Obit for Eddleman Jr., Morgan William - Oklahoma County OK

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Morgan William Eddleman Jr.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Morgan William "Bud" Eddleman Jr., 72, died 
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1999.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Christ the King Catholic 
Church by Smith & Kernke Funeral Directors.

Mr. Eddleman was born in Ardmore. He graduated from Bartlesville High 
School in 1945 before entering Southwestern University as part of the 
Navy V5 pilot training program during World War II. He graduated with 
a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 
1950, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the ROTC.

He served as a first lieutenant with the 158th Field Artillery 
Battalion of the 45th Infantry Division, as a forward observer in 
Korea during the war.

He worked in oil exploration with City Service Oil Co., at 
Bartlesville, Okla., Olney, Ill., and Great Bend, Kan. Mr. Eddleman 
also worked for Parker Petroleum at Ponca City.

After working for El Paso Natural Gas Co. in Amarillo, he became a 
consulting geologist and formed his own exploration and production 
company. He was a member of the American Association of Petroleum 
Geologists, the Oklahoma City Geological Society, the Kansas 
Geological Society, and the Amarillo Geological Society. He was a 
member of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.

He married Thalia Welborn in 1958 at Ponca City.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Anne Doll of New York City; 
three sisters, Ernestine Ruggiers and Ruth Loeffler, both of Norman, 
Okla., and Marianne Biddick of Ardmore; and a brother, Robert C. 
Eddleman of Houston, Texas.

The family requests memorials be to Christ the King Catholic Church 
or a favorite charity.

Amarillo Daily News, Dec. 17, 1999
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