| Bob Tucker 04/22/2011 |
Bob Tucker was born near Hess, Oklahoma, the youngest of eight children, to Wiley Osborne Tucker and Katie Ann Mayo Tucker. He grew up helping his family on their farm and eventually began farming, himself.… |
| Claudine Duncan 04/06/2012 |
Claudine Duncan was born February 3, 1921 near Frederick, Oklahoma. Her early school years were spent attending Union District 146, a two-room schoolhouse. Finishing the eighth grade there, she then attended… |
| Elton Van Scoder 02/27/2011 |
Elton VanScoder was born in 1918 west of Chattanooga in Tillman County, Oklahoma. He went to elementary school at Pleasant Valley, a one-room school house. His family then moved to Chickasha, where he… |
| Erby Hunter 02/28/2011 |
Erby Hunter was born in 1929 in Olustee, Oklahoma. He graduated from Southside School in 1947. He has lived in the same home in Jackson County, near Hess, Oklahoma, all of his life. He remembers two additional… |
| Erma Lou Dunlap 04/25/2011 |
Erma Lou Dunlap was born in 1926 two and a half miles southwest of Tipton, Oklahoma, to Cloyce Alvin and Audrey Wilson Parks. She was the oldest of four. Her father, who was from the Tipton area, was a… |
| Erma Tucker 04/22/2011 |
Erma Tucker was born in Edinburg, Texas, in 1943, the oldest of six children. During Erma’s youth, her parents were migrant workers, so they traveled around the United States based on harvest season. When… |
| Frances Herron 04/09/2012 |
Frances Smith Herron was born in 1918 in Hester, Oklahoma, the youngest of seven children. She began school five miles away at Martha, Oklahoma, and traveled by buggy to get there. After graduating from… |
| Gladys Pride 04/06/2012 |
Gladys Pride was born in 1920 in Hillsboro, Texas. When Gladys was a young girl, her widowed grandmother moved her and her eight siblings to Snyder where she raised them all on her own. Living in a tent… |
| J. L. Tucker 02/26/2011 |
J. L. Tucker was born at home three miles east of Hess, Oklahoma, on the North Fork of the Red River on January 19, 1924 to Wiley and Kate (Mayo) Tucker, the second of eight children. He attended school… |
| Marvin Huff 04/05/2012 |
Marvin Huff was born near Tipton, Oklahoma in 1941. In 1983 Huff became mayor of Tipton. In 1991 he retired from the volunteer fire department after twenty years. That same year he resigned his position… |
| Mattie Mae Huff 02/27/2011 |
Mattie Mae Huff was born north of Tipton on June 6, 1915 to Rufus Marian (R. M.) and Nettie (James) Dosher, the last of ten children. She went to school through the eighth grade at Blue, District 86 then… |
| Myrtha Fisher 04/05/2012 |
Myrtha Fisher was born in 1927 on a farm between Frederick and Tipton, Oklahoma. Myrtha attended school in Tipton until she was a sophomore. She then moved to Manitou, where she graduated high school in… |
| Opal Winkler 04/06/2012 |
Opal Winkler was born in 1919 in Durant, Oklahoma to Noah and Emma Troxell Owens. At a young age she headed West in a covered wagon with her family due to concerns with her father’s health. They stopped… |
| Raenell Vernon 04/25/2011 |
Raenell Vernon was born in 1924 two and a half miles west of Tipton, Oklahoma, to Luke and Lillian Hasley Boyd. She recalls riding the school bus to school in Tipton beginning in the first grade. She graduated… |
| Sam Killebrew 04/06/2012 |
Sam Killebrew was born in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1933 to Tom and Kay Killebrew, the third of six children. In 1937 the family moved to Tipton, Oklahoma for his father’s job with Gulf Oil Company. At the… |
| Tyrone Penick 04/08/2012 |
Tyrone Penick was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, and grew up in Tipton. His great-grandfather and grandfather had settled in the Wichita Mountains area, where his father was also born and raised, and all four… |
| U. L. Smith 04/21/2011 |
U. L. Smith was born five miles north of Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1920. After seven years, his family moved to Dill City, where he attended school and helped his father farm. In 1941, as soon as he turned… |
| Vena Teel 03/01/2011 |
Vena (Werhan) Teel was born in 1931 in Dill City, Oklahoma. She and her three sisters helped their family farm cotton, wheat, milo and raise livestock while they were growing up in Southwestern Oklahoma.… |
