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Year 1998 - 99
Year 2000 Obituaries

6 January 2000
Riverside Press Enterprise

MEADVILLE
Services for Joe Wayne MEADVILLE, 84, will be Monday at Evans-Brown Mortuary. He died Tuesday of Parkinson's disease at his Sun City home. Burial will be in Riverside National Cemetery.
Mr. Meadville, who was born in Lawton, Comanche Co., Okla., lived in Sun City 19 years. Previously he lived 28 years in Riverside. He was an aircraft structure mechanic for 28 years at Lockheed Air Service in Ontario. He served in the U.S. Army in 1945 and 1946. He was a member of the American Legion and Faith Lutheran Church, both in Sun City.
Mr. Meadville is survived by his wife, Betty Lee; a daughter, Betty Blackwell; three sons, Jack Wardell and Joe Jr., and Gordon of Ariz.; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Jack and Gordon, both of Sherman, Texas ; and two sisters, Mary Margerate Jennings and Anna Meadville, both of Okla.

COOPER
Services for Helen C. COOPER, 83, will be today at Stone Funeral Chapel in Upland. She died Tuesday at Global Medical Center in Montclair. The cause of death is undetermined pending a doctor's report.
Interment will be private.
Mrs. Cooper, who was born in Wright City, Okla., lived in Riverside 46 years before she moved to Montclair a year ago. She is survived by two daughters, Kathy Elkins and Judy Holdridge; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; two sisters, Pauline Coursey and Rose Robertson and a brother, Harold Young.

19 January 2000

LANGWELL
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Services for Ira LANGWELL, 91, will be at Thursday at the Central Church of Christ in Hemet. He died Monday from complications of pneumonia at Hemet.
Friends may call from 5 until 8 p.m. today at the Harford Funeral Home in Hemet. Burial will be in Bellevue Memorial Park in Ontario. Mr. Langwell, who was born in O'Keema, Okla., lived in Hemet 11 years before moving to Chandler, Ariz., five years ago. He had returned to Hemet last October. He was a member of the Central Church of Christ in Hemet.
He is survived by three daughters, Marjorie Brunson, Vi Prince and Barbara Renfro; two sons, Jim and Ronald; 24 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; 14 great-great- grandchildren; two brothers, Travis and Avis ; and a sister, Bea McLung.

14 January 2000

San Diego Union Tribune

ARCO  
Feb. 17, 1911-Jan. 1, 2000
Dorthea Arco, 88, of San Diego died Jan. 1. She was born in Tulsa, Okla.
Survivors include her daughters, Maxine DEBECK, Tina STELLA and Cathy SHEPHERD; sons, James HAMM and Charles MORSE; 18 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
No services are planned.

1 February 2000

WHITE
March 7, 1939-Jan. 27, 2000
Kenneth D. White, 60, of San Diego died Thursday. Mr. White was born in Cherokee, Okla., and was a mechanical engineer. He had served in the Navy for 20 years.
Survivors include his wife, Leatrice; daughters, Lisa WILSON, Sharon HARRIS and Angel WHITE-VITELLO; five sisters; four brothers; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

5 February 2000

HARRIS Feb. 11, 1916-Feb. 2, 2000
San Diego Union Tribune
Nellie A. Harris, 83, of Lemon Grove died Wednesday. She was born in Cleveland, Okla.
Survivors include her sister, Edna BYROM of Cleveland, Okla.; and brothers, William G. REA of Houston and Forest C. REA of Cleveland, Okla.
Services: 2 p.m. Monday, Greenwood Memorial Park, Interstate 805 and Imperial Avenue, San Diego. Arrangements: Conrad Lemon Grove Mortuary.

QUINTON
Graveside services for Donald QUINTON, 90, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Mountain View Cemetery in Beaumont. He died Jan. 17 at Beaumont Care Center in Beaumont from complications of aging. Weaver Mortuary in Beaumont is handling arrangements.
Mr. Quinton, who was born in Perry, Okla., lived in Beaumont 41 years. Previously he lived in Palm Springs for a number of years. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Navy.

7 February 2000

BAARTO
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Graveside services for Lawrence Lee BAARTO, 72, will be at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Riverside National Cemetery. He died Friday of a heart attack at Riverside Community Hospital.
Mr. Barto, who was born in Duncan, Okla., lived in Rubidoux 40 years. Previously he lived in Riverside and Indio 21 years.  He served in the U. S. Air Force from 1950 until 1960 and in the U. S. Navy for one year.
He is survived by his wife, Florene; two daughters, Joyce DuMOND and Janice BARTO; two grandchildren; and two sisters, Elta LAMB of Kemp, Texas , and

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