Bill G.
Tadlock, 86, of Norman, Oklahoma passed away March 6, 2013. Bill was
born October 24, 1926 to Bennett and Emma (Williams) Tadlock in Bokchito,
Oklahoma.
He left high school to serve his country in the Pacific Theater during
WWII. He became a platoon leader in the United States Army and was on
Okinawa when we bombed Japan and the war ended. He returned to Norman
where he finished High School. Bill then met and married his wife, Jerry
Anne Claxton with whom he shared 50 wonderful years raising two sons,
Phillip and Mark. He began his career in the retail grocery business and
after 37 years retired in 1984. Bill spent quality time with his son,
Mark, traveling the country and working on various jobs together. Bill
could not sit still after retirement, so he took a job at the University
of Oklahoma where he worked for 10 years in the microbiology lab. On
August 28, 2005 in Norman, Bill remarried Beverly Spears. Bill twice
served as the Sooner Lion’s Club President and was instrumental in the
success of the concessions at the OU football games. Bill loved spending
time with his family. Bill was known as being kind and nice to everyone
he came in contact with. Even during his illness Bill’s family remembers
him never complaining. He never wanted to “put anyone out.”
Bill is survived by his wife, Beverly Tadlock; son, Mark Tadlock of
Norman; three step daughters, Gwen Gough and Don of Moore, Oklahoma,
Patsy Farrar of Norman, and Becky Heeney and Neil of Norman; brother,
J.B. Tadlock of Norman; sister, Francille DeBerry of Norman; three
grandchildren, Chloe Tadlock, Tyler Tadlock, and Jake Tadlock; and six
step grandchildren, Jake Gough and Dawn, Emily Pitchford and Drew,
Melissa Marsh, Tiffany Kerley and Jordan, Christain Heeney, and Braden
Heeney; and a host of other nieces and nephews, family and friends.
Bill
was preceded in death by his parents; former wife, Jerry Anne (Claxton) Tadlock; one son, Phillip Tadlock; brother, Hershel Tadlock; two
sisters, JoAnn Lynn and Inez Bowman; and one daughter-in-law, Marcia
Lynne Tadlock.
Services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, March 8, 2013 in the First
Baptist Church 211 E. Commanche, Norman with
interment at Norman I.O.O.F Cemetery.
Arrangements for Bill Tadlock and his family were placed in the care of
the Vice family of Havenbrook Funeral Home in Norman.
Online condolences
may be shared at www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com
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