Jim Bohnsack Room Dedication Ceremony 8-1-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
His family, he loved his friends, he loved his customers.
I don't know if you love the bank every day,
but he loved the associates at the bank every day
and just sitting in long committee and Jim just makes
me laugh. Loved as sooners, which there are not many
of those around here in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jim and I always had their backs. But anyways, it
was it's just it's just fitting. I remember the story
and it was told to me that the Roddy Forum
was at the Downtown branch, and Donnie's story had told
Jim either it gets people going to it or gets.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Gone do it or kill it.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's exactly so here we are. Jim did it, left
it in great hands for Earl. But this is a
very special group of very special things. I can tell
you other Margins within our best have attempted to do
this and they have all failed. That's how that's how
special Jim. So he means a lot to me. I

(01:02):
know he needs a lot of the people are covered
and speak and all of you that are here because
of the love that you have for Jim.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
So right now I want to dedicate the flack to
uh Denise, Brian and Ferry. Come on, come on up,
and then I'll let you sit down and have you
say some words at the dirty game if you real mind.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh that's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
What this says that the Jim Bonzac group will be
when you leave. Jim Bonzac was a trusted voice in
Barsville and at the Harvest Frodday's Financial Forum, where he
fostered financial insight, community involvement, and friendship. His steady presence,
deep faith and love for his family continues to inspire
countless others. August first, twenty twenty five. So what you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
See, I can tell him what.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
To do every that you hear from you guys who
you know?

Speaker 7 (02:11):
Uh now, when I put this all together, ranted by
the nies that she said I like to blow of
this and so on.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
But I could have asked you, cause I just scanned
this room. I could ask several.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
But I spose you take three people that rot him
true well captured jump in Jim's life, those a little
bit about it, childhood friend and uh hollered it. Not
a colleague rooms someone that flop the world where we'll
I'll make those colleagues.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I introduce him. But again, so well, don't be offended.
I wish he would ask me because we all have
a story.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
In fact, I wanted I had to add to this
that you made the comment that Lad, I kind of
tell you I could. It's not several stories. I could
tell you a hundreds of stories that the idea him together.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
But one thing I wanna talk about.

Speaker 7 (02:58):
Is not not a story, just how we would get
to laughing, the two of us to a just literally
both of us tear up.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
We'd laughed a hard in regards to just laughing. He
j he just he was contagious.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
You can tell him the story and getting to laughed
and he did that was just oh thatsh grade. So
at this time, my first speaker, I want us to
talk about the memory Jim Bonzack. He's a mere dear
friend of mine his and and offered many of you
in this room, who's our state representant?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh John b came, represent came and you just come out.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Thank you early. It really is a honor.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Like like Earl said, many of us here, all of
us were close to Jim Bonzac.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's just who he was.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
I happened to meet Jim Bonzack in seventh grade science class.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, we both ended up at uh Is.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
He liked to call it the Central Junior Highe and Slasher,
and I'm sure I mean he he had I laughed
and we cried. He would tell Central Junior hide jokes
and they were all based in truth, because it was
until Earl came and rescued m from where it was.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
It was.

Speaker 10 (04:11):
It was a rough place to go to school and
this and Jim was Jim, you know, when he was
twelve years old, just as he was later in life
that he he was so quick with and you know,
I was filling.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I was getting fights every day because I didn't know
what to do.

Speaker 11 (04:24):
Jim just disarmed everybody with humor, everybody with.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
His w and he never had to get in a fight.
So I thought he was a lot. He was a
lot of sport than I was about that. But he
he's he just never changed.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And his love for Bartlesville was just beyond and he
and his love was acting.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
He turned it into action. You know a lot of us,
a lot of us love Bartlesville.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
A lot of us don't do as many things, you know,
tangible things for the good of the tak you know,
I remember when he wanted it to put makes he
wanted to get internet, free internet and all and downtown
the internet was first coming up, and I got he
went to work on it, made it happen. He he
just always had those kind of ideas.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That he followed through. You know, I and you know Denise.
I remember when you all left township briefly?

