(Laughter) So I thought this cannot be. Sean Connery was a very, very nice man.. MM: We moved to Tulsa in January 1941. I remember being introduced to him by Senator Sam NunnI followed Senator Howard Baker. It as a VIP kind of trip, we visited all of the historic places. Jasmine still had a contract to fulfill in the show South Pacific. The nearest place I could park to the downtown Kerr-McGee headquarters building was two blocks away. They are just like a dot in a sea of countries that are not so friendly to them. Then about two days, out, it was like a cork in the ocean. Five years later in 1937 my sister Ethel was born. black river falls newspaper obituaries. All are invited to Jasmine Morans Celebration of Life on Wednesday, March 9th at 4 PM at the Kelly Haney Center at Seminole State College, 35390 Highway 9, Seminole, OK 74868. In those days I played table tennis pretty well. They would burn through the second story if they didnt meet anything solid. He was the first one. When the price collapsed it got as low as $9/barrel. JE: Kim Henry has been very helpful to you. MM: And then he went to the Holocaust Museum there. None of that, however, helped Melvin when the crisis of his life left him alone and near death in a Jerusalem hotel room. us the $200,000. And we were all very close friends and one of them is deceased now, but the rest of us still remain good friends. Being English and coming from a cold climate, I was told that my blood was like that of an Eskimo. And we were really struggling during the war years. So we try to do that and try to teach our children that. Find, listen, and learn from the lived experiences and incredible legacies of influential Oklahomans. Dies geschieht in Ihren Datenschutzeinstellungen. Allison and Julie were ages five and seven. Ricardo Monzon Moran | 1928 - 2022 | Obituary. You know we keep hoping that some day, there will be peace. Both families were kosher and all of that. The Jasmine Moran family thanks all for your outpouring of love for a one-of-a-kind woman who will live in our hearts forever. She had gone to one of my earlier theatrical schools and I knew her then. They had a table tennis table next to the swimming pool. She served as Seminoles First Lady, when her husband was elected mayor. MM: There was. I did. But there, you are talking about 1,000 or 2,000 years old. Thats mainly the money we use to go ahead and do the dinner. . Every day going to school you saw the results of the bombings that had been happening during the night and the early mornings. JM: No, we were in a very bad area so I was one of the ones forced to go in the evacuation. The University of Missouri was known for its Journalism School. Correct and the reason we sold, frankly, was because business was so good. So a few years later, a city councilmans seat for our district in the city opened up. My part in that was I was Jasmines chauffeur (Laughter) I took her to all of the rehearsals and as a result I got acquainted with the cast. Melvin was an oilman, and Seminole was such a pretty little town. I was born in 1930. Douglas Miller Art Director JE: But it wasnt your husband. So we got a group of volunteers in there with brooms and mops and buckets and everything else and cleaned it all up. Did you see movies? I really did. My oldest sister had ended up marrying a Roman Catholic and who renounced Catholicism for her. We found the robot in Dallas and the robot was. Thats what I love about her and her family. know exposed, because I was wearing my black suit with a red rose in my lapel. They were told that somebody had been taken out on a stretcher or something like that and taken to the hospital and they were scared to death. And do you know that night, he had walked around all day apparently all on his own and he came back and he said to me, What you told me really was a rude awakening. We wanted new things that would advance and stimulate their brain, and thats how it started.. You were socially active there? But, she always smiled and took care of them graciously. Most everything was rationed, gasoline especially, but sugar and meat. I went to grade school here. I had been in the hospital with pneumonia and my mother had lost another child younger than myself in the hospital with pneumonia, so. JE: And thats driven you to this very day? The morning of the event, we were in Jerusalem and I woke up and I felt really sick and I was sweating and it was awful. John Erling: So are we talking about the late 50s? And for the number of square feet that we needed it was going to be a floor and a half. She is a woman of resolve and a very strong advocate for children and animal rights.. Morans beloved and adopted home of Seminole was struggling in the wake of the oil bust. In the past several years, Jasmine initiated