Ragsdale, Charles E., 74, restaurateur, died Thursday. Services pending. Cremation Society.
Published in the Tulsa World 11/30/2012
Charles Eldon Ragsdale Sr., the longtime owner and operator of different restaurants and bar and grills and a resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, entered into eternal rest Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
Charles was born May 6, 1938 in Chandler, Oklahoma to Guy Edward Ragsdale and Thelma Beatrice (Jones) Ragsdale who have preceded him in death. He is survived by his children: Charles E. Ragsdale Jr., Mary L. Koch, and Cheri L. Fox; five grandchildren; and four siblings: Elnora, Glenda, Bill, and Guy.
Article below from Tulsa news 1992
Cooking Up Some Memories
Don't ask Charlie Ragsdale to sing at your next get-together.
He can cook. But he Can't sing.
Ragsdale manages Charley's, the restaurant-club at Comfort
Suites, 8338 E. 61st St., in Tulsa.
On Friday nights, his club offers the singalong
entertainment package, karaoke. Several customers display
their vocal talents. But not Ragsdale.
"I did try it one time," he says with a
smile. "There were some dogs looking in the
window there and they ran off. They just
took off, and I've never seen those dogs
ag-Haiins ."singing might send dogs fleeing, but his
reputation in the kitchen is right on key.
Ragsdale, a native of Chandler, has owned
or worked in some 15 to 20 restaurants and
clubs since he was 16 and did a variety of
jobs at the Howard Johnson restaurant on
the Turner Turnpike near his hometown.
He worked at Ziegfield's, that
Iong-departed nightclub that operated on 7lst
Sheridan Road, from 1979 until 1982.
Ragsdale
Street east of
Some of the biggest names in the entertainment field played
the Jon Bayouth showroom.
"If I couid name all the people that's been there that I've
seen, It probably would take up a page and a half," the
49-vear-old Rassdale said.
'rlt was reall! a nice club. It was probably the nicest one
Tulsa's ever had, and maybe they won't see anything like it for
-y ears to come." He rattled off such names as Johnny Cash, Roy Clark,
Loretta Lvnn. Conwav Twittv.
"Marty'Robbins wis realty my favorite. We got to be really
good friends. When he came to town, we'd go out and have - dinner sometimes," Ragsdale said. "I was sick one time and
he came to the hospital and visited me. He was really a nice
-p erson." Ragsdale, who operates his club six nights a week, recalled
Jerrv Lee Lewis in a soecial wav.
Zi6gfield's rented a liandsome'grand piano for the rock 'n'
roll star.
Lewis trashed it, Ragsdale said. "He got up on it with his
boots with nails in them and just marked that dude up,"
Ragsdale said, laughing. "Then he threw the stool out into the
audience and broke it.
"I won't ever forget Jerry Lee Lewis."
Published in the Tulsa World 11/30/2012
Charles Eldon Ragsdale Sr., the longtime owner and operator of different restaurants and bar and grills and a resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, entered into eternal rest Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
Charles was born May 6, 1938 in Chandler, Oklahoma to Guy Edward Ragsdale and Thelma Beatrice (Jones) Ragsdale who have preceded him in death. He is survived by his children: Charles E. Ragsdale Jr., Mary L. Koch, and Cheri L. Fox; five grandchildren; and four siblings: Elnora, Glenda, Bill, and Guy.
Article below from Tulsa news 1992
Cooking Up Some Memories
Don't ask Charlie Ragsdale to sing at your next get-together.
He can cook. But he Can't sing.
Ragsdale manages Charley's, the restaurant-club at Comfort
Suites, 8338 E. 61st St., in Tulsa.
On Friday nights, his club offers the singalong
entertainment package, karaoke. Several customers display
their vocal talents. But not Ragsdale.
"I did try it one time," he says with a
smile. "There were some dogs looking in the
window there and they ran off. They just
took off, and I've never seen those dogs
ag-Haiins ."singing might send dogs fleeing, but his
reputation in the kitchen is right on key.
Ragsdale, a native of Chandler, has owned
or worked in some 15 to 20 restaurants and
clubs since he was 16 and did a variety of
jobs at the Howard Johnson restaurant on
the Turner Turnpike near his hometown.
He worked at Ziegfield's, that
Iong-departed nightclub that operated on 7lst
Sheridan Road, from 1979 until 1982.
Ragsdale
Street east of
Some of the biggest names in the entertainment field played
the Jon Bayouth showroom.
"If I couid name all the people that's been there that I've
seen, It probably would take up a page and a half," the
49-vear-old Rassdale said.
'rlt was reall! a nice club. It was probably the nicest one
Tulsa's ever had, and maybe they won't see anything like it for
-y ears to come." He rattled off such names as Johnny Cash, Roy Clark,
Loretta Lvnn. Conwav Twittv.
"Marty'Robbins wis realty my favorite. We got to be really
good friends. When he came to town, we'd go out and have - dinner sometimes," Ragsdale said. "I was sick one time and
he came to the hospital and visited me. He was really a nice
-p erson." Ragsdale, who operates his club six nights a week, recalled
Jerrv Lee Lewis in a soecial wav.
Zi6gfield's rented a liandsome'grand piano for the rock 'n'
roll star.
Lewis trashed it, Ragsdale said. "He got up on it with his
boots with nails in them and just marked that dude up,"
Ragsdale said, laughing. "Then he threw the stool out into the
audience and broke it.
"I won't ever forget Jerry Lee Lewis."
