Beckham Co. - Obit for Tyson Shelton

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ELK CITY, Okla. - Tyson Shelton, 80, died Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2000.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with the 
Rev. Neal Helmbacher and the Rev. Doc Ware officiating. Burial with 
military honors will be in Fairlawn Cemetery. Arrangements are by Martin 
Funeral Home.

Mr. Shelton was born in Mobeetie, Texas. He graduated from Mobeetie High 
School and attended West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon, Texas. 
During World War II, he served with the Army in the South Pacific, Okinawa 
and the Philippines. He received a Purple Heart.

He moved to Amarillo after the war and started a plumbing contractor 
business, which he operated until moving in 1959 to Elk City. He ran 
his business there until 1981. He became a building inspector for the 
city of Elk City in 1986.

Mr. Shelton was a member of the Elk City Lions Club, Western Oklahoma 
Historical Society and the Far West Fiddlers. He was a deacon at First 
Baptist Church.

He married Juanita Allen in 1940.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Allen L. Shelton of Houston and 
Tyson Lynn Shelton of Gallup, N.M.; two daughters, Sharon Stalcup of 
Gallup and Ronda Mikles of Elk City; a brother, Joe Merle Shelton of 
Mobeetie; two sisters, Lillie Mae Bailey of Mobeetie and Juanell 
Eberting of Albuquerque, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-
grandchildren.