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Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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TEDDY W HANKS 25 May 1921 12 Feb 2005 (V) 76305 (Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX ) (none specified) 442-12-9447 Oklahoma

His tombstone is marked CMSGT USAF Retired

Teddy Warren Hanks

Wichita Falls, Texas Funeral for Teddy Warren Hanks, 83, Wichita Falls, Texas, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Burkburnett, Texas, with the Rev. Bill Liggett and the Rev. Ronnie Lawson officiating.

Mr. Hanks died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005.

Burial will be at Highland Cemetery, Lawton, under direction of Owens & Brumley Funeral Home, Wichita Falls.

He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in October 1940 and served in New Guinea for 32 months during World War II. He retired from the U. S. Air Force after 26 years, and he then worked for the U. S. Postal Service for 25 years.

Survivors include his wife, Helen, of the home, a daughter, Elaine Margaret Kreml, Wichita Falls, Texas; three sons, Daniel Robert Hanks, Rush Springs; Terrell W. Hanks, Wichita Falls, Texas; and Christopher Hanks, Frisco, Texas; four sisters, Grace Linville, Paradise, Calif,; Johnnie Mae Leonard, Hamilton, Mont.; Nadine Swindells, Louisville, Ky.; and Nancy Hale, Fletcher; nine grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Alvin Ross and Medreth Hanks; a brother, Del D. Hanks; two sisters, Annabelle Lewis and Georgia Dyer, Hamilton, Mont.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Wichita Falls.

Friends may call from 7 - 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, from an undate, unreferenced clipping provided by Sue Anna Lewis O'Hara)

Teddy + Helen Elizabeth Keith. Helen was born on 15 Dec 1926 in Eastland County, Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Texas Birth Index shows her as a daughter of Emmett KEITH and Bessie Margaret MURDOCK.

Notes:

Some show him as Alvin Ross, with Roscoe simply being a nickname. Highland Cemetery records list him as Alvin Roscoe, so this is assumed to be correct.

(Research):
Census Information:

1920 Census
Oklahoma, Comanche, Lawton (Part of), 5th Ward (Part of)
Enumerated 21 January 1920 by Sydney H. Denham
SD 6, ED 123, Sheet 12A
911-181-2
Hanks, John A. Hd M W 58 M Missouri Missouri Missouri (no occupation listed)
Hanks, Anna B Wife F W 49 Indiana Indiana Indiana
----182-1
Brown, James A. Boarder M W 80 Wd Indiana Indiana Indiana (Might this be Anna's father?)
----103-5
Hanks, Phillip Adopted Son M W 3 S Tx Tx Indiana
Hanks, Alvin Son M W 27 M Illinois Missouri Indiana Farmer
Hanks, Morideth Wife F W 24 M Indiana Kentucky Indiana
Hanks, Grace Dtr F w 6 S Okla Ill Ind
Hanks, Johnie May Dtr F W 3 S Ok Ill Ind

1930 Census
Oklahoma, Comanche, Lawton City
Enumerated April 5, 1930 by C.H. Johnson
ED 16-23 SD 8 Sheets 6A & 6B
701-121-130
Hanks, Alvin R Hd R 19 M W 38 M@20 Ill Ind Ind Fireman?
Hanks, Medirth Wf F W 35 M@17 Ind Kentucky Ind
Hanks, Grace Dtr F W 16 S Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Jona M Dtr F W 13 S Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Annabelle Dtr F W 11 S Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Teddy W Son M W 8 S Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Georgia Dtr F W 6 S Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Nadine Dtr F W 3 11/12 Ok Ill Ind
Hanks, Del Son M W 1 4/12 S Ok Ill Ind

Alvin married Medreth Elberta Vaughan on 14 Apr 1912 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. Medreth (daughter of Elbert B. Vaughan and Eliza Ellen Fairchild) was born on 5 Mar 1895 in Poseyville, Posey County, Indiana; died on 10 Sep 1987 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Clipping from the LAWTON CONSTITUION, probably published in June/July 1962.(courtesy of Sue Anna Lewis O'Hara)

Lawtonians Will Celebrate Golden Anniversary Today

Their childhood years were a coincidental series of almost-meeitngs, but Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hanks had to travel more than 800 miles before they met in Lawton and married --- and spent 50 years together.

Mrs. Hanks, the former Medreth Elberta Vaughan, was born March 5, 1895, in Poseyville, Ind. Just across the Wabash River at Concord, Ill., lived 3-year-old Alvin Ross Hanks.

The two grew up with mutual friends. Ross's grandfather and his oldest uncle lived in Medreth's home town, and Medreth's best girl friend, Nadine Brown, was Ross' cousin. The two families summonded the same doctor when someone was ill, and they visited the same places int he 35 miles between their two towns.

When Ross was 11, he moved to Arkansas with his parents, and when he was 14, the family came to Oklahoma.

Medreth lived in Poseyville until her mother died and she came to this area to make her home with an uncle, the late John L. Fairchild, in the Pecan community southwest of Lawton.

Here the two met and were married. And have lived ever since except for a year in Littlefield, Tex. They farmed west of town, wher Mr. Hanks was a volunteer fireman for a number of years and then joined the Lawton Fire Department as a regular fireman in April 1926. He retired as fire chief in April, 1946.

The couple has two sons and six daughters, all of whom will be in Lawton to host an open house in their parents honor from 2 to 5 p.m. in the parents home at 1108 Baldwin.

They are SM-Sgt Teddy W. Hanks, Wichita Falls, Tex; Mrs. George W. Linville, Chico, Calif; Mrs. Richard G. Leonard, Lolo, Mont., Mrs. Carroll L. Dyer, Orono, Maine; Mrs. Cliff Clark, Fairview; Mrs. Bill Hale, Elgin; Mrs. Cecil A. Lewis, 2703 N. 22nd, and Del D. Hanks of the home.

In addtion most of the couple's 32 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren will be present for the celebration.

To be truthful, the Hanks have been married two months longer than 50 years, but the celebration was postponed from April until today so that all the children could be together for the first time in 18 years.

To help the mark the Golden------ (article was copied only through this line).