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Updated: 02 Jun 2017
Created:  02 Jun 2017

 

         !!! 05-02-2017 I did not find an obit either person
         source: Oklahoman Digital Archives (newspaper)

AMERICAN VETERAN

Oklahoman Archives 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
December 1, 1986

Funeral services for Judge Raymond Naifeh, District Judge of the Seventh Judicial District are slated for  2:00 PM Tuesday at Metro Church, I-35 at Second Street. Interment will follow at Gracelawn Cemetery. Judge Naifeh died Saturday afternoon in an Oklahoma City hospital. Baggerley Funeral Home, Edmond, is in charge of the arrangements. Judge Naifeh was born in Sapulpa , OK, March 27, 1932, the son of Alex and Almas Naifeh. He attended and graduated the Sapulpa school system, graduated Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree and received his law degree at the Tulsa University. The Judge also attended the National Judicial College at Reno, Nevada. Judge Naifeh worked as a private practice attorney, Assistant State Attorney General and Assistant District Attorney for both Oklahoma and Tulsa Counties prior to his appointment by Gov. David Hall to the position of Associate District Judge on Dec. 1, 1973. He held that position for 2 years when he was elevated to District Judge . Judge Naifeh was the presiding District Judge of the Seventh Judicial District in 1985. He was a Past President of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference and served on that Conferences Legislative Committee. Naifeh was named as the States Outstanding Trial Judge by the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association. He was a member of the American, Oklahoma and Oklahoma County Bar

Associations, the Downtown Oklahoma City YMCA, where he served on the Board of Directors, was a member of the Men's Dinner Club and Metro Church. Judge Naifeh is survived by his wife, Ernestine; their son, Bill Naifeh; daughters, Susan Gayle Naifeh, Ernestine Carol Shires and Mary Naifeh; also a granddaughter, Charise Naifeh; as well as 2 brothers, Woodrow and Monroe Naifeh and 1 sister, Virginia Naifeh. The family has requested memorial contributions to the Raymond Naifeh Memorial Fund, whi ch was created to fund a law school scholarship and to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in care of the First National Bank of Edmond, 24 East First Street, Edmond, OK 73034. Judge Naifeh will lie in state at the funeral home until 12:00 Tues. at which time the casket will be closed.

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Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.

 

 



 
  

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