Kay County OK Obit for: Cecil Robert Gingerich Sr.
************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced 
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must
obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative
of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of
this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives
to store the file permanently for free access.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kay/kay.html 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/	
***********************************************************************
Submitted to the archives by:Barbara Rivas
Date submitted: 5/30/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, 
http://www.poncacitynews.com/
***********************************************************************
http://www.poncacitynews.com/
The Ponca City News

Cecil Robert Gingerich Sr. (5/18/03)



FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Cecil Robert Gingerich Sr.,
former resident of Ponca City, died May 4, 2003, in Farmington
Hills, Mich. He was 81.

Arrangements and cremation were under the direction of
Heeny-Sundquist Funeral Home of Farmington, Mich.

Cecil Robert Gingerich Sr. was born in Ponca City, on Nov. 4,
1911, the second son of Alva and Allie M. (Combs) Gingerich.
He graduated from Ponca City High School and then attended
East Central State Teachers' College in Ada where he was on
the football and wrestling teams.

In 1935, he married Lucille Freeman Daugherty. He later
transferred to the University of Oklahoma, earning a degree in
mechanical engineering in 1942. He married Yoshiko Kimura in
1978. He worked for over 30 years for Linde Air Products,
Union Carbide Corporation. He was a Master Mason and a
Shriner. He was also a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include his second wife; three children, Barbara
Gingerich-Rivas, John Alva Gingerich, and Cecil Robert
Gingerich Jr.; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

***********************************************************************
copyright USGenwb 2003 
Ponca City News, 
http://www.poncacitynews.com/
http://www.usgwarchives.net/
***********************************************************************