Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Joe A. Andris

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Obit for Joe A. Andris

Funeral services for Joe A. Andris will be conducted Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 
10:30 a.m. from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Daniel Pulver 
officiating.  Interment will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills 
County, Oklahoma under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.

Joseph Arthur Andris Jr. was born November 24, 1917 at the Sandstone Creek community, 
Roger Mills County, Oklahoma to Joseph Arthur and Irene Smith Andris and passed away 
Saturday May 18, 2002 at the age of 84.

He attended Sandstone, Herring and Cheyenne Schools and served his country in the U.S. 
Navy from 1942 until his discharge in 1945 during WW II.

Mr. Andris was married to Arnetta June Thomas on February 26, 1944 at the Sayre 
Methodist Church parsonage.  They farmed near the Sandstone Community until moving 
to Elk City in 1993.

Mr. Andris was a member of the United Methodist Church of Elk City and the American 
Legion.

He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant brother.

Survivors include his wife, June Andris of the Elk City home; a daughter, Sallie 
Deges and her husband Elmer of Sayre and a son, Tom Andris and his wife Shirley of 
Bluejacket, Oklaoma; four grandchildren, Christopher James Degesd of Wichita Falls, 
Texas, Anita Kay Horton of Elk City, Timothy Joseph Andris of Wyandotte, Oklahoma and 
Andrew Phillip Andris of Bluejacket, Oklahoma, three great grandchildren, Jacob Joseph 
Deges and Benjamin Thomas Deges of Wichita Falls, Texas and Morgan Kay Horton of Elk 
City; two sisters, Faye Reger of Tulsa and Kay Wormington of Marble Hill, Missouri and 
one brother, Jack Andris of Neosho, Missouri.

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