Nickalie Kenneth Straw

© Enid News and Eagle

11-13-2014

Submitted by: Glenn

© Enid News and Eagle

Funeral service for Kenneth Straw, 85, will be 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home, with the Rev. John Bizzell officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation with family is 5:30-7 p.m. today, Nov. 13, at the funeral home.

Kenneth was born to Pete and Eliza (Weibe) Straw on Feb. 17, 1929, in Alva, Okla., and passed away Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, in Enid, Okla.

Kenneth grew up in Alva and Ringwood.

He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict.

He married Betty Hyatt and they made their home in Enid.

He helped build the Canton Lake Dam. He worked as a truck driver for Farmland for 33 years.

After Betty’s death in 1977, he married Doris Thompson in 1978. She died in 2008.

Kenneth enjoyed fishing and hunting.

He was preceded in death by two wives; son, Steve; granddaughter, Melissa Hankoff; brother, Gilmer; four sisters, Pearl, Ruth, Leona and Bernice; and daughter-in-law, Vickie Straw.

Kenneth is survived by his children, Cynthia and Steve Vendetti of Enid, Carliss Straw of Protection, Kan., Janet Latham and Melissa Kay Hankoff (Mike), all of Sacramento, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brother, Dale Straw of Wichita, Ka.; and sisters, Nellie Kline of Wichita, and Betty French of Alex City, Ala.; stepchildren, Sherry Litson and Harold T. Thompson.

Memorials are to OMRF, diabetes division.

Guestbook www.andersonburris.com.

(Submitted by family)

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