Obit of Vorse, Thomas Grant - Stephens County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>  29 May 2005
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Duncan Banner 5 Jan 2003

Thomas Grant Vorse

Thomas Grant Vorse, 60, of Duncan died Friday, Jan. 3, 2003, in Oklahoma 
City.

Service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Heritage Oaks Church of the Nazarene 
with the Rev. Bobby Howard officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn 
Cemetery in Comanche under the direction of Don Grantham Funeral Home in 
Duncan.

Mr. Vorse was born July 20, 1942, in Scottsbluff, Neb., to Alden F. and 
Kathryn A. Steele Vorse. He married Glenda Hobbs on Dec. 24, 1961, in 
Scottsbluff.

He retired from Kansas-Nebraska Energy in 1997, in Kansas, and moved to 
Duncan where he was currently employed with First Bank and Trust, Inc.

He was a member of Heritage Oaks Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include his wife, Glenda, of the home; a son, Trent Morgan Vorse 
of San Diego, Calif.; a daughter, Tracy Michele Woodruff of Westmoreland, 
Kan.; nine brothers and sisters, George A. Vorse of Canton, Ohio, John W. 
Vorse of Scottsbluff, Michael D. Vorse of New Plymouth, Idaho, Frances J. 
Hays of Scottsbluff, Helen Kay Hubbard of Oklahoma City, Patty J. Hammel 
of Colorado Springs, Colo., Pamela J. Favour of Knoxville, Tenn., Aldena 
Rae Hammel of Trinidad, Colo., and Kathryn A. Snyder of Broken Bow, Neb.; 
his grandmother, Mable J. Vorse White of Scottsbluff; and seven 
grandchildren, Todd Woodruff, Traylee Woodruff, Brandon Woodruff, Kathryn 
Woodruff, Morgan Vorse, Antonio Vorse and Kevin Vorse.

Bearers will be George Vorse, John Vorse, Russell Hubbard, Jim Powers, 
Nathan Hobbs and Jerry Soesbee.

Honorary bearers are Steve Rahill, Mike Ward, Roland Goldsmith, Ron 
Absher, Olen Jackson and Chuck Kirk.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Tom Vorse 

Memorial Fund at Heritage Oaks Church of the Nazarene.
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