Obit of Garner, Richard "Slim" - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 03 Sep 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Westview Cemetery--Rush Springs OK Rush Springs Gazette 6 November 2003. Richard "Slim" Garner. Richard Slim Barter, 83, of Rush Springs, died Wednesday, October 29, 2003 in Grady Memorial Hospital Chickasha. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m., Friday, October 31 in the Callaway-Smith-Cobb Chapel in Rush Springs with the Reverend Danny Vaughn officiating and can bake in assisting . Music was by Sandra Payton and Sonjia Dalrymple. Burial was in Westview Cemetery, Rush Springs. Mr. Garner was born March 15, 1920, and Chickalah, Arkansas, the son of Tom Garner and Ethel Parker Garner. He and Bessie Garner were married May 19, 1938 in Ola, Arkansas. She died October 24, 2002. He was also preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister. He was in the US military during World War II, serving on the USS Alabama. He lived in the Rush Springs area since 1955. He was employed in the oilfield. He enjoyed gardening, farming, fishing and hunting. Survivors include two sons, Charles Garner and wife Judy and Tony Garner and wife Debbie, all of Rush Springs; a daughter, Shirley Meadows and husband Dub of Rush Springs; seven brothers, Hayes Garner, Joe Garner, Lloyd Garner and Ray Garner, all of Louisiana, Tommy Garner of Texas City, Texas, Wendell Garner of Farmington, New Mexico, and Winferd Garner of Louisiana; three sisters, Winnie Fowler of Danville, Arkansas, and Ann Garner and Gracie Wilson, both of Louisiana; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were Shane Hardzog, Luke Lundgren, David McKay, Kyle McKay, David Lynn Meadows, Jamie Slate. Honorary pallbearers were Walter Dennis, John Dorman, Lloyd Hendrix, James Ince, and Donnie McKay. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html