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Was that in the nineties, when'd you leave late nineties.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Late nineties? Yeah, and there was a hole.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, there was a hole when the Bonsacks didn't leave her.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. I felt it, and I think many others felt it.
But I know one person that felt it, and that
was Donny Story. And Donny's story wasn't gonna let that stand.
And he reached out and took all of our benefit.
He got the Bonsack family back to Barbinsville and all
the things that we all know and love about Jim.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
We got the experience every day.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
And you know, when I I was telling Brian and
Barry and Denise, when they're in town, it feels.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Like a holiday thing.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
And I know because of Jim, they have the same
feelings of Martinsville that Jim had.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Because of Jim and Denis, but to have.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Them here, Ikay always have a home, always at place
here in Barbinsville, O Bahoma.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
And I'm just grateful for my friendship. Has all this
are with Jim Bobzack. Thank you, John, Thank you very.

Speaker 9 (06:08):
Alright.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
John Bay's probably gonna be bad at me, but I
don't care. I love him.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
He Jim Bonzac is the only one still adult doesn't
call him Johnny, and his mother, his mother, Missus King
calls him Johnny.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
And his wife calls him Johnny or wasn't well.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
But Jim Bossacks the only adult still that I knew
that was still call him Johnny.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I just love to make that did see Johnny yet?

Speaker 7 (06:33):
Enough set on that alright, my next speaker to represent
this great individuals and uh just a killer bark he
Uh Bill Buckles, would you please give up? Please give
Bill Buckles pots.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm looking around and see if I see it's some
OU shirts. There was no bigger fan of OU than
Jim Monzac cast for sure. You know we used to
go over there. He'd show me as a election of
oh you memorabilia phenomenally. Jim and I got to be
friends way back in the Chamber deal when he was
President of the Chamber. We did back. We did some

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programs right in this room where he had a you know,
a lunch lunch a deal for the merchants in town,
and we would talk to them about marketing, et cetera.
But Jim and I got along so dog on well,
mainly because of his sense of humor, and we were
both a little on the off the bubble kind of
because I understood him and he understood me. And that

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was a great thing.

Speaker 9 (07:34):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
We had Oh, we had one more time. But I
just want to tell you there's people in here in
this room that have this. This is a project that
Jim and I worked on, and it all started because
I would send him stuff. He would call me, Hey,
I want to try something out on you. He knew
I was kind of in a creative business most of

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my professional life, and it was fun. We would we
exchange ideas. Never did I change hardly anything that he
did because it was great. He did some super stuff.
I told Earl, I was gonna read this book to you.
Is that okay? I wanted to show you the cover.

(08:16):
See the kind of things he liked was. I'm sitting
by my window, but I can't see through the pain,
you know, He loved those kinds of things. You know,
there's all kinds of Jim Bonzac. There was one this morning.
I was telling Denise about the prisoner escaped here in
Oklahoma and they said, look for a man with a
lot of tattoos. Jim would have loved that because he said, okay,

(08:38):
look for a man with a beard. You know, I mean,
everybody's got a lot of tattoos anymore, so that pretty hard.
He would have gotten a kick out of that. Jim
and I worked on this project. He is an amazing
fact that I wanted to tell everybody was he said,
my biggest fear it he did these things these titties

(09:00):
did He's on his phone. I thought he was doing
him on a computer. Nope, he did him on the phone,
one letter at a time. Couldn't believe that. And he said,
my biggest fear is he liked to see you. This
is when he was in the pool. He said, I'm
gonna forget going to pool on my phone. I'm going

(09:21):
to lose these And I said, well, listen, tell me
what you send them to me, text them, I will
convert them. And I'm thinking eight ten. Well, when we
got to sixty, I said, then we got to do
something with this. Talk to my friend Jerry Poppenhaus. You remember,
it was a real supporter of this group too, and Jerry.

(09:45):
It was a blessing for Jerry too. He his wife
had Alzheimer's and he was stuck at home. He needed
a project. It was good for Jim, It was good
for Jerry, and it was good for me. I just
finish off by saying, the people. I've been in Bartlesville
for fifty years. It doesn't seem possible, man. Anyway, I

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met a lot of gray people, you know. I think
back to Joe Allen Lowe, all of our community leaders,
John F. Kane. There's some terrific people in this community,
but there was no figure supporter of Bartlesville into men
that time. It was a pleasure of knowing. It was

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great to work with him. I just I can't take
you off of my cell phone. The one thing I
want to leave you with is a piece of advice
that he gave me we were talking. This was fairly
late in his life. He said he got ready to
hang out and he says, hey, I love you man,

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And it caught me by surprise, and I hesitated. Does
that embarrass you. I said, no way. I'm just trying
to think of a way that i could respond to
that as worthy of that. I said, you are a
great man and a true for him, and he said,
be sure and tell people if you like him, tell

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him you may not get another chance. Thank or I'm all.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Finis, thank you, thanks sir.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
I always give a little comment in between these just
talking about Barbersville.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, but he just loved our community would step.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Up for you.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Just there's just not a project that he really just
didn't have his foot front him either.

