Margaret Koro
Obituary
Koro, Margaret Hayes 75. Passed from this life on April 16, 2014. Born February 19, 1939 in Battlecreek, MI she was the only child of Wanda Jane Hayes and Charles Martin Hayes.
Margaret attended the University of Michigan for both undergraduate and graduate school. She received a Master Degree in Counseling from the University of Michigan as well. Those who knew her knew well, know how much she loved her time at the University of Michigan. She married Paul Peter Koro in Detroit, Michigan in 1964.
After moving to Tulsa in 1976, Margaret was an active member of the Tulsa community. She was a member of the Junior League of Tulsa and a board member at Monte Cassino and Cascia Hall Preparatory Schools. Margaret loved spending time at her favorite place in Northern Michigan; she loved modern dance and Native American art.
Margaret was always a woman of phenomenal insight into others' talents and unexplored gifts. She encouraged the proliferation of Native American art by persistently sponsoring the re-engagement of retired elder artists of the Native American community in embracing their creative voice within the larger Oklahoma communities. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Paul Peter Koro II.
She is survived by her two children Martha Mary Koro of Arlington, VA and her son, Paul Peter Koro of Tulsa, OK.
Memorial service will be held at St. Rita's Chapel at Cascia Hall Preparatory School at 11 am on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to a scholarship fund that was established to support the education of a medical resident or medical student at Oklahoma State University: the Dr. Paul P. Koro Scholarship at the OSU Foundation.
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Tributes & Memories
Hello Martha and Peter family. You may not remember us we met at my mothers house in Murray Bridge SA.
Mary O'Connor
I just learned that Margaret has died and had to tell you how wonderful I thought she was. I was just a little girl in Saginaw when I met Margaret. I thought she was just beautiful, with long dancer's legs. I remember her being in the Saginaw News, posing along the Saginaw River in a white outfit. She was kind to my mother and once, while I was taking summer classes in college, my husband took our little girls on a road trip out west. He knew that Margaret lived in Tulsa, and looked her up in the phone book I think. He knocked on her door, and told her who he was, and who the mother of the little girls was. Margaret welcomed the three of them into her home and took the girls into the pool. They were there a couple of hours and Leo said he knew, now, why we all loved Margaret and the tales of her graciousness were not exaggerated! I hope, after all these months since her death, her children will receive this note from me. For many years, Margaret was very important to me.
Kathy Blondin-Stone
Martha, So sorry to hear this sudden news. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Peter and your family. With love, Begoña and Daniel
Begoña and Daniel
Martha and Peter,
I wa so sorry to hear of your mom's passing. She was truly an exceptional woman, and devoted friend to my mom and a blessing that came into her (and our) lives and brought her a special friendship that I know she treasures. I can still vividly remember her laughter as though she was sitting her now. I think about her, my mom and all of those crazy women at "THE SHOP"- too bad reality TV didn't exist then what a laugh they were.
I have you and your family in my thoughts and prayers now.
Peake Lobeck- Mosier and family