William Ira Bond was the son of John J. Crittendon Bond and Cordelia Noel Hawkins.
Ira was sixteen when his family moved to Tulsa in 1905. He worked as a delivery wagon driver for Ratcliff-Sanders Wholesale Grocery Company. He gave up his grocery career to become an electrician and later became a retail merchant, first as a partner and then owner of Dodge and Bond Men's Clothiers, 57 East 2nd Street, Tulsa, from 1915 until 1963. He served in World War I and was a member of Carson-Wilson American Legion Post. He was a member of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce from it's inception.
Ira married Josephine Stone on January 18, 1919 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ira and Josephine had children: Betty Joe and Jean. Following Josephine's passing, he remarried to Elinor Huss on January 21, 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
He was appointed an honorary Colonel by two Kentucky governors, a fifty year charter member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 584; a 32nd Degree Mason, McAlester Consistory; a member of the Tulsa Masonic Lodge; a member of the Tulsa Pioneers Association; and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Ira was sixteen when his family moved to Tulsa in 1905. He worked as a delivery wagon driver for Ratcliff-Sanders Wholesale Grocery Company. He gave up his grocery career to become an electrician and later became a retail merchant, first as a partner and then owner of Dodge and Bond Men's Clothiers, 57 East 2nd Street, Tulsa, from 1915 until 1963. He served in World War I and was a member of Carson-Wilson American Legion Post. He was a member of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce from it's inception.
Ira married Josephine Stone on January 18, 1919 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ira and Josephine had children: Betty Joe and Jean. Following Josephine's passing, he remarried to Elinor Huss on January 21, 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
He was appointed an honorary Colonel by two Kentucky governors, a fifty year charter member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 584; a 32nd Degree Mason, McAlester Consistory; a member of the Tulsa Masonic Lodge; a member of the Tulsa Pioneers Association; and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
William Ira Bond was the son of John J. Crittendon Bond and Cordelia Noel Hawkins.
Ira was sixteen when his family moved to Tulsa in 1905. He worked as a delivery wagon driver for Ratcliff-Sanders Wholesale Grocery Company. He gave up his grocery career to become an electrician and later became a retail merchant, first as a partner and then owner of Dodge and Bond Men's Clothiers, 57 East 2nd Street, Tulsa, from 1915 until 1963. He served in World War I and was a member of Carson-Wilson American Legion Post. He was a member of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce from it's inception.
Ira married Josephine Stone on January 18, 1919 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ira and Josephine had children: Betty Joe and Jean. Following Josephine's passing, he remarried to Elinor Huss on January 21, 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
He was appointed an honorary Colonel by two Kentucky governors, a fifty year charter member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 584; a 32nd Degree Mason, McAlester Consistory; a member of the Tulsa Masonic Lodge; a member of the Tulsa Pioneers Association; and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Ira was sixteen when his family moved to Tulsa in 1905. He worked as a delivery wagon driver for Ratcliff-Sanders Wholesale Grocery Company. He gave up his grocery career to become an electrician and later became a retail merchant, first as a partner and then owner of Dodge and Bond Men's Clothiers, 57 East 2nd Street, Tulsa, from 1915 until 1963. He served in World War I and was a member of Carson-Wilson American Legion Post. He was a member of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce from it's inception.
Ira married Josephine Stone on January 18, 1919 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ira and Josephine had children: Betty Joe and Jean. Following Josephine's passing, he remarried to Elinor Huss on January 21, 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
He was appointed an honorary Colonel by two Kentucky governors, a fifty year charter member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 584; a 32nd Degree Mason, McAlester Consistory; a member of the Tulsa Masonic Lodge; a member of the Tulsa Pioneers Association; and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
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