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Submitted: 7/11/21 • Approved: 7/12/21 • Last Updated: 7/15/21 • R435971-G0-S3
SERGEANT US Army Air Forces
World War II
December 6, 1922-April 4, 2008
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
BORGER - Jack R. Klaus, 85, died Friday, April 4, 2008, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Brown Funeral Directors Chapel of the Fountains. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mr. Klaus was born Dec. 6, 1922, in a log cabin on top of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. He was a retired shift superintendent for Phillips Petroleum Co., a member of First Christian Church in Borger and Adobe Walls Lodge No. 1355, a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Shriners Khiva Temple in Amarillo. He also served several years on the Phillips Blackhawk Independent School Board. He married Elouise Geraldean Jackson on Feb. 9, 1942, in Seminole, Okla.
Mr. Klaus turned 19 on Dec. 6, 1941, and the next day, on Dec. 7, 1941, a turning point in American history, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. During that period, Mr. Klaus lived in Los Angeles and worked for McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Corp., where he then decided to join the Army Air Forces. He moved back to Oklahoma and joined, being assigned as an engine mechanic for the B-24 bomber. He then attended several years of schooling for assignment to the top-secret development of the B-29 bomber.
He was preceded in death by his wife on May 22, 2005; a brother, A.J. "Dutch" Klaus, in 2002; and his parents, Andy Joe and Rosa Mary Jones Klaus
Survivors include a son, Ronnie Jack Klaus and wife Kay of Borger; a daughter, JoAnn Luna and husband Ruben of Fritch; a sister, Leota Greenleaf of Bay City, Mich.; five grandchildren, Rusty Jack Klaus of Amarillo, Donald Jack Wilson of Rifle, Colo., Kayla Clark of Guymon, Okla., Christina Reasor of Fritch and Hannah Klaus of Borger; six great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Send online condolences at www.brownfuneraldirectors.net.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 5, 2008
Contributed on 7/11/21
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