Elix Earp, 95, of Hartshorne, died Monday, May 25th, at his home in Hartshorne. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Mountain Station Cemetery.
Elix was born Feb. 1, 1925 in Locust Grove, OK. to Benjamin and Myrtle (Carpenter) Earp. His family located in Hartshorne when he was 5 years old. At age 19 he entered military service with the U. S. Navy and served at the Panama Canal until his honorable discharge on Jan. 25, 1946. While in the Navy, he gained carpentry skills helping build barracks for Navy recruits. Once, he returned to Hartshorne he traveled to Salinas, CA with his Uncle and Aunt Carpenter’s and worked at a beet sugar plant.
Back in Hartshorne after leaving Salinas, he was asked by Clarence Green to help him pick cotton from a field. Clarence was wanting to get enough money to buy a car. This is where Elix met Mary Green, Preacher Green’s daughter. His brother-in-law, Clarence, later claimed to be the reason they met and fell in love. Elix and Mary Bernice Green were married on July 18, 1949. They had 68 years of marriage. He never left or arrived at the house without giving her a kiss, and many days bringing her wild flowers.
After they were married, over the next 6 years, he worked various jobs in California: manager of a cotton gin, worked for a redwood logging company and in New Mexico framing houses. They always returned to Hartshorne and once the children were starting school; they never left. He began his career of building and remodeling houses with Vester Waldrop and later with Grady Green. The local cabinet maker, Bill Martine began telling everyone if they wanted a square and level house to get Elix to build it. He loved to tell that story and his son-in-law had him a belt made with Square and Level Earp on it. He was always there for senior citizens who needed help with lighting their furnaces in the winter and in any way he could help. The last few years, he would talk about how older people should not be left alone. He had seen too many sad situations of older people without anyone to help them. He and Mary were part time parents to many foster children and many nieces and nephews.
Elix was a past member of the Hartshorne American Legion Post and in his spare time he liked to hunt and fish and travel.
His twin son, Eddy preceded him in death in November 2015 and then his beloved Mary in April 2017, and his parents, and all of his siblings, Ethel Earp, Lily Hughes, Ina Perdue, Floyd Earp, Dora Scyrkels, Flora Ross, Gladys Hronich, Lloyd Earp, and Goldie LeAnn Green.
Elix is survived by his children, daughter, Janie Wilk of Caldwell, TX, daughter, Pamela and Edward Henne of Hartshorne, daughter, Darla Earp and Ford Wattles of The Village, OK., son, Jonathan Earp of Tulsa, OK, son, Blake and Krystal Earp of Moore, OK, and daughter, Whitney and Jay Baca of Stillwater, OK; and 11 grandchildren.
Elix was born Feb. 1, 1925 in Locust Grove, OK. to Benjamin and Myrtle (Carpenter) Earp. His family located in Hartshorne when he was 5 years old. At age 19 he entered military service with the U. S. Navy and served at the Panama Canal until his honorable discharge on Jan. 25, 1946. While in the Navy, he gained carpentry skills helping build barracks for Navy recruits. Once, he returned to Hartshorne he traveled to Salinas, CA with his Uncle and Aunt Carpenter’s and worked at a beet sugar plant.
Back in Hartshorne after leaving Salinas, he was asked by Clarence Green to help him pick cotton from a field. Clarence was wanting to get enough money to buy a car. This is where Elix met Mary Green, Preacher Green’s daughter. His brother-in-law, Clarence, later claimed to be the reason they met and fell in love. Elix and Mary Bernice Green were married on July 18, 1949. They had 68 years of marriage. He never left or arrived at the house without giving her a kiss, and many days bringing her wild flowers.
After they were married, over the next 6 years, he worked various jobs in California: manager of a cotton gin, worked for a redwood logging company and in New Mexico framing houses. They always returned to Hartshorne and once the children were starting school; they never left. He began his career of building and remodeling houses with Vester Waldrop and later with Grady Green. The local cabinet maker, Bill Martine began telling everyone if they wanted a square and level house to get Elix to build it. He loved to tell that story and his son-in-law had him a belt made with Square and Level Earp on it. He was always there for senior citizens who needed help with lighting their furnaces in the winter and in any way he could help. The last few years, he would talk about how older people should not be left alone. He had seen too many sad situations of older people without anyone to help them. He and Mary were part time parents to many foster children and many nieces and nephews.
Elix was a past member of the Hartshorne American Legion Post and in his spare time he liked to hunt and fish and travel.
His twin son, Eddy preceded him in death in November 2015 and then his beloved Mary in April 2017, and his parents, and all of his siblings, Ethel Earp, Lily Hughes, Ina Perdue, Floyd Earp, Dora Scyrkels, Flora Ross, Gladys Hronich, Lloyd Earp, and Goldie LeAnn Green.
Elix is survived by his children, daughter, Janie Wilk of Caldwell, TX, daughter, Pamela and Edward Henne of Hartshorne, daughter, Darla Earp and Ford Wattles of The Village, OK., son, Jonathan Earp of Tulsa, OK, son, Blake and Krystal Earp of Moore, OK, and daughter, Whitney and Jay Baca of Stillwater, OK; and 11 grandchildren.
