Alva Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

Alva – The funeral for Ralph L. Arndt, 86, will be 10 AM Tuesday at Alva Assembly of God with the Rev. Darla Fields officiating. Burial will follow in Alva Municipal Cemetery under direction of Wharton Funeral Chapel.

He was born January 3, 1913, near Whitehorse to Robert Perry and Myrtle Louella Cummins Arndt and died Thursday, October 7, 1999, at Alva Share Medical Center.

He attended Whitehorse Rural Grade School and helped on the farm.

On November 22, 1935, he married Esta Clora Reed. She died on June 23, 1985.

They farmed northwest of Alva, and in 1955 they moved to Alva. He worked for Curtis Oil Company and Oklahoma State Highway Department.

On November 30, 1985, he married Vesta Cook at Rogers, Arkansas. They made their home in Alva. She returned to Arkansas in 1999.

He is survived by one daughter, Shirley Fields of Portales, New Mexico; two sons, Wilbert of Guymon and Leon of Alva; one sister, Avis Cline of Cannon city, Colorado; 16 grandchildren; 22 great – grandchildren; and two great – great – grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, one daughter, one son, three sisters and three brothers.

Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society or American Red Cross.

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