Speaker 7 (11:46):
Just you know, he helped a little bit or he
had a major impact on I can tell you that
Ed Gordon called uh Gemini to his office.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
And ask us to both be the chairman's of a
of one of the last huge UH bomb proposles that
we had in our community.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
And Jim's part was to extend he was gonna extend
the course and sales tax and my part was to
go out and to sell. He was the taxpayer would
go to the polls and volte for to increase and
bonding and and these proposals to buy the purchase these
bonds and taxes, and from that we got the the

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what we all now call.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
The Dinks Expressway, which is right there at Lows.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
I mean he named that that was in that bad
proposal and extending Shawnee all the way out to twentieth Street.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
A lot of work was done on twentieth.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Anyway, there was other projects in regardless of completely refurbished
and uh and redid the city complex.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
So's I'll stop there.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
We both I mean, we just we I mean we
went to frog jumping contest to get that presentation.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
It was it was almost like a roof of a
comedy routine.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
And we give that just making that point, not about us,
but to make the point. He just was always there
for Barfield. He just just in any endeavor than want.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
So my next speaker that I'd asked to capture, uh,
Jim bondsay you also need to know him.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
He was very very active in the political world.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
He was very very u on top of people that
wanted to represent us and who that person should be
if if.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
You got behind that person, actively campaigned for that person.
And so at this time and again.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Not only were they already good friends, Senator fod you
start had nothing this way.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Senator Ford will tell you all this.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
But I'll I well, I'll wait till he's finished the
tenspression asking a word please give s former Senator uh stay,
Senator John.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Earl, thank you.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
And it was interesting when Earl asked me to come
up and be one of the three that made a
few comments about Jim. I mean, we we all know
what he has done and so many things he's done,
and I was thinking, how do I say something that's
not just going to be a repetition of what everybody
else has talked about, because we know what he was

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to all of those.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
So I started to try and to think.

Speaker 11 (14:17):
How best to summarize how I think of Jim bonseat
And it really came down to three main things, and
I put them under the headings of family, of friends,
and of community. And those were the areas that meant
so much to him and that he was so involved

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in for all of us. Oh there's one other thing,
bad jokes that we won't talk about those.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
But when you talk about.

Speaker 11 (14:47):
Family and Denise, you were not only his wife, but
I think in life you were more of a partner
because every activity that Jim did, you were involved, and
you were involved because you loved it. You loved him
and you guys were great as a team, and Brian
and Barry, I know what he thought of you, and

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not only robotic said oh you football and everything else,
but the family was absolutely number one in his life.
And then the second group is friends. And I would
ask if you in here think you're Jim's friends. Everybody
would raise their hand and I tell you, if you
think about it, there's a difference between acquaintance and friend

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and Jim had friends.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Jim knew individuals, He kept in touch with them, He
constantly reached.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Out and he was good for them and they were
good for him. It was a type of friendship that
I know, I wish I had more like Jim.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
I never will that.

Speaker 11 (15:52):
That was something that was important to him. He worked
at and it was very meaningful. And then the third community.
You know, we've talked about Earl John b. Everybody's talked
about some of the activities that Jim has been involved in.
From the president of the Chamber, he was a founding
member and president of Our Day Great Rotary. But everything

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that came about Jim was parted and he did it
because he had a passion. It's not because he did
it to be better at work or to get recognized
for something else. He did it because he truly believed
in what he was doing and he wanted to help.
So wherever there was a need, Jim was there and

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he made a difference. Now, think about yourself in this room.
I know over the last couple of decades, I have
literally spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in this room,
not only at the Friday Forum, but there are seminars,
there are educational opportunities. I voted in this room, and

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it has been a community room that we use for
all activities like that, and some of these I've written down.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I like to talk from the heart, but also I
wanted to make sure that.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I said some specific things.

