Leo Winters was a former Oklahoma State Treasurer and Lieutenant Governor.
He was the son of German immigrants from the Ukraine, David & Gertrude (Stroschein) Winters.
After graduating from Panhandle State U., Leo earned a law degree from OU School of Law in 1957. He was also a member of the Army Air Corps during WWII and a B-17 pilot in Africa and the Mediteranean. As secretary of the OK State Election Board, he investigated & prosecuted those involved in election scandals.
He was elected to the OK Hall of Fame & received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the New England School of Law in Boston.
In addition to his parents & step-mother, Leo is preceded in death by three sons, Kenneth Barnard Winters & Philip Vance Winters, who died in infancy, and Leo Winters II, an attorney in Okla. City. He is survived by two daughters, a step-daughter, a son, a granddaughter, and five sisters.
Memorial services will be held March 19 at 2 pm. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. Interment of cremains will be in the Hooker Cemetery.
He was the son of German immigrants from the Ukraine, David & Gertrude (Stroschein) Winters.
After graduating from Panhandle State U., Leo earned a law degree from OU School of Law in 1957. He was also a member of the Army Air Corps during WWII and a B-17 pilot in Africa and the Mediteranean. As secretary of the OK State Election Board, he investigated & prosecuted those involved in election scandals.
He was elected to the OK Hall of Fame & received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the New England School of Law in Boston.
In addition to his parents & step-mother, Leo is preceded in death by three sons, Kenneth Barnard Winters & Philip Vance Winters, who died in infancy, and Leo Winters II, an attorney in Okla. City. He is survived by two daughters, a step-daughter, a son, a granddaughter, and five sisters.
Memorial services will be held March 19 at 2 pm. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. Interment of cremains will be in the Hooker Cemetery.
Leo Winters was a former Oklahoma State Treasurer and Lieutenant Governor.
He was the son of German immigrants from the Ukraine, David & Gertrude (Stroschein) Winters.
After graduating from Panhandle State U., Leo earned a law degree from OU School of Law in 1957. He was also a member of the Army Air Corps during WWII and a B-17 pilot in Africa and the Mediteranean. As secretary of the OK State Election Board, he investigated & prosecuted those involved in election scandals.
He was elected to the OK Hall of Fame & received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the New England School of Law in Boston.
In addition to his parents & step-mother, Leo is preceded in death by three sons, Kenneth Barnard Winters & Philip Vance Winters, who died in infancy, and Leo Winters II, an attorney in Okla. City. He is survived by two daughters, a step-daughter, a son, a granddaughter, and five sisters.
Memorial services will be held March 19 at 2 pm. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. Interment of cremains will be in the Hooker Cemetery.
He was the son of German immigrants from the Ukraine, David & Gertrude (Stroschein) Winters.
After graduating from Panhandle State U., Leo earned a law degree from OU School of Law in 1957. He was also a member of the Army Air Corps during WWII and a B-17 pilot in Africa and the Mediteranean. As secretary of the OK State Election Board, he investigated & prosecuted those involved in election scandals.
He was elected to the OK Hall of Fame & received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the New England School of Law in Boston.
In addition to his parents & step-mother, Leo is preceded in death by three sons, Kenneth Barnard Winters & Philip Vance Winters, who died in infancy, and Leo Winters II, an attorney in Okla. City. He is survived by two daughters, a step-daughter, a son, a granddaughter, and five sisters.
Memorial services will be held March 19 at 2 pm. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. Interment of cremains will be in the Hooker Cemetery.
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U.S., American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Obituaries, 1899-2012
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