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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, June 19, 1963 William Floyd Stratton Funeral Services For W.F. Stratton Are Held Saturday Funeral services for W.F. Stratton, retired postmaster and resident of Carnegie since 1920, were held at 4:30 Saturday afternoon at the First Christian church with Rev. W.E. Harris, Lindsay, former Carnegie pastor, officiating. Burial was in the local American Legion Post in charge of graveside rites. Stratton, 72, died Thursday morning at the Carnegie hospital where he had been a patient since April 1. He had been ill the past two years and four months and had spent much time in the local hospital in Oklahoma City. William Floyd Stratton was born October 31, 1890, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stratton at Clinchport, Va. He moved with his parents in 1903 to Fort Cobb where he spent his youth working in the stores. In 1918 he was married to Edith Fielden. One son was born to them. She preceded him in death in 1945. He was also preceded in death by his parents, a brother, John, and a sister, Mrs. Jean Black. He was a member of the Christian church where he had served as superintendent of Sunday school, as a deacon and an elder. In 1920, Stratton moved to Carnegie where he engaged in various businesses. He had served as local postmaster for 14 years before retiring on August 31, 1961. Stratton was a charter member of the Carnegie post of the American Legion, with 44 years' continuous membership, a past post commander and past Sixth district commander. He had served the past 25 years as post finance officer. He also was a charter member of the Carnegie Kiwanis club. In 1947 he was married to Cora Mae Bennett and continued to make Carnegie his home. He is survived by his wife, Cora, of the home at 314 East First; one son, Dr. Emil Stratton, Muskogee; two step-children, Mrs. Christine Smith, Chickasha, and W.B. Bennett, Carnegie; one brother, Henry of Lake Jackson, Texas; five sisters, Mrs. Mollie Kelley, Ingleside, Texas, Mrs. Rose Dotson, Aransas Pass, Texas, Mrs. Ella Mavity, Corpus Christi, Mrs. Hattie Gordon, Shamrock, Texas, and Mrs. Maggie Waterbury, Apache; five grandchildren and other relatives. Postoffice employees and rural mail carriers were pall bearers including Woodrow Wilson, Vernon Crose, Emery Fulk, Bob Moore, James Rogers, along with Bill Revel. Honorary bearers were C.D. Hull, Rev. A. Heusel, Rev. Bob Williams, Kermit Webb, B.W. Jolly and Harry Jolly. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, October 10, 1945 Edith J. [Fielden] Stratton Funeral Services Tuesday a.m. For Mrs. W.F. Stratton Funeral services for Mrs. W.F. Stratton were held at the First Christian church at 10 a.m. Tuesday following her death here early Saturday. Well known in business circles her the past 25 years, Mrs. Stratton had been seriously ill the past four years but continued to work until a few days before her death. She maintained an uncomplaining demeanor that won the admiration of her associates. For years she had taught classes in the Christian church Bible school and was a past president and for several terms, secretary of the American Legion Auxiliary. Rev. Arnold Davis, pastor, conducted the service and burial was made in the Carnegie cemetery. Pitcher Funeral Home was in charge of funeral arrangements. Born in Chandlerville, Ill., May 5, 1893, she came with her parents to Oklahoma and located southeast of Fort Cobb a few years after Caddo county was opened for settlement. She was married to Wm. F. Stratton May 20, 1917, and they made their home in Fort Cobb until February, 1920, when they came to Carnegie where they have since lived. Survivors besides her husband, W.F. Stratton, and their son, Pfc. Emil Stratton, Memphis, Tenn., include her mother, Mrs. J.J. Fielden, Fort Cobb; a sister, Mrs. R.C. Heacock, Uniontown, Ala., and three brothers, Fred Fielden, and R.I. Fielden, Fort Cobb, and Charles Fielden, Salt Lake City. Other relatives from out of town who came here for the funeral were Mrs. Emil Stratton, Memphis, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Black; Mangum; Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Gordon, Shamrock, Texas; J.N. Waterbury and Imogene, Apache; Sgt. and Mrs. Kenneth Stratton, Chanute Field, Ill., and Mrs. Ross Dodson of Aransas Pass, Texas. |