Speaker 11 (17:13):
So of the hours that I've spent in this room,
and I think all of us, we have watched people
gather to learn, to plan, to serve, and to celebrate.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
And that's just how Jim spent.

Speaker 11 (17:30):
His life, in what he was doing in his life,
and only fitting that it carries his name as a
lasting reminder of how one person's love for their family,
their friends, and their community can shape the.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Lives of so many of us in this room. May
this room inspire others to lead with the same heart,
the same dedication and good humor that Jim did.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Thank you, John, you.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Did a great job put the capstone on that and
those comments there. But no worry.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
You brought up the jokes and got things were good,
were bad. There were just no infeen and I can
still remember this crowd right here. You tell about room
the dog over uh anyway, thank you the three that
I asked to speak. He did a great job in
capturing this individual in regards to what do you who?

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He was family and what he go to Barsville. So
at this time, Denise and your two sons, would you
please come up. We're gonna allow you to make some
remarks before we wrapped this all up. But again there's
four just put a great capstone on it.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Was this room.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
We called it the east Side Room, meeting Room Upper Truman.
It's just we've we've.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Named it everything.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
I am absolutely honored me Now the Jim Bonsack Coffee
of SPH Community group on the east Side that uh.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Our Fasts had named after him.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
So I've burder pleased and decided that we have that
and we'll talk more about that as all.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
The biden to look At as we go out, so
please give the Bonsat family.

Speaker 12 (19:15):
I'm nice.

Speaker 9 (19:16):
Well, I'm gonna see Jim Breidenstein, who was the former
head of NASA, was gonna be here too.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
He called me last night. He said, Denis, I'm in Washington, DC.
I'm so sorry. There's storms here.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
They've canceled this flight that put me on one Friday
that it lands right about the time the boar him
is so he he couldn't make it, but he sends
his regards.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Jim love the Bank and love Bartlesville. He also loves space.

Speaker 9 (19:48):
And both of you may know both my boys are
working on the program to to send the astronauts back
to the Moon.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
And they could tell you more about that.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
And one of the happiest days for Jim because, as
U John put it, Jim felt it was really important
that we have people representing Oklahoma in all the right places,
and he would push whatever he could do to get
the right places, whether it be Earl, whether it be
John Ford, whether it be Johnny Kane. And also the

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day that Jim Britenstein was picked to be the NASA administrator,
Oklahoma had never had one, probably was.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Never gonna have one, and he goes we got one.

Speaker 13 (20:29):
Oklahoma finally got one and so Oklahoma, I won't go
into that, but has a big role in space and
Jim thought that was important too, and he would be
proud of his boys that they are.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
Working on that now.

Speaker 9 (20:42):
But you know, back to the to the to the
other things, Johnny b which is what Jim always called you.
Thank you for representing the wildcats. I know you had
many wildcat y'all had great friends like David Oakley sitting
here and it was always a Wildcats. He would never
call it the Barnosil girls and so and John was

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so nice to invite me to their latest reunion. And
everyone here makes me feel so loved as well as.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
That class did.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (21:16):
David Nichol, thank you so much for naming this room,
working on that to make that happen. Bill Buckles, thank
you for putting that book to go. What a great
thing legacy for us to have. It's so nice that
it's in the bartlesill my grave. If it wasn't for you,
Jerry poppin house.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
That would not you know, have happened.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
And h so they thank you to all of you, earl.
You know when they gave Jim a year to live.
Jim said, well, we gotta wait till I said, we
gotta go to Florida.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
Came over. We gotta go to Florida being near the boys,
and Jim was like, well, we gotta wait.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
Until Earl can take it over because he's still representing
Oklahoma down there. And I said, know or not, I'm
gonna go talk to Earl, talk to the bank. He said,
Earl's the only one who could keep this meeting going,
so we've got to keep the meeting going.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
And I said, I went and.

Speaker 9 (22:09):
Talked to Earl and Earl goes, you mean he's waiting
on me to do this? And I go yeah, and
he said okay.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
And anyhow they worked it out so Earl could go
ahead and take over the meeting.

