Donald F. CANADAY

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK June 19, 2003

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

OBITUARY

The funeral for Donald C. Canaday, 82, will be 10 a.m. Friday in the First Assembly of God. The Revs. Dan Barrick, Robert Florence and Burton Pierce will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

He was born Oct. 12, 1920, in Elkhart, Kan., to Gilbert and Clara Stiggens Canaday and died Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at his home in Enid.

He graduated from Dodge City High School. On Nov. 30, 1941, he married Martha E. Frey at Dodge City. He served in the Navy during World War II on a subchaser PC 490. After his Navy service, the couple lived in Dodge City, moving to Enid in 1970. He worked for Santa Fe Railroad for more than 45 years. He was a member of First Assembly of God.

Surviving are his wife, Martha of the home; two daughters, Cynthia Fest of Disney, Okla., and Janet Canaday of Enid; one brother, Jack W. of Wichita; one sister, Marjorie Hildebrand of Stafford, Kan.; and two grandsons.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the church or to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Kidney Division.