Obit of Leon L. Askren (a265) - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandy Miller 30 Oct 2000 ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ====================================================================== Surnames: Askren, Garthwaite Leon L. Askren January 23, 1987 Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, 27-Jan-1987 in the Steverson Funeral Home Chapel in Anadarko for Leon L. Askren, 78, of Anadarko who died 23-Jan-1987 at his home. Officiating at the services was the Rev. James Denny of the Anadarko Christian Center. Burial was in Anadarko's Memory Lane Cemetery under the direction of the Steverson Funeral Home of Anadarko. Askren was born 29-Sep-1908 in Atchison, Kansas. He married the former Evelyn Keith Garthwaite 23-Jun-1946 in Baltimore, Md. She preceded him in death on 03-Sep-1986. He attended high school in Atchison, Kansas; attended Park College in Parksville, Mo.; then Washburn University and School of Law in Topeka, Kansas where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in June 1932. The university later bestowed upon him a Juris Doctor degree. After passing his bar examination he entered general practice at Greensburg, Kansas where he served as city attorney, county attorney and auditor. He served for several years as the local attorney for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company and as district judge pro-tem through election. He was U.S. Conciliation Commissioner, attorney for the receiver of defunct national banks and was special attorney for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas. After moving back to Atchison in January of 1940 he served as attorney for the Central Body of the Atchison trades and Labor Union Council and was a charter member of the Atchison Junior Chamber of Commerce. He stayed in Atchison until he entered the U.S. Army in December of 1942. Askren began his federal service after he was discharged from the U.S. Army when he was employed as an attorney advisor with the Board of Veterans of the Administration Central Office in Washington, D.C., a position he held until he was transferred to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs in February 1957. His first BIA job was assistant chief of the branch of Realty's Tenure and Management section in the Washington, D.C. office. He transferred to Anadarko as assistant chief area realty officer 08-May-1958 and was promoted to chief realty officer in December of 1968. He retired from that position 18-Jan-1973. Preceding him in death was his wife, and his parents. Survivors include three sons, John Christian Askren of Anadarko; M. Leon Askren and Paul Laird Askren, both of Tucson, Ariz., and eight grandchildren.