JM: Yes, it was the worst date I have ever been on. Meet the generous donors and sponsors that make everything we do possible. She said it was the best moment of her life except for the birth of her children. From that he had a scrap yard, and from that he went into the pipe business. My mother was a marvelous cook and she could cook anything. That date was wonderful.. JE: You were a Jewish family getting involved in the Christmas dinner? And of course I dont kid myself that they really needed me for advice, but I was very honored to go. He says that the Nazis are working on a terrible new weapon. We think that they really are interested in peace. I felt that I had died and then I spoke to God and God asked me and I said, Im not ready to die there are things that I would like to do. God asked me. JM: Yes, I was Episcopalian. It was the worst date I have ever been on. me back and said he would show us around London. Both families were kosher and all of that. 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. Find, listen, and learn from the lived experiences and incredible legacies of influential Oklahomans. JE: And there was that instance when Kim reached out and was raising funds for you, and I believe she asked Integris Hospital to contribute is that true? When I first came back to Seminole I worked in the oil field on a well services Union and as a roustabout. $300,000 a year. He did not speak a word of English. JE: And then that produced other towns around, it wasnt just Seminole? That Peter Miles had never been to UCLA, never been in the American Air Force or worked in the American Embassy. JE: And its very nice to meet you, too. Then, from there, I was supposed to go to Newfoundland. Because, they paid you by the number of, papers you delivered. He sent her the money to come over and that was during the time that World War II broke out. He had an uncle, in Nowata that had a scrap yard. He became very friendly with a man by the name of Bill Larue who worked for Phillips Petroleum. And from that he went into oil field equipment of all types: tanks and pump units and so forth. The way that Einstein expressed it was correct but the way my brother expressed it, was equally correct. Our goal was to duplicate this very small museum in Flint, Michigan. JM: No, I think hers was quite different. The drugstore was open until 11 PM and by the time we cleaned up it was well after that. Peter Miles, they said, worked for the American Embassy. I, was blessed with a very good singing voice. About 60 days. Her most notable performances were in Rodgers and Hammersteins production of South Pacific.. Ive always been a touch person. JE: Do you remember during those years rationing or that type of thing? MM: I did, it was in 1952. Im going to put you on my committee. So I went on his committee and he came on mine. Isnt this dangerous to stop and pick up soldiers like this? So the young man on the bus just smiled at me and turned around, raised up his shirt and he had a whole rack around his stomach of bullets scars. She could make a meal out of nothing and you still felt you had a marvelous meal no matter what it was. And I remember distinctly one day a lady came in and she said, Hi Melvin how are you? I had no idea who she was. My mother was working for this one lady in town in a small knick-knack shop. And so weve always tried to do that. I want to see the museum. So we made an appointment for Stan Hupfeld to come to Seminole and Kim came also. They are not always ready to go to war. As a matter of fact the young lady that played the lead in it was a friend of mine too. There might be an incident where they would not let me out. He sold scrap. But Jasmine Burchell, who would later become Jasmine Moran, didnt realize how true the fortune-tellers words would be. JE: Do you have any estimate of how many wells were in operation in the 1920s and 30s? In fact the very first show he made was From Russia With Love. He said, Anyone that is sick may be excused. And they did. He was the first one. We decided to do something to help them, and this how the formation got started. You have funeral questions, we have answers. The first house that I remember living in was in Maud, Oklahoma. JE: So this was quite an adjustment Jasmine to come to Seminole, Oklahoma? Your headlights had to be left on all night, the dim part of your headlights. Your bread was a loaf of bread per family of four. Fitzgerald Ivy Chapel, 918-585-1151 To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Jasmine Dolores Moran please visit our Sympathy Store. Israel became a state in 1948 and I dont know if there will ever be the peace there that we hope for. And then the teacher decided for me to skip the fourth grade, so I went from third grade to the fifth-grade. I had all kinds of phone calls during the night with people saying if your husband doesnt vote the right way you are going to be in trouble and this sort of stuff. And they had met a man in London and his name was Peter Miles. A lot of us were known as the five Ms. They were his friends too. He was certainly not credit worthy, but they loaned him $1,000. In 1993, The Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum opened, one of only a handful of youth museums in the nation. Well, when the war was declared, Hornchurch