Alice Fay Roebuck Gentry
Tuesday, December 29, 1998
The Daily Ardmoreite - used with permission

DURANT - Alice Fay Roebuck Gentry, 51, passed away peacefully at Oak Ridge Manor Nursing Home in Durant Dec. 25, 1998. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Prater-Lampton-Mills and Coffey Funeral Home. A graveside prayer will follow at her final resting place in the Soper Cemetery.
    Alice was born Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1947, in Hugo at Johnson Hospital. Her parents are Melvin and the late Fay Roebuck, Soper. She attended high school in Soper and graduated in the spring of 1966. Dec. 7, 1966 she married David Lee Gentry, Hugo, in Durant. They later divorced in 1990. 
    Alice started college at Southeastern State University in the fall of 1966 and attended off and on through 1977 when she graduated with a major in business administration and a minor in math. While in school, she worked for the business office at the campus as well as J.C. Penney in the catalog department. She then moved to Hugo where she taught math at Soper High School for one year and at Ft. Towson High School for one semester.
Alice then went to work for the Hugo Daily News for two years before moving to Ponca City. While there she was employed by J.C. Penney in the catalog department for one year before she was hired at Conoco Oil Company as an accountant in the Off-Shore Natural Gas Department. She was there for 11 years before she took early retirement in 1993 to care for her mother in Soper. Upon her mother¹s death, she moved to Ardmore and went to work for Samedan Oil Company as an accountant. Alice worked there until she took medical retirement due to ill health in 1996. She had been at Oak Ridge Manor Nursing Home in Durant since August 1998.
    Alice was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Dick and Inez Roebuck; maternal grandparents, Mert and Elizabeth Claborn; and her mother Ina Fay "Granny" Roebuck.
    Alice is survived by her father Walter Melvin Roebuck, a sister Shirley Ann Moore, and husband Eddie, all of Soper; two sons, Christopher Todd Gentry and wife Sylvia, Ponca City, and Eric Lee Gentry and wife Laura, Durant. Alice has four grandchildren, Stephen Candrick, Christian Nathaniel, and Caleb Todd Gentry, Ponca City, and Emilee Breann Gentry, Durant. She is also survived by two nephews, Bill Roebuck and Anthony Dean Moore, Soper.
    The family would like to thank the staff at Oak Ridge Manor Nursing Home for all the care given to Alice to keep her comfortable in her final days. Also our gratitude goes out to Alliance Hospice in helping the family cope with the loss of our loved one. A special thanks goes out to Dr. Kurley, Dr. Bonnie Gearhart, and the staff at the Paris Cancer Center for all their hard work and guidance over the last two years. 
    Along with flowers or gifts, memorials may be sent to the home of Shirley Moore in Soper, which will be used to establish a scholarship fund in Alice¹s name for a graduating senior at Soper High School.
    The family will be receiving family and friends at the Moore's residence north of Soper. Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home will direct services.