Wilber E. Hight

© The Guthrie News Leader

Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Submitted by: Bob Chada

A prayer service for Wilber E. Hight, 82, will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1999 at Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home of Hennessey Okla. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1999 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church officiated by Rev. Mark Mason and Rev. Richard Beckman. Graveside service will follow at noon in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Okla.

Wilber was born March 14, 1917 in Edmond, Okla. to Irvin and Rosie DeLay Hight and died Sunday, Nov. 14, 1999 at Hennessey Care Center.

Wilber graduated from high school and served in the U.S. Marine Corp for six years during World War II. He was an aircraft manager at Tinker Air Force Base. Wilber was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He was on the first allstate football team in Oklahoma in 1938.

On Nov. 7, 1987 he married Joy Streck Anderson in Guthrie.

Wilber is survived by his wife, Joy, of the home; two daughters, Marilyn Hight and Susan Williams and husband, Michael; four sons, Joe Hight and wife, Nannette, Bill Hight and wife, Diana, John Hight and wife, Jan and Paul Hight; two step-children, Frankie Anderson and Denise Brim; his mother-in-law, Iva Matheney; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and seven step-grandchildren.

His first wife, Pauline Ruth and his daughter, Linda Ann Hight, preceded him in death.

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