Married Ida Sophia Nichols 1920 in St Cloud, Kansas. No children.
Obituary
BRUCE G. WHITAKER WAS BORN IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA ON NOVEMBER 2, 1892. HE DEPARTED FROM THIS LIFE IN WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA ON OCTOBER 5, 1941, AT THE AGE OF 48 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND THREE DAYS. (NOTE: BIRTH PLACE WAS MOST LIKELY PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENNESSEE)
AT THE AGE OF SIX YEARS, HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY. IN 1898 HE AND HIS FATHER MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.
(NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETE STORY. MARRIAGE RECORDS COCKE CO. TENN SAMUEL WHITAKER MARRIED MARY WILLETTS JUNE 1900 & 1900 CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE SAMUEL S. WHITAKER LIVING WITH HIS SISTER AND THE TWO BOYS, BRUCE & UGENE IN PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENN. HE LEFT TENN BETWEEN 1903/1906 TO MANSFIELD, WRIGHT CO. MISSOURI WHERE SEVERAL MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN. BRUCE DID NOT GO WITH HIS FATHER TO IOLA, ALLEN CO. KANSAS AS HE IS NOT LISTED ON THE 1910 CENSUS IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD, BUT EVIDENTLY LIVED IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI. APPARENTLY THE FAMILY HAD MOVED FROM MANSFIELD TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI PRIOR TO GOING TO IOLA, KANSAS)
HE WAS A WORLD WAR VETERAN. HE WAS IN COMPANY G 137TH INFANTRY, 35TH DIVISION AND SERVED ONE YEAR IN FRANCE. AFTER RECEIVING AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE HE WENT TO KANSAS. IN 1920, HE WAS MARRIED IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS TO IDA SOPHIA NICHOLS. HE BECAME AN EMPLOYEE OF THE KANSAS POWER IN CONCORDIA AND WAS EMPLOYED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY.
HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CHRISITIAN CHURCH AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MODERN WOODMAN OF AMERICA IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS. HE WAS POST COMMANDER OF THE WELEETKA V. F. W. POST NO. 3556.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE FIRST CHRISITIAN CHURCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT 4:00 P.M. BY REV. ROBERT NELSON, ASSISTED BY REV. ALEXANDER BEST.
MEMBERS OF THE HENRYETTA POST NO. 539 OF THE V.F.W. HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.
MR. WHITAKER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, IDA WHITAKER OF THE HOME, HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER, MR. AND MRS. SAM WHITAKER, AMARILLO, TEXAS, THREE BROTHERS, ESTEL, AL, AND KENNETH, ALL OF AMARILLO; TWO SISTERS, MRS. DAISY ZEH, KANSAS CITY, MO; AND MRS. KATHRYN FEELER, DEWEY, OKLAHOMA.
MANY OTHERS GRIEVE AT HIS DEPARTURE, RECOGNIZING IN HIS GOING THE LOSS OF A GOOD CITIZEN, BROTHER, AND FRIEND.
PALLBEARERS WERE EARL PAYNE, ALBERT GARDNER, MERLE LA RUE, CLIFTON REAUBER, B. E. SAMS, HOMER WHITE, ORVIL JONES, AND JACK DILLON.
INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE HILLCREST CEMETERY, DOUGLASS FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE
Obituary
BRUCE G. WHITAKER WAS BORN IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA ON NOVEMBER 2, 1892. HE DEPARTED FROM THIS LIFE IN WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA ON OCTOBER 5, 1941, AT THE AGE OF 48 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND THREE DAYS. (NOTE: BIRTH PLACE WAS MOST LIKELY PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENNESSEE)
AT THE AGE OF SIX YEARS, HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY. IN 1898 HE AND HIS FATHER MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.
(NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETE STORY. MARRIAGE RECORDS COCKE CO. TENN SAMUEL WHITAKER MARRIED MARY WILLETTS JUNE 1900 & 1900 CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE SAMUEL S. WHITAKER LIVING WITH HIS SISTER AND THE TWO BOYS, BRUCE & UGENE IN PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENN. HE LEFT TENN BETWEEN 1903/1906 TO MANSFIELD, WRIGHT CO. MISSOURI WHERE SEVERAL MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN. BRUCE DID NOT GO WITH HIS FATHER TO IOLA, ALLEN CO. KANSAS AS HE IS NOT LISTED ON THE 1910 CENSUS IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD, BUT EVIDENTLY LIVED IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI. APPARENTLY THE FAMILY HAD MOVED FROM MANSFIELD TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI PRIOR TO GOING TO IOLA, KANSAS)
HE WAS A WORLD WAR VETERAN. HE WAS IN COMPANY G 137TH INFANTRY, 35TH DIVISION AND SERVED ONE YEAR IN FRANCE. AFTER RECEIVING AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE HE WENT TO KANSAS. IN 1920, HE WAS MARRIED IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS TO IDA SOPHIA NICHOLS. HE BECAME AN EMPLOYEE OF THE KANSAS POWER IN CONCORDIA AND WAS EMPLOYED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY.
HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CHRISITIAN CHURCH AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MODERN WOODMAN OF AMERICA IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS. HE WAS POST COMMANDER OF THE WELEETKA V. F. W. POST NO. 3556.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE FIRST CHRISITIAN CHURCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT 4:00 P.M. BY REV. ROBERT NELSON, ASSISTED BY REV. ALEXANDER BEST.
MEMBERS OF THE HENRYETTA POST NO. 539 OF THE V.F.W. HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.
MR. WHITAKER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, IDA WHITAKER OF THE HOME, HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER, MR. AND MRS. SAM WHITAKER, AMARILLO, TEXAS, THREE BROTHERS, ESTEL, AL, AND KENNETH, ALL OF AMARILLO; TWO SISTERS, MRS. DAISY ZEH, KANSAS CITY, MO; AND MRS. KATHRYN FEELER, DEWEY, OKLAHOMA.
MANY OTHERS GRIEVE AT HIS DEPARTURE, RECOGNIZING IN HIS GOING THE LOSS OF A GOOD CITIZEN, BROTHER, AND FRIEND.
PALLBEARERS WERE EARL PAYNE, ALBERT GARDNER, MERLE LA RUE, CLIFTON REAUBER, B. E. SAMS, HOMER WHITE, ORVIL JONES, AND JACK DILLON.
INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE HILLCREST CEMETERY, DOUGLASS FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE
Married Ida Sophia Nichols 1920 in St Cloud, Kansas. No children.
Obituary
BRUCE G. WHITAKER WAS BORN IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA ON NOVEMBER 2, 1892. HE DEPARTED FROM THIS LIFE IN WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA ON OCTOBER 5, 1941, AT THE AGE OF 48 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND THREE DAYS. (NOTE: BIRTH PLACE WAS MOST LIKELY PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENNESSEE)
AT THE AGE OF SIX YEARS, HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY. IN 1898 HE AND HIS FATHER MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.
(NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETE STORY. MARRIAGE RECORDS COCKE CO. TENN SAMUEL WHITAKER MARRIED MARY WILLETTS JUNE 1900 & 1900 CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE SAMUEL S. WHITAKER LIVING WITH HIS SISTER AND THE TWO BOYS, BRUCE & UGENE IN PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENN. HE LEFT TENN BETWEEN 1903/1906 TO MANSFIELD, WRIGHT CO. MISSOURI WHERE SEVERAL MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN. BRUCE DID NOT GO WITH HIS FATHER TO IOLA, ALLEN CO. KANSAS AS HE IS NOT LISTED ON THE 1910 CENSUS IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD, BUT EVIDENTLY LIVED IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI. APPARENTLY THE FAMILY HAD MOVED FROM MANSFIELD TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI PRIOR TO GOING TO IOLA, KANSAS)
HE WAS A WORLD WAR VETERAN. HE WAS IN COMPANY G 137TH INFANTRY, 35TH DIVISION AND SERVED ONE YEAR IN FRANCE. AFTER RECEIVING AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE HE WENT TO KANSAS. IN 1920, HE WAS MARRIED IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS TO IDA SOPHIA NICHOLS. HE BECAME AN EMPLOYEE OF THE KANSAS POWER IN CONCORDIA AND WAS EMPLOYED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY.
HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CHRISITIAN CHURCH AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MODERN WOODMAN OF AMERICA IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS. HE WAS POST COMMANDER OF THE WELEETKA V. F. W. POST NO. 3556.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE FIRST CHRISITIAN CHURCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT 4:00 P.M. BY REV. ROBERT NELSON, ASSISTED BY REV. ALEXANDER BEST.
MEMBERS OF THE HENRYETTA POST NO. 539 OF THE V.F.W. HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.
MR. WHITAKER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, IDA WHITAKER OF THE HOME, HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER, MR. AND MRS. SAM WHITAKER, AMARILLO, TEXAS, THREE BROTHERS, ESTEL, AL, AND KENNETH, ALL OF AMARILLO; TWO SISTERS, MRS. DAISY ZEH, KANSAS CITY, MO; AND MRS. KATHRYN FEELER, DEWEY, OKLAHOMA.
