Geary Stanford Dunnam, known to everyone simply as Stan, passed away on August 31, 2025, at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, OK. He was 70 years old.

Stan was born on October 10, 1954, in Tulsa, where he lived most of his life before moving to Broken Arrow in 1991. He built his life and career in Oklahoma, and you didn't have to go far in town before he'd point out something he had a hand in constructing.

For more than four decades, Stan worked as an electrician, electrical designer, and project engineer. He spent much of his career at Alliance Electrical Contractors, Warren Smith & Associates, and, most recently, Lee & Browne Consulting Engineers in Tulsa. He was proud of his work, and for good reason: from St. John's Hospital (where he would later pass) to Broken Arrow High School to Woodland Hills Mall, if the lights came on, chances are Stan had a role in it. He loved to point out, with a grin, "I did the electrical there."

Stan was the hardest-working man his family had ever known, and that relentless work ethic didn't stop with him. It shaped his son Nick, who carries that same drive in his work, and molded his grandson Cody, who followed in his footsteps into the electrical trade. It also lives on in each of his children and grandchildren, who carry pieces of his determination and grit in their own lives. His hobby of building computers with his daughter, April, sparked her path into technology and ultimately her career as a software engineer. His oldest daughter, Kristie, inherited his fierce loyalty to family, always protecting her kids and grandkids, just as he had always looked out for her.

A jack of all trades, Stan claimed he wasn't a mechanic, yet he rebuilt engines. He claimed he wasn't sentimental, yet he lit up whenever his great-grandkids were around and bragged to anyone who would listen about his daughter's travels and career at Microsoft. He had the kind of mind that never stopped working, and the kind of hands that could fix just about anything.

He is survived by his mother, Patricia Wheeler; his children, Kristie Dunnam, Nick Dunnam, and April Dunnam; eight grandchildren, Cody, Mike, Waylon, Becky, Madison, Jessi, Hunter, and Cassie; and twelve great-grandchildren, Maliah, Harper, Suzie, Lane, Leelan, Halona, Jess, Brighten, Keao, Jasper, Nash, and Meadow. He also leaves behind his lifelong best friend since junior high, Gerald Huffman, who was always by his side in tinkering, building, and swapping stories.

He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Dunnam; his brothers, Mike and Cris; and his wife of more than 40 years, Donna Dunnam. He will be buried next to her at Pioneer Cemetery.

A funeral service will be held Thursday, September 4th, at 1:00 p.m. at Mallett Funeral Home in Wagoner, OK.

Stan wasn't one for ceremony. He always joked about just being put "in a pine box." But for a man who wired up hospitals, schools, aquariums, casinos, malls, and more, his legacy is clear: the lights he left behind will keep shining.