Mr. Oscar Phillip Wendling, 92, Bartlesville, Okla. resident and husband of Mrs. Pauline (Groves) Wendling, died Feb. 11, 2007, in the Medicalodge of Dewey, Okla.

The Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 in the St. John Catholic Church with Fr. Festus Maliwa as the celebrant. A Rosary was said Feb. 16 in the Memory Chapel of The Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. Dedication of the grave, committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Bartlesville, Okla., by The Arnold Moore Funeral Service, 621 S Johnstone, Bartlesville, Okla. 74003.

A memorial in Oscar’s name has been established to the St. John School and those who wish may forward their gifts to the school at 121 West Eighth, Bartlesville, Okla., 74003.

A native of Kansas, Oscar Phillip Wendling was born May 30, 1914, on the family farm near Ellis. He was the son of Frederick Wendling and Katherine (Kneeling) Wendling. Oscar was reared and completed his education in the Ellis schools.

In 1932, he went to South Dakota to work in the forestry CCC camps, and eventually returned to Kansas and worked in highway construction.

During the early 1940s, Oscar worked in the construction of the runways at Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kansas and the Richard Gabar Air Base in Kansas City, Kansas.

He was united in marriage to the former Mary Virginia Bedore at Zurich, Kansas, and they came to Bartlesville in 1975 after having residences in several Kansas and Oklahoma communities, while Mr. Wendling worked in commercial and heavy construction for the Sherwood Construction Company.

Two of the last projects before he was retired in 1968, was the dredging of the Arkansas River at Tulsa, Okla., and the new construction of Highway 75 south of Bartlesville.

He was later employed in the mobile home industry where both he and Mary operated and managed the Bartlesville Mobile Home Sales Co.

Mary preceded him in death on Oct. 15, 1983, and Oscar remained a resident of Bartlesville. Oscar was then married to Pauline (Rowell) Groves on Jan. 10, 1986, and they have continued their residence in Bartlesville living in retirement.

Mr. Wendling was a member of the St. John Catholic Church in Bartlesville.

Survivors are his wife, Pauline, of the Bartlesville home; three sons, Larry Dean Wendling of Topeka, Kansas, Phillip Galen Wendling and wife Mary Frances of Oak Harbor, and Terry Joe Wendling and wife Kristy of Spring Hill, Ten.; 13 grandchildren; 24 great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Joann Merklyn and husband Jim of Laguna Niguel, Calif. and Mrs. Viola Riever and husband Rick of West Lake Village, Calif.; a stepson, Tom Groves and wife Jeri of Bartlesville; four stepdaughters, Mrs. Jane Sears and husband Earl of Bartlesville; Ms. Barbara Groves of Bartlesville, Mrs. Mary Morris and husband Ron of Valencia, Calif. and Mrs. Connie Fiecco and husband Tony of Prescott, Arizona; 10 step-grandchildren and three step-great grandchildren.

In addition to his father, mother and wife, Mary Virginia, he was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.