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Obituary
Maysville Cemetery, Garvin County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Sue Hearon
December 24, 1971 W. E. "Tubby" Winans W. E. Winans Rites Held Monday Morning W.E. "Tubby" Winans died Friday afternoon, December 24, in Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was fifty-six years old and was born on May 14, 1915, in Victoria, Texas. Tubby graduated from high school in Marietta, Oklahoma, attended college in Durant and at Oklahoma University and graduated from the embalming school in St. Louis. He went to work for Watt's Funeral Home in Oklahoma City upon graduation. He married his wife, Bobby, on June 19, 1939, and they moved to Pauls Valley, establishing a funeral home there. In 1949 they moved to Maysville and established the funeral home now at its present location. Winans was elected to the Maysville City Council in the early 1960's and served two terms. He was chairman (mayor) of the Council at the start of the Wiley Post Memorial Lake Project. He was a member and past board member of the First Baptist Church, member of the Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Maysville PTA, past president of the Rotary Club, member of the Scottish Rite, a 32nd Degree Mason, and past Chief of the Maysville Fire Department. In addition, he was past secretary of the Garvin County Election Board, Civil Defense Regional Director, member of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Maysville representative of SODA, and he had served as Santa Claus for some twenty years in the annual Christmas festivities. Tubby was the founder of two special awards, one to the outstanding FHA senior girl and one to the outstanding FFA senior boy. In 1949, he started the Winans Junior Olympics, which have been held annually since that time. Funeral services were held Monday at 10:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church with Reverend Gerald Cox officiating. Interment was in the Maysville Cemetery under the direction of Conner Funeral Home in Purcell. Survivors include his wife, Bobby; one son, Dr. Bill Williams of Portland, Oregon; one daughter, Mrs. John Williams of Dallas; his mother, Mrs. W. G. Winans of Maysville; two sisters, Mrs. E.G. Brown of Oklahoma City and Mrs. W.F. Jeffries of Little Rock. December 1971 W. E. "Tubby" Winans We'll Miss Him Maysville lost one of its finest last week. Tubby Winans, who had comforted so many during their periods of grief and emotional confusion, was laid to rest on a Maysville hillside on a beautiful, unseasonably warm December morning.. Amid the strains of "Ave Maria," hundreds of friends and relatives poured into a flower-filled church in a last gesture of love for one who had meant so much to them and to express their feelings to Tubby's family.. Even though his life was not long by today's standards, it was a rich, full life during which he accomplished much more than most. In his more than twenty years in Maysville, he made and kept great numbers of friends from all over the state. He was the one they turned to when they needed that extra bit of help. Some of his dreams were not quite realized, but he knows they will be.. Tubby was one of those rare people whose unseen, unpublicized good deeds were his life style. In true spirit of this epitaph, his last thoughts were not of his own pain and failing strength, but of his regret in "ruining everybody's Christmas.". We'll miss him. |
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