Donald Vickburg

May 21, 1943 - November 6, 1982







The Norman Transcript
November 7, 1982


Services for Don N. Vickburg, 39 of Norman will be at 2 p.m. Monday at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church with the Revs. Phil Fenn and Wayne Coffin officiating.

Vickburg died Saturday in Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City after a brief illness.

Interment will be in the IOOF Cemetary under the direct- ion of Little's Funeral Home of Purcell.

Born May 21, 1943 in Tulsa, Vickburg moved to Norman in 1961. He was a graduate of Central High School in Tulsa. He received his bachelor of arts degree in counseling and administration in 1966. He taught in the Norman Public Schools in the areas of chemistry and counseling from 1967 to 1973, when he became principal of Longfellow Middle School.

He was a member of McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church, a Phi Delta Kappa and a member of OEA and NEA.

Survivors include his wife, Jan of the home; a son, Jonathan, also of the home; his parents, Carl and Margaret Vickburg of New Orleans; a brother Carl of Bartlesville; and a sister, Janet Gillett of Orlando, Fla.

Bearers include Frank McFarland, George Williamson, Phil Parrish, Randy Henght, Phil DeBerry and John Yarrington.

The family has designated the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for research in diabetes or Camp Sweeney in Gainesville, Texas as appropriate for expressions of sympathy.

Friends may call at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church Monday from 9 a.m. until the funeral time.




Sharing Memories of Donald Vickburg
e-mail to Peggy Smith

I was sorry to see that my Chemistry teacher, Donald Vickburg, died in 1982. He was a fine teacher -- tolerant of our general disinterest in the subject -- and also had a wonderful dry sense of humor. How sad.

~Danny Horwitz~




 




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