Age 79, Muskogee Memorial service will be at 11:00 am Friday, August 13, at the Becker Funeral Home Chapel, Snyder, with Rev. Jeff Flowers, pastor of First Baptist Church, Snyder, officiating. Udell Pershing Curtis died Monday, August 9, 2010, at Muskogee Regional Medical Center. Inurnment will be at Roosevelt Cemetery, Roosevelt, Oklahoma He was born on February 4, 1931 in Roosevelt, Oklahoma, to Charles Floyd Curtis and Delta (Hill) Curtis. He attended elementary school at Mountain Park and graduated high school at Con-8 in Kiowa County. He married Jearldine Hart on December 18, 1951, in Vernon, Texas. He was a welder for many years before joining the Scott and Fetzer Company in 1964. In 1966 he was promoted to Factory Distributor and relocated to Muskogee, Oklahoma. Udell is survived by his wife, Jearldine Curtis, of the home, three sons, Mike Curtis and his wife Phyllis, Pat Curtis, Shane Curtis, and one daughter, Kim Brewer and husband Tony, all of Muskogee. He is also survived by eight grandchildren, Austin Steveson and husband Blake, Karen Thomas and husband Nathan, Chris Curtis and wife Tena, Brandon Curtis, Michael Curtis, Ashley Curtis, Michael Johnson, and Navyee Brewer; three great grandchildren, Hailey Thomas, Ryan Thomas, and Bayon Curtis. Udell is also survived by seven of his brothers and sisters, Byrd Curtis, Ray Curtis, Jerry Wayne Curtis, Charles Floyd Curtis, Jr., Dorothy Holman, Eva Faye Evans, and Melba Harkins. Udell was an avid quail hunter and sports fan who particularly enjoyed basketball and any sport in which his grandchildren participated. He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Bobbie Jean Smith and Charlotte Nadine Duling.