James "Jim" Warren Hanvey

James “Jim” Hanvey passed away Tuesday, September 26th, peacefully at home under the care of hospice. He was 83. Jim was born August 23, 1940 on the Washita Farm (now Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge) to James (Buster) and Lucille Hanvey (nee Alexander). When Jim was two the family moved to San Diego, California where Jim spent the next forty-five years. He trained early for his trade as a mechanic/ welder, starting in his dad’s shop in Lakeside, California at the age of 12. He attended Grossmont High School through his sophomore year before quitting at age 16 to work at his father’s mechanics shop full-time. Jim worked with his dad until 1964 when at the age of twenty-four he was drafted into the US Army. He was deployed to Vietnam and spent his entire service there in combat. He returned home to California a changed man. He met and married Anne Mitchell of Lakeside, California in October 1966 and remained married until his death, just days short of 57 years. Jim went to work for the County of San Diego in 1967 and worked for the County for 20 years. He worked as a county road foreman and maintained over a hundred miles of road. It was a twenty-four-hour seven day a week job. He returned to Oklahoma in 1987 to help his aging father in Millcreek. He cared for his father until his death in 2003. During his time in Millcreek, Jim worked again as a heavy equipment mechanic and welder. In 2002 Jim and Anne bought a home in Ardmore where he lived until his passing. He loved three things in this life, his wife Anne, his German Shepard dogs and his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He and Anne had many good rides all over the country on the Harley. One especially memorable ride was to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in 1988. Jim is survived by his wife Anne, now at Elmbrook Nursing Home, Ardmore, Oklahoma; his sisters Linda Greenberg and Virginia Jaggi of Bayfield, Colorado and brothers Ben and Jon, both in San Diego, California. Jim will be interred (with the ashes of his precious German Shepards Sheba, Cayenne and Paprika) in the Tishomingo City Cemetery in the Hanvey Family Plot along with his brother Wyndel, sister Janet and father James “Buster” Hanvey. Graveside services will be at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at the Tishomingo City Cemetery in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Military honors will be provided by the Chickasaw Nation Honor Guard.

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James "Jim" Warren Hanvey

August 23, 1940 - September 26, 2023