Milton B. Garber

© Enid News and Eagle

04-17-1994

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Born 8 Nov 1911
Died 16 April 1994

ENID, Okla. (AP) - Milton B. Garber, longtime editor and co-publisher of the former Enid Morning News and the Enid Daily Eagle, died Saturday after a short illness. He was 82.

Garber became editor and co-publisher of the two newspapers in 1948. He was chairman of the board when the newspapers were sold in 1988. His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Presbyterian Church, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Garber attended Enid schools, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Oklahoma, and received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Before entering military service in 1945, Garber was manager of Enid radio station KCRC. While working in radio, he helped organize the Oklahoma News Network, and served as its president for one year. While in the military, he was sent to the Pacific Theater of operations, where he was assigned to the Stars and Stripes, Tokyo edition.

He was a past president of the Enid Rotary Club, Enid Chamber of Commerce, Easter Seals campaign, United Press Publishers of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Press Association. He had also been active in Boy Scouts and held posts with the Oklahoma Heritage Association and the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation. Garber also served as a deacon, elder and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include two sons, Todd, of Enid and Milt of Fulton, Mo.; one daughter, Christianne Chase, of Enid; two sisters, Mrs. William G. (Lucy Ann) Thompson of Denver and Elizabeth Earle of San Diego, Calif.; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Lou in 1991.

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