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Rogers Co. Obit for: Samuel Earl Chambers
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
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Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
Date: 4/30/2002               by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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Samuel Earl Chambers



Funeral Services for Sam Earl Chambers will be 10 a.m. Thursday, April 11, 2002 
at First Baptist Church in Claremore. Rev. Galen Lassiter will officiate. Burial 
will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery under the direction of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith 
Funeral Service, Claremore. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 1-8 p.m. 
Wednesday.
The son of Frank and Mary Norwood Chambers was born Aug. 24, 1916 in Perryton, 
Texas. The family moved to Claremore when Sam was about seven years old. Sam 
grew up on a farm near Sequoyah and attended school there. He married Gladys 
Bond in 1936; she died in October of 1937. On Aug. 1, 1941, Sam married Rachel 
Massey. He then entered World War II and served almost four years with the 372nd 
Combat Engineer Battalion in England, France and Germany until the war ended. He 
returned to Claremore, at first working as a carpenter, then became a 
rancher/dairy farmer until 1951, when he left the farm and returned to the 
construction trade. Rachel died in 1981. After his retirement, Sam ran a fruit 
and vegetable stand. In March of 1987, Sam married Johnnie Reed of Warner, 
Okla., and spent the remaining 15 years of his life in Warner, where he was 
active in the Senior Citizens group and enjoyed dancing, fishing, woodworking 
and gardening.

Sam is survived by sons, Raymond Chambers and wife Shirley of Tucson, Ariz., Bob 
Chambers of Claremore, Earl Chambers and wife Nita of Claremore, Jim Chambers of 
Claremore, Horace Reed and wife Shirley of Nowata, Bill Reed and wife Carlyn of 
Edmond, Charles Reed and wife Susan of Warner, Virgil Reed and wife Linda of 
Claremore, and Donald Reed and wife Lana of Muskogee; daughters, Norma Casey of 
Claremore, Annie Sargent of Tulsa and Carolyn Draper and husband Dave of Tulsa; 
35 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; 22 great-great-grandchildren; two 
brothers, Dan Chambers of Oceola, Mo., and Key Chambers of Claremore; sister, 
Melba Moore of Dumas, Texas; and other relatives and numerous friends. 
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