Speaker 9 (22:19):
Jim loved everyone here, and you know, such such great friends, honors,
you know. Anyway, I also quickly want to say, this
is my mom, who just turned ninety two.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
She still mows her.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Yard, so y'all not got any too.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Jim loved my mom.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
He was her mom.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
This is my sister Susan, she came she's here from California.
His sister Jane, who is also my sister, and Chris,
her husband, and and Grace. We always Grace Farmer and
we consider her part of the family. She helped all
of us and so many.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Times as Lee and you know, oh you buddies here.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Like John.

Speaker 9 (23:05):
There one other thing. I will tell a quick story,
because this is how much the bank meant to Jim.
And it was more his customers in the bank. I
used to call him a financial missionary. He knew there
were people out there that were there to take advantage
of people in their finances, and he did not want
that to happen to his people. He wanted to make

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sure people would take advantage of hand them and he
did not want that. And he insisted we lived humbly
because in what we did, you have to be a
good steward of your resources and you don't want anyone
to think you're spending their money. They're paying you to
do the job at the bank. But I am to

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tell you, Maria, you and your mom Jim hackled you
so much.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 9 (23:54):
It would be on the spot, he would, and he
would just hassle your moms like with jokesman.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
She could give it too much, and he loved that.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
But I want to tell a quick story because this
I think this is this sums it up how much
show the bank meant to Jim.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
And we did go to Florida for a while.

Speaker 9 (24:11):
The boys were you know, the boys ended up working
in the Space program of Jim Love Space and he
managed the bank in Orlando. And one day he got
a call from Donnie's story.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
He said, Jim Bartles will need you.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
It's time for you to come home. And he said, well,
we'll talk about it. So they brought the whole family,
including cheerrem me here. They all came to the beach,
they talked about it. He brought us back home and
I'm thankful for that. And John b those words you
made me cry. Man, that's so so special that Yeah,

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it's it's like a holiday when we're here too. This
is I tell people in Florida, Well, because most people
have vacation homes in Florida, I say, my vacation home is.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
In Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
That's where my vacation homeents.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Of course, I still have a home here.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
My mom's here.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
I've planned to stay here as long as I can,
coming back and forth. Because you've got friends for life
and God's.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Given those to you.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
You don't take that for granted if you've been blessed
with that. But the last story I want to tell
about Jim is that they gave them a year.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
We went to Florida.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
God's blessing gave him three years and he was still
in touch with did a lot of y'all, you know,
call it every day, making sure y'all okay.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
One of the people that was a.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Friday for a member, even when it was downtown was
c Q. Cherry, who was an executive at the bank.
Some of you may remember him, and c Q was
a regular. They were friends, he and his wife. As
they got older. After they retired, they needed to move
to Dallas. They moved it to an assisted living center
to be near the kids, and c Q said, Jim,

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I'll keep my money and everything at the bank as
long ends you call me four times a year and
you come and see us. And so we did, and
we go to Dallas and we go to the U
Texas game afterwards, and Jim would take wherever they wanted
to eat.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
One time, we're going down there, and.

Speaker 9 (26:07):
Jim said, I hope that he doesn't want to go
to downtown Dallas. The traffic is so bad, and we'll
take Hi where he wants to go. So we pulled up,
CEQ got in the car and Seq goes Jim drive
to downtown Dallas. We're going to the Petroleum Club.

Speaker 5 (26:25):
We're driving. Got to the Petroleum Club. It was it
was a very nice place.

Speaker 9 (26:30):
And then when he was about to pass, he said,
you have to keep coming seeing James, and Jim said
I will. So we continued that on and then uh
when Jim left the bank because of his health, he
told Jane, Jane, I'm handing you over to some very
reliable people who are going to help you.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
And she was turning in one hundred.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
He said, I'm not going to be able to do
it anymore because of my health. But about a month
before Jim died and he's not doing well. But we
get a call from Jane Cherry Jim, I don't understand
something in my bank account.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
I need you to fix it. And I think you
know the stuns have gotten involved.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
And anyhow, Jim said, Jane, I mentioned to you earlier
my health is bad. I'm no longer at the bank.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
And Jane said, what does that have to do with anything.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You're my banker.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
You're my banker.

Speaker 14 (27:24):
Fix it.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
And Jim said, indeed, I am.

Speaker 15 (27:29):
I am your banker, Jane.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
And I'm gonna get it fixed. So he got on
the phone called the bank people.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Why he's on the phone, she calls me because we
are in Peo together, Denise.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Has Jim got hold of someone yet?

