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Charles Wade Mapp

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Charles Wade Mapp Veteran

Birth
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5 Nov 1997 (aged 68)
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Lone Grove, Carter County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Source: Daily Ardmoreite

LONE GROVE -- Services for Charles W. Mapp will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Lone Grove with the Rev. Morgan Ashworth officiating. Interment will be at Lone Grove Cemetery.

Mapp died Nov. 5, 1997, in the local hospital after a brief illness. He was born to Oscar and Emma Washington Mapp Oct. 19, 1929, at Leon.

He married Helen Celestine Tapp June 16, 1951, at Marietta, and had lived in Lone Grove 25 years. He served in the Navy, had been a volunteer for the Marietta Fire Department and an active civic, Boy Scout and youth leader. He was employed by OG&E 33 years before he retired in 1987, then became a well known artist of painting, wood carvings and bronze sculpture with exhibits throughout the United States. He received the Peoples Choice Award for sculpture at the 11th Annual Western Art Show.

Survivors include his wife, of the home; two sons, Mark A. and David M.; and daughter, Kimberly A. Coffee, all of Lone Grove; a sister, Pearly Alexander, Moore; and five grandchildren.

Bearers will be Richard King, Vernon Hurst, Darrell Williams, John Smith, Bobby Sharp and Eric Duncan. Honorary bearers are Don Pinkston, Jake Chambers, Calvin Foster, Herman Green, James Folsom, Jim Dodson, James Griffith and Alvin Huey.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 this evening at the Harvey-Douglas Chapel in Lone Grove.

Source: Daily Ardmoreite

LONE GROVE -- Services for Charles W. Mapp will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Lone Grove with the Rev. Morgan Ashworth officiating. Interment will be at Lone Grove Cemetery.

Mapp died Nov. 5, 1997, in the local hospital after a brief illness. He was born to Oscar and Emma Washington Mapp Oct. 19, 1929, at Leon.

He married Helen Celestine Tapp June 16, 1951, at Marietta, and had lived in Lone Grove 25 years. He served in the Navy, had been a volunteer for the Marietta Fire Department and an active civic, Boy Scout and youth leader. He was employed by OG&E 33 years before he retired in 1987, then became a well known artist of painting, wood carvings and bronze sculpture with exhibits throughout the United States. He received the Peoples Choice Award for sculpture at the 11th Annual Western Art Show.

Survivors include his wife, of the home; two sons, Mark A. and David M.; and daughter, Kimberly A. Coffee, all of Lone Grove; a sister, Pearly Alexander, Moore; and five grandchildren.

Bearers will be Richard King, Vernon Hurst, Darrell Williams, John Smith, Bobby Sharp and Eric Duncan. Honorary bearers are Don Pinkston, Jake Chambers, Calvin Foster, Herman Green, James Folsom, Jim Dodson, James Griffith and Alvin Huey.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 this evening at the Harvey-Douglas Chapel in Lone Grove.



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