Seminoles animal control program, hiring and paying the officer out of her own pocket to make sure her philosophy extended to all lost, strayed and abandoned animals citywide. She was apparently doing exactly the same thing. Working with volunteers and donors in Seminole and all over the country, they succeeded in bringing a first-class childrens museum to their hometown. Right. Just like you cannot leave an American car on with the lights on all night the battery would die, so that was my situation. Text size. When you are a personal friend of David Boren, things happen. And my dad was very determined that I would have a Bar Mitzvah and that it would be a proper one. Be didnt have a chance to stop anywhere because he was already late. It was like being in something really peculiar, everybody was looking at me. MM: Now we serve 700 people every Christmas Day and I am proud of Seminole Rotarians because they give up their Christmas Day to serve dinner to 700 people. 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. We were just barely making a living. JE: Tell us where we are recording this interview. You were on a grand jury. OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma lost one of our adopted treasures over the weekend with the death of Jasmine Moran of Seminole, following a lengthy battle with illness. MM: He was accusing everyone of being a communist and he was doing it for his own political gain. Another time it had to do with economics and tax rates. He did not have money for the truck and a place to live, so for some period of time he lived in his. And I sold out the milk really quickly. But just to be more charitable than ever and to really try and help people more than ever before. JE: All right, so lets pick up from your side here Jasmine. He said, We will be invading Japan. These are the points that we are going to land to invade Japan. In this interview, Jasmine will tell you about her walk to elementary school while German bombs were falling during World War II. That enraged my mother. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jasmine Dolores Moran (Seminole, Oklahoma), who passed away on March 5, 2022, at the age of 87, leaving to mourn family and friends. This well was located about halfway between Maud, Oklahoma and St. Louis, Oklahoma. I am not sure how many terms he served, but it seems like maybe he served three terms but I am not sure. When she landed in New York it was important to my family that she already be officially converted to Judaism before we were married. Arthur W. Moran Jr., son of the late Arthur W. Moran Sr. & Emily L. Moran was born August 14, 1942 in New Orleans, LA and departed this life on March 26 . Especially when you consider the fact that today the average oil well in Oklahoma only makes about two barrels a day. MM: I worked at a drugstore at 18th and Cincinnati. The three of us along with another young man who lived one block away in the same grade as Joe and Donna, his name was Robert Hammons, also a Seminole high school debater. He lived through more than one Depression and rose to the top through the economic highs and lows of the last 80 years, filling his life with humor and fun along the way. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri to European Jews, Melvin Moran grew up in Oklahoma. She was raising three children during the actual bombing. Seminole County Publishing Copyright 2023. And then suddenly a grand jury was called and by the luck of the draw my name was one of the 24 names called. He later became a lawyer and he founded one of the largest Oklahoma City law firms. My father operated the company from the Tulsa office. Food has always been a go-to for people in mourning. On the face of that, it doesnt sound like, oh I can get really excited about it. Through those experiences I met a lot of people who were political and then over the years I have either been County Chair, State Chair or State Co-Chair probably for 7 or. Well, he bought a well called the WC Davis in 1937. Ive always made it a point to leave kindness behind. Mon 24 Apr 2017 12.21 EDT. He has a foundation, and he came down with all of his trustees. (Laughter) And she put them together and she composed theme song for us, and her children sang the theme song. I found when I first arrivedIll be very honest with you my awful thoughts weregood heavens Ive died and gone to the bowels of the Earth. MM: Frenetic, crazies, I think. (Laughter). JE: But what an impact that had to have on your young life? So we ended up going to church very sparcely. There were very few in the country and most, probably not one out of 1,000 Oklahomans had ever heard of a childrens museum, much less seen one. And this happen quite often, so I didnt want to get a kick. MM: This would be Jasmine, and this would be John. (Laughter). We invited either moms or educators, and we invited 15 to the meeting. It wasnt an easy time for us. We are all like diamonds, she said. I mean the score was 21-2 or 21-3 or something, and he just really killed me. It was just a few blocks away. Well, yes and no, because Im a mad animal lover from the get-go. 