Obit of Hairrell, Dan William - Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips   <okarchives@comcast.net>   23 Apr 2006
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Hairrell, Dan William

'GONE FISHIN' Dan William Hairrell, a Midwest City resident of 56 years, 
passed away on Sunday morning, March 9, 2003, at the Sweetbriar Nursing 
Center under the care of Quality Care Hospice. D.W., as his friends and 
family called him, was born September 8, 1920 in Dunbar, Oklahoma to the 
late Ella Glen and Albert Monroe Hairrell. During WWII D.W. served in the 
Army Infantry, specifically in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands where he made 
his patrol duty on skis, and shared a foxhole with his comrades shooting 
at Japanese planes as they flew over their positions. After the war, he 
married his childhood sweetheart, Reba J. Jackson on May 13, 1944 in 
Little Rock, Arkansas. He moved to Midwest City in 1947 and began work at 
Tinker Air Force Base from where he retired on December 29, 1972. 
Surviving him are his wife, Reba; two daughters, Jeannie Hayes Bain of 
Denver, CO, and Mary Elaine Maddux of Del City; two sisters, JoAnn LaRue 
Capers and Ruby Faye Goodwin of Hugo, OK; grandchildren Karey Karin 
Stinson, Midwest City, OK, Lee Ann Maddux of Del City, OK and Catherine 
Elaine Hayes, Denver, CO; and seven great grandchildren. A celebration of 
his life is scheduled for Wednesday, 2 PM, March 12, 2003, at the Good 
Shepard Lutheran Church, 700 N. Air Depot Blvd., Midwest City, OK with 
interment at Arlington Memory Gardens Cemetery, 3400 N. Midwest Blvd. The 
church will host a luncheon for the family beginning at Noon in their 
community room. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations be 
made to the Good Shepard Lutheran Church and Quality Hospice Care, in care 
of Bell-Childers Foundation, Inc., 921 S. Sooner Road, Midwest City, OK.

Published in the Oklahoman on 3/11/2003.
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