Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  WILEY JESSIE HOLDEN 

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WILEY JESSIE HOLDEN 

OCNS - September 14, 2002 - Wiley Jessie Holden, 81, a native of Osage 
County, Oklahoma, died at 8:26 p.m., Wednesday, September 10, 2002 in 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.   Graveside services were held at 11:00 a.m., 
Saturday, September 14, in the A.J. Powell Cemetery, Hominy, Oklahoma.   
Mr. Holden's nephew, Reverend Larry Thomas, was the officiant.   Full 
Masonic rites at the graveside were accorded Mr. Holden by the Wah-Sha-She 
Masonic Lodge #110.   Committal prayers and interment was directed by the 
Arnold Moore Funeral Service, Bartlesville.

Born August 16, 1921 at Wynona, Osage County, Oklahoma, Wiley Jessie Holden 
was the son of Wiley James and Beulah (Middlebrooks) Holden.   He was 
reared and received his education in the Wynona Community and was graduated 
with the Wynona High School Senior Class of 1939.   He continued his 
education at the Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) 
School of Welding at Stillwater, Oklahoma. 

He moved to California where he was employed in the Naval Shipyards.   
Wiley Jessie Holden and Grace Mannon were married at Wynona, and 
established their home in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.   He was employed as a 
pipeline welder for various pipeline companies and was the owner/operator 
of the Holden Construction Company, Pawhuska.   He and Irene Whitson were 
married in Stillwater where they made their home.   He was employed as an 
independent consultant in oil production and, following his retirement, 
continued living in Stillwater until August of 2002 when he moved to 
Bartlesville to live near his brothers.

Wiley J. Holden was a member of the Wah-Sha-She Masonic Lodge #110 in 
Pawhuska and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, Tulsa.

Survivors include:   One daughter, Mrs. Rick (Patricia Lynn) Perdue of 
Tulsa; two grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; three brothers, L.J. 
(Jack) Holden and his wife, Sadie, of Alice, Texas, A.C. Holden and his 
wife, Ann, of Dewey, Oklahoma and George R. "Dody" Holden and his wife, 
Myrna, of the rural Sunset Lake community (west of Bartlesville); one 
sister, Mrs. JoAnn Thomas of Corpus Christi, Texas and several nieces and 
nephews.   He was preceded in death by a brother, Russell Holden; two 
sisters, Mrs. Aleen Legal and Mrs. Marie Ward and one daughter, Doris Jean.