Rogers Co. Obit for: Lloyd J. Atkinson 
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Rogers County Archivist: Bryan Mayberry, bmayberry41@earthlink.net
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 6/13/2003 by: Bryan Mayberry, bmayberry41@earthlink.net
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6/13/2003

Lloyd J. Atkinson


Services for Lloyd J. Atkinson will be 10 a.m. Friday, May 16, 2003 at the Walker-Browne 
Chapel in Bartlesville. Interment follows at the Wyandotte Cemetery, Wyandotte.

He passed away Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Claremore after 
an extended illness. He was 78.
Lloyd was born April 22, 1925 in Cardin. He grew up in Wyandotte, graduating from 
Wyandotte High School in 1943. He attended the University of Oklahoma on a Naval 
Scholarship and was activated to combat service aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. Caine in the 
Pacific Theater during WWII. 

Upon his discharge from active duty, he attended and graduated from Northeastern Oklahoma 
A&M College in Miami. He was then employed by Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville. 
After many years with Phillips in London, England, he retired in 1986 to his home in Dewey. He 
married Nancy Elizabeth Powers in 1948.

Lloyd is survived by his wife, Nancy Atkinson of Dewey; daughter, Patricia Atkinson Matthews 
and husband, Larry of Tahlequah; son, Dr. Jim Atkinson and wife, Dede of Claremore; 
grandsons, Bradley, Andrew and Corey Matthews of Tahlequah and Kristofer Atkison of 
Claremore.

The family requests that memorials be made in lieu of flowers to the V.F.W., 310 E. Don Tyler, 
Dewey, OK, 74029 or the Alzheimer Association of Oklahoma Chapter, 6465 S. Yale, Suite 
206, Tulsa, OK, 74136.

Services are under the direction of Walker-Browne Funeral Home of Bartlesville.


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