Obit of Robert Garland Wasson - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Melinda Carter 11 Oct 1999 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 ===================================================================== ::Rose Hill Cemetery--Chickasha OK Wasson/Roe Obituaries Surname: Wasson, Ruff, Roe, Foreman Chickasha Daily Express, Sept. 25, 1977, p. 16, col. 3-4: ROBERT GARLAND WASSON Funeral services for Robert Garland Wasson, 76 of 909 South 16th, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Sevier Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Richard Guentert, pastor of First Christian Church, will officiate. Wasson was born Jan. 5, 1901 near Harrison Ark. and died early Saturday at his home following a sudden heart attack. He moved to Oklahoma with his parents in 1906, settling near Ninnekah. He married Miss Billie G. Roe on Jan. 27, 1921. Wasson had lived in Chickasha 51 years and had been an employee of Oklahoma National Bank and Trust Co. for over 50 years where he had been president and director of the bank several years before his retirement in 1970. Wasson was a member of First Christian Church, served on various church boards, was a trustee and Sunday school teacher. He also was a past president of Chickasha Lions Club and a member of Oklahoma Historical Society. He had recently completed a history of Ninnekah and Norge communities. Survivors include his wife Billie of the home, one son Kenneth of Tulsa, three grandchildren and one great grandchild, one brother Floyd Wasson of Phoenix, Ariz. Interment will be in Rose Hill cemetery. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html