BeckhamCounty, OK - Obits: Vernon Mason Kendall- 1988
Tuesday, February 3, 2004

Submitted by: sayrepl1@sayre.lib.ok.us  (Stacy Akins)
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KENDALL, VERNON MASON
 
B. 16 Feb 1897
D. 22 Feb 1988
Sayre-Doxey Cemetery
Beckham Co. OK
H/O Beulah Margaret [Vincent]  M. 3 Dec 1921
 
  Vernon Mason Kendall, 91, of
Sayre died Monday night in the Bap-
tist Health Center in Oklahoma City.
Funeral services will be at 10 a. m.
Thursday in Sayre 1st Baptist Chur-
ch, with Lynn Heard officiating.
Burial will be in the Sayre-Doxy
cemetery under the direction of
Rose Chapel Funeral Service of
Sayre.
  Mr. Kendall was born Feb. 16, 1897
in Georges Creek, Texas.  He moved
to Day County, Oklahoma territory,
later named Roger Mills County in 
spring of 1900.
  He attended school at Wild Horse,
Roll, and Strong City.  He volunteered
for military service in 1917 and was
assigned to Company F, 16th U. S. In-
fantry, 1st Army Division.  He served
in France and Germany from June
26, 1917 to Sept. 29, 1919.  He was a
prisoner of war in Germany from
Nov. 3, 1917 to Dec. 7, 1918.  After his
release from prison he was in a 
military hospital for a month and he
volunteered to go back into Ger-
many to rejoin the 1st div. for guard
duty along the Rhine river.
  He married Margaret Beulah Vin-
cent Dec. 3, 1921 in Hammon, Okla.,
and they lived in Ranking for 19
years, moving to Sayre in 1940.  He
was a member of the American
Legion since 1930.  He served 6 con-
secutive years as commander of
Legion Post 151 at Reydon.  After 
moving to Sayre he served one year
as commander of Legion Post 146'
one year as district vice com-
mander; one year as district
membership chairman.  He served
10 years as county chairman of
Beckham County Chapter of
American Red Cross and POW
Relief Committee.  He was rural
mail carrier in Rankin and Reydon
from 1921-1940.  He worked in the 
U. S. Post Office in Sayre form 1940
until retiring in 1960.  He was elected
justice of the peace in Sayre in 1962,
serving until 1968.  he was appointed
Sayre Municipal Judge in 1968, retir-
ing in 1975.  He was a member of
Sayre First Baptist Church.
  He was preceded in death by his
parents, his wife, one son, Bill.  Sur-
vivors are: one daughter-in-law,
La Veda Kendall, of Oklahoma City;
one grandson, Mark Kendall and 
wife Donna, of Oklahoma City; one
grand-daughter Belinda and Hus-
band Aubrey Harper, of Mustang;
tow great-grand-children; tow
brothers; Sam Kendall, al Elk City;
Clyde Kendal, Cove, Ark.; two
sisters, Vivian Kendall, of
Cheyenne; and Bernice Short, of
Sayre.
 
Paper Unknown
 
 
I have typed the obits as they appeared (typos and all).
 
Stacy Akins
Librarian