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Submitted: 12/12/21 • Approved: 12/12/21 • Last Updated: 12/15/21 • R473375-G0-S3
1891-1979
Please see military marker
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
S.W. Roark, 87, died Tuesday, April 24, 1979.
Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 1979 in First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Ernie McGaughey, pastor, and Dr. Harry Roark, officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Roark was born in Danbury, N.C. He and his wife, Dortha, were married in 1922 in Marlow, Okla. He came to McAlester, Okla., in 1935 and to Wheeler in 1975. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Legions [sic].
He was a retired employee for the Federal Housing Administration and a Methodist.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Bob of Wheeler; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Isom of Portland, Ore.; three brothers, Booten of Ardmore, Okla., Joe of Louisiana six sisters, Mrs. Lelia Burroway of Roseburg, Ore, Mrs. Magdelene Cromer and Mrs. Thelma Meers of Moore, Okla., Mrs. Doris Martin of Ringling, Okla., and Mrs. Marcie Jones of Monhans [sic]; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 45, Number 21, Thursday, May 3, 1979, Page 1)
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North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000
Name: Straderick Wallace Roark
Event Type: Delayed Birth
Birth Date: 1891
Birth County: Stokes
Parent1 Name: William Robert Roark
Roll number: NCVR_B_C090_68001
Volume: 6
Page: 269
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Strederick Roark
Death Date: 24 Apr 1979
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Strederick Wallace Roark
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 87
Birth Date: 14 Dec 1891
Birth Place: Marlow, oklahoma
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Apr 1979
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Father: William Robert Roark
Mother: Harriet Ima Bohannon
Spouse: S W Roark
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