4 Jan 1965, Athens Daily Review
TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) -
Clyde H. Alexander, 83, of Trinidad, Tex., a widely-known pioneer in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest, died Sunday at the Scott and White Memorial Hospital here following a lengthy Illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas with the pastor, Dr. William M. Elliott, Jr. officiat-ing. Entombment will be in Hill-crest Mausoleum. Born in Millbrook, Pa., Alexander attended public schools and then started to work in the Pennsylvania oil fields as a teamster when a boy of 14. He went to Oklahoma Territory in 1895 and worked for several soil firms, including Douglas and Lacy Co., Gulf Oil Co. and Wolverine Oil Co. In 1917 he was named superintendent of production for Phillips Petroleum Co., at Bartlesville and six years later was named vice president and general manager of Phillips, a post he held until 1934. He was an officer or director of a number of oil, gas and pipeline companies, Including the Creslenn Corp., Creslenn Oll Co. Witco Oll and Gas Co., Corpus Christi Corp., Coastal Recycling Corp., Gulf Plains Corp., , and the Munday Oil Co. He was a former director of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corp. and the Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Alexander was a past president of the Independent Natural Gas Association of America and had been active in the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the American Petroleum Institute, He was married to Miss Euna Babel Tirk in Oklahoma City in 1908. She died in 1959. After living a number of years in Dallas, Alexander moved to his ranch near Trinidad in East Texas in 1942. Alexander had made numerous bequests to charitable and other Institutions. Among his more recent gifts was one of $461,000 for a new student nurses' residence at Scott and White Memorial Hospital here. Survivors include two sons, Creston H. Alexander of Dallas and Glenn E. Alexander of Corpus Christi; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Dimit of Boulder, Colo.; a brother J. C. Alexander of Borger, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr.Alexander and his family donated the land south of Trinidad and the Creslenn Ranch for Creslenn Park, a county-owned recreation and fishing area.
TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) -
Clyde H. Alexander, 83, of Trinidad, Tex., a widely-known pioneer in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest, died Sunday at the Scott and White Memorial Hospital here following a lengthy Illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas with the pastor, Dr. William M. Elliott, Jr. officiat-ing. Entombment will be in Hill-crest Mausoleum. Born in Millbrook, Pa., Alexander attended public schools and then started to work in the Pennsylvania oil fields as a teamster when a boy of 14. He went to Oklahoma Territory in 1895 and worked for several soil firms, including Douglas and Lacy Co., Gulf Oil Co. and Wolverine Oil Co. In 1917 he was named superintendent of production for Phillips Petroleum Co., at Bartlesville and six years later was named vice president and general manager of Phillips, a post he held until 1934. He was an officer or director of a number of oil, gas and pipeline companies, Including the Creslenn Corp., Creslenn Oll Co. Witco Oll and Gas Co., Corpus Christi Corp., Coastal Recycling Corp., Gulf Plains Corp., , and the Munday Oil Co. He was a former director of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corp. and the Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Alexander was a past president of the Independent Natural Gas Association of America and had been active in the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the American Petroleum Institute, He was married to Miss Euna Babel Tirk in Oklahoma City in 1908. She died in 1959. After living a number of years in Dallas, Alexander moved to his ranch near Trinidad in East Texas in 1942. Alexander had made numerous bequests to charitable and other Institutions. Among his more recent gifts was one of $461,000 for a new student nurses' residence at Scott and White Memorial Hospital here. Survivors include two sons, Creston H. Alexander of Dallas and Glenn E. Alexander of Corpus Christi; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Dimit of Boulder, Colo.; a brother J. C. Alexander of Borger, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr.Alexander and his family donated the land south of Trinidad and the Creslenn Ranch for Creslenn Park, a county-owned recreation and fishing area.
4 Jan 1965, Athens Daily Review
TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) -
Clyde H. Alexander, 83, of Trinidad, Tex., a widely-known pioneer in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest, died Sunday at the Scott and White Memorial Hospital here following a lengthy Illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas with the pastor, Dr. William M. Elliott, Jr. officiat-ing. Entombment will be in Hill-crest Mausoleum. Born in Millbrook, Pa., Alexander attended public schools and then started to work in the Pennsylvania oil fields as a teamster when a boy of 14. He went to Oklahoma Territory in 1895 and worked for several soil firms, including Douglas and Lacy Co., Gulf Oil Co. and Wolverine Oil Co. In 1917 he was named superintendent of production for Phillips Petroleum Co., at Bartlesville and six years later was named vice president and general manager of Phillips, a post he held until 1934. He was an officer or director of a number of oil, gas and pipeline companies, Including the Creslenn Corp., Creslenn Oll Co. Witco Oll and Gas Co., Corpus Christi Corp., Coastal Recycling Corp., Gulf Plains Corp., , and the Munday Oil Co. He was a former director of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corp. and the Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Alexander was a past president of the Independent Natural Gas Association of America and had been active in the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the American Petroleum Institute, He was married to Miss Euna Babel Tirk in Oklahoma City in 1908. She died in 1959. After living a number of years in Dallas, Alexander moved to his ranch near Trinidad in East Texas in 1942. Alexander had made numerous bequests to charitable and other Institutions. Among his more recent gifts was one of $461,000 for a new student nurses' residence at Scott and White Memorial Hospital here. Survivors include two sons, Creston H. Alexander of Dallas and Glenn E. Alexander of Corpus Christi; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Dimit of Boulder, Colo.; a brother J. C. Alexander of Borger, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr.Alexander and his family donated the land south of Trinidad and the Creslenn Ranch for Creslenn Park, a county-owned recreation and fishing area.
TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) -
Clyde H. Alexander, 83, of Trinidad, Tex., a widely-known pioneer in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest, died Sunday at the Scott and White Memorial Hospital here following a lengthy Illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas with the pastor, Dr. William M. Elliott, Jr. officiat-ing. Entombment will be in Hill-crest Mausoleum. Born in Millbrook, Pa., Alexander attended public schools and then started to work in the Pennsylvania oil fields as a teamster when a boy of 14. He went to Oklahoma Territory in 1895 and worked for several soil firms, including Douglas and Lacy Co., Gulf Oil Co. and Wolverine Oil Co. In 1917 he was named superintendent of production for Phillips Petroleum Co., at Bartlesville and six years later was named vice president and general manager of Phillips, a post he held until 1934. He was an officer or director of a number of oil, gas and pipeline companies, Including the Creslenn Corp., Creslenn Oll Co. Witco Oll and Gas Co., Corpus Christi Corp., Coastal Recycling Corp., Gulf Plains Corp., , and the Munday Oil Co. He was a former director of the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corp. and the Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Alexander was a past president of the Independent Natural Gas Association of America and had been active in the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the American Petroleum Institute, He was married to Miss Euna Babel Tirk in Oklahoma City in 1908. She died in 1959. After living a number of years in Dallas, Alexander moved to his ranch near Trinidad in East Texas in 1942. Alexander had made numerous bequests to charitable and other Institutions. Among his more recent gifts was one of $461,000 for a new student nurses' residence at Scott and White Memorial Hospital here. Survivors include two sons, Creston H. Alexander of Dallas and Glenn E. Alexander of Corpus Christi; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Dimit of Boulder, Colo.; a brother J. C. Alexander of Borger, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr.Alexander and his family donated the land south of Trinidad and the Creslenn Ranch for Creslenn Park, a county-owned recreation and fishing area.
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