And so I did my usual thing and then a few days later, it was time to collect. My father operated the company from the Tulsa office. Sean Connery was a very, very nice man.. JM: We dont know who it was but it was definitely somebody else. But after having several dates, she decided she wanted to dump me, but to do it in a nice way. We were walking in and you were walking back to your room with the orange juice in your hand. One time had to do with President Clinton and a program that he was promoting. Describe her personality. JM: Then Molly and David helped us a great deal and also Robert Henry. Melvin came back (to Oklahoma) while I was still in the hospital in Colorado. At 11 years old do you remember hearing about that? I had three different tries for one of those roles. Its done so many things for so many people. The David Ben-Gurion Library was built. During the years before, I had served on a lot of various boards and commissions around the state so I know a lot of people. MICHAEL MORAN OBITUARY. "Melvin & Jasmine Moran: Founders of Childrens Museum" Interview by John Erling. What theyre going to be thinking about Jewish people is how they perceive you. JE: You would ride the bus with your mother and she taught you something on those bus rides? During the times that David Boren was in Washington, Jasmine and I made a number of trips up there and had dinner with Molly and David and saw the sights. Learn about our partner organization, the Oklahoma Historical Society. To think of things so old, and here in. that particular issue. JM: Oh, it was awful. Jasmine Moran Children's Museum See all things to do Jasmine Moran Children's Museum 4.5 96 #1 of 10 things to do in Seminole Children's Museums Open now 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Visit website Call Write a review About Hands-on activities in an imaginary town encourage children to explore and seek new ideas for their futures. I used to date quite a bit. I had gone day after day seeing him be so arrogantly rude and ignorant of his own behavior and what it was reflecting on our government. (Laughter) So I thought this cannot be. Guests were playing and the winner was staying on and people were challenging him and when it was my turn. JM: Weve always had volunteers come from the fire department and the police department and those that are working are usually the ones to have helped us to the food to carry it out to people who are shut-ins. And each time that he was able to earn enough money, he would send the money to Europe and another family member would come over. Just as I was about to walk out of the house, the other girl called me and said, Where are you? I said, I didnt get the call. She told me I was one of the three chosen, and I had better get there.. You go into water and you are given the formal invocation I guess you might call it into the service. They managed to keep all of the lights off so there were no lights on. Meet the generous donors and sponsors that make everything we do possible. http://www.MullerhausLegacy.com JE: Is that what we call a lucky buy? She tried her best with me but pastry was not one of the things that she managed to get through to me. You know, it was a really wonderful place. He was born Jewish and had converted to Christianity, but he was born Jewish and he signed the guestbook with his Jewish name. He was with another man, another American. I dont know why we did that. It was a very heady experience. Jasmine (Burchell) Moran May 7, 1934 ~ March 5, 2022 87 Years Old Obituary & Services Tribute Wall Obituary One of Seminole's most generous and beloved benefactors, Jasmine Moran, died at her home on Saturday morning, March 5, 2022, at the age of 87. Because everyones is going to say, When did she die? (Laughter) I very nearly did die, so this is not right. Well never eat anything that comes from a pig or shellfish or anything like that. The experience I remember was that he married a woman that was also a Stanford student and they had their wedding at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. MM: Frenetic, crazies, I think. MM: It was officially made in New York. JE: I mean he didnt buy it for the oil, he bought it for the equipment and it turned out to produce oil? STUDENT QUALIFIES FOR STATE-WIDE COMPETITION, https://www.willyweather.com/ok/seminole-county/seminole.html. Helpful resources for students and educators to help them get the most from VOK. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. Well, he bought a well called the WC Davis in 1937. So he sent a letter to Einstein and discussed the point where he disagreed with Einsteins statement. Yes, and I hated what Senator Joseph McCarthy was doing. My youngest sister, as it turned out later, after I did, married a Lutheran, a German. And one caught our eye and it was advertising the Flint, Michigan Childrens Museum. I had several dates with Lillimore and later on she represented England in the Miss Universe Contest. Shes been on our board and a wonderful, wonderful member. Very often mother and I and usually my brother Sidney and occasionally my sister, we would be riding the bus and on the front of the bus were the words: Colored people use rear seat. During part of the bombing, Jasmine and her sister were evacuated to live in the homes of strangers near Birmingham. Jasmine Moran is the author of A Realm of Scars (0.0 avg rating, 0 ratings, 0 reviews) Moon. Donaho, the reluctant attendee of the original meeting, still serves as executive director. JE: I cant imagine the economic impact its had on this town and Im not sure a study has been made of that, but you know it has to be huge. I know that there are two possibilities. I was so dumb that I didnt realize that I had a terrible paper route. We have a 109-member board and an executive board of 15.. But, he asked for another date, and it surprised me so much that I agreed. $300,000 a year. Dyslexia was unheard of and everybody thought you were a dunce if you didnt know how to do math or if you couldnt read. Funeral Home website by. But somehow the company was able to see it through and you didnt have to lay anybody off. So one morning at breakfast I was making a phone call and Jasmine finally had kind of had it with Congressman Edwards and said, You know you are getting everything free and its a wonderful experience and you have been grumpy and you havent been a very nice person and. I am certain that the White House had done some research and thought maybe if they could influence me I would say something positive to Senator Boren on. JM: No, actually when you went downstairs was when we were arriving back at the hotel. Apparently the land was not good there. Her mom was a doctor and her dad was a doctor and her grandfather was a doctor. They would shoot at the children climbing the bridge and running in all directions you know to avoid being hit. He went to Maud, Oklahoma. So we couldnt make milkshakes that day. We have a roll of probably 20 or 25 families. He said, We will be invading Japan. These are the points that we are going to land to invade Japan. Jasmine wanted to stay with me and I said, No, weve come all of this way and I want you to go. And so they went to the dedication and I was asleep or whatever, I cant say for sure. He was the democratic leader of the Congress and he was a U.S. JE: When he first came here to the United States, what city did he go to? A graveside service will be held on Tuesday in Tulsa. Well, I taught myself to read during those years but I was very, very poor with math, dreadful. When we deliver 200 meals it takes a lot of people to make the deliveries. I wasnt really very good I dont think. Well, that was exactly right. Theres a wonderful facility here in Seminole known as the Jasmine Moran Museum. MM: Yes. JE: So the two of you were getting along fine and then tell us about when you asked her to marry you? She knew a lot of people there and she was very good with visual things. JE: Was any of this machine gun activity near you or close to you? By the time we sold out in 1981, our sales were $2 million a month. There were wonderful, wonderful donors and sponsors. We worked seven days a week eight hours a day, and worked until 11 oclock at night. He said, I helped get the money. Jasmine Moran Children's Museum NEW EXHIBITS HAVE ARRIVED. MM: Im not sure that she ever was sure that it was really going to happen. I really liked Horace Mann and then most of the students I attended Horace Mann with went on to Central High School. You worked at a drugstore? She saw once that the husband of her friend would die in a short period of time, Moran said. She started talking about playing bridge with her aunt Sylvia and said, I saw your mom yesterday and your sister and so-and-so and she obviously knew my family really well. A lot of us were known as the five Ms. They shared the idea of a childrens museum with us, and I was named president of the board.. In the past several years, Jasmine initiated Seminoles animal control program, hiring and paying the officer out of her own pocket to make sure her philosophy extended to all lost, strayed and abandoned animals citywide. (Laughter), And I was so disturbed by what I saw and the screams and cries of the animal being killed that I determined I was going to try to do something about this when I grew up. (Laughter) Jasmine Moran. And we were about ready to kill you. There were black schools and white schools and so we definitely had segregation. It as a VIP kind of trip, we visited all of the historic places. Theyve been wonderful supporters. She was torn between a stage and screen career