Vice-Principal

In Memoriam

November 24, 1927 - May 20, 2017

In Memory of

Adnell Owen Acers Jr.

November 24, 1927 - May 20, 2017

Obituary

 

Adnell Owen (Ad) Acers died on Saturday, May 20 at age 89 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was born 11-24-1927 in Oklahoma City to Colonel Adnell O., Sr. and Audria (French) Acers. He was a graduate of Classen High School, Oklahoma City University, and University of Oklahoma, with postgraduate work at OU and UCO in Guidance & Counseling and School Administration. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Symphonia and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities. Ad married Mary Lou Freeman on 5-28-1954. He served with the 45th Infantry Division in the Korean War and was awarded a Bronze Star. After the war he served as an instrumental music...

Adnell Owen (Ad) Acers died on Saturday, May 20 at age 89 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was born 11-24-1927 in Oklahoma City to Colonel Adnell O., Sr. and Audria (French) Acers. He was a graduate of Classen High School, Oklahoma City University, and University of Oklahoma, with postgraduate work at OU and UCO in Guidance & Counseling and School Administration. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Symphonia and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities. Ad married Mary Lou Freeman on 5-28-1954. He served with the 45th Infantry Division in the Korean War and was awarded a Bronze Star. After the war he served as an instrumental music teacher, counselor, and administrator in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, Casady School, and in the Oklahoma State Department of Education, from which he retired. He was an early innovator with computers in the 1960's when little software was available for schools, in the areas of interactive master schedule generation, test scoring and analysis, media materials access, textbook distribution, pupil attendance accounting, and many others. During retirement, Ad performed as clarinetist with the Southern Nazarene University Metropolitan Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Symphonic Band, Oklahoma Summer Winds, Church of the Servant Orchestra and Choir, Nichols Hills Band, CrossTimbres Woodwind Quintet, and Harmonious Winds Woodwind Quintet and Quartet, performing throughout the metropolitan area. He was also active in wood carving, teaching clarinet, genealogy, and Friday School at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, and was a longtime active member of United Methodist Church of the Servant. Ad was preceded in death by his loving wife of 59 years, Mary Lou, by his parents, and by his brothers Bob and Tom. He is survived by his three children and their families: Kent and his children Mia, Jesse, Sharon, and Travis; Tammy and her son Nick; Kevin and his wife Lee; great-grandchildren Chelsea, Aidan, Ezra, Liam, Aspen, and Natalie; by a brother, Bill, and his wife Beverly; and by many genealogical "cousins" across the nation and the world with whom he made contact over several decades regarding the Acers/French/Freeman family histories. Visitation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 24, 2017 from 4-8 p.m. at Guardian Funeral Home West Chapel in Warr Acres. A celebration of life will be held on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at United Methodist Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City at 1:00 p.m.

Arrangements under the direction of Guardian Funeral Homes West Chapel, Oklahoma City, OK.