Obit of Everette Byron Scrimsher (s652) - Alfalfa County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Maggie Wettengel 22 May 2003 Return to Alfalfa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/alfalfa/alfalfa.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RYB.2ACE/472.1 From the Enid News and Eagle, Friday, December 10, 1993, page B3. EVERETTE B. SCRIMSHER ALVA - Graveside service for Everette Byron Scrimsher, 76, will be at 10 am Saturday in Pleasant View Cemetery at Dacoma. The Rev. Mark Walters, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Cherokee, will officiate. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel. He was born March 4, 1917, northwest of Freedom to Rule Andy and Cora Belcher Schrimsher and died Thursday, December 9, 1993, at the Cherokee Manor in Cherokee. He attended school near Freedom and worked for farmers and ranchers in the area. He was a veteran of World War II and was a staff sergeant with the 745th Engineer Heavy Shop Company. He served in the Asiatic Pacific Theatre of the war. On January 10, 1949, he married Velma Gottsch. They had two sons. The family lived in Kiowa, Kansas, and later Medicine Lodge, Kansas. In 1959, they moved to Alva and in 1965 to Bloomfield, New Mexico, where he worked as welder in pipeline construction. The family returned to Alva, then moved to Enid and Pond Creek. In 1981, the bought a home in Nesca tunga near the Great Salt Plains Dam. Survivng are his wife; one sister-in-law, Ipha Scrimsher of Alva; and one neice. He was preceded in death by two sons; his parents; two sisters; and three brothers. Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Cherokee Nursing Home. If you want a photo copy of this, just send me your mailing address. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Alfalfa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/alfalfa/alfalfa.html