Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Paul D. O'Keefe

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P.O. Box 38, Hominy, Okla 74035
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The Hominy News - Progress
Vol. 33, No. 35
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Page 7

Paul D. O'Keefe

In the early morning hours of July 18, 2001, Paul D. O'Keefe of Ft. 
Towson, died peacefully in his sleep.  Retired Commander O'Keefe was 
born in Ft. Towson on July 13, 1924, the son of James H. O'Keefe and 
Myrtle May Davis.  He was preceded in death by his mother, father, 
stepmother Ada V. Allen O'Keefe of Antlers and youngest son James 
William O'Keefe of Valliant.

He joined the Navy as a young man and began his first career as a dive 
bomber pilot in World War II.  He was subsequently transferred to the 
Naval Supply Corps and served as an aide to three different Admirals 
while stationed in California and Hawaii.

Paul had a Bachelors degree in Science and a Master's in education.  
Commander O'Keefe also served on a Staff of Fleet Air Wing 3 in the 
Pacific and office Director of the Naval Supply Corps in Washington, 
D.C.  He retired from the Navy in the mid-60's, becoming the Broker-
owner of a real estate corporation in northern Virginia for the next 
13 years.  In 1976, he and his wife, Marlynn Ann Fleck, O'Keefe moved 
back to Oklahoma where he entered into a new career in city government, 
beginning as the City Manager of Broken Bow, maintaining a circuit of 
small Oklahoma townships and the cities of Hominy, Madill and Tonkawa.  
He retired from city government in 1999, continuing with grant writing 
and other administrative services.

He is survived by his wife, Marlynn Ann O'Keefe of Ft. Towson, son, 
Paul Jeffrey O'Keefe of Weems, VA; two daughters Dee Ann Cooper of 
Lumberton, TX and Gail Patricia Antonucco of Amarillo, TX; sister, 
Jimmie Marie Dunham and nephew Don Dunham, both of Albuquerque, NM; 
daughter-in-law Nancy Virginia O'Keefe of Valliant, nine grandchildren 
and four great-grandchildren.  He is loved and missed by all.

Services were held at Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home in 
Hugo on Sat., July 21 at 10 a.m. with interment at Fort Towson 
Cemetery immediately following with Father Joseph Dean presiding.
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