Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  LOUIS OWEN "BITSY" STABLER

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LOUIS OWEN "BITSY" STABLER

OCNS - June 21, 2000 - Services will be held Friday, June 23, at 10:00 a.m., 
in The Wakon Iron Community Building in Pawhuska Indian Village for Louis 
Owen "Bitsy" Stabler, 66, who passed away June 20, at his Tulsa residence 
following a prolonged illness.

Bitsy was born February 2, 1934 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma the son of George 
Owen and Margaret (Red Eagle) Stabler. He attended Pawhuska schools, 
graduating in 1951 from Pawhuska High School and later from Northeastern 
State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

March 9, 1957 in Miami, Oklahoma he married Lina J. Moore, who survives at 
the home in Tulsa. Bitsy retired from Columbian Chemicals as an accountant 
and later was a tax consultant for H & R Block.

He was a member of The Woodland Acres Baptist Church of Tulsa, the Osage 
Indian Gourd Clan, The Pawhuska War Dance Committee, The Indian Theatre 
Club and a past president of The Kihe-Kah-Steh Powwow Club of Skiatook.

Survivors in addition to his wife Lina are: a son, George O. and wife, 
LaDawn Stabler of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; a daughter, Janna L. Stabler of 
Tulsa; brother, Paul and wife, Joyce Stabler of Tulsa; three grandchildren, 
Lindsay M. Stabler, George Owen Stabler, Jr. and Daniel Aidan Stabler all 
of Broken Arrow and numerous other relatives and friends.

Louis was preceded in death by his father, George Owen Stabler and mother, 
Margaret Red Eagle Iron.

He will lie in state at the family home in Pawhuska Indian Village from 
Tuesday Evening until Friday morning when he will be moved to the Wakon 
Iron Community Building.

Burial will be in The Pawhuska Cemetery under the direction of Johnson 
Funeral Directors.