Obit of Lankford, William L. "Bill" - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri     9 Oct 2005
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Surnames: LANKFORD, SEATS, WALLACE, PISTORIUS, CATLIN, BLACKBURN, WELCH, 
          WALLACE, LANGFORD

from 2-10-2003 Examiner Enterprise

William L. Lankford

William L. "Bill" Lankford, 78, died Saturday at the Jane Phillips Medical 
Center.

Memorial services will be held at a later date. Cremation arrangements 
were under the direction of the Stumpff funeral Home.

William Loyd Lankford was born on March 16, 1924 at Okemah, Oklahoma the 
son of William Edward and Frona Jane (Seats) Lankford. He served in the 
army during WWII and was stationed in Bremenhaven, Germany where he met 
and married Elfriede C. Dammann in 1948. They moved from Jay to 
Bartlesville in 1953. Bill worked for the City of Bartlesville in the 
Water Department until he retired in 1986. Elfriede preceded him in death 
on January 17, 1992. He then married Nina Wallace on September 14, 1996 at 
Dewey, Oklahoma. She preceded him in death on October 4, 2001. He was a 
member of the Liberty Chapel of Praise.

Bill is survived by one son William Lankford and his wife Reta of 
Ochelata, three daughters; Mary Pistorius, Sue Catlin and her husband Bert 
and Cindy Blackburn and her husband Joe all of Bartlesville, one step-
daughter; Lori Welch of Miami, Oklahoma, two step-sons; Dennis Wallace of 
Manford and Lee Wallace II of Bristow, nine grandchildren; Steven, Lona, 
Angela, Ricky, Robert, Michael, William, Jeffrey and Joey, nine great 
grandchildren and one nephew, Delmar Lankford and his wife Sharron of 
Bartlesville and three great nephews Dale Langford, Ted Langford and Nick 
Langford. He was preceded in death by his parents, two wives and one son-
in-law Bill Pistorius.
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