Beckham Co. - Obit for Walker Lonzo Fritts

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   Walker Lonzo Fritts
   ELK CITY, Okla. - Walker Lonzo Fritts, 78, died Saturday, Nov. 7,
   1998, at Sayre.
   
   Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in the Whinery-Savage Funeral
   Service Chapel with Charles Tatyrek and Bobby Bates officiating.
   Burial will be in the Spring Creek Cemetery.
   
   Mr. Fritts was born in Checotah and moved with his parents to the
   Spring Creek community in 1917. He married Imogene Armbruster in 1938
   at Sayre. They lived in the Carter community, where he farmed until
   1957 when they moved to Amarillo. In Amarillo he worked for the Pantex
   Plant, retiring in 1981. They moved to Elk City in 1982.
   
   Survivors include his wife; two sons, Harold Fritts of Carrollton,
   Texas and Walker Rex Fritts of Amarillo; four sisters, Ruth Patterson
   of Hutchinson, Kan., Verda Mae Adkerson of Elk City, Gladys Hoyle of
   Martin, Texas, and Hazel Hill of Dove Creek, Colo.; two brothers,
   Wallace Fritts of Pampa, Texas and J.T. Fritts of Ardmore; two
   grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.