Obit of Wesley R. Cavnar (c156) - Mcclain County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 17 Nov 2003 Return to Mcclain County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/mcclain/mcclain.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Duncan Banner 11/02/2003 Wesley R. Cavnar Wesley R. Cavnar, 81, of Byars died Friday, Oct. 31 at Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Wilson-Little Funeral Home Chapel in Purcell, with the Rev. Wayne Brown officiating. Interment will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell. Mr. Cavnar was born Dec. 27, 1921, in Byars, one of six children born to Delbert Cayce Cavnar and Allie Harper Cavnar. He graduated from Purcell High School in 1941. After attending one year of college, he enlisted in the Navy in 1942. Mr. Cavnar served for three years aboard the USS Riddle. He was honorably discharged in 1945 and married Peg Dollar on Jan. 23, 1946, in Las Vegas. They lived in California several years before returning to Oklahoma. The Cavnar family lived in Del City while he worked as a computer system analyst at Tinker Air Force Base. He retired in 1974. In 1977, they moved to his family farm between Rosedale and Byars. Mr. Cavnar was on the Crooked Oak school board for 20 years, and for the past 25 years he served on the Mid-America Technology Center Board in Wayne. He enjoyed raising Brahma cattle, handling beehives and growing and harvesting pecans. Mr. Cavnar is survived by his wife, Peg Cavnar, of the home; a son, David Cavnar of Purcell; daughters, Nancy Hord and husband, Tommy, of Roanoke, Va., and Susan Haraughty and husband, David, of Cookson; grandchildren, Bonnie Gillespi and husband, Jason, Susan Herman and husband, Ivan, John Hord and wife, Mary, Brian Nye, and Cayce Cavnar and wife, Krissa; sisters, Lanora Standerfer of Purcell and Ernestine Goedeke; two sisters- in-law; a brother-in-law; two uncles; two aunts; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to McClain County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/mcclain/mcclain.html