Kay County OK Obit for: Earl John Spoon
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Submitted to the archives by: Claudia Thiry: workfarm@wiredok.com 
Date submitted: 2/26/2003 
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Earl John Spoon

LAMONT - 

Earl John Spoon, lifelong Lamont area resident, died at his home Friday, June 
28, 1996. He was 74.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Lamont Christian Church with 
the Rev. Ruth Tipps, minister, officiating. 

Burial will be in the Lamont Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-
Bolick Funeral Home of Tonkawa. 

Members of the Lamont American Legion Post will make the Flag presentation. 

Friends may visit at the funeral home in Tonkawa until 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Earl J. Spoon was born July 1, 1921, in Lamont, the son of Nerr John and Mary 
Frances (Muegge) Spoon. 

He grew up on the family farm near Lamont and graduated from Jefferson High 
School in 1939. 

On Dec. 2, 1942, he entered the U.S. Army and served during World War II 
with the 17th Signal Battalion in the European Theater at Normandy and in 
the Ardennes at the Battle of the Bulge. 

The first American to enter Paris at its Liberation, Spoon later received 
the Croix de Guerre Avec Etoile de Bronze Metal from the French government. 

He also received the Silver Star. 

Spoon was honorably discharged on Sept. 22, 1945, and returned to Lamont 
to farm.

On Dec. 8, 1946, he was married to Ethel Russell in Lamont and continued 
farming. 

Spoon was a member of Lamont American Legion Post; Tonkawa VFW Post; the 
Lamont Christian Church, where he served on the church board; a 50-year member 
of the Tonkawa Masonic Lodge; and a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory 
of Guthrie.

Survivors include his wife, Ethel, of the home; one son, John Spoon of Tonkawa; 
one daughter Madonna Todd of Sapulpa; one sister, Kathryn Hunter of Ponca City; 
and five grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by his parents.

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