Charlene Curran

Mrs. Mildred “Charlene” Curran Charlene Curran, 75, of Bartlesville, passed away on Monday, August 11, 2014 at the Journey Home Hospice House of Bartlesville. Funeral services for Mrs. Curran will be held at 10 A.M. on Saturday, August 16, 2014 in the Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplain Keith Fallis officiating. Graveside services will be held at 3:30 P.M. on Saturday at the Sunny Slope Cemetery at Blue Mound, Kansas and directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Honorary casket escorts will include Jason Curran, Michael Greg Curran, Mark Hainline, Michael Curran, Steve Curran, Jason Hinsdell, Steve Early, Clay Thurman, Don Eckert and Gary Artz. The Curran family will receive guests for visitation at the Stumpff Funeral Home on Friday evening from 6 P.M. until 8 P.M. Memorial funds have been established and those who wish may send their contributions to the Journey Home Hospice House, 3406 S.E. Kentucky, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006 or to Cornerstone Hospice, 3414 S.E. Kentucky, Bartlesville, Okla., 74006. Mildred Charlene Artz was born February 5, 1939 in Bartlesville to Charles Isaac Artz and Lahoma Hughes. The family lived in Bartlesville until Charlene was 6, then they moved to Blue Mound, Kansas. She attended the first six grades of school then moved back to Bartlesville where she attended the 7th grade. They next moved to Garnett, Kansas where she was in school her 8th grade year until she graduated with the class of 1957. That year the Artz family moved back to Blue Mound. After graduating Charlene went to work at the Linn County Sheriff’s Office as a dispatcher. On October 8, 1960 she was married to James Darryl Curran at the Blue Mound Methodist Church. He preceded her in death on December 31, 2013. To this union there were born four children; Charla Lou, Jimmie Dale, Joel Dane (who preceded her in death as an infant in 1966), and Scott Mitchell. The Curran family lived in Blue Mound until moving to Bartlesville in 1976. While still in Blue Mound, Charlene was librarian for the public library. Upon moving to Bartlesville she worked for U Totem, Reda Pump, Woolaroc Wild Life Preserve as a cook, the Dewey School District as a school cook, and at Phillips for Zachary maintenance company in the laundry department. Charlene was an avid reader, was a genealogist researcher, wrote poetry and did cross stitch and needle point. She was a member of the Blue Mound United Methodist Church and was also proud of her Cherokee heritage. She is survived by her children, Charla Lou Mann and her husband Gerry of Bartlesville, Jimmie Dale Curran and his wife Karen of Broken Arrow, Ok, Scott Mitchell Curran and his companion, Heather White of Bartlesville also of Bartlesville, seven grandchildren, Jennifer Curran of Tulsa, OK; Greg Curran of Broken Arrow,OK; Kaylee Curran and her companion Mark Hainline of Bartlesville, OK; Emma Peterson, Camber Peterson, Travis Peterson and Jack White of Bartlesville, OK; and one great grandson, Wyatt Hainline of Bartlesville, OK. PDF Printable Version

Charlene Curran

February 5, 1939 - August 11, 2014