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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Floyd Joseph
Massad
October 11, 1920 – October 19, 2015
Obituary
Floyd Joseph Massad
October 11, 1920 – October 19, 2015
Floyd J. Massad passed on Monday, October 19th, 2015 at the age of 95 at the VA hospital in Muskogee, OK due to congestive heart failure. He was born October 11, 1920 in Beggs, OK to Lebanese immigrant merchants Joseph Massad and Foutha Mathey Massad fleeing Ottoman Empire oppression.
Floyd was a WWII Army Air Corps Staff Sergeant head of the propeller shop for the 23rd depot repair squadron. In combat in Europe, he participated in the D-Day Landings, the taking of Rombouillet Airfield in the Liberation of Paris, and in the Battle of the Bulge. His picture at the George V Cafe on the Champs Elyssees was featured before the city was officially liberated in September 1944. Floyd's most notable accomplishment was his retail businesses of 62 years in Tulsa, owning Massad's clothing store and as a fashion designer for Massad's custom clothing.
Floyd was an artist, though his colorblindness was used as a strength rather than a weakness. He was a nature lover, a prolific cook of Lebanese food, a gardener, and a believer in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Retiring from his retail businesses at age 90, he lived out his remaining years independently as a farmer near Grand Lake where he raised goats and chickens in addition to a large garden on an 80 acre farm. Floyd was a passionate Orthodox Christian, a risk-taker, a trail blazer, and a resourceful renaissance man.
Floyd is survived by: four sons, Keith, Constantine, Christopher and wife Hala, and Teodor Massad; two sisters, Anna Ogdee and Lily Solomon.
He was preceded in death by: parents, Joseph and Foutha Mathey Massad; siblings: Josephine Toma, Isser Massad, Maxine Ganem, Nick Massad, Marshall Massad, Lena Hagale, and Junie Jabara.
Services will be held at St. Antony Orthodox Christian Church, 6th St. & Columbia Ave, Tulsa, OK:
Trisagion prayers, Thursday, October 22, at 7:00 P.M.
Funeral, Friday, October 23, at 10:30 A.M.
Military Honor Guard burial at Fort Gibson National Cemetery Monday, October 26 at 11:00 A.M.
The Massad family asks in lieu of flowers, that donations in the memory of Floyd Massad be sent to St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Church, 2645 E. 6th St, Tulsa, Ok 74104.
Under the direction of Moore's Memory Chapel.
October 11, 1920 – October 19, 2015
Floyd J. Massad passed on Monday, October 19th, 2015 at the age of 95 at the VA hospital in Muskogee, OK due to congestive heart failure. He was born October 11, 1920 in Beggs, OK to Lebanese immigrant merchants Joseph Massad and Foutha Mathey Massad fleeing Ottoman Empire oppression.
Floyd was a WWII Army Air Corps Staff Sergeant head of the propeller shop for the 23rd depot repair squadron. In combat in Europe, he participated in the D-Day Landings, the taking of Rombouillet Airfield in the Liberation of Paris, and in the Battle of the Bulge. His picture at the George V Cafe on the Champs Elyssees was featured before the city was officially liberated in September 1944. Floyd's most notable accomplishment was his retail businesses of 62 years in Tulsa, owning Massad's clothing store and as a fashion designer for Massad's custom clothing.
Floyd was an artist, though his colorblindness was used as a strength rather than a weakness. He was a nature lover, a prolific cook of Lebanese food, a gardener, and a believer in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Retiring from his retail businesses at age 90, he lived out his remaining years independently as a farmer near Grand Lake where he raised goats and chickens in addition to a large garden on an 80 acre farm. Floyd was a passionate Orthodox Christian, a risk-taker, a trail blazer, and a resourceful renaissance man.
Floyd is survived by: four sons, Keith, Constantine, Christopher and wife Hala, and Teodor Massad; two sisters, Anna Ogdee and Lily Solomon.
He was preceded in death by: parents, Joseph and Foutha Mathey Massad; siblings: Josephine Toma, Isser Massad, Maxine Ganem, Nick Massad, Marshall Massad, Lena Hagale, and Junie Jabara.
Services will be held at St. Antony Orthodox Christian Church, 6th St. & Columbia Ave, Tulsa, OK:
Trisagion prayers, Thursday, October 22, at 7:00 P.M.
Funeral, Friday, October 23, at 10:30 A.M.
Military Honor Guard burial at Fort Gibson National Cemetery Monday, October 26 at 11:00 A.M.
The Massad family asks in lieu of flowers, that donations in the memory of Floyd Massad be sent to St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Church, 2645 E. 6th St, Tulsa, Ok 74104.
Under the direction of Moore's Memory Chapel.
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