Friday, July 23, 1954
John Willerton (photo)
J. Willerton Rites Monday
Services for John Willerton, 87, pioneer farmer who died Thursday night at his farm east of Garnett road on Thirty-first street, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Coulter-Grown Funeral home. Interment will be in Memorial Park.
Mrs. (sic) Willerton came to Tulsa county and farmed the land where Pine Street now intersects Peoria Avenue until moving to the East Thirty-first street place in 1919. He continued farming until becoming ill six weeks ago.
He and his wife, Alice, operated the first retail dairy in Tulsa, "The North Side Dairy," before the 1920s. The couple observed their sixty-second wedding anniversary last December 27. He was a native of Woodson, Ill., and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Also surviving are four sons, Rufus Russell Willerton, 1202 S. Center av., John F. Willerton, Haskell, C. W. Willerton, Tonkawa, and Earl Willerton, Longview, Texas; five daughters, Mrs. Hilda May, 3 S. Sandusky av., Mrs. Doris Madison, 71 N. Florence av., Mrs. Dorothy Willbanks, 510 N. Vancouver av., Mrs. Clara Collins, Beggs, and Mrs. Augusta Huntsman, San Diego, Cal.; a brother, Willerton, Jacksonville, Ill.; three sisters, Mrs. Helen Seymour, Jacksonville, Mrs. Margaret Brenner, Chicago, and Mrs. Emma Ayres, Bliss, Idaho; 23 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
Friday, July 23, 1954
John Willerton (photo)
J. Willerton Rites Monday
Services for John Willerton, 87, pioneer farmer who died Thursday night at his farm east of Garnett road on Thirty-first street, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Coulter-Grown Funeral home. Interment will be in Memorial Park.
Mrs. (sic) Willerton came to Tulsa county and farmed the land where Pine Street now intersects Peoria Avenue until moving to the East Thirty-first street place in 1919. He continued farming until becoming ill six weeks ago.
He and his wife, Alice, operated the first retail dairy in Tulsa, "The North Side Dairy," before the 1920s. The couple observed their sixty-second wedding anniversary last December 27. He was a native of Woodson, Ill., and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Also surviving are four sons, Rufus Russell Willerton, 1202 S. Center av., John F. Willerton, Haskell, C. W. Willerton, Tonkawa, and Earl Willerton, Longview, Texas; five daughters, Mrs. Hilda May, 3 S. Sandusky av., Mrs. Doris Madison, 71 N. Florence av., Mrs. Dorothy Willbanks, 510 N. Vancouver av., Mrs. Clara Collins, Beggs, and Mrs. Augusta Huntsman, San Diego, Cal.; a brother, Willerton, Jacksonville, Ill.; three sisters, Mrs. Helen Seymour, Jacksonville, Mrs. Margaret Brenner, Chicago, and Mrs. Emma Ayres, Bliss, Idaho; 23 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
Family Members
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Clara Willerton Collins
1893–1985
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Christian William "Bill" Willerton
1895–1968
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Isaac Earl Willerton
1898–1990
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Augusta Willerton Huntsman
1900–1986
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Dorothy L Willerton Wilbanks
1902–1965
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John Francis Willerton
1905–1988
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Rufus Russell Willerton
1908–1998
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Hilda Bernice Willerton May
1910–2003
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Doris Imogene Willerton Madison
1915–2009
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