Speaker 9 (27:41):
I say, Jane, he's on the phone doing it right now,
but they're not going to be able to call you
because you're on the phone with me.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
And she said, okay, I'm getting off anyway.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
I thank God for that moment, because.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Jane gave jimmy get right before he passed, and that
was he was still their banker.

Speaker 15 (28:04):
That was his identity. He loved his family, he loved
his community, he loved his God. That he was Martlesville's banker.
And Jane reminded him of that right before he passed.
And that's how much he loved the people that he
served in that capacity. I know all of you were
his friends, and he tried to serve you that way,

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and I appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (28:29):
I appreciate the friendship you gave him and our family,
and I appreciate Earl and the David.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Nickel for a name of this run after him.

Speaker 12 (28:39):
It means the world and everything, your quiet and when
they were anything views on an here.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I love him being here.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
It always was like home coming back.

Speaker 14 (28:52):
And my dad always made the joke that you know,
he considered a red light in Florida for about as
long as it takes you to get from home to
work or anywhere else.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
That every time I come.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Back, thank you all for that's come here.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
I enjoyed the special day. Yeah, same thing.

Speaker 14 (29:06):
So we spent many hours in this room, one at
a time, and it's just a huge honor. So it's
always fun to come back and see families and friends,
the Potters of Daniels, Oakley's and just everyone else.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 14 (29:23):
As mentioned, we both work in the space industry, so
thank Tony plants it for being here at the Tulsa
Air and Space Museum.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
A quick story about her.

Speaker 14 (29:31):
She sent a care package to my house and it
had memorabilia of Tom Stafford. And if you all know
remember Tom Stafford just passed away recently. He's Apollo astronaut
Paulo Soyuz And she sent memorabilia that had Time magazines
and linthographs and newspaper articles, and she asked me to

(29:52):
go to his house because he lived just fifteen minutes
south of the Kendy Space Center, and she set up
an appointment for me that go have him hands signed.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Every one of those is.

Speaker 14 (30:00):
Like two hours worse. So I knocked up and came
out and Tom Stafford while he just signed and signs,
he was telling me stories and this one is just
the coolest memories I've ever had. And then that happened
to be just before my dad passed away, and I
actually delivered it back to her at my dad's celebration
of life here.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
So if you have any of that stuff for me,
there's a ton of Tom.

Speaker 14 (30:20):
Stafford signed memberabillion in the Tulsa Aaron Space Museum. Go
check it out right by the Tulsa Airport. And yeah,
we were just honored to be here. There's actually a
launch today at the Candy Space Center right about eleven
something o'clock, and we work on the Artist program that's
that's going to the National Space Station.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
We work on the Artimist program.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
We're launching between February and April coming up.

Speaker 14 (30:46):
So when you watch astronauts going back around the Moon,
just remember that we worked on Inrego set the picture, Bryan,
where are you in this? This is the picture of
every employee NASA Lockey Martin that worked on That is
the Artemis two spacecraft. The astronts have just suited up
and got in it for the first time. Yesterday's new
a human in the loop testing making sure that the
krew cabin looks like their simulators look like. I'm over here,

(31:12):
you're over here. It's very pixelated in those image that
I said to him, But yeah, so lots of to
Bartlesville in this picture.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
So yes, it's important. They're living their debts legacy.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
He actually dreaded his dad drug a huge two TV
to Central Middle School so that the students there could
see witness the moon landing.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
So it goes back to his dad his love of space.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
George Halkaitis, you're so great to help him get the
robotics program started here.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Thank you, Thank you for that, and again, thank you
so much.

Speaker 12 (31:56):
Arl.

Speaker 9 (31:56):
We appreciate this, and thank you everyone for from from
being Jim's friend and supporting.

Speaker 12 (32:02):
Him really quick.

Speaker 14 (32:04):
One of the hardiest missions we're playing on building to
the restaurant on the moon, thinking about restaurants on the Moon.
They have great food, but no atmosphere.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
There will also be a hotel. We're gonna name it
the Orion's Belt.

Speaker 14 (32:19):
The Orion's Belt.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Will be the hotel on the Moon.

Speaker 14 (32:22):
It'll be a three star