Marshall County, OK - Biography - Dugan Dale Whiting (1911 - 1970) http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/marshall/biography/w3250002.txt --------------------------------- Copyright © 2000 by Ella Brown ellabbrown@email.msn.com This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. --------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sources: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dugan Dale Whiting (1911-1970) Dugan Dale Whiting was born on January 26, 1911 in Madill, Oklahoma, the son of D.D Whiting (1884-1928) and Lillian Dale Sacra Whiting (1888-1921). He graduated from Madill High School in 1929 an attended Oklahoma A & M. He entered the army on March 5, 1942 and was released on Oct. 19, 1945 after being overseas 44 months, earning 5 battle stars, and fighting in North Africa, south France, Italy, and Germany. He was never injured during the war but was in a car accident after he returned home and as a result of that accident he lost his arm. It was while stationed in Germany that he met Eleonore Sophie Leva in April 1945 in Mannheim. She came to America in October 1948 and they were married in the home of Marvin Bryant in Madill, Oklahoma in November of that year. She was born on December 25, 1925, to the late Mr. Robert H. Leva and Mrs. Caroline Leva in Hoffenheim, Germany. After being discharged he went to Grayson County to build a home in the old Dugan Chapel community northwest of Bells. This site was on the land originally granted to the county for a school by the Dugan family. Toots and Eleonore moved to a historical school house, which Toots had remolded before their marriage. They lived on the land, which had been in the Whiting family for several generations. In 1970, they moved into a new home built on land that had been in the family for 6 generations. He owned and operated a ranch and was a director of the First National Bank in Bells. Toots died May 28,1970 and Eleonore still lives in Bells, Texas on the Whiting land next to the Whiting ranch that she and Toots built just before his death in 1970. They had two children: Carin Christa Whiting, born on July 4, 1950 Ingrid Elisabeth Whiting, born on Jan. 5, 1953 Submitted by Ella Byrd Reirdon Brown