Obit of McCarty, Lester Willis - Washington County, Oklahoma

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Bartlesville, Ok.
Examiner-Enterprise
Aug.7,1980 pg. 34

LESTER MCCARTY

Lester Willis McCarty, 63, native Bartlesville resident was pronounced 
dead on arrival at the Emergeny roon of the Jane Phillips Building of the 
local Medical Center at 4:20 p.f. on Monday.

Funeral services for Mr. McCarty will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the 

Virginia Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. Billy Eugene Benefiel will be the 
officiant Committal prayers and Interment will be directed in the White 
Rose cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mr. McCarty was vorn in Bartlesville on March 19, 1917. He was the son of 
the late Maggie Grady and Carl McCarty, early day Bartlesville settlers. 
When he was four years old his family moved to Shidler, as they followed 
early day oilfield expediting and he began his education in the Shidler 
Schools. The McCarty family moved to Romona  where he completed his 
education. He was first employed as a tool dresser and a roustabout for 

William H. Uhl oil industries in this area in 1936 and four years later, 
on August 7,1940, he was enlisted in the United States Army. Mr. McCarty 
received his Honorable discharge following World War 2 on October 19,1945, 
when he returned to bartlesville. He and the former Miss. Betty Joe Griggs 
were married on December 15,1945, at Arkansas City,Kansas. They made their 
first home south of Bartlesville. He was employed by the Reda pump Company 
for five years.


McCarty was formerly employed by Earnest Nye Trucking Company and the 
National Zinc Company. He began working for the local National Zinc 
Company in 1955 and was retired due to ill health in 1968.

He was a member of the James F. Bailey V.F.W. Post 989.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday.


Survivors of Mr. Mccarty include his wife, Mrs. Betty Joe (Griggs) McCarty,
1311 S. Elm, one sone Lester Eugene McCarty,1445 So.Elm; four 
daughter: Mrs. Cecil R. (Edith Ilene) Moles, 4224 N.E. Ohio, Mrs. Robert 
R.(Beartice Kay) Hailey, 321 No. Rogers, Shirley Bernice Rippey,822 West 
11 th; and Mrs. Sylvester (Vickie Lynn) Scullawl, 817 So. Elm, 20 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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