Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Walter Clay Sr.

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Walter Clay Passes In Veterans Hospital

   Walter Clay, age 55 years, passed away Saturday morning, December 4, in the
Veterans Hospital at Wichita, where he had been taken the day before suffering
from a heart attack.
   Funeral service was held Tuesday afternoon at the Assembly of God church,
with sermon by Rev. Charles Parks of Webb City, assisted by Rev. F. E. Conrad.
Interment was in Fairfax cemetery under direction of the Hunsaker funeral home.
   Mr. Clay was a veteran of World War One.  Military rites were accorded by
color bearers and firing squad of the local service organizations in uniform
with Rev. M. C. Holt as military chaplain.
   Walter Clay was born February 7, 1893, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Clay.  The family moved to Fairfax tirty years ago and this has since
been their home.
   On February 9, 1919, he was married to Miss Jessie Chambers at Bartlesville,
Okla.  To this union one son was born, Walter Clay Jr., who survives.
   Mr. Clay was employed in the oil fields and recently operated a milk route
for the Steffens plant in Fairfax, at which he was employed to time of his
death.
   Immediate family survivors besides his wife and their son include five
brothers:  Earl Clay of Tulsa, Ollie Clay of Ralston, Jim Clay of Clinton, Mo.,
Jo Clay of Ogden, Utah, Ben Clay of Winchester, Ky, two sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Hampton of Fairfax, Mrs. Goldie Youngblood of Beeville, Texas; his aged father,
J. T. Clay of Fairfax; one grandchild; numerous nephews and neices.