Beckham Co. OK            WARD LOCKETT BACK
                                      
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   *NOTE* BACK,WARD LOCKETT b.02 Jul 1913 Gray Co.,Tx.
   
   d.16 Aug 1992*h/o Irene Melba HOHENHAUS m.12 Feb 1935
   
   h/o Mary Lou (JACKS) m.22 May 1961 buried Carter,Beckham Co.,Ok.,
   
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   WARD LOCKETT BACK
   
   Funeral services for Ward Lockett BACK will be conducted at 2
   p.m.,Tuesday,in the Carter School auditorium,with Bro.George WATSON
   officiating.Burial will follow in the Carter cemetery under the
   direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.
   
   Ward Lockett BACK was born July 2,1913 in McLean,Texas and died Sunday
   morning at the age of 79.When he was 4 years old,the family moved to
   carter,where he graduated from Carter High School and entered
   Southwestern Teacher's College in Weatherford and earned his Master's
   degree at Western State College in Colorado.He started his teaching
   career in a consolidated school named Mozelle near Abilene,Texas and
   then to Sweetwater,Oklahoma.,and then began teaching in the Carter
   Schools,where he became principal,coach and then superintendent of
   schools.Following Carter he finished his Oklahoma teaching career in
   the Panhandle at the Plainview School of Oklahoma.He then began
   teaching at Hartley,Texas where he taught until his health forced his
   retirement in 1974.He then moved back to Carter in 1985 where he had
   lived since.Lockett was married to Mary Lou JACKS on May 22,1961 in
   Reno,Nev.,and was a member of the Carter Church of Christ.
   
   Survivors include his wife Mary Lou of the Carter home;also 9
   childrenJimmy BACK and his wife Teresa of Houston,Texas;Doris and her
   husband Ronald SMITH of Lawton;Barbara and her husband Bill DALTON of
   Lawton;Dixie and her husband Donnie SMITH of Tulsa;Larry BACK of
   Weatherford;Melba BACK of Muskogee;David BACK and his wife Carol of
   Claremore;Ken REED and his wife Bobbie of Chickasha and Cheryl REED of
   Amarillo;19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.One
   sister,Lorraine CLARK of Carter;one niece,Jan JASAY of Carter and one
   nephew,Gene Calvin CLARK of Princeton,Calif.