Obit.Tulsa,OK- HERNDON, Ethel Alta Dunn ================================================================== USGenWeb NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than statedabove must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ================================================================== Submitted by Chesley C. Herndon, Jr., THE TULSA TRIBUNE, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965 MRS. HERNDON DIES; WIDOW OF OIL LEADER Mrs. Ethel Alta Dunn Herndon, 76, widow of Chesley C. Herndon, former executive vice president and general counsel for the Skelly Oil Co., died in a hospital today. Mrs. Herndon, a Tulsan since 1914, was hospitalized five weeks ago after suffering a heart attack in her home at 1120 Woodward Blvd. She formerly was a member of the board of regents for Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha, serving by appointment from five governors from 1940 until 1060 when she resigned.. Mrs. Herndon had founded the piano department at OCW which she headed for four years before coming here. She was honored at the OCW commencement excercises last June. SHE ALSO WAS AN OUTSTANDING artist and an exhibit of her paintings was displayed in the Nash Library art gallery at OCW in 1959. Born in Garden City, Kan., she received her master's degree from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., where she was awarded a gold medal for excellency in piano. She then went to Chickasha and founded the OCW piano department in 1910. She was married there to Mr. Herndon, an attorney. Mr. Herndon was an executive for the Skelly Oil Co. here from its beginning in 1919 until he retired in 1956. He died in October, 1962. Mrs. Herndon was a member of the Boston Avenue Methodist Church, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Chapter N of the PEO, the Tulsa Philharmonic and the Tulsa Club. She was a patroness of Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority at the University of Tulsa. SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, Thomas of 256 E. 27th St., and Apache Oil Co. geologist, and Chesley C. Jr. of Midland, Tex., a Skelly geologist; two daughters, Mrs. Villard Martin, Jr. and Mrs. Frances H. Heller and 11 grandchildren. Services will be held at 10 A. M. Saturday in the Rose Chapel of Boston Avenue Methodist Church. Entombment will in Rose Hill Mausoleum under direction of Stanley's Funeral Service.