suddenly became a strategic airbase because it was in a very vital area between London and the coast. It was a two-week trip. One of them was a lady by the name of Lillimore Knudsen. I wrote for the school paper there as well. Now the main campus of Ben-Gurion University is in Beersheba, in southern Israel. She didnt know where to go. And whenever the backseat was full, well then the African Americans would have to stand. Ive been to Israel seven times and Jasmine has been there six times and we really love the country. Weve always believed in God and believed that Jewish people are supposed to do good things. There were black schools and white schools and so we definitely had segregation. It was during this time, the early 1950s, that she met the American Air Force Lieutenant she would marry. to hit a certain kind of heaviness (hardness). MM: It has. the people were screaming inside. I was so blessed I could not tell you. JE: How many Jewish families were in Seminole at this time? They called the hotel to check on me from where they were. We discovered that the museum in Flint that got me excited was the least elaborate of the ones that we saw after that. MM: I was amazed by him, I thought he was eloquent and a wonderful person. We went to a number of individuals and corporations and foundations and we raised that amount of money. One of Seminole's most generous and beloved benefac 2023 Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Chapel. For me it was like a Forrest Gump type of moment. She was involved from the very beginning, and she didnt want the museum named after her, Donaho said. JM: Then Molly and David helped us a great deal and also Robert Henry. JE: People in Seminole had to say, Did you hear this English speaking lady down the street? JM: Everybody. His father had had a very difficult time. By January 1927 the population of Seminole was approximately 30,000. Did you see movies? Youll make your fortune with your face, the woman said. Services are under the direction of Rabbi Marc Fitzerman, The Synagogue Congregation Bnai Emunah, Tulsa (where Jasmine and Melvin were married in 1953.). This well was located about halfway between Maud, Oklahoma and St. Louis, Oklahoma. And so the people that I thought would be interested in this type of project would be educators and young mothers. More than 70,000 visitors played to learn and learned to play there last year. Weve got a spaying and neutering program going. A Jewish child has a Bar Mitzvah when they are 13 years old and it takes quite a bit of study. Juan Ojeda Soto passed away peacefully, surrounded by friends and family February 21, 2022 in Idaho Falls, Idaho and the age of 55. (Laughter). He attended schools in Tulsa before settling with his family in Seminole while working in the oil business. She made us an actual video. And he named it the Kim Henry Science Suite. And I said, Tom, Ive carried this all the way up here, can I show you this video? The extracurricular activity that I hadI wrote for the school newspaper. Lillian had married a scoundrel who not only caroused with other women but had the bad taste to leave his family on their own when he died of pneumonia. You, were walking past homes that still had people in it screaming. One morning Kim called and said, Give me something to do. Well, receiving a call from the First Lady Im certainly not going to tell her theres nothing we want, her to do. Weve been involved in things that have helped people. Upon her return, her teacher discovered that Jasmine could sing and asked her to perform in the air raid shelters to cover the sound of the bombs. Loving husband, father, grandad and friend. Well, thats rubbish, Jasmine said. For four and a half years, the board under the direction of the Morans worked to bring the dream of a childrens museum to life. (Laughter). While I was in college, I went into ROTC. So I volunteered to head the fundraising committee although I have never ever done fundraising before in my life. But then they allowed her not to go on tour and so I came back to America in June of 1953 and then Jasmine was able to come over in October of that year, and then we were married in Tulsa on November 22, 1953. We thought it was a very nice house. And he had to pick me up so that was why he was alone and wet and I didnt know anything about the other man until later. You could walk down this major street and past a big building where they had the fire department. They were going back home to be with their children in their apartment in London. We were a very fortunate family Ill tell you. He said, You are not. Jasmine fell in love, but she wasnt sure if she loved Melvin enough to change her entire life and move to America. Since that time every president of Southwestern Bell which is now AT&T has been one of our board members. As Moran entered the childrens theater at the Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum on Nov. 1, the fiery energy that spurred her whole life was evident despite what she called her wheelie-dealie walker and her tired, painful shuffle. JE: We have three dogs so we know what dog life is about. He had a brother in New York City that was also a rabbi. In fact he was Seminoles first national champion. MM: Theres a company called Power Transmission and