Veteran of WW II.
h/o Frances Walls.
Clarence was born in Independence, Kansas and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he joined the National Guard at the age of 16. Attended Oklahoma State University (then called Oklahoma A&M) in 1924, where he met Frances Walls. They became married and enjoyed 58 years and four children together until she died in 1986 in Wagoner.
Clarence went to work at Southwestern Bell and helped organize the first union there. He served with the 805th Signal Service during World War II, then returned to work at Southwestern Bell where he enjoyed using his creative talents to devise new systems for their clients. In 1955 Southwestern Bell lent Clarence to Western Electric and he spent nine months inside the Artic Circle in Alaska working on the Defense Early Warning (DEW) line.
He retired from the Army Reserves as a Colonel in the early 1960's.
Clarence was a musician, one of the country's best ululele players of his time. He played the orchestral organ and brought pleasure to many people over the years with his music and poetry. He graduated from Oklahoma University at the age of 63 and took up karate. He entered his 70's bicycling, lifting weights and running in the Pine Mountains of southern Arkansas, where he and Frances retired in 1971. Despite having lost most of his vision in the early 1980's, he completed the requirements for a Masters degree from Oklahoma Universty in 1987, and continued to ride the bicycle around the neighborhood until just his last year.
Clarence's brother, Carl Morton, 1904KS-1973WI, preceded him in death as did both of his sons, Robert Hayne Flora and Clarence Cavert Flora Jr. He was survived by two loving daughters and their husbands, Bill French and George Caveny, four grandsons, two granddaughters.
Birth: in Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas
Census: 1910, age 3 Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas
Family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma in 1911
1918, Dance Party:
1918, music rectial:
Census: 1920, age 12 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at home with parents.
1921, High School church officers:
1921, Boy Scouts:
Census: 1930, age 23 in Luling, Caldwell county, Texas with wife, employed as an oiler in oil fields, residing on north 3rd avenue.
Social Security card issued in Oklahoma before 1951.
1993 he resided at 1805 SW 2nd Place, Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma.
Death: in Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma
Father: Clarence Morton Flora b: 22 APR 1868 in Verdigris now Liberty township, Wilson now Montgomery county, Kansas
Mother: Stella Louise Cavert b: MAR 1876 in Wisconsin
Marriage: Frances Walls b: 8 JAN 1909 in Mississippi
Married: 6 JUN 1928, likely in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Known Children
Clarence Cavert Flora, b c 1929, d: before 1998, whose wife was killed in an 1956 auto accident in New Mexico and their 10 month old son, Robert Bruce Flora was returned to him: OKC Oklahoman news article.
Robert Heyne Flora, b: c1931, d: before 1998.
Sally (Flora) French, b: c1933, five chldren in 1998.
Frances Anita Lizette (Flora) Caveny, b: c 1935, one child in 1998.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Frances Walls.
Clarence was born in Independence, Kansas and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he joined the National Guard at the age of 16. Attended Oklahoma State University (then called Oklahoma A&M) in 1924, where he met Frances Walls. They became married and enjoyed 58 years and four children together until she died in 1986 in Wagoner.
Clarence went to work at Southwestern Bell and helped organize the first union there. He served with the 805th Signal Service during World War II, then returned to work at Southwestern Bell where he enjoyed using his creative talents to devise new systems for their clients. In 1955 Southwestern Bell lent Clarence to Western Electric and he spent nine months inside the Artic Circle in Alaska working on the Defense Early Warning (DEW) line.
He retired from the Army Reserves as a Colonel in the early 1960's.
Clarence was a musician, one of the country's best ululele players of his time. He played the orchestral organ and brought pleasure to many people over the years with his music and poetry. He graduated from Oklahoma University at the age of 63 and took up karate. He entered his 70's bicycling, lifting weights and running in the Pine Mountains of southern Arkansas, where he and Frances retired in 1971. Despite having lost most of his vision in the early 1980's, he completed the requirements for a Masters degree from Oklahoma Universty in 1987, and continued to ride the bicycle around the neighborhood until just his last year.
Clarence's brother, Carl Morton, 1904KS-1973WI, preceded him in death as did both of his sons, Robert Hayne Flora and Clarence Cavert Flora Jr. He was survived by two loving daughters and their husbands, Bill French and George Caveny, four grandsons, two granddaughters.
Birth: in Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas
Census: 1910, age 3 Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas
Family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma in 1911
1918, Dance Party:
1918, music rectial:
Census: 1920, age 12 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at home with parents.
1921, High School church officers:
1921, Boy Scouts:
Census: 1930, age 23 in Luling, Caldwell county, Texas with wife, employed as an oiler in oil fields, residing on north 3rd avenue.
Social Security card issued in Oklahoma before 1951.
1993 he resided at 1805 SW 2nd Place, Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma.
Death: in Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma
Father: Clarence Morton Flora b: 22 APR 1868 in Verdigris now Liberty township, Wilson now Montgomery county, Kansas
Mother: Stella Louise Cavert b: MAR 1876 in Wisconsin
Marriage: Frances Walls b: 8 JAN 1909 in Mississippi
Married: 6 JUN 1928, likely in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Known Children
Clarence Cavert Flora, b c 1929, d: before 1998, whose wife was killed in an 1956 auto accident in New Mexico and their 10 month old son, Robert Bruce Flora was returned to him: OKC Oklahoman news article.
Robert Heyne Flora, b: c1931, d: before 1998.
Sally (Flora) French, b: c1933, five chldren in 1998.
Frances Anita Lizette (Flora) Caveny, b: c 1935, one child in 1998.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Veteran of WW II.
h/o Frances Walls.
