Obit of Pollan, Grace Bonnie (Stevens) - Washington County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Terri 9 Oct 2005 Return to Washington County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: STEVENS, POLLAN, HENSON, DENTON, SMART, COOK, FISHER, HAILEY, BURRUSS, PARKS, WILLIAMS, HARBISON, OLDS, EDEN from 4-13-2003 Examiner Enterprise Grace B. Pollan Mrs. Grace Bonnie (Stevens) Pollan, 82, native area resident and widow of the late W.W. "Blackie" Pollan, died at 5:10 p.m. on Friday in the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Funeral services for Mrs. Pollan will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday at the graveside in the Dewey City Cemetery. Rev. Raymond Henson will be the officiant. Committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Dewey City Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service. Mrs. Pollan will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence where friends may call until she is removed to the cemetery for final rites on Tuesday morning. A native of Washington County, Grace Bonnie Stevens was born September 27, 1920 at Dewey. She was the daughter of the late Charles Samuel and Lula Bell (Denton) Stevens. She was reared and received her education in the Dewey Public Schools. Miss Grace Stevens and Norman Charles Smart were married in Bartlesville on July 16, 1935. They made their home in Dewey for a year before moving to California. They returned to Dewey in 1941. On April 20, 1946, Mrs. Smart and William W. "Blackie" Pollan were married at Independence, Kansas. They continued their home in Dewey where Mr. Pollan was active with the Keener Oil Company. In 1961 they moved to Bartlesville and Mr. Pollan was employed with the Examiner-Enterprise. William W. "Blackie" Pollan preceded her in death on August 27, 1965. Since that time she has continued her home in the Dewey/Bartlesville community living in retirement. Mrs. Grace Pollan was a member of the First Baptist Church, Dewey. Survivors include her daughters, Mrs. Delores Joan Cook and Mrs. Hazel Lou Fisher, both of Bartlesville; six grandchildren, Mary Jo Hailey, Bartlesville, Carl Louis Fisher, Dewey, Truman E. "Butch" Burruss, Joplin, Missouri, David William Burruss, Niotaze, Kansas, Kimberly Joanne Parks, Bartlesville, Farrel Leon Williams, Bartlesville, fourteen great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews including a special niece, Susie Harbison; three stepchildren, Johnny Donald Pollan, Bella Vista, Arkansas, Mary Frances Olds, Dewey and Bill Eden, Joplin, Missouri. In addition to her father, mother and husband, she was preceded in death by two sons, Lester Eugene Smart, Kenneth Edgar Smart, a step-son, James Lee Pollan, a sister, Mary Ellen Stevens and by eight brothers, Alfred Wayman Stevens, William Edward Stevens, Floyd Melvin Stevens, Lloyd Stevens, Joseph Henry Stevens, Charles Samuel Stevens, Robert George Stevens and an infant brother. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Washington County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html