Carl Donald Stanley

CARL D. STANLEY Carl Donald Stanley, 88, resident of Bartlesville, and retired telephone technician, died at 6:45 AM on Wednesday, January 7, 2015, in Bartlesville. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Monday, January 12, 2015, in the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Darryl Wootton of the Spirit Church officiating. Military rites will be conducted at the graveside by the James H. Teel American Legion Post # 105 of Bartlesville. Interment will be in the Ochelata Cemetery at Ochelata, Oklahoma under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Carl Donald Stanley was born March 21, 1926 at Vasser, Kansas to Wayne Leroy and Lelia L. (Hartzell) Stanley. He was raised and received his education in Chivington, Colorado; Carl was the only boy of five students in the 1943 graduating class. Mr. Stanley entered the U.S. Coast Guard in 1943 and served in the Panama Canal, he worked for the railroad at his father’s request for the summer to toughen him up for military service with the Coast Guard. He received his honorable discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard, in 1946. On July 21, 1950 he entered the U.S. Army and served until 1953 and again received his honorable discharge. Mr. Stanley began his career with A.T & T. and worked as a technician for thirty-five years retiring at age fifty-five. Mr. Stanley was married to Jacqueline Dunlap on February 6, 1954 in Colorado Springs, Colorado and they made their home in Denver, Colorado from 1954 to 1983. They moved to Ochelata in 1983 and lived there until 1999. In 1999 they moved to Bartlesville. Mr. Stanley was a member of the Ochelata Baptist Church and served as a volunteer at Jane Phillips Medical Center for seventeen years. Survivors include two daughters; Kay Jenean Shipman and her husband Mike and Charlene Norris and her husband Tom of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; one sister Marjorie Thompson of Tacoma, Washington; seven grandchildren Jacque, Roksanne, Tina, Shelly, Rock, Don and Kellie; twelve great grandchildren; four nieces and one nephew. Mr. Stanley was preceded in death by his parents; his wife and one brother Dale Stanley. The family would like to send a special thank you to Brian and Carolyn Wallace for their special care of Mr. Stanley. Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpff.org. PDF Printable Version

Carl Donald Stanley

March 21, 1926 - January 7, 2015