If I had to pick a number, Id say maybe 20 or 30. He had an uncle, in Nowata that had a scrap yard. John Erling: Im sure you felt that feeling many, many times coming here. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.. Tonight He attended schools in Tulsa before settling with his family in Seminole while working in the oil business. And I hope that you will keep that in mind and that you will still do this work for me and help me be elected governor. Ive always remembered that because he was so right. MM: It would be thousands and thousands. JM: I was about six, I guess. Donaho, the reluctant attendee of the original meeting, still serves as executive director. Jasmine wanted to stay with me and I said, No, weve come all of this way and I want you to go. And so they went to the dedication and I was asleep or whatever, I cant say for sure. It truly wasnt. Everyone loved her. Two doors away, there was a man by the name of Joe Schneider. MM: In January 1986 the price of oil collapsed. No, they said someone had had a heart attack or a stroke. But I am hoping that youll agree with the overall body of my work. JM: Well we decided, you see everybody was home together and we noticed the need. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Jasmine Dolores Moran to pay them a last tribute. We can get all these visitors here and that would be great for the economy and all of that. I didnt even think about the fact that the Flint, Michigan is 20 times the size of Seminole. Somehow I got this big piece of furniture out of the trunk of my car and I started carrying it to the Kerr-McGee building. And they did. The community has been wonderful to us and so we want to give back and the Childrens Museum is just one of those ways that we hope we are giving back. JM: Then Molly and David helped us a great deal and also Robert Henry. me think well maybe I have some talent along that line. MM: He changed Meer to Meyer by adding a y between the two es. We went to a number of individuals and corporations and foundations and we raised that amount of money. And so I did my usual thing and then a few days later, it was time to collect. She didnt know where to go. Mickey Edwards at the time was not as appreciative of this free trip that he had as I thought he should have been. 1, 2023: Richard Strong Knapp died peacefully on February 26, 2023, at the age of 89. We had this blind date and as Jasmine will tell you, Jasmine thought it was awful and I thought it was wonderful. Now the main campus of Ben-Gurion University is in Beersheba, in southern Israel. I just didnt realize how Ive behaved and Im just so very sorry. I said. Ive done everything I can and shes not coming back. The person that I first asked said, What in the devil is that? I said, You cook with it. And he said, Ive never heard of it before. (Laughter) Anyway we got that straightened out and I managed to buy some. So we had the money for the healthcare exhibit, but we still had to build the wing. And I would lay it out on the lawn and give another section to another person. JM: No, we were in a very bad area so I was one of the ones forced to go in the evacuation. The family of Jasmine Dolores Moran created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories. I think it was pretty much all over the state. This was during the presidential election when senator Al Gore was running for president. Its been too long ago55 or 56 years. He was a publisher of a newspaper. And so he actually, while he was living, ran the supply business, and I pretty much took care of the oil part of it. He said, Oh, new blood. JE: Tell us what he was doing. So once we discovered that I had a singing voice, which, I have to go back a little bit. Dive deeper into Oklahoma history by learning from the voices of the Oklahomans who lived it. That enraged my mother. up the correct corruption and some really bad things that were going on. As a matter of fact, I heard it on the radio. So, Dad went to high school and learned English in Nowata high school. Years later on a family trip with her grandchildren to Flint, Michigan, Moran and her family stumbled upon a small museum dedicated to children. JE: Even though oil had been discovered in Oklahoma, certainly in various parts of our state going back I think in 1902despite all those other very famous oil wells in Glenpool and Tulsa, this area was producing more oil? So she could do very little about it, except express the fact that she thought this was absolutely ridiculous to go on a blind date. Lillian held the Scottish dancing championship for several years in a row, and her three daughters inherited talent. I had missed a neon sign that said Gentlemen. Melvin Moran: We were married in Tulsa at Bnai Emunah Synagogue. And they sort of froze, including the desk clerk and everybody. The first house that I remember living in was in Maud, Oklahoma. So I thought, well Melvin was late. The