Obit of McClendon, Melvin S. "Cotton" - Johnston County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 19 Oct 2008 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Fairview Cemetery--Vinita OK Surnames: McClendon Reed Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1379 Melvin S. "Cotton" McClendon Graveside services for Melvin S. "Cotton" McClendon, 92, Vinita, were held Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Fairview Cemetery with Pastor Frank Hopkins officiating. Services were under the direction of Burkhalter Funeral Home. Born October 17, 1912 at Troy to Charles Wesley "Wes" and Mattie Reed McClendon, he died Saturday, Oct. 1 at Craig General Hospital after an extended illness. He was a May, 1929 graduate of Mill Creek High School, the first year the school was accredited by the State Board of Education. He married C. B. Dudley on July 1, 1933 in the Grand Courthouse in Tishomingo in 1933. The couple recently celebrated their 72nd anniversary. A retired general roadmaster of systems for the Frisco Railroad, now Burlington, he was past president of the Roadmaster Association and was part of four generations of the McClendon family who worked for the railroad. He lived in Oklahoma City, Kellyville and Luther and when he became roadmaster he moved to Tulsa, Afton, Sherman, Texas and finally Vinita in 1957. Survivors include his wife, C.B., of the home; two sons, Paul and wife, Vera, Vinita and Larry, Altus; two daughters, Joyce and her husband, Wilburn, Sherman, Texas and Edna Thomas and husband, Dan, Lexington, S.C.; three brothers, Jack, Southington, Conn., William, Muskogee and Edwin, Canton, Mich.; four sisters, Pauline Norman, Wewoka, Jane Thompson, Houston, Texas, Mozelle Busby, Midland, Texas and Ada Wadley, Tulsa; 12 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html