Obit of Smith, Doyle Leroy - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 02 Nov 2008 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Cheyenne Cemetery--Cheyenne OK Surnames: Smith, Jencks, Whinery, Richardson Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/8848/mb.ashx Doyle Leroy Smith passed away Monday, August 4, 2008 at the family home, south of Cheyenne, Oklahoma. He was looking forward to his 85th birthday in just one month. Services will be held Friday August 8, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at Msrtin Funeral Home in Elk City. Rev. Milton Gage and Rev. Michael Larson will officiate the services. Interment in the Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Doyle was born September 4, 1923 at the family farm near Elmer, Oklahoma to Bessie R. and Forrest Smith. The family moved to a farm near Greenfield, Oklahoma when Doyle was 2 years old and later moved to a farm near Watonga, Oklahoma. In January 1935 the family moved to El Centro, California. He attended grade school and Central Union High there. He startedd selling the Los Angeles Examiner on the street when he was 11 years old. He was awarded a trip to Catalina Island for his high sales. He delivered Western Union telegrams on his bicycle during the time singing telegrams were popular and enjoyed singing Happy Birthday, Anniversary and mesages. He worked for California Pine Box making boxes for shipping vegetables until he was drafted into the Army on February 19, 1943. He worked helping build the Alaska Highway, which was urgently needed at the time. Then he was sent to Europe where he drove a jeep and delivered mail and messages for the Signal Motor Corp. He was very prud of his Country and his service to it. After 3 years in the Army, he returned to El Centro to drive trucks for the Jencks Trucking Co. He returned to Oklahoma in 1947 to attend Ref/Air Conditioner school and 2 years at Southwestern State University in Weatherford. He choose Elk City for his families home and operated his own refrigeration business there and surrounding area. He especially enjoyed helping dairy farmers with their milk tanks. Doyle worked in the Refer Shop at Clinton-Sherman Air Forcfe Base 10 yeards. During this time, he was sent to Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid, Spain where where his particular job was to maintain air conditioning on radar equipment placed in the Early Warning System. He enjoyeed helping the missionaries while he was there and taking ice cream to an orphanage in El Escorial where they named him "The Ice Cream Man". After returning home, he went to Alaska again. This time to drive the 700 mile oil service road from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, maintainging refrigeration for the camps that took care of the men building the Pipeline. He finished his 40 years of Ref/Air Conditioning work at Fairview School in Elk City and moved with his wife Pauline to the Jencks Family farm after living in Elk City 58 years. Doyle became a Christian and was baptized when he was 17 years and served the Lord teaching boys in Sunday School, RA's and Scouts. He married Pauline Jencks on January 18, 1943 in the Church of the Nazarene in El Centro, California. The couple have worked together for 65 and l/2 years. Their 4 children and spouses are Michael and Beckey Smith and Timothy Smith, all of Cheyenne; Debora and Don Whinery, Sayre; and Rebecca and Terry Downs of Hutchinson, Kansas; 11 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Doyle had 5 brothers, Forrest of Watonga, Bonnie of Modesto, California, Garland of Phoenix, Arizona, Irby of Oakland, California and Paul of Tok, AK and 2 sisters, Nell Richardson of Watonga and Maureen of El Centro, California. Doyle was the last of this immediaate family. He is survived by many nieces and nephews and in-laws and a host of friends. We will all miss this good man. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 7-Aug-2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html