Rogers Co. Obit for: Olie Lee Russell 
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Date: 3/23/2003 by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
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Olie Lee Russell
3/05/2003

Services for Claremore resident Olie Lee Russell will be 1:30 p.m. 
Monday, March 3, 2003 at University United Methodist Church in Tulsa. 
Reverends Ray Crawford of Claremore and Mark Gibbens-Rickman of Tulsa 
will officiate.

Lee passed away on Friday, Feb. 28, 2003, surrounded by family. He 
was 89.

Lee was born Oct. 25, 1913 in Dunning, Ark., to Ella Ida Harvey Russell 
and Marion "Slim" Malone Russell. In 1925, the family moved to Oklahoma 
and he attended schools in Bokoshe. 

On Sunday, July 14, 1935, Lee married Iva Inez Morton at the Russell 
family home in Bokoshe. In July of 2000, the couple celebrated its 65th 
wedding anniversary, before Iva's passing in September of that same year.

During his lifetime, Lee worked in several vocations, including as a 
coal miner in Arkansas and Bokoshe, the owner of a cafe in Bokoshe, 
for the Continental Oil Company in Tulsa, at Crawford's Conoco Station 
in Tulsa and at McDonnell Douglass Aircraft in California and Tulsa. He 
retired from McDonnell Douglass in 1975.

He was a 57-year member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 32nd degree, 
the United Mine Workers, the United Aerospace Workers and of the University 
United Methodist Church for more than 30 years.

Lee is survived by his son, Marion L. Russell and wife Sally of Ardmore; 
daughter, Linda K. Brown and husband Gary of Oologah; granddaughters, Denise 
Bishop of Ardmore, Angela Brown, Heather Smoot and husband Samuel, all of 
Claremore; grandson, Steven Russell and wife Lori of Norman; great-grand-
children, Chad Keller of Duncan, Michael Martin and wife Candie of Ada, 
Cale, Conner and Rylie Russell of Norman and Hannah and Emma Smoot of 
Claremore.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Iva Inez Russell; mother, Ella Ida 
Russell; father, Marion Malone Russell; and brothers, Lester, John and 
Arlie Russell Sr.

Memorial contributions can be made in Lee's name to the American Lung 
Association.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Floral Haven Funeral 
Home of Tulsa.

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