Marshall County, OK - Biography -  Edward Claude Whiting (1907 - 1969)
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Edward Claude Whiting (1907-1969)

Edward Claude Whiting (Son) was born on March 11, 1907 in Madill, 
Oklahoma, the son of D. D. Whiting and Lillian Dale Sacra.

He graduated from Madill High School in 1926. He attended college for 
two years at Oklahoma A and M and Austin College, Sherman Texas. 

He married Ethel Claudine Williams in 1937 in Oklahoma City. She was 
born in 1910 in Granite to the late Anderson Williams and Mrs. Minnie 
Williams. Claudine died in 1968.

They lived in Bells, Texas on a ranch, which had been in the family 
for several generations.

Son and Claudine raised the daughter of his sister Noweta Clementine 
Whiting.

Susan Dale Weems was welcomed into their home and treated as a daughter 
throughout their lives. They loved and enjoyed her as if she was truly 
their on daughter. 

They were always very proud of her.

Noweta was born in Madill in 1915. She graduated from Madill High School 
in 1932. She then attended Southeastern State College for one year. She 
later married William Weems in 1936. They had one child, Susan Dale Weems 
Taylor, born on May 7, 1940 in Hollywood, California. Noweta and William 
later divorced and she married George Underwood in 1952. They had one 
child, Francis Lisa Underwood in 1953 in Dallas, Texas.

Susan Dale Weems was raised in the home of Son and Claudine and graduated 
from Sherman High school.

Son died in 1969 and Susan returned to Sherman for many weeks to care for him.

 

Submitted by Ella Byrd Reirdon Brown