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Earl Vernon Walters

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Earl Vernon Walters

Birth
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, USA
Death
18 Feb 1973 (aged 65)
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Earl Vernon Walters was the oldest child of 11 born to Bert Walters and Pearl Watts; his siblings include: Olaf , Andrew (Andy), Mildred, Juanita, Lorene, Forrest, Freda, Retha, Virginia, and Billy Gean. The Walters Family lived in Oregon for a short time then to eastern OK and finally to Fort Gibson, OK, in the 20's.

He married in early 1928 at the First Baptist Church at Fort Gibson, OK, Jewel Mae Woods (buried at Citizens); they had the following 6 daughters: Earldean, Norman Ruth, Rosemary, Wanda Lee, Donna Jean, and Linda Carol.

Earl and Jewel moved to the house on Coppinger in 1950 where they died; Rosemary still resides there.

Earl worked pumping sand and gravel from the river; while on his way to Muskogee to work in his Model A, he was hit by a train while attempting to cross the railroad tracks on old Highway 62. His car was destroyed, but Earl only received 2 cuts. He also worked for Yahola Sand and Gravel for a few years, then as a night watchman when the Fort Gibson Dam was being constructed, and finally at OG&E on the AR River where he retired.

Earl suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in St. John's Hospital in Tulsa.



Earl Vernon Walters was the oldest child of 11 born to Bert Walters and Pearl Watts; his siblings include: Olaf , Andrew (Andy), Mildred, Juanita, Lorene, Forrest, Freda, Retha, Virginia, and Billy Gean. The Walters Family lived in Oregon for a short time then to eastern OK and finally to Fort Gibson, OK, in the 20's.

He married in early 1928 at the First Baptist Church at Fort Gibson, OK, Jewel Mae Woods (buried at Citizens); they had the following 6 daughters: Earldean, Norman Ruth, Rosemary, Wanda Lee, Donna Jean, and Linda Carol.

Earl and Jewel moved to the house on Coppinger in 1950 where they died; Rosemary still resides there.

Earl worked pumping sand and gravel from the river; while on his way to Muskogee to work in his Model A, he was hit by a train while attempting to cross the railroad tracks on old Highway 62. His car was destroyed, but Earl only received 2 cuts. He also worked for Yahola Sand and Gravel for a few years, then as a night watchman when the Fort Gibson Dam was being constructed, and finally at OG&E on the AR River where he retired.

Earl suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in St. John's Hospital in Tulsa.





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