The Oklahoman, Thursday, May 28, 1981:
Services for longtime Oklahoma City restaurateur, Vernon C. Eckles, will be at 4 pm Friday at Hahn-Cook,Street & Draper Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Rose Hill Mausoleum. Eckles, 75, died Tuesday night at St Anthony Hospital following a long illness.
Eckles and his wife, Loretta, were owner-operators for 25 years of the Patio Restaurant at Classen Circle. Eckles sold the reataurant and retired in 1978, ending more than 50 years in the restaurant business.
Eckles, a native of Alva, entered the restaurant business as a bus-boy at the old downtown Oklahoma City bus station, where he met his future wife, who was then a waitress at Osburn's downtown chicken restaurant. Eckles worked at Beverley's Drive-in on Lincoln Blvd from 1928-54, when he purchased what was to become the Patio Restaurant, 5102 Classen Blvd.
A World War II Navy veteran who served with the office of Price Stabilization after the war, Eckles was active in the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, the Flying Sooner Fan Club, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survived by wife, Loretta; brother, John; sisters, Gladys Patterson, Clara Combs, Edna Bliss; sister-in-law, Minnie Rocttener(?); grandson, Bobby Duane. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Memorial Research Foundation's Heart Fund.
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Married Loreta Lovett 2 August 1930 in Oklahoma County, OK
Services for longtime Oklahoma City restaurateur, Vernon C. Eckles, will be at 4 pm Friday at Hahn-Cook,Street & Draper Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Rose Hill Mausoleum. Eckles, 75, died Tuesday night at St Anthony Hospital following a long illness.
Eckles and his wife, Loretta, were owner-operators for 25 years of the Patio Restaurant at Classen Circle. Eckles sold the reataurant and retired in 1978, ending more than 50 years in the restaurant business.
Eckles, a native of Alva, entered the restaurant business as a bus-boy at the old downtown Oklahoma City bus station, where he met his future wife, who was then a waitress at Osburn's downtown chicken restaurant. Eckles worked at Beverley's Drive-in on Lincoln Blvd from 1928-54, when he purchased what was to become the Patio Restaurant, 5102 Classen Blvd.
A World War II Navy veteran who served with the office of Price Stabilization after the war, Eckles was active in the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, the Flying Sooner Fan Club, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survived by wife, Loretta; brother, John; sisters, Gladys Patterson, Clara Combs, Edna Bliss; sister-in-law, Minnie Rocttener(?); grandson, Bobby Duane. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Memorial Research Foundation's Heart Fund.
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Married Loreta Lovett 2 August 1930 in Oklahoma County, OK
The Oklahoman, Thursday, May 28, 1981:
Services for longtime Oklahoma City restaurateur, Vernon C. Eckles, will be at 4 pm Friday at Hahn-Cook,Street & Draper Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Rose Hill Mausoleum. Eckles, 75, died Tuesday night at St Anthony Hospital following a long illness.
Eckles and his wife, Loretta, were owner-operators for 25 years of the Patio Restaurant at Classen Circle. Eckles sold the reataurant and retired in 1978, ending more than 50 years in the restaurant business.
Eckles, a native of Alva, entered the restaurant business as a bus-boy at the old downtown Oklahoma City bus station, where he met his future wife, who was then a waitress at Osburn's downtown chicken restaurant. Eckles worked at Beverley's Drive-in on Lincoln Blvd from 1928-54, when he purchased what was to become the Patio Restaurant, 5102 Classen Blvd.
A World War II Navy veteran who served with the office of Price Stabilization after the war, Eckles was active in the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, the Flying Sooner Fan Club, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survived by wife, Loretta; brother, John; sisters, Gladys Patterson, Clara Combs, Edna Bliss; sister-in-law, Minnie Rocttener(?); grandson, Bobby Duane. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Memorial Research Foundation's Heart Fund.
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Married Loreta Lovett 2 August 1930 in Oklahoma County, OK
Services for longtime Oklahoma City restaurateur, Vernon C. Eckles, will be at 4 pm Friday at Hahn-Cook,Street & Draper Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Rose Hill Mausoleum. Eckles, 75, died Tuesday night at St Anthony Hospital following a long illness.
Eckles and his wife, Loretta, were owner-operators for 25 years of the Patio Restaurant at Classen Circle. Eckles sold the reataurant and retired in 1978, ending more than 50 years in the restaurant business.
Eckles, a native of Alva, entered the restaurant business as a bus-boy at the old downtown Oklahoma City bus station, where he met his future wife, who was then a waitress at Osburn's downtown chicken restaurant. Eckles worked at Beverley's Drive-in on Lincoln Blvd from 1928-54, when he purchased what was to become the Patio Restaurant, 5102 Classen Blvd.
A World War II Navy veteran who served with the office of Price Stabilization after the war, Eckles was active in the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, the Flying Sooner Fan Club, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Oklahoma Alumni Association. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
Survived by wife, Loretta; brother, John; sisters, Gladys Patterson, Clara Combs, Edna Bliss; sister-in-law, Minnie Rocttener(?); grandson, Bobby Duane. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Memorial Research Foundation's Heart Fund.
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Married Loreta Lovett 2 August 1930 in Oklahoma County, OK
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