Obit of Orval Walton (w435) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  5 Sep 2002
====================================================================
                     USGENWEB NOTICE 
All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of 
the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US 
Copyright Laws and Regulations.

In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, 
these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. 
They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices 
and submitter information is included.

These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit.

Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires 
permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites.

The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store 
the file permanently for free access.
====================================================================
Surnames: Walton, Billings, Barten, Hogg, Rushbrook, Jones, Stahlman, 
Vlodeman 

Originally posted at:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5142

Orval Walton was born June 28, 1911 to Everett Lee Walton and Jennie 
May Billings Walton on the Walton homestead near Moorwood, Oklahoma.  
He passed from this life on Thursday, April 6, 1995 in the Great 
Plains Regional Medical Center of Elk City, Oklahoma.  He was 83 
years, 9 months, and 8 days of age.

As a youth, Orvall attended Eureka Grade School and Leedey High 
School.  Upon completing his formal education, he moved his 
residence to Oklahoma City where he worked for the Fred Jones Ford 
Agency and for a whole with ITIO Oil Company before returning to 
Leedey.

Orval and Zona Gale Barten were married on March 19, 1932 in Taloga, 
Oklahoma.  They established stheir first home together on the Walton 
homestead near Moorewood and lived there for six years before moving 
to the Barten homestead southwest of Leedey in 1939.  It was there 
they raised their two children, and helped raise their four 
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and lived their lives to 
completion.

Besides Orval's primary occupation of farming and ranching he leaves 
a loving legacy of carpentry skills that lives on today in many of 
the homes, buildings and barns they are found in and around Leedey.  

After retiring, he worked with his brother-in-law, Doc Barten, and 
his good friend, Doyle Bloomer, remodeling houses for the under-
privileged in the Elk City area.

Orval was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Zona Gale, on May 
16, 1994.  He was also preceded by his parents; by his sister, 
Dorothy; his brothers, Loren, Harley and Buddy; his brother-in-law, 
Harman Hogg; son-in-law Harvey Rushbrook and great grandson, Aaron 
Jones.

He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Evelyn and Charles 
Jones of Woodward; daughter Beverly Rushbrook of Edmond, Oklahoma; 
sister, Lorene Hogg, Leedey; grandchildren, Pete Stahlman of Fargo, 
Kenny Jones, Woodward, Oklahoma, Connie Vloedman, Clinton, Oklahoma 
and Scott Rushbrook of Dallas, Texas; great grandchildren, Mandy and 
Jessica Vloedman, Clinton, Adam Jones of Woodward and Staphanie and 
Talon Stahlman, Fargo; by other dear relatives and great hos of 
friends.  All these remember the love, humor gentle kindness and 
wisdom that was given through the life of Orval Walton.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK