Beckham County, OK - Obits: Dellon Roy Shelton, 1988
Monday, 9 July 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SHELTON, DELLON ROY
(The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, Beckham, Ok, Monday, May 9, 1988)
D. Shelton.
Funeral services for Dellon Shelton will be held at 3:30 pm Tuesday in the
Martin Funeral Chapel with Rev. Boyd Whitehead officiating.   Burial will
follow in Fairlawn Cemetery with Martin Funeral Directors making the
arrangements.
Mr. Shelton was born Nov. 8, 1900, the son of area pioneers, John Anderson
Shelton and Sally Walkup Shelton.  He died at 8:15 pm, May 8, at the age
of 87.
He lived in the Hammon Community under the land run of 1907, when he filed
on the family farm in the Bellview Community just southwest of Elk City. 
He married Ruth Broddrick Shelton Feb. 15, 1926.  This union was blessed
with three children, Mrs. Russell (Ann) Trissell, Mrs. Bee (Virginia) Coy
and John Alden Shelton.  Except for two years in Cordell, Mr. Shelton
lived and farmed in the Highway-Elk City area.  He moved to Elk City in
1969 and had enjoyed doing odd jobs around town since his retirement from
farming.  He was a member of the Prairie View Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers and sisters, and
his only son, John.
Family members surviving him include his wife, Ruth, of the home; his two
daughters, Ann and Virginia; seven grandchildren, Terry Trissell and Dr.
Kathryn Trissell of Elk City, Darrell Trissell of Clinton, Mrs. Sherry
Hockett of Santanta, Kan., Mrs. Donne Thompson of Bakersfield, Calif., and
Mrs. Bobbi Schneider of Slymar, Calif., 13 great-grandchildren, also two
sisters, Bessie Smith of Borger, Tex., and Opal Spears of Austin, Tex.,
and two brothers, Buster Shelton of Mead, Kan., and Quinton Shelton of
California City, Calif.