Obit of Grounds, Glenn - Texas County, Oklahoma

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::Hooker Cemetery--Hooker OK

Glenn Grounds

HOOKER, Okla. - Glenn Grounds, 79, formerly of Hooker, died Tuesday, 
Jan. 4, 2000.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Church of Christ with 
Neville Buchanan and Lloyd Riddles of Sunset Lane Baptist Church in 
Guymon officiating. Burial will be in the Hooker Cemetery with John 
Maynard officiating. Arrangements are by Robert Brothers Funeral 
Home.

Mr. Grounds was born in Hooker. In 1937, he moved to Puyallup, Wash., 
where he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and later served in 
the National Guard. He also served six years in the Army during World 
War II. He then moved back to Hooker, where he married Vera Bertha 
Oxley in 1950.

Mr. Grounds worked as a butcher in several stores, and he and his 
wife later owned and operated 54 Diner. Mrs. Grounds died in 1991.

He was living in Guymon at the time of his death. He was a member of 
the Church of Christ.

Survivors include a son, Larry Glenn Grounds of Guymon; two 
daughters, Rhonda Kay Critcher and Carolyn Lee Keith, both of Hooker; 
a brothers, D.J. Grounds of Puyallup; two sisters, Imogene Hill of 
Hooker and Marvella Massie of Tacoma, Wash.; seven grandchildren; and 
a great-granddaughter.

The family suggests memorials be to the Hooker Cemetery Fund, c/o 
Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, Okla. 73945.

Amarillo Daily News, Jan. 6, 2000
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