conception Catholic 
Church, Pawhuska, Oklahoma with Father Leonard Higgins officiating.   
Interment was in the Pawhuska City Cemetery.

Hazel was born April 10, 1920 in Stilwell, Oklahoma, the daughter of Oscar 
and Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Red Bird) Wear (sic).   She was a member of the 
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Klash-Kah-She Club, Alter Society 
and the American Legion Post 198 Auxiliary.   She was a counselor on drugs 
and alcohol for over twenty-five years and was last employed by the Osage 
Nation.

In 1989, Hazel was honored by the Oklahoma Association on Alcoholism and 
Drug Abuse Coalition and named to that group's Hall of Fame.   At the time, 
she was a counselor at the Jane Phillips Chemical Dependency Unit in 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma and spent twenty-plus years in the field of 
chemical addiction, developing programs for drug addicts.

Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, James Anthony "Tony" and Kathleen 
Maker of Stillwater, Oklahoma; two grandsons, James Anthony Maker of 
Oklahoma City and Joel Alfred maker of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; four great-
grandchildren, Jerod Anthony Maker and Mallary Maker both of Poteau, 
Oklahoma and James Anthony Maker III of Mustang, Oklahoma and Jace Bailey 
Maker of Tahlequah; a nephew, John Thomas Vice of Collinsville, Oklahoma 
and a host of other relatives and friends.

Johnson Funeral Home, Pawhuska, was in charge of arrangements.