Cordelia "Delia" Chandler

Cordelia married Elijah Wallace Clark on 20 Dec 1903 in Harris County, Texas. Elijah (son of Elias Clark and Mary Josephine Wallace) was born on 31 Oct 1883 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 10 Sep 1962 in Pasedena, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John W. Clark shows that she married Malcom Boley DICKEY, and that they lived in Katy, Texas.

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Name Ellis M Clark
Birth Year 1908
Race White, citizen (White)
State of Residence Texas
County or City: Harris
US World War II Army Enlistment Records
Enlistment Date 28 May 1943
Enlistment State Louisiana
Enlistment City Camp Livingston
Branch No branch assignment
Branch Code No branch assignment
Grade Private
Grade Code Private
Term of Enlistment Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law

Component Reserves - exclusive of Regular Army Reserve and Officers of the Officers Reserve Corps on active duty under the Thomason Act (Officers and Enlisted Men -- O.R.C. and E.R.C., and Nurses-Reserve Status)

Source: Civil Life

Education 1 year of college
Civil Occupation Skilled linemen and servicemen, telegraph, telephone, and power
Marital Status Married
Height 08
Weight 123

Notes:

John W. Clark shows that she married Pat WHEALER (Wheeler?) and they lived in Conroe.

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John W. Clark shows that she married Tommy R. SEELY.

Thelma married Fred Meador Oliphint on 19 Dec 1930. Fred (son of George Wilfred Oliphant and Emma Florida Meador) was born on 19 Dec 1904 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died in May 1980 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertie married Artie Brooks Sandifer before 1915. Artie was born on 17 May 1915 in Texas; died in Jan 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Keith L. Oliphint
News-Journal.com, Longview, Texas

Keith L. Oliphint
Van---Memorial services for Keith Oliphint, 76, of Longview, are scheduled for 2 p.m. today, July 7, 2011, at Calvary Baptist Church, 4715 Tenneryville Road, Longview. Keith Lamar Oliphint passed away July 3, 2011, after a short illness.

Keith was born September 10, 1934, in Hemphill, Texas to Fred Meador Oliphint and Thelma Lucille Clark Oliphint. The family moved to South Houston, Texas, when Keith was young. He graduated from Pasedena High School, Baylor University in Waco, Texas and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Keith loved his Lord. After pastoring Baptist Churches in Pledger, Texas and St. Clairsville, Ohio, the family moved ot Tanzania, East Africa, to served as missionairies for the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. They served there for the next 22 years, and returned to teh U.S. in 1987, to live in Waco, Texas. There he worked for Plantation Foods until retirement. Keith moved to Longview, Texas in 2010.

Keith loved to work with his hand and often thanked God for that ability. he also loved people and to make new friends. He enjoyed very much meeting Oliphints worldwide and attended the Clan meeting in Scotland. But he thought his most enjoyable privilege was to raise his three daughters.

Keith is survived by his wife, Peggy Howell Oliphint, brother, George Clark Oliphint of Los Angeles; daughter, Cynthia and husband, P. J. Cooley, of Longview, Texas, and daughter, Susan and husband, David Fergeson, of Fort Worth; and son-in-law, Darrell White of Corpus Christi. There are eight grandchildren, Amanda, Maci and Ryland White, Courtney Oliphint, Kenneth and Ben Copely, and Malaika and Amanda Ferguson; and one great-grandchild, Canaan White.

Memorials may be made to Orphans Unlimited Inc.,, 11152 Westheimer Road, PMB #391, Houston, TX 77042, to help orphans in Mozambique or the charity of your choice.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on July 7, 2011
Online on Ancestry.com

Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, June 2012