TONKAWA — Calvin L. Willerton, longtime resident of Tonkawa, died Wednesday evening, Aug. 2, 2000. He was 71.
The funeral will be 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 7, in the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa with the Rev. Richard Thomasson officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa.
Calvin L. Willerton was born Sept. 11, 1928, in Three Sands, the son of Christian William and Gertrude (Mason) Willerton. He graduated from Three Sands in 1946. He married Willadean Collins on April 28, 1947, in Winfield, Kan. He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1975 and was then employed with the Tonkawa public schools as a bus driver, retiring in 1999. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa.
Survivors include his wife of the home; one daughter, Robbie Shenold of Stillwater; one brother, Kenneth Willerton of Stillwater; and four sisters, Margaret Tautfest of Red Rock, Velda Miller of Pampa, Texas, Phyllis Ricketts of Collinsville, Ill., and Norma Ruth Wilkins of Ada.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, one sister, and one grandson.
Casket bearers will be Ron Hodges, Jack Klinger, Darrel Brown, Danny Bowling, Larry Kienholz and Larry Case.
(Contributed by Sydna Daily)
Note: Three Sands was an oil boom shanty town located between present day Tonkawa and Perry, OK.
The funeral will be 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 7, in the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa with the Rev. Richard Thomasson officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa.
Calvin L. Willerton was born Sept. 11, 1928, in Three Sands, the son of Christian William and Gertrude (Mason) Willerton. He graduated from Three Sands in 1946. He married Willadean Collins on April 28, 1947, in Winfield, Kan. He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1975 and was then employed with the Tonkawa public schools as a bus driver, retiring in 1999. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa.
Survivors include his wife of the home; one daughter, Robbie Shenold of Stillwater; one brother, Kenneth Willerton of Stillwater; and four sisters, Margaret Tautfest of Red Rock, Velda Miller of Pampa, Texas, Phyllis Ricketts of Collinsville, Ill., and Norma Ruth Wilkins of Ada.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, one sister, and one grandson.
Casket bearers will be Ron Hodges, Jack Klinger, Darrel Brown, Danny Bowling, Larry Kienholz and Larry Case.
(Contributed by Sydna Daily)
Note: Three Sands was an oil boom shanty town located between present day Tonkawa and Perry, OK.
TONKAWA — Calvin L. Willerton, longtime resident of Tonkawa, died Wednesday evening, Aug. 2, 2000. He was 71.
The funeral will be 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 7, in the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa with the Rev. Richard Thomasson officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa.
Calvin L. Willerton was born Sept. 11, 1928, in Three Sands, the son of Christian William and Gertrude (Mason) Willerton. He graduated from Three Sands in 1946. He married Willadean Collins on April 28, 1947, in Winfield, Kan. He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1975 and was then employed with the Tonkawa public schools as a bus driver, retiring in 1999. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa.
Survivors include his wife of the home; one daughter, Robbie Shenold of Stillwater; one brother, Kenneth Willerton of Stillwater; and four sisters, Margaret Tautfest of Red Rock, Velda Miller of Pampa, Texas, Phyllis Ricketts of Collinsville, Ill., and Norma Ruth Wilkins of Ada.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, one sister, and one grandson.
Casket bearers will be Ron Hodges, Jack Klinger, Darrel Brown, Danny Bowling, Larry Kienholz and Larry Case.
(Contributed by Sydna Daily)
Note: Three Sands was an oil boom shanty town located between present day Tonkawa and Perry, OK.
The funeral will be 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 7, in the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa with the Rev. Richard Thomasson officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa.
Calvin L. Willerton was born Sept. 11, 1928, in Three Sands, the son of Christian William and Gertrude (Mason) Willerton. He graduated from Three Sands in 1946. He married Willadean Collins on April 28, 1947, in Winfield, Kan. He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1975 and was then employed with the Tonkawa public schools as a bus driver, retiring in 1999. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tonkawa.
Survivors include his wife of the home; one daughter, Robbie Shenold of Stillwater; one brother, Kenneth Willerton of Stillwater; and four sisters, Margaret Tautfest of Red Rock, Velda Miller of Pampa, Texas, Phyllis Ricketts of Collinsville, Ill., and Norma Ruth Wilkins of Ada.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, one sister, and one grandson.
Casket bearers will be Ron Hodges, Jack Klinger, Darrel Brown, Danny Bowling, Larry Kienholz and Larry Case.
(Contributed by Sydna Daily)
Note: Three Sands was an oil boom shanty town located between present day Tonkawa and Perry, OK.
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