Obit of Rhoads, John - Texas County, Oklahoma

Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their
obits to the USGenWeb Archives.
Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/                    19 Feb 2006
Return to Texas County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html
==========================================================================
                             USGENWEB NOTICE
                     Copyright.  All rights reserved.
             http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
==========================================================================
::Elmhurst Cemetery--Guymon OK

Amarillo Globe News 05 Dec 1997

John Rhoads

GUYMON, Okla. - John Rhoads, 85, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Church of the Nazarene with Rev. 
Terry Armstrong, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Elmhurst Cemetery 
by Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home.

Mr. Rhoads was born in Texas County. He attended country schools and 
graduated from Goodwell High School in 1930.

He homesteaded near Pagosa Springs, Colo., in 1931. He then moved to the 
Hardesty area in 1937. He moved to Holly, Colo., in 1950 and returned to 
Hardesty in 1957.

He had farmed most of his life. After retiring in 1970, he moved from 
Hardesty to Guymon. He was a mill operator for several years for Farr 
Better Feeds.

Mr. Rhoads was a member of the Perryton Mennonite Church. He attended the 
Church of the Nazarene in Guymon.

He married Ruth Kauffman in 1941 at Guymon.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Johnnie Rhoads of Guymon and Bob 
Rhoads of Carney; four daughters, Adda Sue Nymeyer of Panhandle, Texas, 
Sherlyn Ketcherside and Roxie Davis, both of Guymon, and Sally Baker of 
Tucumcari, N.M.; four sisters, Dora Waldrop and Hazel Mannion, both of 
Amarillo, Mariel Shutt of Canton, Ohio, and Virginia Eyster of Marble 
Falls, Texas; 18 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-
grandson.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Texas County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html