2011-07-07
Collection: No Collection
Title
2011-07-07
2011-06-18
2011-07-09
Subject
Shurtz, Darlene
Morrison, Melvin
Doombos, Gary Robert
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2011-07-12
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
b17#045 2011
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2011-07-07,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/2258.
Text
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Darlene Shurtz
Darlene Shurtz, 74, homemaker, of Andover, passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Private family services will be held in Beloit, Kan.
She is survived by: her husband, Noel; son, Anthony (Donna) Shurtz, Derby; daughters, Julie Shurtz, Augusta, Denise Dwyer, Frisco, Texas, and Carol McCormick, Greensville, Texas; 4 grandchildren.
Arrangements by Watson Funeral Home, Wichita.
Melvin Morrison
Melvin Morrison, 96, former Augusta resident, died on June 18, 2011, at the Washington Home and Community Hospices in Washington, D.C. His passing came after hospitalization for a short illness combined with a periprosthetic leg fracture. He had most recently been a resident of the Grand Oaks assisted living facility at Sibley Hospital in the District of Columbia.
He will be interred at Great Falls Cemetery, Great Falls, MT.
Mr. Morrison was a leader in the implementation, in the US and internationally, of modern oil refining production rector at the Augusta refinery and then Manager of Engineering at Mobil Oil’s largest refinery, in Beaumont, Texas. Mr. Morrison concluded his 43 year career with Mobil at Mobil International’s European headquarters in London, where, from 1971-1974 he was chief technical advisor for European refining operations (with plants in England, France, Germany and Italy) and then, at Mobil Oil’s (subsequently ExxonMobil’s) New York corporate headquarters from 1974-1979, as Senior Refining Technologist.
Melvin Morrison was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) in 1914.
He immigrated to the United States in 1922, where he and his mother joined his father, by then a Westinghouse employee, in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. Mel graduated from Turtle Creek High School, in Turtle Creek, Pa. in 1932, where, among other things, he was a promising amateur boxer. He regarded the biggest good fortune in his life, besides getting out of Russia, as the academic scholarship he received that allowed him to attend the Carnegie Institute of Technology. At Carnegie Tech, he was a standout student and, having been taught by his co-Catskill-Resort-summer-wait-staff buddies, became a good enough basketball player to be asked to join a Carnegie Tech fraternity to be on their intramural team. As an immigrant
tracted any takers, and the posting was found crumpled in a wastebasket.
While in Augusta, Mel was, among other things, a frequent bowler (when pins were still manually set and women were infrequently, if ever, allowed in the alley), an active Elks Club member, and a regular poker player. He was a great friend of the Augusta Gazette’s Bert Shore, who quoted him from time to time in her Half & Half column, particularly after an evening when Mel, his wife Kay, and Bert had shared a martini or two. He was among the founders in the early 1960’s of a science seminar for Augusta High School students. Mel and Kay (and later children Bart, Sue, and Kent) lived at various times on Clark Street, High Street, Kelley Avenue (then Kelly Road), and Sunset Drive in Augusta. In retirement from 1980-1993, he was on the board and a technical advisor to the Lost Creek Municipal Utilities District in a suburb of Austin, Texas. He also served on the governing board of his residence at Leisure World in Silver Spring, Maryland, to which he and Kay relocated in 1993. Mel was always an extremely hard worker but also an avid and lifelong golfer. He was generally known by his friends and throughout the international Mobil Oil community as “Socky” Morrison, a nickname received for York, NY, and New Fairfield, Conn.; and six grandchildren: Connor and Collin Morrison, Andy and Kimen Field, and William and Catherine Morrison.
In “Socky” Morrison’s memory, a needs-based scholarship fund for chemical engineering students has been established by the family. Contributions may be made to “The Melvin Morrison Memorial Fund” at: Carnegie Mellon University, PO Box 371525, Pittsburgh, PA 15251-7525.
Gary Doombos
Gary Robert Doombos, 69, of Leon, died Saturday July 9, 2011.
Services will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at the Leon United Methodist Church. Cremation will precede the service.
Survivors include: his wife, Linda; sons, Kelly and wife Kim of Decatur, ILL,, Robert (Sharon) of Medicine Lodge; daughter, Karen (Kevin) Eshel-man of Latham; mother, Margaret Doombos of El Dorado; brother, Dennis and wife Chris of Douglass; sister, Teresa and (Marc) Bachman of El Dorado; 10 grandchildren.
Memorials have been established with the National Rifle Association and the Butler County History Center.
