Obit of Carroll Seay Eggers (e262) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  6 Aug 2002
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Services for Carroll Seay Eggers will be conducted Wednesday at 10:00 
a.m. from the Martin Funeral Chapel.  Burial will follow in the Fairlawn
Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.  
They casket will be closed following the service so friends may call 
by the Funeral Home for visitation.

Carroll Seay Eggers was born September 8, 1905 in Lewisville, Arkansas 
and died Sunday at the age of 92.  He was one of three sets of twins  
and his twin died in infancy.  Mr. Eggers came to Oklahoma at the age 
of 18 where he lived for a short time in Elk City before moving to 
Hammons where he worked for Lambert Storage and Transfer from 1924 to 
1926.  He was later employed by the Roger Mills Co-op Association where 
he worked for 35 years, first as a flour miller and later became manager 
of the Association.  He became interested in Cable TV and in 1961 built 
and operated Hammons Community TV, and Coldwater Kansas Cable System and
then retired in 1970.  Carroll was a member of the Masonic Lodge in 1928 
where he was a 32nd Degree Mason.  He was twice the Mayor of Hammons, 
President of the Lions Club and was instrumental in the completion of 
the Senior Citizens Center.  He was a volunteer in Officer Candidate 
School during World War II where he received his training at Ft. Francis 
E. Warren in Wyoming.

Carroll was preceded in death by his parents, nine brothers and sisters 
and one grandchild.

Survivors include his wife Beatrice Eggers of the Hammons home.  Two 
daughters, Carol Ann Reim and her husband Gary of Richardson, Texas and 
Donna Bogle and her husband Dennis of Columbia, Missouri.  1 granddaughter, 
Sarah Reim and 1 grandson: Jay Reim and his wife Stephanie of Richardson, 
Texas.

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