John Wesley Griffin

Sunday, May 9, 1971

John Wesley Griffin

Funeral Set In Fletcher For Griffin

Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the First Christian Church at Fletcher for John Wesley Griffin, 67, who died in a local hospital Friday.

Griffin, field superintendent for Rocket Oil Company of Duncan, had been with Rocket Oil 32 years. He was born at Alma Aug. 11, 1903. He was married to Minnie Zisman at Chickasha on June 17, 1927.

His survivors are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Glenn Trimmer of Stonewall, Okla., and Mrs. M. P. Hensley of Long Beach, Calif.; a son, Johnny Ray Griffin with the Navy, based at San Diego; and his mother, Mrs. Ethel Griffin of Cyril. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Glenn Walker and Mrs. Dick King, both of Cyril; three brothers, Jess, Jack and Ray, all of Lawton, and four grandchildren.

The Rev. Fred I. Jordan, pastor of the Central Christian Church at Fairview and former pastor of West Side Christian Church here, will officiate at the funeral. Griffin was a member of West Side.

Burial will be in the Fletcher Cemetery. Bearers will be Emmett Roach, Royce Williams, Ray James, Jack Savage, Ralph Mullins, and Harry Claypool. Robbins Funeral Home of Fletcher will direct.