Ragsdale, Charles E., 74, restaurateur, died Thursday. Services pending. Cremation Society.
Published in the Tulsa World 11/30/2012
Charles Eldon Ragsdale Sr., the longtime owner and operator of different restaurants and bar and grills and a resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, entered into eternal rest Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
Charles was born May 6, 1938 in Chandler, Oklahoma to Guy Edward Ragsdale and Thelma Beatrice (Jones) Ragsdale who have preceded him in death. He is survived by his children: Charles E. Ragsdale Jr., Mary L. Koch, and Cheri L. Fox; five grandchildren; and four siblings: Elnora, Glenda, Bill, and Guy.
Article below from Tulsa news 1992
Cooking Up Some Memories
Don't ask Charlie Ragsdale to sing at your next get-together.
He can cook. But he Can't sing.
Ragsdale manages Charley's, the restaurant-club at Comfort
Suites, 8338 E. 61st St., in Tulsa.
On Friday nights, his club offers the singalong
entertainment package, karaoke. Several customers display
their vocal talents. But not Ragsdale.
"I did try it one time," he says with a
smile. "There were some dogs looking in the
window there and they ran off. They just
took off, and I've never seen those dogs
ag-Haiins ."singing might send dogs fleeing, but his
reputation in the kitchen is right on key.
Ragsdale, a native of Chandler, has owned
or worked in some 15 to 20 restaurants and
clubs since he was 16 and did a variety of
jobs at the Howard Johnson restaurant on
the Turner Turnpike near his hometown.
He worked at Ziegfield's, that
Iong-departed nightclub that operated on 7lst
Sheridan Road, from 1979 until 1982.
Ragsdale
Street east of
Some of the biggest names in the entertainment field played
the Jon Bayouth showroom.
"If I couid name all the people that's been there that I've
seen, It probably would take up a page and a half," the
49-vear-old Rassdale said.
'rlt was reall! a nice club. It was probably the nicest one
Tulsa's ever had, and maybe they won't see anything like it for
-y ears to come." He rattled off such names as Johnny Cash, Roy Clark,
Loretta Lvnn. Conwav Twittv.
"Marty'Robbins wis realty my favorite. We got to be really
good friends. When he came to town, we'd go out and have - dinner sometimes," Ragsdale said. "I was sick one time and
he came to the hospital and visited me. He was really a nice
-p erson." Ragsdale, who operates his club six nights a week, recalled
Jerrv Lee Lewis in a soecial wav.
Zi6gfield's rented a liandsome'grand piano for the rock 'n'
roll star.
Lewis trashed it, Ragsdale said. "He got up on it with his
boots with nails in them and just marked that dude up,"
Ragsdale said, laughing. "Then he threw the stool out into the
audience and broke it.
"I won't ever forget Jerry Lee Lewis."
Published in the Tulsa World 11/30/2012
Charles Eldon Ragsdale Sr., the longtime owner and operator of different restaurants and bar and grills and a resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, entered into eternal rest Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
Charles was born May 6, 1938 in Chandler, Oklahoma to Guy Edward Ragsdale and Thelma Beatrice (Jones) Ragsdale who have preceded him in death. He is survived by his children: Charles E. Ragsdale Jr., Mary L. Koch, and Cheri L. Fox; five grandchildren; and four siblings: Elnora, Glenda, Bill, and Guy.
Article below from Tulsa news 1992
Cooking Up Some Memories
Don't ask Charlie Ragsdale to sing at your next get-together.
He can cook. But he Can't sing.
Ragsdale manages Charley's, the restaurant-club at Comfort
Suites, 8338 E. 61st St., in Tulsa.
On Friday nights, his club offers the singalong
entertainment package, karaoke. Several customers display
their vocal talents. But not Ragsdale.
"I did try it one time," he says with a
smile. "There were some dogs looking in the
window there and they ran off. They just
took off, and I've never seen those dogs
ag-Haiins ."singing might send dogs fleeing, but his
reputation in the kitchen is right on key.
Ragsdale, a native of Chandler, has owned
or worked in some 15 to 20 restaurants and
clubs since he was 16 and did a variety of
jobs at the Howard Johnson restaurant on
the Turner Turnpike near his hometown.
He worked at Ziegfield's, that
Iong-departed nightclub that operated on 7lst
Sheridan Road, from 1979 until 1982.
Ragsdale
Street east of
Some of the biggest names in the entertainment field played
the Jon Bayouth showroom.
"If I couid name all the people that's been there that I've
seen, It probably would take up a page and a half," the
49-vear-old Rassdale said.
'rlt was reall! a nice club. It was probably the nicest one
Tulsa's ever had, and maybe they won't see anything like it for
-y ears to come." He rattled off such names as Johnny Cash, Roy Clark,
Loretta Lvnn. Conwav Twittv.
"Marty'Robbins wis realty my favorite. We got to be really
good friends. When he came to town, we'd go out and have - dinner sometimes," Ragsdale said. "I was sick one time and
he came to the hospital and visited me. He was really a nice
-p erson." Ragsdale, who operates his club six nights a week, recalled
Jerrv Lee Lewis in a soecial wav.
Zi6gfield's rented a liandsome'grand piano for the rock 'n'
roll star.
Lewis trashed it, Ragsdale said. "He got up on it with his
boots with nails in them and just marked that dude up,"
Ragsdale said, laughing. "Then he threw the stool out into the
audience and broke it.
"I won't ever forget Jerry Lee Lewis."
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