Elix Earp, 95, of Hartshorne, died Monday, May 25th, at his home in Hartshorne. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Mountain Station Cemetery.
Elix was born Feb. 1, 1925 in Locust Grove, OK. to Benjamin and Myrtle (Carpenter) Earp. His family located in Hartshorne when he was 5 years old. At age 19 he entered military service with the U. S. Navy and served at the Panama Canal until his honorable discharge on Jan. 25, 1946. While in the Navy, he gained carpentry skills helping build barracks for Navy recruits. Once, he returned to Hartshorne he traveled to Salinas, CA with his Uncle and Aunt Carpenter’s and worked at a beet sugar plant.
Back in Hartshorne after leaving Salinas, he was asked by Clarence Green to help him pick cotton from a field. Clarence was wanting to get enough money to buy a car. This is where Elix met Mary Green, Preacher Green’s daughter. His brother-in-law, Clarence, later claimed to be the reason they met and fell in love. Elix and Mary Bernice Green were married on July 18, 1949. They had 68 years of marriage. He never left or arrived at the house without giving her a kiss, and many days bringing her wild flowers.
After they were married, over the next 6 years, he worked various jobs in California: manager of a cotton gin, worked for a redwood logging company and in New Mexico framing houses. They always returned to Hartshorne and once the children were starting school; they never left. He began his career of building and remodeling houses with Vester Waldrop and later with Grady Green. The local cabinet maker, Bill Martine began telling everyone if they wanted a square and level house to get Elix to build it. He loved to tell that story and his son-in-law had him a belt made with Square and Level Earp on it. He was always there for senior citizens who needed help with lighting their furnaces in the winter and in any way he could help. The last few years, he would talk about how older people should not be left alone. He had seen too many sad situations of older people without anyone to help them. He and Mary were part time parents to many foster children and many nieces and nephews.
Elix was a past member of the Hartshorne American Legion Post and in his spare time he liked to hunt and fish and travel.
His twin son, Eddy preceded him in death in November 2015 and then his beloved Mary in April 2017, and his parents, and all of his siblings, Ethel Earp, Lily Hughes, Ina Perdue, Floyd Earp, Dora Scyrkels, Flora Ross, Gladys Hronich, Lloyd Earp, and Goldie LeAnn Green.
Elix is survived by his children, daughter, Janie Wilk of Caldwell, TX, daughter, Pamela and Edward Henne of Hartshorne, daughter, Darla Earp and Ford Wattles of The Village, OK., son, Jonathan Earp of Tulsa, OK, son, Blake and Krystal Earp of Moore, OK, and daughter, Whitney and Jay Baca of Stillwater, OK; and 11 grandchildren.
Elix was born Feb. 1, 1925 in Locust Grove, OK. to Benjamin and Myrtle (Carpenter) Earp. His family located in Hartshorne when he was 5 years old. At age 19 he entered military service with the U. S. Navy and served at the Panama Canal until his honorable discharge on Jan. 25, 1946. While in the Navy, he gained carpentry skills helping build barracks for Navy recruits. Once, he returned to Hartshorne he traveled to Salinas, CA with his Uncle and Aunt Carpenter’s and worked at a beet sugar plant.
Back in Hartshorne after leaving Salinas, he was asked by Clarence Green to help him pick cotton from a field. Clarence was wanting to get enough money to buy a car. This is where Elix met Mary Green, Preacher Green’s daughter. His brother-in-law, Clarence, later claimed to be the reason they met and fell in love. Elix and Mary Bernice Green were married on July 18, 1949. They had 68 years of marriage. He never left or arrived at the house without giving her a kiss, and many days bringing her wild flowers.
After they were married, over the next 6 years, he worked various jobs in California: manager of a cotton gin, worked for a redwood logging company and in New Mexico framing houses. They always returned to Hartshorne and once the children were starting school; they never left. He began his career of building and remodeling houses with Vester Waldrop and later with Grady Green. The local cabinet maker, Bill Martine began telling everyone if they wanted a square and level house to get Elix to build it. He loved to tell that story and his son-in-law had him a belt made with Square and Level Earp on it. He was always there for senior citizens who needed help with lighting their furnaces in the winter and in any way he could help. The last few years, he would talk about how older people should not be left alone. He had seen too many sad situations of older people without anyone to help them. He and Mary were part time parents to many foster children and many nieces and nephews.
Elix was a past member of the Hartshorne American Legion Post and in his spare time he liked to hunt and fish and travel.
His twin son, Eddy preceded him in death in November 2015 and then his beloved Mary in April 2017, and his parents, and all of his siblings, Ethel Earp, Lily Hughes, Ina Perdue, Floyd Earp, Dora Scyrkels, Flora Ross, Gladys Hronich, Lloyd Earp, and Goldie LeAnn Green.
Elix is survived by his children, daughter, Janie Wilk of Caldwell, TX, daughter, Pamela and Edward Henne of Hartshorne, daughter, Darla Earp and Ford Wattles of The Village, OK., son, Jonathan Earp of Tulsa, OK, son, Blake and Krystal Earp of Moore, OK, and daughter, Whitney and Jay Baca of Stillwater, OK; and 11 grandchildren.
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