most recent obituary and service information is available at the Fitzgerald Funeral Service Southwood Colonial Chapel - Tulsa website. You know we keep hoping that some day, there will be peace. Theres a wonderful facility here in Seminole known as the Jasmine Moran Museum. And so I didnt use the words saucepans, which would have also been odd. See our party services Get Directions We took this robot around with us to advertise the museum. Why did the headlights have to remain on low beam? You know, it was a really wonderful place. I wrote for the school paper there as well. JE: Also back then you were impressed with a young state representative named David Boren? The other possibility is that number one the doctor gave me some pills or a shot, I dont recall which one and it could be that the medication suddenly cured me. It was making about 5,000 barrels a day and wells from this formation came in and many of them were flowing wells, (producing) 5,000 or 10,000 barrels a day. Then we moved to Seminole when I was four or five years old to a house on Wilson Street. He went to Stanford University and then became a lawyer. It was a little wooden frame house. JM: I apologize for being late. I was in one show called Excitement, which was a variety show. She was building her little business for herself in the video production company in Indiana. Mel Myers Announcer, Honest Media We have wonderful people here, not only in higher places but in lower places too. Our family has all played on it and pretended that theyre driving in it and theyve done everything to it. And of course I dont kid myself that they really needed me for advice, but I was very honored to go. She grew up near London during World War II, living through the Blitz, where Germany bombed England 71 times in 267 days. Loving husband, father, grandad and friend. My mother decided that since we did not know at the time when I was a child that I was dyslexic. The rabbi there, his name was Arthur Kahn. JE: What synagogue were you attending at that time? So I did. The Italia? Until one day I remember he had a bottle of, Dr. Pepper extract and he dropped it and splattered all over in the drugstore and the drugstore had that Dr. Pepper smell for weeks after that, and then I didnt seem so bad. The third time was to meet with the First Lady and it had to do with her healthcare plan. I had never seen such a large piece of meat in my life because rationing in England at that time was 2oz of meat per person per week. But my mothers parents spent the rest of their lives in the grocery store and the sisters all worked in the store until eventually they got married. Messages run for up to one year and you I remember in the Tulsa World there was a very large headline: Tulsa Boy, 14, Gets Draw With Einstein. As a teenager he enjoyed hiking trips in the Lake District and Scotland and soon became a skilled rock climber. Jasmine Moran Children's Museum 1714 Oklahoma 9 West, Seminole This children's museum in Seminole has 42,000 square feet of indoor space and a large outdoor play area that includes a riding. That very first time we went we noticed this feeling of weve got to get together and stay together in order to make this work. JM: Im over it. Of course, Horace Mann is no longer there. Gwilym C Price Son & Daughters Funeral Directors in Lampeter Every month we would collect money for the paper. So we needed something visual. And I thought this was not the way that he was described to me under any circumstances. of 12 it is a little difficult. My youngest sister, as it turned out later, after I did, married a Lutheran, a German. I dont know why we did that. Sorry, but I have got to say it as it was. They were going back home to be with their children in their apartment in London. It was a dangerous thing to leave lights on because you gave yourself (away) as a target. Apparently the land was not good there. I barely got it in the trunk of my car. To send flowers MM: Well, here in Seminole we didnt have buses. But we were about nine days I believe on the ocean and I arrived having lost 9 pounds onboard the ship. I would like to think that my personality approaches hers at least in some respect. The 15th one, the schoolteacher, had no intention of coming. You can sit in the foyer while I go upstairs to change clothes. So the man and the woman bid, me adieu, they were going home and they were married couple and they were friends of Mels. It was getting to be the end of grasshopper season, and I thought it would have a better chance of survival if I took it outside. It was during this time, the early 1950s, that she met the American Air Force Lieutenant she would marry. In fact the very first show he made was From Russia With Love. So we feel very blessed that we can all get along with each other. He wasnt even an American, he was a Brit posing as an American and he was the head of a really large car theft