YUKON, Feb 22-Services for James A. Whelan, retired postmaster and Yukon civic leader, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Methodist church here. Burial will be in the Yukon cemetery under direction of the Turner funeral home.
Whelan died in his home here Saturday night following a heart attack. He was 70.
Born in Weston W. Va., Whelan came to Yukon in 1902 to work for his twin uncles, the late O.V. and M.V. Mulvey, in their mercantile store. Four years later he moved to Piedmont to work in their newly-established mercantile store there.
In 1920, Whelan moved back to Yukon where he was mananger of the uncles' store again. In 1923, he founded his own business, Whelan Mercantile Co., which he operated until 1931.Whelan was deputy sheriff in Canadian county from 1933 until 1936, working out of El Reno. In October fo 1936 he was appointed Yukon's postmaster.
On his 70th birthday, September 27, last year, Whelan retired as postmaster.
"I've worked all my life," he observed at the time, "and I intend to go on working."
It wasn't long after his retirement that he accepted public relations positions with the Yukon Mill & Grain Co. and the Yukon National bank.
Whelan was a member of the First Methodist church. A charter member of the Lions club in Yukon, he holds a life membership in the Masonic lodge No. 90. He had been a member of the national and state postmasters' associations and for the past 36 years was superintendent of the Yukon Cemetery association.
Whelan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Whelan, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Stormont, Tulsa, and Mrs. Ed Glover, Midwest City; three sons, Leo Whelan, Lawton; Hugh Whelan, Dallas, Texas; and Claude Whelan, Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister Mrs. Lewis Specht, Piedmont; two brothers, John Whelan, Piedmont, and Lawrence Whelan, Edmond.
Whelan died in his home here Saturday night following a heart attack. He was 70.
Born in Weston W. Va., Whelan came to Yukon in 1902 to work for his twin uncles, the late O.V. and M.V. Mulvey, in their mercantile store. Four years later he moved to Piedmont to work in their newly-established mercantile store there.
In 1920, Whelan moved back to Yukon where he was mananger of the uncles' store again. In 1923, he founded his own business, Whelan Mercantile Co., which he operated until 1931.Whelan was deputy sheriff in Canadian county from 1933 until 1936, working out of El Reno. In October fo 1936 he was appointed Yukon's postmaster.
On his 70th birthday, September 27, last year, Whelan retired as postmaster.
"I've worked all my life," he observed at the time, "and I intend to go on working."
It wasn't long after his retirement that he accepted public relations positions with the Yukon Mill & Grain Co. and the Yukon National bank.
Whelan was a member of the First Methodist church. A charter member of the Lions club in Yukon, he holds a life membership in the Masonic lodge No. 90. He had been a member of the national and state postmasters' associations and for the past 36 years was superintendent of the Yukon Cemetery association.
Whelan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Whelan, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Stormont, Tulsa, and Mrs. Ed Glover, Midwest City; three sons, Leo Whelan, Lawton; Hugh Whelan, Dallas, Texas; and Claude Whelan, Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister Mrs. Lewis Specht, Piedmont; two brothers, John Whelan, Piedmont, and Lawrence Whelan, Edmond.
YUKON, Feb 22-Services for James A. Whelan, retired postmaster and Yukon civic leader, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Methodist church here. Burial will be in the Yukon cemetery under direction of the Turner funeral home.
Whelan died in his home here Saturday night following a heart attack. He was 70.
Born in Weston W. Va., Whelan came to Yukon in 1902 to work for his twin uncles, the late O.V. and M.V. Mulvey, in their mercantile store. Four years later he moved to Piedmont to work in their newly-established mercantile store there.
In 1920, Whelan moved back to Yukon where he was mananger of the uncles' store again. In 1923, he founded his own business, Whelan Mercantile Co., which he operated until 1931.Whelan was deputy sheriff in Canadian county from 1933 until 1936, working out of El Reno. In October fo 1936 he was appointed Yukon's postmaster.
On his 70th birthday, September 27, last year, Whelan retired as postmaster.
"I've worked all my life," he observed at the time, "and I intend to go on working."
It wasn't long after his retirement that he accepted public relations positions with the Yukon Mill & Grain Co. and the Yukon National bank.
Whelan was a member of the First Methodist church. A charter member of the Lions club in Yukon, he holds a life membership in the Masonic lodge No. 90. He had been a member of the national and state postmasters' associations and for the past 36 years was superintendent of the Yukon Cemetery association.
Whelan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Whelan, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Stormont, Tulsa, and Mrs. Ed Glover, Midwest City; three sons, Leo Whelan, Lawton; Hugh Whelan, Dallas, Texas; and Claude Whelan, Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister Mrs. Lewis Specht, Piedmont; two brothers, John Whelan, Piedmont, and Lawrence Whelan, Edmond.
Whelan died in his home here Saturday night following a heart attack. He was 70.
Born in Weston W. Va., Whelan came to Yukon in 1902 to work for his twin uncles, the late O.V. and M.V. Mulvey, in their mercantile store. Four years later he moved to Piedmont to work in their newly-established mercantile store there.
In 1920, Whelan moved back to Yukon where he was mananger of the uncles' store again. In 1923, he founded his own business, Whelan Mercantile Co., which he operated until 1931.Whelan was deputy sheriff in Canadian county from 1933 until 1936, working out of El Reno. In October fo 1936 he was appointed Yukon's postmaster.
On his 70th birthday, September 27, last year, Whelan retired as postmaster.
"I've worked all my life," he observed at the time, "and I intend to go on working."
It wasn't long after his retirement that he accepted public relations positions with the Yukon Mill & Grain Co. and the Yukon National bank.
Whelan was a member of the First Methodist church. A charter member of the Lions club in Yukon, he holds a life membership in the Masonic lodge No. 90. He had been a member of the national and state postmasters' associations and for the past 36 years was superintendent of the Yukon Cemetery association.
Whelan is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Whelan, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Stormont, Tulsa, and Mrs. Ed Glover, Midwest City; three sons, Leo Whelan, Lawton; Hugh Whelan, Dallas, Texas; and Claude Whelan, Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister Mrs. Lewis Specht, Piedmont; two brothers, John Whelan, Piedmont, and Lawrence Whelan, Edmond.
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