Kay County OK Obit for: Eldon E. Shaw
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/07/2003 
Obit transcribed from the 
Newkirk Herald by submitter.
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April 8, 1999

Eldon E. Shaw

Eldon E. Shaw, 79, of Newkirk, formerly of Arkansas City, died Monday, April 
5, 1999 in Ponca City.

Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, April 9 at the Rindt-Erdman 
Funeral Home in Arkansas City. Pastor Lynden Howard will officiate. Interment 
will follow in Parker Cemetery in Arkansas City.

Eldon was born February 14, 1920 to Edward and Hulda Brandt Shaw in 
Friend, NE. 

He attended school in Nebraska and later attended a trade school. 

He entered the U.S. Navy and was a World War II veteran. 

Eldon married Isabell Gillespie and together they had a daughter, Lois 
Austin-McGlasson. 

Eldon later married Beulah Fields McGlasson on April 16, 1954 in 
Gainesville, Texas. 

They made their home in Arkansas City until moving to Missouri and then 
to Newkirk in 1987. 

Eldon worked for Skyline and was also self employed in construction and 
operated Shaw Ditching Service. 

He later worked as a machinist for Plessey Aircraft in Wellington, KS. 

Eldon was a lifetime member of the Newkirk VFW.

He is survived by his wife, Beulah, of the home; daughter Lois and her 
husband, Carl McGlasson of Ponca City; two step-sons and their wives, 
Boyd and Marilyn McGlasson of Auburn, KS, and Loyd and Connie McGlasson 
of Salt Lake City, UT; two brothers, Loren Shaw of Portland, OR, and 
William Shaw of Amarillo, Texas; two sisters, L. "Winnie" Ochsner and
Luella Kennye, both of Lincoln, NE; four grandchildren, two step-grand-
children, eight great grandchildren and two step-great grandchildren.

He was preceeded in death by his parents, three sisters, Sarah Cox, Norma 
Allen and Lois Shaw, and a step grandson, Jay McGlasson.

Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home of Arkansas City is in charge of 
arrangements.


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