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2 June 30, 2021 News softball uniform. That’s when Round Wilson I learned that they played a lot of adult softball out at Burson Field. That Saturday, I got Town Continued from page 1. of mine from high school out my cleats and my gloves and went out there. This guy was working in the oilfield and Pat Wray was sponsoring a staying at a hotel in Kingfisher. team. He said if I were any July 2 He told me I could come crash good, the team would vote to out in his room as long as I see if I could be on it. Well, Block Party Elk City- needed to if he could use my the first play out, I turned a car to get back and forth to triple play, and he said I could Downtown Elk City work. So I packed up what I be on the team. I told them had and took off without tell- that I worked basically 30 ing anyone where I was going,” days straight with two off, Wilson remembered. but if the game days fell on a Wilson’s plan was to find day that I was off, I would be himself a job in the oilfield to there,” Wilson explained. quickly pay back the debts he had incurred on his wild night As Wilson went back to July 4 work, Wray spent 17 straight of fast spending during the White Rose Formal. days coming to his company’s Annual Firework Dis- “After a couple of days, I shop looking for him. was going stir-crazy in that “He finally caught me there play, Ackley Park room and went with my buddy and asked what it would take to location. There was a guy for me to come to work for there with NL McCullough, him. I said, ‘$10 an hour and a which was a wireline company company truck.’ He said that in Elk City, Oklahoma. He said was done. He taught me how if I would come out to Elk City to be an electrician and let me that I had a job. The next day I Thirty-five years ago, Wilson and his wife Gina welcomed their first child. Even in the July 24 play all the softball I wanted. did just that,” he said. new baby photos, Wilson could be seen sporting his softball shirt. Courtesy photo. It was March of 1981. He and his wife took me in as “I got here, and I had about one of their own and helped Sizzlin’ Summer Side- that little girl would talk to be the ‘Voice of Elk City’ for all what I wanted for Father’s 18 cents and a quarter tank of me find a place,” Wilson said. Little did he know that me?’ I said that I didn’t see those years. I went full-time Day. I said, ‘all our kids and gas. I went down to the shop, walk Sale - Retail District why she wouldn’t. I picked her a few years later and contin- grandkids have food and but the guy who did the hiring move would be the one that up, but she started acting shy. ued after Blake Brewer had shelter and transportation. wasn’t going to be there until would solidify his life in Elk I took the microphone and it. I have told my kids to find Our babies are all taken care the next day. I had two things City. said, ‘Elizabeth, say something something they love and then of. What better gift for a of value with me — a shotgun “I met my sweet little wife like this.’ Then I did the voice someone to pay them to do it. father is there than that?’ and my friend’s Nikon camera Gina out there at the fields,” inflection that I had modeled That’s what I have gotten all When our two girls returned and a lens. I went down to a he recalled. “She was beautiful, off the deejay from Laugh-In, these years in this work,” he home after leaving for a little August 6 pawn shop. I think it was called and she could turn a double kind of mimicking him, and said. bit, that felt really good. It let Chick’s. He gave me $100 for play. She was the organizer said something like, ‘Come on The Wilson’s three children me know that I had picked the Block party Elk City - it with a 30-day slip to come that I needed in my life. What down to the corner of 12th — Elizabeth, McKenna and right place to raise a family. pay the hawk and get it back. else could you ask for.” and Wolfey.’ It was in that Levi — are now grown. Their Elk City is my favorite place in I went down to Hardee’s and radio voice. Jack said, ‘Hey, two daughters have returned the world. There aren’t better Downtown Elk City His career then took him got some food because I was back to the oilfield in mul- do you like sports?’ I told him to their hometown to teach people anywhere. Every bump starving. Elk City was boom- that I loved sports, and he said in the Elk City Public Schools. along the way in getting here tiple capacities. To be more ing at the time, so there wasn’t he was looking for a sports They share four grandchildren was worth it. It was part of the involved in civic activities, he a room to be had. I slept in guy and asked me to come sit whom Wilson says are the joys journey I had to take to lead joined the Jaycees. in and call a game with him. It of their lives. me to where God knew I was the grocery store parking lot “We put on a haunted was in the fall of 1988. After “This year, Gina asked me supposed to be.” with that shotgun on my lap,” house every year. I walked Oklahoma No Tax that game, he offered me a Wilson laughed. down there with my oldest job,” Wilson said. Weekend, Clothing and Sure enough, he was hired the next day and worked for daughter, who was two at the Wilson continued to work Earl Stuart time. There was a man named as an oilfield salesman, giving nearly a month straight. his employer a game sponsor- Earl Leon Stuart, 81, of Elk Jack Palmore outside doing a footwear under $100.00 - “On the 29th day, we got ship for letting him off to call City, Oklahoma was born on remote radio show for KADS. paid. I had two days off and the games. January 21, 1940 in Wood- He said, ‘Hey, do you think Retail District headed back to Elk City with “And that’s how I came to ward, Oklahoma. He is the son a $3,600 check. Of course, I of Raymond Louis Stuart and didn’t have a bank account, Lucille Pauline (Grice) Harris. but United had a sign that Joyce Sites He went to be with his Lord said they would cash payroll Joyce Kathleen Honsinger and Savior on June 27, 2021 checks. They took $10 for Sites lost her earthly life in a at Elkwood Senior Living sur- August 7 every $100, so I had to pay house fire in the early hours of rounded by his loving family. $360 to