ring that would meet Americans and steal their cars. They were adamantly trying to get into London to smack London to pieces because that was the way they were going to arrive and make England theirs. All the way up in the elevator I have this big piece of furniture with me. I read that Senator Mike Monroney from Oklahoma was denouncing Senator McCarthy on the floor of the Senate for what he was doing. MM: She took my two videos together, the one I took and Flint and the one I took in Denver and she composed a video for it. I mean she was very gentle, but its just that she hated discrimination so much. MM: We were sitting in a car as I recall. I was very honored to do that. Kerr-McGee had some functions and we took the robot to their functions. in, Hornchurch you didnt have a lot of headlights on. Meanwhile, this was a busy and fairly booming area. Mark DeMoss Webmaster He had an apartment with two extra beds and so those two officers stayed with him and I would stay at the American Officers Club, which was called Winfield House and was formerly owned by Doris Duke. So as soon as Melvin started up the stairs to go to his room and get dressed, I headed for the telephone. You were on a grand jury. When there was a pause in the conversation I got my camera out and I focused on her and she posed and I clicked and there was nothing because the battery had gone dead. Melvin had arranged for mewe had a very dear man who was Jewish, he was a cantor actually and a rabbi, but his actual work was cantorial singing and he was quite prominent in his synagogue in London. And Melvin had to come back to meet me. That was in August 1988. (Laughter). We would like to offer our sincere support to anyone coping with grief. And then there was a little tiny stream that ran between two of his fields and he put a little bridge across it. We're the perfect spot for your birthday party, school group, or adult group. Theres a lot of work to it, but we are never short of people. We discovered that the museum in Flint that got me excited was the least elaborate of the ones that we saw after that. The Rotarians were marvelous. It was in the middle of the hotel and everybody was listening including the old lady who was our leader and our guide. He was very skinny as a matter of fact and had one of the hairiest chests I believe I have ever seen. My mother was a marvelous cook and she could cook anything. But anyway, it is now the Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum. She is a wonderful lady and of course education is her field too. JE: Your brother Sidney was two years younger than you? So, I would do anything I had to do in the kitchen very quickly and very early in the morning and then spend the rest of the day in the living room because I couldnt come out of there it was so hot. He was certainly not credit worthy, but they loaned him $1,000. But somehow the company was able to see it through and you didnt have to lay anybody off. Usually things are named for you after youre gone, not while you are here. JM: We asked what we had to do. So the next day I got out of journalism school and went into business school. I am not sure how many terms he served, but it seems like maybe he served three terms but I am not sure. And both of us had walked home. But I treasure my trips to the White House. Or if you were a doctor and had to make other calls, you got a higher allotment of gasoline. In fact I dont think it really was. We ended up indicting a number of people and a number of officeholders. So Moran Pipe and Supply had a group of wells, and my father had started Moran Oil Company, so he had a group of wells. So I bought a TV VCR combination and a console, you know. Mel Myers Audio Editor JE: But I am sure you are over it by now? MM: We moved to Tulsa in January 1941. So mother had had a hard time with us all. And then I attended kindergarten in Seminole up through the first half of the seventh grade in Seminole schools. So weve been great friends ever since and Robert has been on the board almost from. The other two officers in my squadron whom I lived with, one weekend they had gone to London and they came back and said they had a wonderful weekend. It just wouldnt hold but it was dragging, so it. One of her first projects was the organization and founding of the Seminole Humane Society. His last time to run when I was his Seminole County Campaign Chair, I was pleased that he carried Seminole County, but he lost to Henry Bellmon. Jasmine Moran's passing at the age of 87 on Saturday, March 5, 2022 has been publicly announced by Fitzgerald Funeral Service Southwood Colonial Chapel - Tulsa in Tulsa, OK. Legacy invites you to offer condolences and share memories of Jasmine in the Guest Book below. My mother had told her that she had planned to name her daughter Jeannie, but my fathers sister who was still in Europe, died in Europe and her name was Ethel. She came from a long