Obit of Allshouse Jr., Wayne Victor - Creek County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Terri 23 Oct 2005 Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.html ========================================================================== Surnames: ALLHOUSE, HAGAN, SUMPTER, HARKER, BASINGER, HAYDEN, LANDSBERRY, WHEELER from 1-10-2003 Examiner Enterprise Wayne Allshouse Mr. Wayne Victor Allshouse, Jr., 83, retired Accountant for H.C. Price Company and husband of Mrs. Doris L. Allshouse died at 1:20 a.m. on Thursday in the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Funeral services for Mr. Allshouse will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday at the graveside in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Rev. Gary L. Hagan, of the Bartlesville First Christian Church will be the officiant. Committal prayers and interment will be directed on the family plot in the Memorial Park Cemetery by The Arnold Moore Funeral Service. A memorial in remembrance of Mr. Allshouse has been established with Elder Care of Washington County. Friends who care to remember him in this way, may forward their gifts to Elder Care of Washington County, 410 S. E. Frank Phillips Blvd., Bartlesville, Okla. 74003. Likewise, a memorial in remembrance of Mr. Allshouse has been established with Jane Phillips Hospice, 219 N. Virginia, Bartlesville, Okla. 74003. Mr. Allshouse will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence where friends may call until he is removed to the graveside for final rites. Born April 23, 1919 at Drumright, Okla. to Opal Ruby (Sumpter) and Wayne Victor Allshouse, Sr. He grew up in the oil patches of Oklahoma, graduating from Bristow High in 1937. He attended Bristow Junior College, Oklahoma University and La Salle Extension University. He and Doris L. Harker were married in Bristow, Okla. on June 14, 1941. They lived in Pontiac, Michigan until he enlisted in the United States Navy in February of 1942. Mr. Allshouse served with the Naval Air Recruitment in Los Angeles as a Yeoman 1st Class until being assigned to sea duty aboard the U.S.S. Flambeau at Pearl Harbor. He served in the South Pacific, ending his tour at Iwo Jima. He returned to Norman, Okla. where he received his honorable discharge from the Navy on October 27, 1945. He returned to Pontiac where he again worked at the Yellow Truck and Coach Plant until a reduction of the workforce took place. He then returned to Oklahoma and was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1947 in the comptroller's office in Bartlesville for five years. He joined the U. S. Army Reserve in Bartlesville in May of 1952 where he assisted in the organization of Reserve Units. He was employed by the H. C. Price Co. in 1953 until his retirement in December of 1973. Due to job-related travel overseas, Mr. Allshouse resigned from the Reserves as a C. W. O. in November of 1964. He and Doris retired to their home on the shores of Grand Lake until returning to Bartlesville in November of 2000 due to health concerns. Allshouse was awarded the "Book of Golden Deeds" in November of 1961 by the Bartlesville Exchange Club for his community service and was listed in the book "Who's Who in Oklahoma" in 1964. Allshouse was a member of the Masonic Lodge #284 AF & AM; Bartlesville Council 41; Calvary Commandry 26; Royal Arch Masons, Temple, White Shrine; Wasono Shrine Club of Akdar Temple; Lodge # 1060 B.P.O.E.; Tulsa Chapter of the National Association of Accountants; Executive Officer, Bartlesville Rifle and Pistol Club; Club Leader, Bartlesville Junior Rifle Club; Life Member, National Junior Rifle Club in 1959; helped form the Bartlesville Junior Baseball Corp. and wrote president and president for five years. Allshouse was a member of the First Christian Church of Bartlesville. Surviving are his wife of sixty-one years, Doris of Bartlesville, daughter Susan L. and husband Mike Basinger of Houston; son Wayne Victor "Vic", III and his wife Laurie of Bartlesville; six grandchildren: Dennis W. Basinger, David M. Basinger, Jason M. Hayden, Kasey L. Landsberry, Charles W. Allshouse and Susan D. Allshouse and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his mother; father and sister, Jacqueline Wheeler. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.htm