Equipment Company, it was really an oil entity. Children from all across the United States and from more than 60 countries have come to see this unusual museum that treats visitors to the wonders of science, nature and life changing career choices. And then Kim said, Have you asked Integris to help you? I said, No. She said, Do you know Stan Hupfeld? He was the CEO of Integris, but I had never met him. Right. He didnt have any money at all. Jasmine is preceded in death by her parents Lillian and John Burchell, and her sister Helen Beavis. We were in sessions for a month. So he would buy those wells and pull the pipe out and the other equipment off. MM: Now we serve 700 people every Christmas Day and I am proud of Seminole Rotarians because they give up their Christmas Day to serve dinner to 700 people. We were walking in and you were walking back to your room with the orange juice in your hand. Melvin Moran: Another one of the nurses in that show was another young woman that Jasmine went to school with and her name was Millicent Martin. And I happened to have a nice loud singing voice. Well, I taught myself to read during those years but I was very, very poor with math, dreadful. Challenge your brain, adults and children alike! We went to Flint and checked into this motel and took our children to this museum, which was in the basement of a bank. MM: In the offices of Moran Oil Enterprises and Moran-K Oil in Seminole, Oklahoma, one block off of Main Street. Mrs. Moran and her husband, local oilman and philanthropist Melvin Moran, co-founded Seminoles Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum, and Mrs. Moran researched, planned and funded the towns new no-kill animal shelter. Im going to put you on my committee. And I said, Oh, new blood for you too. Apparently the land was not good there. MM: It continues till this day and every year we have a raffle. And to see things that old still standing was absolutely amazing. Moran, who had undergone heart surgery a month prior, cracked a few pithy comments in the hot toddy English accent she still carries, smiling under a coif of paper-white hair that floated around her face like babys breath. And that was the beginning of our date. And then he left. I dont know what we wouldve done without the dinners and the invitations to meet people that he would invite to his dinners. How the pioneers made it across this country Ill never know. So, we landed in New York and went straight to the Rabbi Kahn in New York who performed the conversion ceremony. He was 18 years old. I had exactly the right number of papers that I would need to fulfill my route, so I would be short one paper. MM: Right. So you had to. Working with volunteers and donors in Seminole and all over the country, they succeeded in bringing a first-class childrens museum to their hometown. In fact we are the only city in Oklahoma outside of Oklahoma City and Tulsa that has a synagogue. He lived through more than one Depression and rose to the top through the economic highs and lows of the last 80 years, filling his life with humor and fun along the way. And we were really struggling during the war years. I would send out 200 copies to 200 companies and people that might send some money. We remained friends over it because Roberts always been very enthusiastic about anything English and historical and stuff like that, so I was right up his alley. MM: We moved to Tulsa in January 1941. You know, you lived literally from hand to mouth. I had won my game and several people were challenging me and I had won several times. And I would agree with Jasmines statement. Because that last name was so close to the. The President said, I have just received a letter from Albert Einstein. The Jasmine Moran family thanks all for your outpouring of love for a one-of-a-kind woman who will live in our hearts forever. So I spent a lot of my very early years of schooling, very early years because we started school at 4 in England, I didnt go to school at 6, I started at 4. English cars were manufactured with the understanding that they would be on the street, possibly 24 hours and parked. I ended up having to have my stomach pumped and I was a real mess. Well I ran into Nancy Anthony and Nancy is the director of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. RIP to Billy Moran, an All-Star second infielder who had a 7-year career in the majors in the 1950s and '60s. are on-call all the time and meanwhile still trying to run an oil company. JM: No, we were in a very bad area so I was one of the ones forced to go in the evacuation. MM: Frenetic, crazies, I think. JE: Yes. Oklahoma lost one of our adopted treasures over the weekend with the death of Jasmine Moran of Seminole, following a lengthy battle with illness. Well, Im going to tell you though, in all fairness, this friend of ours, he said, Jasmine, youll do very well in America. He said, You wouldnt be considered kosher. Thats the way he described me and I said, What does that mean? And he said, Well, Ive done the best I can with you, but you will do okay in the United States.. We went to some secret bases and then we met Shimon Peres in his office, and we met Yitzhack Rabin in his office, and we met the main officials of Israel. 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