Seward County KS Archives Photo Tombstone.....Grant, Chester L. 
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Cemetery:           Restlawn Cemetery
Name:               Chester L. Grant

Date Of Photograph: September 2, 2002
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Cemetery:  Restlawn Cemetery

Name:  Chester L. Grant

Date of Birth:  1927

Date of Death:  2007

NOTES/INSCRIPTION/SHARES TOMBSTONE:
(1) Inscription: TOGETHER FOREVER
(2) S/W:  Juanita I.
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Additional Comments:
Birth:  Jan. 11, 1927 in Baker, Texas County, Oklahoma
Death:  Feb. 4, 2007 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas

Chester "Chet" Grant, 80, of Hooker, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, March 4,
2007, at Northwest Texas Heart Hospital in Amarillo, Texas.

Chet was born January 11, 1927, in Baker, Oklahoma, the son of Robert E and
Edith Deaton Grant.

He was united in marriage to Juanita Southern, April 18, 1953, in Clayton, New
Mexico. They were married for 54 years.

Chet served in the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division, stationed in Ft. Benning,
Georgia, and was later sent to Germany, where he served until receiving his
honorable discharge.

Upon returning to the states, he started work for Cities Service Gas Company,
working there for thirty-four years. When he retired, Juanita and Chet traveled
to every state in the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.

Chet built a home in Liberal, Kansas, and later built the home where they now
reside in Hooker, Oklahoma.

Chet enjoyed all types of carpentry work, of which he was a master craftsman. He
was an avid pilot. They owned their plane and flew all over the United States.
He always enjoyed taking his family and friends for rides.

He was a people lover and enjoyed spending time with family. He also enjoyed the
music shows in Nashville, Tennessee.

Chet was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Jim and Donald Grant,
nephew, Randy Grant, and a niece, Janice Roland.

Survivors include his wife, Juanita of the home; two brothers, Robert Grant of
Liberal, Kansas, Dillard Grant and his wife Janice of Turpin, Oklahoma; five
sisters, Bobbie Lundberg and her husband Charles, Fannie Russell, Ola Howie and
her husband, Herb, all of Liberal, Kansas, Nina Lauderdale of Athens, Alabama,
and Glayds Reece of Dodge City, Kansas; one sister-in-law Ethel Grant of
Liberal, Kansas; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 8, 2007, at the First
Christian Church in Liberal, Kansas, with Rev. Stan Hamanoto of the First
Christian Church in Hooker, Oklahoma, and Rev. Bob Griffin officiating.
Interment will be in Restlawn Memorial Gardens in Liberal, Kansas, under the
direction of Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. in Hooker, Oklahoma.

The family suggests memorials be given to the First Christian Church in Hooker
or the First Christian Church in Liberal or the American Cancer Society or a
charity of the donors choice and may be left at Roberts Brothers Funeral Home,
Inc., Box 745, Hooker, Oklahoma 73945.


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