Marshall County, OK - Obit - Joseph Patrick Reirdon http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/marshall/obituary/r6350002.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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: The Madill Record 1945 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Patrick Reirdon Source: Madill Record 1945 PIONEER RESIDENT OF COUNTY PASSES FUNERAL FOR JOE REIRDON IS SATURDAY Dies at His Home Here After Several Weeks Illness Funeral services were held Saturday morning at the Watts Funeral Home chapel for Joseph Patrick Reirdon, early day Marshall county resident, who passes away at his home here Thursday night following several weeks of illness. Mr. Reirdon, who moved to Oakland, Indian Territory, August 4, 1898, engaged in the harness and saddle business. In 1924 he established a lumber and oil wholesale business in Madill. He had been associated with the banking business here more than a quarter of a century. During recent years Mr. Reirdon had not been active in business, but spent his time in management of his property throughout southern Oklahoma, including business buildings, apartment houses, farms and residence property in Madill, Ardmore, and Durant. Born in Louisiana, Mo., in 1876, Mr. Reirdon moved with his family to Sherman, Texas, when a baby. He spent his school days there and began his business career as an office boy. He was first married to Claudie Ella Lewis. He and Mrs. Reirdon, the former Winnie Davis Rollins, were married June 7, 1922. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. J.P. Reirdon; one son, Jack Reirdon, Durant; four daughters Mrs. C.C. Keller, Mrs. Harold Patton, Mrs. W. C. Ramsey, all of Tucson Arizona; Mrs. N.J. Skinner, Burbank, California; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Brack, Madill, and a brother, T.O. Reardon , Mason Texas. M.E. Ewing was assisted by Silas Triplett, Church of Christ minister in conducting the funeral service. Mrs. Earl Ayres was in charge of singing, with Mrs. Daves at the piano. Mr. Reirdon was laid to rest in a copper casket at Woodberry Forest Cemetery.