Contributions may be left at Kirby-Morris Funeral Home, El Dorado.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page
Title
2011-07-07
2011-06-18
2011-07-09
Subject
Shurtz, Darlene
Morrison, Melvin
Doombos, Gary Robert
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2011-07-12
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
b17#045 2011
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2011-07-07,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/2258.Text
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Darlene Shurtz
Darlene Shurtz, 74, homemaker, of Andover, passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011.
Private family services will be held in Beloit, Kan.
She is survived by: her husband, Noel; son, Anthony (Donna) Shurtz, Derby; daughters, Julie Shurtz, Augusta, Denise Dwyer, Frisco, Texas, and Carol McCormick, Greensville, Texas; 4 grandchildren.
Arrangements by Watson Funeral Home, Wichita.
Melvin Morrison
Melvin Morrison, 96, former Augusta resident, died on June 18, 2011, at the Washington Home and Community Hospices in Washington, D.C. His passing came after hospitalization for a short illness combined with a periprosthetic leg fracture. He had most recently been a resident of the Grand Oaks assisted living facility at Sibley Hospital in the District of Columbia.
He will be interred at Great Falls Cemetery, Great Falls, MT.
Mr. Morrison was a leader in the implementation, in the US and internationally, of modern oil refining production rector at the Augusta refinery and then Manager of Engineering at Mobil Oil’s largest refinery, in Beaumont, Texas. Mr. Morrison concluded his 43 year career with Mobil at Mobil International’s European headquarters in London, where, from 1971-1974 he was chief technical advisor for European refining operations (with plants in England, France, Germany and Italy) and then, at Mobil Oil’s (subsequently ExxonMobil’s) New York corporate headquarters from 1974-1979, as Senior Refining Technologist.
Melvin Morrison was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) in 1914.
He immigrated to the United States in 1922, where he and his mother joined his father, by then a Westinghouse employee, in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. Mel graduated from Turtle Creek High School, in Turtle Creek, Pa. in 1932, where, among other things, he was a promising amateur boxer. He regarded the biggest good fortune in his life, besides getting out of Russia, as the academic scholarship he received that allowed him to attend the Carnegie Institute of Technology. At Carnegie Tech, he was a standout student and, having been taught by his co-Catskill-Resort-summer-wait-staff buddies, became a good enough basketball player to be asked to join a Carnegie Tech fraternity to be on their intramural team. As an immigrant
tracted any takers, and the posting was found crumpled in a wastebasket.
While in Augusta, Mel was, among other things, a frequent bowler (when pins were still manually set and women were infrequently, if ever, allowed in the alley), an active Elks Club member, and a regular poker player. He was a great friend of the Augusta Gazette’s Bert Shore, who quoted him from time to time in her Half & Half column, particularly after an evening when Mel, his wife Kay, and Bert had shared a martini or two. He was among the founders in the early 1960’s of a science seminar for Augusta High School students. Mel and Kay (and later children Bart, Sue, and Kent) lived at various times on Clark Street, High Street, Kelley Avenue (then Kelly Road), and Sunset Drive in Augusta. In retirement from 1980-1993, he was on the board and a technical advisor to the Lost Creek Municipal Utilities District in a suburb of Austin, Texas. He also served on the governing board of his residence at Leisure World in Silver Spring, Maryland, to which he and Kay relocated in 1993. Mel was always an extremely hard worker but also an avid and lifelong golfer. He was generally known by his friends and throughout the international Mobil Oil community as “Socky” Morrison, a nickname received for York, NY, and New Fairfield, Conn.; and six grandchildren: Connor and Collin Morrison, Andy and Kimen Field, and William and Catherine Morrison.
In “Socky” Morrison’s memory, a needs-based scholarship fund for chemical engineering students has been established by the family. Contributions may be made to “The Melvin Morrison Memorial Fund” at: Carnegie Mellon University, PO Box 371525, Pittsburgh, PA 15251-7525.
Gary Doombos
Gary Robert Doombos, 69, of Leon, died Saturday July 9, 2011.
Services will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at the Leon United Methodist Church. Cremation will precede the service.
Survivors include: his wife, Linda; sons, Kelly and wife Kim of Decatur, ILL,, Robert (Sharon) of Medicine Lodge; daughter, Karen (Kevin) Eshel-man of Latham; mother, Margaret Doombos of El Dorado; brother, Dennis and wife Chris of Douglass; sister, Teresa and (Marc) Bachman of El Dorado; 10 grandchildren.
Memorials have been established with the National Rifle Association and the Butler County History Center.
Contributions may be left at Kirby-Morris Funeral Home, El Dorado.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page