The funeral service for Naomi Gertrude Gannon, age 88, will be at 1:00 P.M. Friday, September 28, 2007 at the Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel.  Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

            She was born to Daniel V. and Nora Marie (Wiegand) Rust on August 14, 1919, in Capron, Oklahoma, and died Monday, September 24, 2007, at The Commons in Enid.

            Naomi grew up in Burlington and graduated from Burlington High School.  She later earned an Associate’s Degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University.  She met her husband Ivan at a prisoner of war camp in Alva.  They married on August 11, 1946 in Alva, and they made their home there.  They later moved to Enid, and she worked as a Housing Referral Officer at Vance Air Force Base.  She was a member of St. Luke’s Methodist Church, which is now New Hope Methodist Church.  She was also a member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, UMW, and Carrier Home Extension Club.

            She is survived by three daughters, Kay Gamallo and husband Manny of Sand Springs, Barbara Blevins and husband Bud of Kremlin, and Vicki Mednick and husband Michael of Freehold, NJ; one son, David Gannon and wife Janice of Oklahoma City; eleven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; one sister, Effie Cavanaugh of Hutchinson, KS; and sisters-in-law, Lois Brown of Wichita, KS, and Lois Rust of Alva.

            Naomi was preceded in death by her husband Ivan, her parents, one brother,one sister, and one great-grandchild, Garrett Gamallo.

            Memorials may be made through the funeral home to New Hope United Methodist Church or Grace Memory Center at The Commons.