Obit of Baldwin, Charles Smith - Delaware County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    09 Sep 2007
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::Fairview Cemetery--Coffeyville KS
The Grove Daily Sun 18 Jan 2007
Charles Smith Baldwin 1919-2006
GROVE, Okla. - Charles “Charlie” Smith Baldwin of Grove, died Sunday
July 2, 2006 at the Hillcrest Specialty Hospital at Tulsa, Okla. He
was 87.
Charlie was born April 18, 1919 to William and Ida (Smith) Baldwin at
Oblong, Ill. He graduated high school at Ira-Ann, Texas. He served in
the Unites States Army during World War II as a Staff Sergeant in the
Philippines. He started his railroad career at Texas-Pacific Railroad
and retired from Union Pacific Railroad at Coffeyville, Kan. as a
General Superintendent. Charlie was married to his previous wife,
Ruth Constance White Baldwin for over 51 years. In May of 1993 he
married Helen Jo Turner Yelton Baldwin at the Washington Church in
Rogers County. Charlie enjoyed to fish and do wood working. He was an
Eagle Scout and loved jazz music.  He had his own jazz band in
college and directed the Boy Scout Band. He was a member of the
American Legion and the First Baptist Church in Grove. He was
preceded in death by: his parents; an infant brother, William
Baldwin; and one sister, Helen Black.
Survivors include his wife Helen Jo Baldwin of Grove; four children,
Karen Argo of Omaha, Neb., Cheryl Dixon and husband Gerald of
Chattanooga, Tenn., Charles “Chuck” Baldwin, Jr. of Abilene, Texas,
and William “Bill” F. Baldwin and wife Karen of Delaware, Okla.;
three step-children, Shari Yelton Roebuck and husband Melvin of
Nowata, Okla., Marci Yelton Postrach and husband Chris of
Bartlesville, Okla. and David Turner Yelton of Trophy Club, Texas;
three sisters, Mary Alice Baldwin of Lubbock, Texas, Margaret
Satterfield of Frederick, Md., and Kay Doyle of Donnel, Texas; nine
grandchildren, Charles F. Baldwin, William F. Baldwin, Josh Baldwin,
Caleb Baldwin, Michelle D. Howell, Rachel D. Irwin, Jonathan Dixon,
Timothy Dixon, and Darrell Scott Argo; one great grandson, Cael
Austin Howell; five step-grandchildren, Holly Roebuck Nichols,
William Yelton, Andrew Yelton, Patricia Postrach, and Melissa
Postrach.
Funeral services were at 11 a.m., Wednesday July 5, at the First
Baptist Church in Grove. Rev. James Wilder and Rev. Derrick Crawford
officiated. Graveside services were at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the
Fairview Cemetery at Coffeyville, Kan. Memorial contributions may be
made to the Baptist Children Home in Owasso, Okla. Services were
under the direction of the Worley-Luginbuel Funeral Home in Grove.
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