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. By this time I was 11 years old. Jasmine fell in love, but she wasnt sure if she loved Melvin enough to change her entire life and move to America. JE: The lights were left on so other cars wouldnt run into them? So, when there were trials for some of these people, I was one of the people that they called upon to testify. If you could make it to the little bridge over the stream, there were bushes you could hide in. I attended the speech made by a woman and visited with her afterward and I started corresponding with her. A passenger in Booth's vehicle, 21 year-old Jasmine Morgan of Greenville, was flown to University of Louisville Hospital with life threatening injuries. And in England if something is maybe 200 years old, thats pretty old. JM: No, she didnt. In the years to follow, the board of the museum would acquire a little old building that was used to repair big oilfield vehicles. JE: When he first came here to the United States, what city did he go to? MM: She had a huge influence on my life. Also provides pro bono legal assistance (estate planning and criminal injuries compensation). And anyone who could fly anything was brought to Hornchurch to fly it, and to try and protect London from the German Luftwaffe. One time had to do with President Clinton and a program that he was promoting. I mean Id hearhave you ever heard a bullet hit the dirt? The bank was trying to find a buyer for it. MM: Yes and then after we were married, we went on the honeymoon in California and came back to Seminole. Everything was rationed. (Laughter). He couldnt sing at all. In our house, we were not very well to do. Everyone loved her. MM: They did. JE: Your brother Sidney was two years younger than you? My two dogs decided that one was going out and the other one wouldnt go. I well remember that the first time I had gone to meet the President, Jasmine says, Wheres your camera? and I said, This is an economic discussion, that would not be appropriate. I didnt take a camera and I was the only one there who didnt. "Melvin & Jasmine Moran: Founders of Childrens Museum" Interview by John Erling. JE: Did you get any of your kosher meat from a butcher shop in Tulsa? Its easy for us to say give up this and give up that. Because, they paid you by the number of, papers you delivered. Marilyn, our daughter, was also working on the video production company. The rabbi there, his name was Arthur Kahn. Moran was chosen to play Ensign Pamela Whitmore. We have family living in Israel and they were all there. Need help? Or, there was this big field that this farmer had, and he had been trying to grow crops in it but they were not very successful. And she thought to herself something is bound to be better than this at the luncheon. So what they decided to do was to break you up into small groups. So we borrowed money to make payroll and we kept going. You got into politics back in the 1950s and early 1960s, among other things known as the McCarthy Era. Our goal was to duplicate this very small museum in Flint, Michigan. You have funeral questions, we have answers. JE: But it was near you? All are invited to Jasmine Morans Celebration of Life on Wednesday, March 9th at 4 PM at the Kelly Haney Center at Seminole State College, 35390 Highway 9, Seminole, OK 74868. My mother decided that since we did not know at the time when I was a child that I was dyslexic. And then I attended kindergarten in Seminole up through the first half of the seventh grade in Seminole schools. If youre in charge of handling the affairs for a recently deceased loved one, this guide offers a helpful checklist. Newmarket is a big racing community in England. Exactly. He was a chorus boy in the show and he had never done anything in his life and he was a chorus boy. Not only do the Rotarians give up their Christmas Day, we have 20 volunteers from the community. 