MANY OTHERS GRIEVE AT HIS DEPARTURE, RECOGNIZING IN HIS GOING THE LOSS OF A GOOD CITIZEN, BROTHER, AND FRIEND.
PALLBEARERS WERE EARL PAYNE, ALBERT GARDNER, MERLE LA RUE, CLIFTON REAUBER, B. E. SAMS, HOMER WHITE, ORVIL JONES, AND JACK DILLON.
INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE HILLCREST CEMETERY, DOUGLASS FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE
Obituary
BRUCE G. WHITAKER WAS BORN IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA ON NOVEMBER 2, 1892. HE DEPARTED FROM THIS LIFE IN WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA ON OCTOBER 5, 1941, AT THE AGE OF 48 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND THREE DAYS. (NOTE: BIRTH PLACE WAS MOST LIKELY PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENNESSEE)
AT THE AGE OF SIX YEARS, HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY. IN 1898 HE AND HIS FATHER MOVED TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.
(NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETE STORY. MARRIAGE RECORDS COCKE CO. TENN SAMUEL WHITAKER MARRIED MARY WILLETTS JUNE 1900 & 1900 CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE SAMUEL S. WHITAKER LIVING WITH HIS SISTER AND THE TWO BOYS, BRUCE & UGENE IN PARROTTSVILLE, COCKE CO. TENN. HE LEFT TENN BETWEEN 1903/1906 TO MANSFIELD, WRIGHT CO. MISSOURI WHERE SEVERAL MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN. BRUCE DID NOT GO WITH HIS FATHER TO IOLA, ALLEN CO. KANSAS AS HE IS NOT LISTED ON THE 1910 CENSUS IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD, BUT EVIDENTLY LIVED IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI. APPARENTLY THE FAMILY HAD MOVED FROM MANSFIELD TO SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI PRIOR TO GOING TO IOLA, KANSAS)
HE WAS A WORLD WAR VETERAN. HE WAS IN COMPANY G 137TH INFANTRY, 35TH DIVISION AND SERVED ONE YEAR IN FRANCE. AFTER RECEIVING AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE HE WENT TO KANSAS. IN 1920, HE WAS MARRIED IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS TO IDA SOPHIA NICHOLS. HE BECAME AN EMPLOYEE OF THE KANSAS POWER IN CONCORDIA AND WAS EMPLOYED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY.
HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CHRISITIAN CHURCH AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MODERN WOODMAN OF AMERICA IN CONCORDIA, KANSAS. HE WAS POST COMMANDER OF THE WELEETKA V. F. W. POST NO. 3556.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE FIRST CHRISITIAN CHURCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT 4:00 P.M. BY REV. ROBERT NELSON, ASSISTED BY REV. ALEXANDER BEST.
MEMBERS OF THE HENRYETTA POST NO. 539 OF THE V.F.W. HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.
MR. WHITAKER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, IDA WHITAKER OF THE HOME, HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER, MR. AND MRS. SAM WHITAKER, AMARILLO, TEXAS, THREE BROTHERS, ESTEL, AL, AND KENNETH, ALL OF AMARILLO; TWO SISTERS, MRS. DAISY ZEH, KANSAS CITY, MO; AND MRS. KATHRYN FEELER, DEWEY, OKLAHOMA.
MANY OTHERS GRIEVE AT HIS DEPARTURE, RECOGNIZING IN HIS GOING THE LOSS OF A GOOD CITIZEN, BROTHER, AND FRIEND.
PALLBEARERS WERE EARL PAYNE, ALBERT GARDNER, MERLE LA RUE, CLIFTON REAUBER, B. E. SAMS, HOMER WHITE, ORVIL JONES, AND JACK DILLON.
INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE HILLCREST CEMETERY, DOUGLASS FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE
Bio by: civilwarbuff
Family Members
Siblings
Half Siblings
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Daisy Whitaker Zeh
1901–1991
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Eula Adalee Whitaker Wilson
1902–1936
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Estel William Whitaker
1903–1982
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Loretta Frances Saphronia Whitaker Dreher
1906–1940
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Alva Andrew Whitaker
1908–2002
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Kenneth Ambrose "Skeet" Whitaker
1910–1994
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Katherine Florence Whitaker Feeler
1917–1997
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Violet Louise Whitaker
1920–1922
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