Washita Co., OK - Obit for Wendell Lavern Francis

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Obit for Wendell Lavern Francis

Funeral services for Wendell Lavern Francis, 80, of Springdale, 
Arkansas were held Saturday, February 15, 2003 at Sisco Funeral 
Chapel in Springdale with Reverend Larry Branum officiating. 
Burial was in the Friendship Cemetery in Springdale. 

Wendell was born August 2, 1922, in Cordell to Elbert “Bunt” and 
Ola Mae Montgomery Francis. He died February 12, 2003 at Springdale Rehab Center. 

He graduated from Lake Valley High School. He attended Southwestern 
Teachers College in Weatherford, Oklahoma until being drafted to 
military service into WWII. Wendell returned to Mountain View, 
Oklahoma and married Lila Faye Smith. They purchased a farm near 
town where they had a son in 1948. They lived there until 1950, 
when they moved to Springdale, Arkansas. 

Wendell's first job was cooking at A.Q. Chicken House. He worked there 
for a year, and went to work at Emerson Monument Company. He left 
there to open monument companies in Snyder, Oklahoma and then in 
Fayetteville, Arkansas. He operated these for five years. At that time 
he went to work for Tyson Foods and Randall Road Hatchery. He was 
manager at the hatchery until health reasons caused an early retirement. 
His fellow employees at Tyson were his best friends. He retired in 1975 
to live in Springdale. 

Survivors include a son, John B. Francis of Springdale; cousins, Rita 
and Kenneth Cornett of Huntsville, Arkansas, Saundra Cain of Kingston, 
Arkansas, Kent Cornett of Huntsville, Arkansas; an aunt, Leo Green of 
Cordell; a sister-in-law, Ima Lee Francis of Mt. View, Oklahoma; a 
niece, Kay Daniel of Mt. View, Oklahoma; cousins, Ray and Jerri Johnson 
of Oakwood, Oklahoma; Joanne Nye of Oakwood, Oklahoma, Bob and Gary 
Johnson of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Jim Johnson of Enid, Oklahoma; a dear 
friend, Junior Buchanan of Springdale; cousins Shan Fitzgerald of 
Cordell, Oklahoma and Denny Green of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. 

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