Kay County OK Obit for: Edward Dewes Oldfield 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/10/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, http://www.poncacitynews.com/
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Edward Dewes Oldfield

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Edward Dewes Oldfield, brother of the late Baird Oldfield of 
Ponca City, died Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003, in Oklahoma City. He was 91.
 
He was born Aug. 14, 1911, to Edward Dewes Oldfield Sr. and Edith L. Baird 
in Oklahoma City. 

He graduated from Classen High School in 1929 and then attended OCU where he 
was a member of Lambda Chi fraternity. 

A longtime hobby of his was HAM radio on which his call letters were WSAYL. 

He met Cinnie B. Harrold and they married Sept. 1, 1934. 

In 1946, he joined his wife and her mother, Della M. Harrold, in owning and 
operating Harrold Shoes Inc. and maintained the family business until he 
retired in 1975. 

He is preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Baird Oldfield and John O
ldfield, and a sister Clarabell Peter. 

He is survived by his wife of 68 years; daughters, Karen L. Powell and Dee O. 
Gower, both of Oklahoma City; grandchildren, Richard D. Hall, Chief Gower and 
his wife Lisa, DeWes L. Merchant and her husband Ben, Melodee L. Baker and 
her husband Robert, Skip Gower and his wife Amy, Lucinda Vrieze and her husband 
Roelof; and 16 great-grandchildren. 

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at the Hahn-Cook/Street and 
Draper Chapel with burial to follow in Rose Hill Burial Park. 

The family would like to thank Odyssey Hospice, the Thompson family and all the 
wonderful caregivers at Bellevue Nursing Center. 

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the charity of choice. 
paid obituary


Published Thursday, January 23, 2003 on page A3 


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