Clarence was born in Independence, Kansas and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he joined the National Guard at the age of 16. Attended Oklahoma State University (then called Oklahoma A&M) in 1924, where he met Frances Walls. They became married and enjoyed 58 years and four children together until she died in 1986 in Wagoner.
Clarence went to work at Southwestern Bell and helped organize the first union there. He served with the 805th Signal Service during World War II, then returned to work at Southwestern Bell where he enjoyed using his creative talents to devise new systems for their clients. In 1955 Southwestern Bell lent Clarence to Western Electric and he spent nine months inside the Artic Circle in Alaska working on the Defense Early Warning (DEW) line.
He retired from the Army Reserves as a Colonel in the early 1960's.
Clarence was a musician, one of the country's best ululele players of his time. He played the orchestral organ and brought pleasure to many people over the years with his music and poetry. He graduated from Oklahoma University at the age of 63 and took up karate. He entered his 70's bicycling, lifting weights and running in the Pine Mountains of southern Arkansas, where he and Frances retired in 1971. Despite having lost most of his vision in the early 1980's, he completed the requirements for a Masters degree from Oklahoma Universty in 1987, and continued to ride the bicycle around the neighborhood until just his last year.
Clarence's brother, Carl Morton, 1904KS-1973WI, preceded him in death as did both of his sons, Robert Hayne Flora and Clarence Cavert Flora Jr. He was survived by two loving daughters and their husbands, Bill French and George Caveny, four grandsons, two granddaughters.
Birth: in Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas
Census: 1910, age 3 Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas
Family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma in 1911
1918, Dance Party:
1918, music rectial:
Census: 1920, age 12 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at home with parents.
1921, High School church officers:
1921, Boy Scouts:
Census: 1930, age 23 in Luling, Caldwell county, Texas with wife, employed as an oiler in oil fields, residing on north 3rd avenue.
Social Security card issued in Oklahoma before 1951.
1993 he resided at 1805 SW 2nd Place, Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma.
Death: in Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma
Father: Clarence Morton Flora b: 22 APR 1868 in Verdigris now Liberty township, Wilson now Montgomery county, Kansas
Mother: Stella Louise Cavert b: MAR 1876 in Wisconsin
Marriage: Frances Walls b: 8 JAN 1909 in Mississippi
Married: 6 JUN 1928, likely in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Known Children
Clarence Cavert Flora, b c 1929, d: before 1998, whose wife was killed in an 1956 auto accident in New Mexico and their 10 month old son, Robert Bruce Flora was returned to him: OKC Oklahoman news article.
Robert Heyne Flora, b: c1931, d: before 1998.
Sally (Flora) French, b: c1933, five chldren in 1998.
Frances Anita Lizette (Flora) Caveny, b: c 1935, one child in 1998.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Frances Walls.
Clarence was born in Independence, Kansas and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he joined the National Guard at the age of 16. Attended Oklahoma State University (then called Oklahoma A&M) in 1924, where he met Frances Walls. They became married and enjoyed 58 years and four children together until she died in 1986 in Wagoner.
Clarence went to work at Southwestern Bell and helped organize the first union there. He served with the 805th Signal Service during World War II, then returned to work at Southwestern Bell where he enjoyed using his creative talents to devise new systems for their clients. In 1955 Southwestern Bell lent Clarence to Western Electric and he spent nine months inside the Artic Circle in Alaska working on the Defense Early Warning (DEW) line.
He retired from the Army Reserves as a Colonel in the early 1960's.
Clarence was a musician, one of the country's best ululele players of his time. He played the orchestral organ and brought pleasure to many people over the years with his music and poetry. He graduated from Oklahoma University at the age of 63 and took up karate. He entered his 70's bicycling, lifting weights and running in the Pine Mountains of southern Arkansas, where he and Frances retired in 1971. Despite having lost most of his vision in the early 1980's, he completed the requirements for a Masters degree from Oklahoma Universty in 1987, and continued to ride the bicycle around the neighborhood until just his last year.
Clarence's brother, Carl Morton, 1904KS-1973WI, preceded him in death as did both of his sons, Robert Hayne Flora and Clarence Cavert Flora Jr. He was survived by two loving daughters and their husbands, Bill French and George Caveny, four grandsons, two granddaughters.
Birth: in Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas
Census: 1910, age 3 Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas
Family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county, Oklahoma in 1911
1918, Dance Party:
1918, music rectial:
Census: 1920, age 12 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, at home with parents.
1921, High School church officers:
1921, Boy Scouts:
Census: 1930, age 23 in Luling, Caldwell county, Texas with wife, employed as an oiler in oil fields, residing on north 3rd avenue.
Social Security card issued in Oklahoma before 1951.
1993 he resided at 1805 SW 2nd Place, Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma.
Death: in Wagoner, Wagoner county, Oklahoma
Father: Clarence Morton Flora b: 22 APR 1868 in Verdigris now Liberty township, Wilson now Montgomery county, Kansas
Mother: Stella Louise Cavert b: MAR 1876 in Wisconsin
Marriage: Frances Walls b: 8 JAN 1909 in Mississippi
Married: 6 JUN 1928, likely in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Known Children
Clarence Cavert Flora, b c 1929, d: before 1998, whose wife was killed in an 1956 auto accident in New Mexico and their 10 month old son, Robert Bruce Flora was returned to him: OKC Oklahoman news article.
Robert Heyne Flora, b: c1931, d: before 1998.
Sally (Flora) French, b: c1933, five chldren in 1998.
Frances Anita Lizette (Flora) Caveny, b: c 1935, one child in 1998.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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