line of strong women who had endured struggles. If youre in charge of handling the affairs for a recently deceased loved one, this guide offers a helpful checklist. (Laughter). I had gone day after day seeing him be so arrogantly rude and ignorant of his own behavior and what it was reflecting on our government. JM: Very much so. And then he left. Senator Gore said he asked General Stilwell, What kind of casualties do you expect? And General Stilwell said, We expect to lose 500,000 men. We went to some secret bases and then we met Shimon Peres in his office, and we met Yitzhack Rabin in his office, and we met the main officials of Israel. He took the three senators to his office and on the wall of his office were maps. So I thought one day, I wouldnt have to make so many milkshakes if I got rid of the milk. We knew we would need volunteers but none of us had any experience or knew what to. People were just scrambling and trying to get through the debris with their fingers and their hands while. I told them about our experience in Flint, and said to them, Why dont we do something like this here in Seminole? One time had to do with President Clinton and a program that he was promoting. He would go to various oil companies and buy scrap from them that they didnt use anymore from the various oil wells. Like the true faerie people of the old country, Jasmine continues to do just that. JE: Then the conversion was officially made? But Ive never forgiven Melvin quite for the name. O Oscar and Shirley Jackson March 7, 2022 We are deeply saddened to learn that Jasmine Moran has passed. Then, when it hit the concrete, it would explode. JM: Of course it was filthy on the inside and it really needed cleaning and to be gutted. They were very lucky to get turkey and anything else that was edible. In Oklahoma CityIntegris, OU Medical Center, St. Anthonys, Mercy, and then Saint Francis in Tulsa, those are five of Oklahomas biggest and most major hospitals. Out in the middle of the desert whenever they would see a young man standing there in a uniform, they would stop and pick up the young man and take him on with them. I did some dating, and dated a number of English girls. So, it was not a good place to send children. So we went to Denver and we took a video of that one. MM: I did, it was in 1952. MM: Well, I thought it was wonderful. There were wonderful, wonderful donors and sponsors. I was living in a place called Harraton House in Exning, which is a suburb of Newmarket. MM: My mothers maiden name was Elsie Fine. I did that while I was in London. And of course they are interested in their security, as we would be. There is no dishwasher or anything. They didnt know what it was but someone had been taken out on a stretcher but they had no idea whom the person was. Not only do the Rotarians give up their Christmas Day, we have 20 volunteers from the community. MM: They did. And I sold out the milk really quickly. (Laughter) But I am certain that the reason that I was invited is that I had a good relationship with then Senator David Boren. Four persons linked to this address. We bumbled around so badly that I was getting pretty seasick too. She graduated from St. Joseph, Missouri high school. And so, this is inbred in you. JE: So the two of you were getting along fine and then tell us about when you asked her to marry you? Basically, for every barrel of oil we sold we lost money. But, I translate it as youre supposed to help people every day that you can. MM: I did. MM: Right. JE: Hello! JE: Is it while you were there with the Air Force in England that you actually made your first visit to Israel? He said, I helped get the money. I had won my game and several people were challenging me and I had won several times. Exactly. He was. And this particular night I was collecting and this one person said, Please dont give half of my paper to my neighbor. I wasnt a very good athlete. We wanted new things that would advance and stimulate their brain, and thats how it started.. Jasmine Moran: Going back though, he skipped several things. Moran attended the first audition without her agent, and out of the 240 girls auditioning, she got the call back for a second all-day audition. Obituary for Jasmine Dolores Moran. We hope and pray that they are going to be okay. There is not room on the base for officers to live, so we had to find our own lodging anywhere we could. Her most notable performances were in Rodgers and Hammersteins production of South Pacific.. She said, Melvin, if you follow. Her mother, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother and earned her place in the world by mastering Scottish dance. A graveside service will be held on Tuesday in Tulsa. While I was in college, I went into ROTC. My mother was very broad-minded. JM: I was born in 1934, so that should tell you. Combien gagne t il d argent ? 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