Harmon Co. OK Obit for Walter Raymond "Dub" Metcalf ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/ Dated July, 2001 For the Harmon County, OK. archives project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmon.htm 2/15/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives. ************************************************************ Walter Raymond "Dub" Metcalf passed away Monday at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Kincannon Funeral Home Chapel in Altus with Harold Metcalf officiating. Burial will be at the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of Kincannon Funeral Home. He was born July 27, 1917 to Walter Raymond Metcalf, Sr. and Emma Geneva Curb Metcalf in the Metcalf Community eight miles north of Gould. He attended the Hollis public schools from the first grade until his graduation from high school in 1937. He had a love for all sports and played on teams throughout his grade school, junior high and high school years. In high school he played quarterback on the 1935 and 1936 football teams and was the state champion half-miler on the track teams both years. He married Geraldine Spradling in January, 1937 in Altus and at the time of her death they had been married for 63 years. For 38 years he served as a deacon in the Thomas Street Church of Christ in Altus and devoted many years to benevolence ministries in his community. By the time he was 13, he was working in the grocery store, after school and on Saturday, with his Dad and older brother. He finished his "apprenticeship" as a butcher in Hollis at Kirby Corner and in "Doc" Charlton's grocery store during 1938 and from then until 1944 plied his trade in Paul Metcalf's grocery. He served in the United States Navy in from May 1943 until October 1944 in San Diego as a Petty Officer. He was assigned to the Boot Camp Ship's Company to train other recruits in the fine art of butchering. With his induction, all five Metcalf brothers were in the military service. After World War II, he opened his own grocery store in downtown Hollis, and operated his business until 1954. He moved his family to Altus and ran a neighborhood store on East Pecan Street near Eugene Field School. He once said, "I didn't know it then, but I had invented the 7-11 type convenience store." After 20 years as a grocer, he continued to work as a semi-retiree, for Moore Wholesale Grocery in Altus and owned and managed a number of affordable housing units. He retired in 1983 and devoted more time to his avocations, golfing, fishing, gardening and spoiling his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In a letter to his 1937 high school class at their 50th alumni celebration he wrote: "Our four children have made our life complete." He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Geraldine; a sister, Hazel Dickerson; and two brothers, Paul and james Metcalf. Survivors by four children, Wayne Kent Metcalf and wife, Donna, Stillwater, Joe Dan Metcalf and wife, Linda, Oklahoma City; Marilyn Jane Woolly and husband Jimmy, Weatherford, Texas, and James Preston Metcalf, Edmond; two brothers, Harold Metcalf and wife, Wanda, Elk City and Bill Metcalf and wife, Sue of Alabama; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Paul Metcalf (Lorene), Oklahoma City and Mrs. James Metcalf (Bonnie), Colton, Calif.; 11 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Family visitation will be from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. today at the Kincannon Funeral Home. Teakell Billy Deane Teakell, 76, Wichita Falls, Texas, died Sunday. Services were held today at Faith Village Church of Christ. Les McGallard and Charlie Thomas officiated. Burial was at Crestview Memorial Park under the direction of Lunn's Colonial Funeral Home of Wichita Falls. He was born June 21, 1925 at Gould. He was bookkeeper with Byer-Petrolia Telephone Company for 29 years. He was a member of the Faith Village Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife, Reba Teakell; two sons and daughters- in-law, Rick and Michal Teakell of Overland Park, Kan. and Randy and Robin Teakell of Abilene, Texas; a sister and brother-in- law, Ava Lou and Gordon Holmes of Byers, Texas; a brother and sister-in-law, Mac and Barbara Teakell of Abernathy, Texas; four grandchildren Mark, Chelsea, John and Zachary Teakell. Watson Services for Christine Watson are pending with Lowell- Tims Funeral Home.