Beckham County, OK - Obits: Floyd Franklin Glaze, 1928 14 Feb 2008 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ GLAZE, FLOYD FRANKLIN (Jul 1928, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): Floyd Franklin Glaze, son of Charlie G. and Letha Glaze, grandson of Elijah Glaze, deceased, was born in Burnside, Ill., August 25th, 1895, and departed this life at Kansas City, Mo., July 4th, 1928, being 32 years, 10 months and 9 days old. He leaves father, mother and one brother, all of whom live in Kansas City, Mo., also a little daughter 4 years old. In the year 1900 he moved with his family from Illinois to Enid, Okla., where they lived for a number of years, removing from there to Siloam Spring, Ark., in 1908, and returning to Oklahoma in 1911, they made their home at Elk City. While in Arkansas, Floyd united with the Christian church of Siloam Springs, and in later years, became a member of the Masonic Order, the Modern Woodmen, and the American Legion. After his marriage at Elk City, to Miss Fern Opal Gossett, in 1922, he came to Kansas City to establish a home. While living here a little girl Mildred Lucille, now with her mother in Oklahoma, was born. After a few years the marriage relation became uncongenial; they were not living together at the time of his death. While in Kansas City, Floyd was employed as a carpenter and also helped his brother in his dental laboratory. When the great war came on Floyd answered the call of his country and offered himself as a volunteer and was accepted in the U. S. Navy. He selected the electrical branch of the service and was sent to Harvard University at Cambridge, Mass., where he completed the radio course, afterwards, making seven trips to Breast, France, as a radio operator aboard the transport ship; attended school at Norfolk, Va., and after graduating was placed in charge of the entire electrical crew of the S. S. Topeka, which was under orders for Tampeho, Mexico. He served his country faithfully for two years and five months, receiving his honorable discharge at Tampeho, where he secured a position with the Texas Oil Co., for whom he worked several months, resigning this position to return to the home of his parents in Elk City, in January 1920. While employed at carpenter work in Kansas City, he met with an accident July 2, falling from a scaffold at the second story of the building and sustaining injuries which resulted in his death forty-seven hours later on July 4, 1928. --------------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.htm