or becoming a loving wife in a different country. Learn about the people, passion, and purpose behind the mission and vision of Voices of Oklahoma. We sat down with people and talked with people and they thought it was a jolly good idea and so thats how it got started. did slow the ship down. MM: No, I didnt, not at all. Together they raised three children as Melvin donated his time to public service in Seminole and various state boards. Meanwhile Melvin you moved up the ranks in the company. Of course, Horace Mann is no longer there. Laura Hyde Upload Coordinator. Im not sure where she was born. Somehow I got this big piece of furniture out of the trunk of my car and I started carrying it to the Kerr-McGee building. Well, she spent most of the day in our grocery store at the museum and her mom says now she wants to be a grocery checker. MM: He bought his first oil well in 1927, but he didnt buy it as an oil well. JM: No, no. Jasmine Moran: Going back though, he skipped several things. Our goal was to duplicate this very small museum in Flint, Michigan. JE: Did you feel it when you moved to Tulsa? JE: As a result of that friendship you have been invited to his house and you have met some notable people. JM: No, no. I met with PM Peres several times and during the times that I met with him he has been prime minister, hes been foreign minister, and he is presently president. JM: Yes, I was Episcopalian. but Im a very firm believer in prayer and I suggest, we have a little chapel here, go to the chapel and pray and see if that will help you. In the early 1980s, Jasmine and Melvin visited their first childrens museum on a trip to Flint, Mich. with their 2 granddaughters. Ive always made it a point to leave kindness behind. And so he said, Would you mind waiting down here and we can have dinner here because theres a very nice restaurant and then well go off to the theater and see a movie? And I said, Fine. So, Im sitting downstairs and then I rememberedI had a very good friend who had told me she had never heard of a blind date like this either, where you had just met somebody on the street and you arent actually formally introduced. But, she always smiled and took care of them graciously. Every day it was sweltering and we had one tiny, little air conditioner in the house that we finally moved into. JE: And then I believe there was a drugstore at 21st and Utica? So we felt the only thing that we could do, would be to buy one that we could take with us. They would burn their way through the roof. My oldest sister had ended up marrying a Roman Catholic and who renounced Catholicism for her. Its a desert city. Be sure to stop by our Brain Quiz on your next visit. If there was some and it couldve been swirling around me, but if there was, I was not aware of it. I was standing there waiting for an American to appear, and one did, and he was probably 350 pounds and 52, and in a uniform. I ended up having to have my stomach pumped and I was a real mess. JM: Actually, I tried to talk Melvin into staying in England. And if you made a milkshake or malt you had the glass you served it in, plus the metal container that you stirred it in. Be didnt have a chance to stop anywhere because he was already late. This group said, Yes, lets do it. And they agreed to be the first Board of Directors. a really big one. MM: I was amazed by him, I thought he was eloquent and a wonderful person. are on-call all the time and meanwhile still trying to run an oil company. And some of them they bought the plug, and would go ahead and produce them, and others they bought to produce. At the end of the tour I knew things were going well Wednesday and said, I cant wait to come back with my grandkids. Finally he said, Now what do you want from us? I said, We, have always wanted to put a surgery suite and our healthcare exhibit. He asked, What would it cost? I gulped hard a little bit and I said, We do have some plans for it and it would cost about $100,000. His response was, Melvin you are thinking too small, why dont you ask me for $500,000 and Ill raise that for you and you can put in a state-of- the-art healthcare exhibit? I said, Yes, please. He and Kim raised $100,000 each from five hospitals. The state of Israel became a reality in 1948, so it was just four years after it had become a state. Your bread was a loaf of bread per family of four. Text size. And of course, during the wartime you know, you didnt have any. Almost single-handedly, Jasmine funded and created the Seminole Animal Shelter and Seminole Humane Society, which adopts out 75 animals a month. She came from a long line of strong women who had endured struggles. Jasmine Moran Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Her mother, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother and earned her place in the