Obit for Ponder, Arthur R. - Comanche County OK

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Amarillo Globe News 10 Aug 1998

Arthur R. Ponder

LAWTON, Okla. - Arthur R. Ponder, 77, died Saturday, Aug. 8, 1998.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. 
Burial with military honors will be in the Post Cemetery at Fort Sill.

Mr. Ponder was born in Pasadena, Calif. A veteran of World War II, he 
joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, retiring from the renamed U.S. Air 
Force in 1964. During the mid-1960s, he worked for Amarillo's KGNC-TV.

In 1968, Mr. Ponder moved to Lawton, where he worked for the civil service 
at Fort Sill as a film producer and director, designing Army training 
films. He was a member of the Wichita Wildlight Photographic Society and 
the Evening Optimist Club.

He married Eleonore A. "Jerry" Zdrzalek in 1955 at Frankfurt, Germany.

Survivors include his wife; and a sister, Virginia Gell of San Diego, 
Calif.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Wichita Wildlight Photographic 
Society or the Evening Optimist Club.
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