Allan Stocker

Allan Hoffman Stocker, loving husband and devoted father and grandfather, died on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, in Oklahoma City. He was born in Bartlesville on April 29, 1926. Allan grew up at 905 Delaware Avenue during the Great Depression. He graduated from College High School in 1944, where he played football and basketball and enjoyed attending Detroit Tigers and minor league baseball games. One of Allan's favorite memories of his childhood in Bartlesville was being invited into Frank Phillips' home to sing holiday carols with a group of his friends where each of them received a silver dollar from Frank Phillips. After Pearl Harbor, Allan enlisted in the Navy and served in World War II as a Radio Technician aboard the U.S.S. Tutuila in the Pacific. Following completion of his military service, Allan attended the University of Missouri on the G.I. Bill and received his law degree in 1951, where he graduated Order of the Coif. He began his legal career in Missouri and Tulsa, before returning to Bartlesville where he formed his own law firm. Allan enjoyed practicing law and assisted generations of Bartlesville families with a wide variety of legal matters until his retirement in 2006 at age 80. Allan was a 64-year member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, a Fellow of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and was active in the Washington County Bar Association. Allan served on the boards of the Green Country Village Retirement Community, the Bartlesville Community Center, and the Family Healthcare Clinic, and was active in the Oklahoma Democratic Party and many other community and charitable organizations. Above all else, Allan valued spending time with his wife, children and other family and friends. Allan is survived by his wife of 54 years, Patricia Browning Stocker; daughter, Susan Stocker Shields, of Oklahoma City; son, Scott Brian Stocker, of Menlo Park, California; and grandchildren, Samuel Benjamin Shields and Ethan Thomas Shields of Oklahoma City. He is also survived by his sister, Naomi R. Gordon, of El Cerrito, California and her children, Rob, Sandy and Bruce, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and his nephews, David and Marc, and their children. He is also survived by his "exchange student" son, Alexandre Cherman of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, his wife, Angelica, and daughter, Isis. Allan was preceded in death by his parents, Benjamin Stocker and Celia Hoffman Stocker, and by his brother, Joseph Stocker, and his nephew, Steven Stocker. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024.

Service Details

Sunday, October 25th, 2015 2:30pm, Arnold Moore & Neekamp Funeral Home