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. My salary was, $12 a week, and that was before the deduction for Social Security. I mean it was so big that you couldnt close the trunk at all. For me it was like a Forrest Gump type of moment. He sent her the money to come over and that was during the time that World War II broke out. I mean even today there are 90,000 producing oil wells in the state and probably 10,000 or 15,000 gas wells. And I looked especially bad because the one young man that worked beside me he was very efficient. MM: Our oldest daughter is Marilyn. This thing was barely seaworthy. JE: I mean he didnt buy it for the oil, he bought it for the equipment and it turned out to produce oil? This was an atomic area originally. Finally Mr. Paige offered me a longer lunch hour. She saw once that the husband of her friend would die in a short period of time, Moran said. Meanwhile, this was a busy and fairly booming area. Melvin Moran: Another one of the nurses in that show was another young woman that Jasmine went to school with and her name was Millicent Martin. She was one of seven children. Because I had the experience, the years of experience as a soda jerk, I was able to get a job at $20 a, week. Over the years we had a lot of soldiers stay with us. To send flowers JM: Yes, I pronounced it differently. Fourteen of the 15 people were friends of mine and when they got my letter they decided they would come. Anthony Hayward. But because of the depression of the oil price, this company was going broke. 8 or 10 different candidates who were running for U.S. JM: No, actually when you went downstairs was when we were arriving back at the hotel. It was a two-week trip. When I got up I was absolutely covered in oil. melmyershonestmedia@cox.net, Mllerhaus Legacy Website Team She graduated from St. Joseph, Missouri high school. Mike Monroney ran for senator? Located in Seminole, OK, we are just east of Oklahoma City at 1714 Wrangler Boulevard. I guess I was kind of a mercenary, but it was a good choice. So we grew vegetables and what fruit we could at home. I was born September 18th, 1930. And even with them, I thought if I tell them that we want to do a big project I thought that nobody would come, so I just didnt give any hint as to what to lunch with about. And learned a little bit about the scrap business and then decided to set out on his own. I despise cruelty. And when we moved to Tulsa, so we bought the meat from there. The extracurricular activity that I hadI wrote for the school newspaper. But while I was a sophomore and taking some of my pre-journalism courses, one day a teacher said, Today a beginning writer can probably start at about $25 a week. And I thought there must be something better than that. I fell and banged up my face. (Laughter) So thats the explanation. JE: So by the time that you came to the United States then you had been schooled in Judaism? 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. Moran may be many things in America, but above all she was a girl who chose her own path and forced success to find her despite poverty, challenges and war. MM: At that time in Seminole, maybe four or five in the community. Her brother said, no, that was not accurate she was born in Latvia. Dad bought it simply for the purpose of salvaging out the equipment. They were called incendiary bombs. Now I delivered papers for years and I remember whenever we would go a week withoutthey called it a kick which meant complaint. So then I thought well if its him, he would definitely approach me, but if its not, then I am all right. A lot of people wore black in those days. Do you want to comment on that? My video was so bad and so amateur, that she had some little four and five year old kids with a camera shooting pictures because she said that the video I took was like a four- or five-year-old would take. About. So he finally put a pathway across there. Going into that time, and this is a Chamber of Commerce count so it might be exaggerated a little bit, but we had 200 oil-related companies. These were rubbers that were made out of inner tubes from tires and (stretched) over sticks, and you let them go and they sting a little bit when they hit you. 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. Can you tell us that story? He lived in Holdenville. She was the loving mother of Lesley Moran of Guelph, Stephen Moran of Mississauga, Kathryn . However, I had aunts and uncles in other places that were, but I was not. However, I didnt see the bombing there as badly as of course I had seen it in London. We worked seven days a week eight hours a day, and worked until 11 oclock at night. Fr nhere Informationen zur Nutzung Ihrer Daten lesen Sie bitte unsere Datenschutzerklrung und Cookie-Richtlinie. And she said, Oh no. A Memorial Mass will be held at Holy Family Church, Nutley, N.J., on. We ran into a hurricane, at sea, it was the wrong time of year to come across the ocean. Yes, Jasmine Moran, Seminoles 2008 Citizen of the Year, has made her mark on Oklahoma and the states families. Well, Mel had a small car, which did not have a large motor. But, after my sister Ethel became an adult, she changed her name back to Jeannie, which was the original name that was planned for her. 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