get it cashed. The first Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at her Leon serviced his coun- home in Mayfield, Oklahoma, thing I did was go down and try honorably in the National Oklahoma No Tax get my buddy’s camera, so it Guard, and while in service entrusted to the care of Rich- near Sweetwater, at the age ard and Tammy Dugger and was no harm, no foul. Then I had the privilege of guarding of 90 years, 4 months, and 30 Weekend, Clothing and took off for The City and went President Eisenhower while the staff of Martin-Dugger Fu- to my aunt and uncle’s house. I days. he was in Woodward, Okla- neral Home in Elk City, Okla- Joy was born January 19, homa. didn’t know, but the bank had homa. footwear under $100.00 - 1931, south of Erick, Oklaho- Cherishing his memory is contacted them and said they Upon graduating from ma, to her parents, Cecil and his loving wife, Lana of the were going to press charges on Woodward High School, Class Retail District Wynona (Whipkey) Honsing- home; children, Bradley Stuart me if it wasn’t paid. So, they an OKC baseball game with of 1957, he moved to Wichi- er. She grew up in Erick and and his wife, Susan of Potts- had paid my debt. My uncle family. They celebrated their ta, Kansas where he attended told me that it wasn’t about Sweetwater with her siblings, Wichita Technical Institute. In boro, Texas, Lana Graham of 65th Anniversary at Mountain the money, but if I ever left my Lena Faye and Leonard Dean. 1962, Leon moved to Elk City Elk City, Oklahoma and son, Joy graduated from Sweet- View with family and two new aunt worrying like that again where he started S&S Electric Tyler Windsor and his wife, Tori of Elk City, Oklahoma; water High School in 1948 and great grandchildren. that he would stomp a mud- as an Electrical Contractor and August 8 married Troy Sites at Wheeler, She was preceded in death one brother, Kenneth Morri- hole in my behind. I got them also Western Communications paid back and came back to Texas, July 29, 1948. Troy de- by her grandparents, her par- as a Motorola Representative, son of Woodward, Oklahoma; Oklahoma No Tax Elk City for another month of clined a baseball scholarship, ents, one brother, one sister, where he provided Western nine grandchildren, James work,” he said. so he and Joy could remain one nephew and one niece. Oklahoma and Texas pan- Stuart, D.J. Stuart, Paige Gra- Weekend, Clothing and Like almost every step in in the Mayfield community to She is survived by one son, handle with communications, ham, Morgan Graham, Grant Wilson’s life, each new move care for Troy’s parents. They Ray Dean Sites and wife, such as SCAT radios and pag- Graham, Tynslee Windsor, footwear under $100.00 - seemed to propel him toward continued to farm after the Rhonda, Mtn. View, OK; 2 ers. He loved building towers Tripp Windsor, Tye Wind- his destiny. passing of his parents and had grandchildren, Ryan Sites, and leasing space to farmers, sor, Trell Windsor; one great Retail District “One day, this guy I worked a custom hay baling opera- and wife, Wendy, Tuttle, OK ranchers, and later to cellular grandson, Hudson Graham; with came out to location in a tion. Joy was always by Troy’s companies. a host of other loving family and Robyn Rudisill and hus- side. They farmed together members and friends. and took care of the business band, Todd, Springdale, AR; Leon was very active in ear- lier days with the Lions Club, Preceded in death by his 5 great grandchildren, Raegan, end together. She drove trac- he also served on the Elk City parents, Raymond Stuart and Lucille Harris; two sisters, tors and did whatever needed Kaysen, and Rhett Sites and Rodeo Association Board for to be done to make ends meet, Grayson and Emory Rudis- Marilyn Helton and Ann Per- seventeen years. His greatest including work at Wilhelm ill; 2 special children, Craig passion was for the Elk City ryman. (USPS # 173-020) 580-225-3000 Honey Farm. Honsinger, Kingman, AZ and Golf and Country Club where Memorials can be made to Joy was talented and ar- Teddy Gribble, Electra, TX his favorite “job” was greens the Tunnel to Towers in care Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC tistic, making ceramics, oil and many nieces, nephews, chairman. of Martin-Dugger Funeral 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644-4736 paintings, sewing & decorat- other relatives, and friends. In August of 1983 he mar- Home, P.O. Box 707, Elk City, Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 ing T-shirts. She was a won- Graveside services will ried the love of his life, Lana Oklahoma 73648. derful cook and made cab- be held Monday, June 28th, Campbell. They have three We invite you to leave a POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644 bage patch dolls, when none 2021 at Buffalo Cemetery at children, Bradley, Lana and message of condolence, ex- could be bought. She enjoyed SUBSCRIPTIONS Josh Umholtz 2:30 P.M. officiated by Ryan Tyler. pression of sympathy or per- Publisher attending Ryan and Robyn’s Funeral services will be haps share a memory of Leon Deliverd by mail: Sites, Robyn Rudisill and Ron stock shows & school activi- held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, at www.martin-duggerfuneral- $75/yearly Amy Loynd Goodnight. Arrangements are Business Manager ties with Troy. June 30, 2021 at First Chris- home.com. $50/six months The family would like to under the direction of Chris Neva Pyatt Joy and Troy were both bap- tian Church, Elk City, Okla- No refunds on subscriptions. Whinery and the Staff of Af- Advertising Director tized on September 9, 2012, homa. Rev. James Dean will invite all that cannot attend and they were members of the fordable Cremation Service- officiate, Rev. Danny Ringer to watch the service live on [email protected] D’Ann Brasuell [email protected] Production Manager Erick Church of Christ. They West. Condolences can be will assist. Interment will be at Martin-Dugger Funeral Home [email protected] celebrated their 50th Anniver- made online at www.classic- Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk City, Facebook page. Maressa Margerum [email protected] Customer Service Rep sary at Olive Garden and at funerals.com Oklahoma. Services have been