NAME: RUSSELL ALLEN "RUSTY" LOFTIS AGE 35 A MANHATTEN, NY RESIDENT AND A FORMER MIAMI, FL AND ATOKA RESIDENT. BORN: DECEMBER 9, 1971 TO PAT AND JUDY (McCALIB) LOFTIS AT DURANT, OK PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2007 AT THE CORNELL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL IN MANHATTEN, NY. AGE 35 YEARS 7 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS EDUCATION: RUSSELL ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL WITH CLASS OF '90. HE ALSO ATTENDED TULANE UNIVERSITY IN NEW ORLEANS AND UNIVERSITIES IN SANTIAGO, CHILE AND MEXICO CITY. HE EARNED A B.A. IN COMMUNICATIONS & LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FROM TULANE UNIVERSITY. OCCUPATION: HE HAD A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN CONSUMER & HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS THAT SPANNED NEARLY 14 YEARS IN THE U.S., MEXICO, SPAIN & CHILE. WITHIN THE LAST 5 YEARS HE STARTED 2 SUCCESSFUL COMPAINIES, ADHERENCE SCIENCE LLC & INOVA MIAMI, THAT FOCUSED ON HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS & PATIENT ADHERENCE PROGRAMS. DURING HIS ADVERTISING CAREER HE SUPPORTED VARIOUS CLIENTS SUCH AS PFIZER, GLAXOSMITHKLINE, MERCK, SCHERING PLOUGH, BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, IBM, HEWLETT-PACKARD, & MARRIOTT HOTELS. HE ALSO WORKED FOR ORGANIZAIONS SUCH AS CHANNEL 13 IN CHILE, THE U.S. HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES, McCANN-ERICKSON ADVERTISING OF MEXICO CITY, HIP HEALTH PLANS OF NEW YORK, FOOTE CONE & BELDING ADVERTISING, & YOUNG & RUBICAM OF LATIN AMERICA. RUSSELL WAS ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING PUBLIC HEALTHCARE ISSUES & WAS A MEMBER OF THE COALITION FOR A HEALTHIER MAIMA-DADE & WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF MIAMI TO SUPPORT SEVERAL HEALTHCARE INIVATIONS FOR THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. SOME OF HIS WORK ON THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE 1988 CHILEAN PLEBISCITE WAS PUBLISHED BY THE FORD FOUNDAITON. RUSSELL WAS VERY FLUENT IN SPANISH AND LOVED WORKING IN THE SPANISH SPEAKING POPULATION BOTH IN THE U.S. & ABROAD. CHURCH AFFILIATION. RUSTY WAS A LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE WARS CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTENDED RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH IN MANHATTEN, N.Y. SURVIVED BY PARENTS: PAT LOFTIS AND WIFE JUDY OF ATOKA, OK SISTERS: CYNTHIA LYNN GRIMSLEY AND HUSBAND JAMES OF NOBLE, OK LESLIE ANN CARACCIOLO AND HUSBAND MIKE OF HARRINGTON PARK, NJ GRANDMOTHER: TRULA BALSINGER McCALIB OF DURANT, OK NEPHEWS: ALEX GRIMSLEY, JOHN CARACCIOLO, TOMMY CARACCIOLO NIECES: JESSICA GRIMSLEY, EMILY CARACCIOLO, KAITLYN CARACCIOLO UNCLE & AUNTS: DON LOFTIS AND WIFE VELTA OF ATOKA, OK LETA LOFTIS OF ROBERTA, OK KENNETH McCALIB AND WIFE MARY OF DURANT, OK MIKE McCALIB AND WIFE SONJA OF MURPHENBORO, TN ALONG WITH NUMEROUS COUSINS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND MANY DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS AT HOME AND IN THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE HE HAS TRAVELED. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY GRANDPARENTS: DON LOFTIS AND WIFE VIOLA GRANDFATHER: CONNIE McCALIB UNCLE: D.W. LOFTIS ************************************************************************************************************************* DATE OF SERVICES: SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2007 AT 2:00 PM PLACE OF SERVICES: WARDS CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH PLACE OF INTERMENT: WARDS CHAPEL CEMETERY OFFICIATING: AARON HARGRAVE ASSISTING: REV. TOM HARGRAVE, REV. WOODY LEWIS AND REV. MIKE GOODWIN CONDOLENCES MAY BE SENT TO THE FAMILY BY EMAIL TO: BROWNS@ATOKA.NET. PLEASE REFERENCE THE NAME OF THE DECEASED IN YOUR CORRESPONDENCE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY BROWN'S FUNERAL SERVICE - ATOKA, OK