world by mastering Scottish dance. JM: I would hear bullets splattering but I was never hit. The women in Morans family were Gaelic, known as the faerie people, and they were famed for being able to see the future. And I had seen people come by and try to sell something to my mother. I said, Youre what is known as an ugly American and I am very disgusted with your behavior. JE: Did you or your family feel any discrimination for being Jewish? Mel Myers Audio Editor And she was throwing her hands up in the air and looking upwards. JE: But it was near you? MORAN, Mary. JE: The man you thought had gone to the hospital had not gone there at all. I was probably about six, maybe seven years old at the time, but we walked home from school together. JM: You have what they call a mikvah, which is like being baptized. That was a dreadful thing to do because those houses frequently were bombed and people were screaming and it was awful. I purposely stayed away from it because it embarrassed me to ask anybody for any money. Moran attended the first audition without her agent, and out of the 240 girls auditioning, she got the call back for a second all-day audition. That was her way of expressing her chagrin and her unhappiness with the whole thing. I was on the board for quite a number of years. (Laughter). Its done so much not just for us, but for other people who work there its become an unbelievable entity. He also skipped the fourth grade. Mother was a Scot and one of the most, canny people. He was the minister of the first Baptist Church in Seminole for about 40 years before he retired. One of Seminoles most generous and beloved benefactors, Jasmine Moran, died at her home on Saturday morning, March 5, 2022, at the age of 87. You were on a grand jury. MM: Well, I was first assigned to Sandia Base in Albuquerque. JE: Do you have any estimate of how many wells were in operation in the 1920s and 30s? For six of those years, I was selected as vice mayor. JM: What about our little Ford, our Model T? JE: Kim Henry has been very helpful to you. Juan Ojeda Soto passed away peacefully, surrounded by friends and family February 21, 2022 in Idaho Falls, Idaho and the age of 55. So that connected of course with my peanut brain that I must get to that telephone and call her. More than 70,000 visitors played to learn and learned to play there last year. They were very lucky to get turkey and anything else that was edible. You realize the need and you dont turn away from it when you see it. And then I turned casually back to see where I had been. Then several years later Senator Monroney was running for reelection and his campaign manager called me and asked if I would be the Seminole County Campaign Chairman. We do it under the sponsorship of the Seminole Rotary Club. MM: Theres a company called Power Transmission and Equipment Company, it was really an oil entity. I would like to think that my personality approaches hers at least in some respect. I was very fortunate. So we used to talk about our problems together and she had me join the board of the Oklahoma Arts Institute, which has a summer camp. Jasmine was schooled in all of the things that she needed to do and to learn in England. Challenge your brain, adults and children alike! had ever spoken to him like this before. MM: Actually, you asked for alu-min-ium pots. JE: In 1941, we all are aware of the date December 7 and Pearl Harbor. He said, Oh, new blood. MARTIN MORAN OBITUARY Martin W. "Marty" Moran, 73, passed away peacefully Monday, November 8, 2021. Predeceased by dad, Gerald and a granddaughter Kimberly Brydges. More than 70,000 visitors played to learn and learned to play there last year. It was a two-week trip. We saw the need for a childrens attraction in Seminole and in this area, Jasmine Moran said. They tried to drop anchor, which they were far too deep to do it. Some basic help and starters when you have to write a tribute to someone you love. We thought, what are we going to encounter? If the Nazis are able to corral and develop this weapon before the Allies do, Germany is going to win the war and you must do it first. So the President said to these legislative leaders, I want you to, appropriate the money for us to do this work and no one on Earth must know what we are doing. So I thought, well Melvin was late. My two dogs decided that one was going out and the other one wouldnt go. Putting the key in the door of her house when the house blew up. Roberts secretary called me and said, Senator Gore is going to be at Roberts home on Saturday and he would like for you to come and meet him. I thought to myself it would be kind of neat meeting, a presidential candidate. That was probably our first success. MM: It has. And so weve always tried to do that. 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