Obit of DeGeer, W. Don - Kay County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 11 Mar 1997

W. Don DeGeer

BORGER - W. Don DeGeer, 72, died Monday, March 10, 1997.

Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Andrew United 
Methodist Church, with the Rev. David Purl, pastor, officiating. 
Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.

Mr. DeGeer was a native of El Dorado, Kan. and was a longtime Borger 
resident. He attended grade school and junior high at Blackwell, 
Okla., and graduated from high school at McPherson, Kan. During World 
War II, he served as a combat engineer in Europe from 1943 to 1945, 
and in the 95th international Division of the 3rd and 9th Armies. He 
graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1949. He was a roughneck 
for Rowan Drilling Co. and worked as a roustabout and engineer for 
Globe Oil. He went to work for Phillips Petroleum in 1950. In 1951 he 
was recalled to service and served for 18 months in the Korean War. 
He returned to Phillips and worked as a production engineer and a 
drilling superintendent in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas and 
Utah. He was preceded in death by a son, William Donald DeGeer III, 
in 1972, and by his wife, Francis Josephine, in 1978. He married 
Edith Lorene Sissel in 1983 at Stinnett. In 1985 he retired from 
Phillips Geothermal Co. and returned to Borger.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Eric Neel DeGeer of Dallas and 
Bryan Arthur Sissel of Albuquerque; three daughters, Lynn Iris DeGeer 
of Austin, Capt. Diane Sue DeGeer of Las Vegas, Nev., and Aileen Ann 
Rios of Corpus Christi; a sister, Bonnie Priebe of Vallejo, Calif.; 
and two grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to St. Andrew United Methodist Church 
and First United Methodist Church.
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