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Obituary
Rose Hill Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Sandi Carter
© The Chickasha Express-Star Tuesday, 18 September 2007 David Carl Buchanan Funeral service for David Carl Buchanan, age 80 of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on September 19, 2007, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. David Carl Buchanan was born the son of Fitzhue Lee Buchanan and Sarah Elizabeth Adams Buchanan on June 14, 1927, in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He died on September 16, 2007, in Carnegie, Oklahoma. David attended school at Meridian Public School in Grady County. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1947. After returning from the Army, he received his GED from Meridian High School. On December 24, 1948, he married Mildred "Mickey" G. Cook in Oklahoma City. David attended Gupton Jones Mortuary College in Dallas, Texas from 1958 to 1959. After receiving his morticians license, he worked at the funeral home in Fletcher for two years and at Davis Funeral Home in Guthrie for four years. In 1964, David went into the nursing home business in Okeene, where he remained for twenty years. During this time he farmed and ranched in the Okeene area. He was also active in the construction and contracting business building nursing homes and commercial buildings in Oklahoma and Texas. David moved to Mission, Texas in 1987 where he pursued his love of agriculture in the orange and grapefruit industry. He eventually moved to Chickasha where he lived the last four years. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, Harvey Buchanan, Charles Buchanan, James Buchanan, and Thomas "Jack" Buchanan, and four sisters, Elizabeth Brown, Naomi Kingsley, Mary Anna Stewart, and Ruth Bullen. Survivors include: Son: David M. Buchanan of Okeene; Daughter: Sherri G. Hilburn of Carnegie; Son: Kevin C. Buchanan of Weatherford, Texas; Son: Kent L. Buchanan of Edmond; Son: Kyle L. Buchanan of Norman; Eleven Grandchildren; Brother: Paul Buchanan of Lake Jackson, Texas; Sister: Myrtie Crumm of Chickasha; Sister: Elsie Hall of Crescent. Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. |