The Oklahoma Bar Journal September 2022

I n M emoriam

R oland K. Arnold III of Sterling, Virginia, died March 22. He was born June 4, 1955, in Duncan. Mr. Arnold received a bachelor’s degree in finance from OU in 1977. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Airborne Division of the U.S. Army Rangers until 1981. He continued as a U.S. Army reservist until 1997, ultimately achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. He received his mas ter’s degree in business from the University of Dallas in 1983 and his J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 1986. Mr. Arnold began his legal career at the Oklahoma City law firm of Holloway, Dobson, Hudson & Bachman. He went on to hold legal, corporate counsel and management positions with USAA and AT&T in San Antonio and Jacksonville, Florida. In 1998, he served as president and CEO of MERSCORP and its subsidiary, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., before retiring in January 2011. K enneth Ray Blan of Stillwater died Aug. 6, 2020. He was born May 9, 1939, in Bakersfield, California. Mr. Blan graduated from OU and Kansas State University and received his J.D. from the Mississippi College School of Law. He had a long and successful career with the Soil Conservation Service, after which he returned to Stillwater. Mr. Blan was an active member of the First Baptist Church and Gideons International. He also served on the boards of Pushmataha County Hospital, Pushmataha County Conservation District and Oklahoma Farm Bureau Insurance.

W ill Douglas Bradley of Yukon died May 28. He was born Sept. 28, 1954, at Tinker Air Force Base. After moving several times, his family settled in Stratford, where he completed elementary school and graduated from high school. Mr. Bradley received his J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 1986 by attending night classes while working as an English teacher and football coach. During his 32-year legal career, he served 14 years as assistant district attorney with the Canadian County District Attorney’s Office and 17 years in private practice, focus ing on adoptions and family law. J ames G. Caster Jr. of Oklahoma City died July 19. He was born April 29, 1928, in El Reno. Mr. Caster received his J.D. from the OU College of Law in 1955. He served in the Korean War for two years before he began working on a doctorate in history and political science at the University of New Mexico . In 1969, he completed his doctoral dissertation and accepted a faculty position at the University of Central Oklahoma. Following his retire ment in 1992, Gov. David Walters proclaimed a Dr. James G. Caster Day throughout the state. He con tinued to teach part-time at OSU OKC and Redlands Community College until he was 85. He served on five different state boards and committees, was the editor-historian of the Oklahoma City Civil War Round Table for 43 years, led the UCO Conclave of the Ancient and Beneficent Order of the Red Rose for 42 years and was a long time member of the Oklahoma American Legion Boys State, serving as program director from

1988 until 1998. Memorial contribu tions may be made to the St. Luke’s United Methodist Foundation. M ichael Jerry Daley of Oklahoma City died July 17. He was born Feb. 12, 1939. A proud member of the U.S. Army, Mr. Daley was stationed in Germany . After returning to Oklahoma City, he finished college and received his J.D. from the OCU School of Law in 1973. Mr. Daley enjoyed a long, successful career in oil and gas working for Kerr McGee, Trigg Drilling Co. and finally Douglass, Dietz and Daley Inc. J ohn C. Drennan Jr. of Medford died July 17. He was born Aug. 13, 1932, in Medford, where he attended public schools and played on the football, basketball and baseball teams – he was a member of three Oklahoma state champion ship football teams. After graduat ing from high school in 1950, Mr. Drennan attended OU, where he studied law and accounting before graduating in 1954. He then joined the U.S. Army in Fort Benning, Georgia, as an officer and artillery instructor. He received his J.D. from the OU College of Law and joined the law firm of Drennan & Drennan with his father in 1959. For the next 60 years, he practiced primarily in the areas of oil, gas and probate law. Mr. Drennan was known for his passion for four things: the law, helping children excel at sports and academics, nice restaurants and Oklahoma Sooners football. He attended his first OU football game in 1938 and continued to be a season ticket holder and donor since the ‘50s, rarely missing a home game.

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