J. Leroy Vickers

© Enid News and Eagle

05-17-1986

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Enid News and Eagle

The funeral for J. Leroy Vickers, 81, who died late Saturday at a local hospital, will be 2 PM Tuesday at Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Chaplain C. Dennis Treat will officiate. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Vickers was born November 5, 1904, in Hastings to Homer and Florence Johnston Vickers. He attended school at Greg in Cotton County, and then worked for the Mooney's Department Store at Temple. He later was employed by Sears Roebuck and Co., the Santa Fe Railroad and at time of his retirement was working as a salesman for Baker Manufacturing Company in Enid.

On June 11, 1949, he married Doris Vivian Clawson in Perryton, Texas. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Masonic Lodge and the Beekeepers Association.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. David (Clara) Wheatley, Paducah, Kentucky; a son, Earl J. Vickers, Gulf Breeze, Florida; two step – daughters, Mrs. Eugene (Norma) Baker, Duncan, and Mrs. Bob (Karen) Winfield, Colorado Springs, Colorado; 12 grandchildren; and six great – grandchildren; two brothers, Ralph, Lawton, and Paul, Vernon, Texas; and a sister, Genevieve Meese, Lawton.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Doris, November 12, 1974, and a sister.

Memorials in his name may be made to Bass Memorial Baptist Hospital with the funeral home serving as custodian of the funds.

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