Benjamin Milton Yaseck

Mr. Benjamin Milton Yaseck Mr. Benjamin Milton Yaseck, 85, of Bartlesville, died at 4:55 A.M. on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in Bartlesville following a brief illness. Memorial services for Mr. Yaseck will be held at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel with Bartlesville Police Department Chaplain Roy Moss officiating. Masonic rites will be accorded by the Bartlesville Masonic Lodge # 284 AF & AM and memorial services and cremation are under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Mr. Yaseck was born in Bartlesville on February 18, 1927 the son of Benjamin Joseph and Opal Rose (Carroll) Yaseck. He entered the United States Navy in 1944 and served during World War II. Following his Honorable Discharge in 1946 he attended Oklahoma State University (A & M) at Stillwater from 1949 to 1951. He was married to Jeannine Garrison on August 19, 1951 in Bartlesville. Mr. Yaseck was employed as an Engineering Technician with Phillips Petroleum Company for 28 years until his retirement in 1983. Following his retirement, he along with his wife Jeannine operated Ben’s Picture Framing in Bartlesville for 15 years (from 1983 until 1998). Mr. Yaseck had served as a member of the Board of Directors and as Past President of the Bartlesville Playground Association, Past President of the Bartlesville Downtown Lions Club, member of the Washington County American Red Cross where he was the Washington County Disaster Chairman for 10 years and had also served as a disaster consultant for the Oklahoma Northeast District. He was a life member of the Bartlesville Grand Lodge # 284 AF & AM, was a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Tulsa Scottish Rite. He was baptized at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and had received Outstanding Service Awards from the Bartlesville Playground Association in 1969 and 1970, Appreciation Awards from the American Red Cross in 1974, was Mr. Politician of the Year in 1976, received the Community Service Award from the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1975, and the Distinguished Community Service Award from Phillips Petroleum Company in 1977. Ben was a kind and giving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He will be missed by all. Mr. Yaseck is survived by his daughter, Denise Terriann Silva (retired Bartlesville Police Department officer retired after 21 years of service to the department),one grandson, Nicholas Duncan Silva, two great grandsons, Chase and Titus Silva, and one sister, Yvonne Perrin of Tulsa. He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, Evelyn Louise Cevelin, one brother, William “Bill” Yaseck, and his wife of 59 years, Jeannine Yaseck who preceded him in death on June 18, 2010. PDF Printable Version

Benjamin Milton Yaseck

February 18, 1927 - May 19, 2012