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::Fairview Cemetery--Tuttle OK

The Chickasha Star-Express
19 August 2000

Wayne V. Whitley

Funeral service for Wayne V. Whitley, age 70, of Tuttle, Oklahoma, will be 
under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home, Chickasha. Service will be 
held at 1030 a.m. on Saturday, August 19, 2000, in the Binyon Funeral Home 
Chapel in Blanchard. Rev. Robert Whitley will officiate, and Rev. Ed Whitley 
will assist.

Wayne V. Whitley was born on June 23, 1930, the son of Luther Whitley and 
Helen Ingram Whitley, in Moore, Oklahoma. He died on Wednesday, August 16, 
2000, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Wayne grew up on a farm west of Minco. He moved to Gracemont at the age of 
eight and attended Gracemont School. In 1950, he entered the United States 
Army. Wayne served twenty-seven months in Korea during the Korean War. 
Following his honorable discharge in 1953, he returned to Oklahoma. He 
married Glenda Cox on January 31, 1955, in Coolidge, Arizona. In December of 
1959, he began working for the Oklahoma City Police Department. Wayne and 
Glenda moved to Tuttle in 1972. After thirty-two years of service with the 
police department, Wayne retired in 1992.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and two sisters.

Survivors include his wife, Glenda of the home; daughter, Debra Derozier of 
Minco; daughter, Kristi Huff of Bella Vista, Arkansas; brother, Lavaughn 
Whitley of Oklahoma City; brother, Ed Whitley of Verden; sister, Pearl 
Callison of Visalia, California; seven grandchildren; many nephews and nieces.
Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery in Tuttle.

Mr. Whitley will be in state at the McRay Funeral Home in Chickasha until 
800 p.m. on Friday, August 18, 2000.
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