Family: Alvin Roscoe "Ross" Hanks / Medreth Elberta Vaughan (F8267)

• Father | Male Alvin Roscoe "Ross" Hanks

  
  

  Born	1 Mar 1892	Illinois
  Died	21 Oct 1968
  Buried		Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Married	14 Apr 1912	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Father	John Steward Hanks | F8307 Group Sheet
  Mother	Anna Bell "Annie" Brown | F8307 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Medreth Elberta Vaughan

  
  

  Born	5 Mar 1895	Poseyville, Posey County, Indiana
  Died	10 Sep 1987	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Buried		Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Father	Elbert B. Vaughan | F8268 Group Sheet
  Mother	Eliza Ellen Fairchild | F8268 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Grace Ferris Hanks

  
  

  Born	Abt 1914	Oklahoma
  Died
  Buried
  Spouse	George Linville | F12111
  Married	3 Nov 1935

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Johnnie Mae Hanks

  
  

  Born	2 May 1916	Oklahoma
  Died	10 Jan 2012	Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Annabelle Hanks

  
  

  Born	14 Nov 1918	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Died	17 Jul 2001	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Buried		Sunset Memorial Gardens, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Spouse	Cecil Afton Lewis | F902
  Married	18 May 1935	Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Teddy Warren Hanks

  
  

  Born	25 May 1921	Oklahoma
  Died	12 Feb 2005	Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas
  Buried		Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Spouse	Helen Elizabeth Keith | F12128
  Married

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Georgia Medreth Hanks

  
  

  Born	29 Aug 1923	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Died	12 Nov 2003	Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana
  Buried
  Spouse	Carroll Leslie Dyer | F12113
  Married	23 Dec 1945

  
  

  Child 6 | Female Living

  
  

  Born
  Died
  Buried

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Del Dexter Hanks

  
  

  Born	17 Dec 1928	Oklahoma
  Died	16 Nov 1998	Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Buried		Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Spouse	Helen Lucille Lutonsky | F12114
  Married

  
  

  Child 8 | Female Living

  
  

  Born
  Died
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  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).