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December 2017 Roy Clinton Grider September 30, 1931 ~ December 28, 2017 Roy C. Grider, 86, passed away on December 28, 2017 at his farm home outside Perkins, Oklahoma.Funeral services will be held at 2:00 Saturday, January 6th at the First Baptist Church in Perkins with Pastor Marty Voelker officiating. Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery. Roy was born September 30, 1931 in Murray County, Oklahoma, to Pinkie Ellen Cox Grider and Marvin A. Grider. He graduated from Sulphur High School, then earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science at Oklahoma A&M College [OSU]. It was while working his way through college that his boss, Bill Kimbrell, set him up on a blind date with Bill’s relative, Delsa Ann Fletcher. Roy married her on September 5, 1953 in Granite, Oklahoma. This union lasted nearly 64 years until Delsa’s death in April. Roy was inducted into the Army at Ft. Benning, Georgia in 1953, and served as a Lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division until he was honorably discharged at Ft. Lee, Virginia in 1957. His first son was born while he served at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Returning to Oklahoma, Roy and Delsa bought their farm and started a dairy. Roy pursued a master’s degree at OSU until the birth of his other son provided an excuse to avoid writing a thesis. In 1965, Roy began work as a loan officer at Production Credit Association in Chandler. He later managed the PCA office in Pawhuska, before finishing his Ag credit career at National Livestock Credit in Oklahoma City, retiring in 1996. The dairy herd was sold in 1978, and Roy continued in livestock and crop production with his sons. Roy is preceded in death by his beloved Delsa; his parents; four brothers, Frank, Silas, Oscar, and J.T. Grider. He is survived by his sons, Wayne [Sandi] and Glen [GayLynn], three grandchildren, Krissa Rains, Brent [Sara] Grider, and Adam Grider; six great grandchildren, Krissa’s Zachary, Ryan and Dakota; Brent’s Brandon, Dillan and Brooklyn, and by many nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the Parkinson’s Foundation or the Parkinson’s Foundation of Oklahoma. |
© Strode Funeral Home Stillwater, Oklahoma Reprinted with permission Wednesday, April 2017 Delsa Ann [Fletcher] Grider April 3, 1930 ~ April 17, 2017 Delsa Ann Fletcher Grider, 87, went to be with her Lord Jesus Christ on Monday, April 17, 2017 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Family will greet friends from 7:00-8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 21, 2017 at Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater, OK. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 Saturday, April 22, 2017 at the First Baptist Church in Perkins, OK with Pastor Marty Voelker officiating. Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery. Delsa was born April 3, 1930 to Gilbert Curtis Fletcher and Elsie Mae Fletcher in Lugart, Ok. She graduated as valedictorian from Midway-City View School in Greer County and then graduated from Oklahoma A&M majoring in Elementary Education and minoring in English. After college, she became a teacher, she operated a dairy, was an election supervisor and a homemaker. Delsa belonged to the Elm Grove Extension Homemakers for 50 years. Delsa is preceded in death by her parents; siblings, Irene, Ida, Ernest and Norman. She is survived by her husband, Roy C. Grider; two sons, Wayne and wife Sandi Grider, Glen and wife GayLynn Grider; three grandchildren, Krissa Rains (Dax); Brent Grider (Sara), and Adam Grider; six great grandchildren, Zachary, Ryan and Dakota Rains, Brandon, Dillan and Brooklyn Grider; one sister, Claudine Carlos; one brother, Donald (Linda) Fletcher. Pallbearers will be Brent Grider, Adam Grider, Brandon Grider, Dillan Grider, Dax Rains and Zachary Rains. Honorary Pallbearers will be Donald Fletcher, Ryan Rains and Dakota Rains. Family would like to give special thanks to Gladys Morris and the other caretakers who took such wonderful care of Delsa. Memorial contributions can be sent to, Friends of the Thomas Wilhite Library, Building Fund, P.O. Box 519 Perkins OK 74059. Condolences may be emailed to the family and an online obituary may be viewed by visiting www.strodefh.com. |
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