NameOrlus Lee ATTEBERRY
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Birth21 Sep 1904, Oklahoma Indian Territory, Caddo County, Gracemont
Death12 May 1984, Oklahoma, Osage County, Barnsdall
Obituary notes for Orlus Lee ATTEBERRY
Orlus Lee Atteberry, 79, xxred owner of the Atte--ry Variety store, Barnsdall died at 4:52 p. m. on __y in the Jane Phi-__ Memorial Medical center where he had been a patient one week. Mr. Atteberry had been in failing health the past year. Funeral services for Mr. Atteberry will be help at 10 a. m. onWednesday in the sanctuary of the FFirst Christian Church, of which he was a member. The Rev. Harold Leveridge will be the officiant. The funeral cortege will drive overland to Mar__all, Oklahoma, where committal prayers and interment will be directed at 3 p. m., in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery by Barnsdall Funeral Service.
Anative of Missouri, Mr. Atteberry was born at Marshfield onSept 21, 1904. He was the son of the late _ora May Barclay Atteberry and Irvin Atteberry. He began his education in the Marshfild, Mo., community schools where he was reared and when his family moved to Shidler, Okla., he was a student in the Shidler schools. He was employed by the Kewanee Oil Company in Shidler as a roustabout, truck driver and a _umper in the early oil field expediting in Osage County and remained with the Kewanee organization for 18 years. He and the former Miss Opal Louise Ram_eyer were married at Shidler on April 15, 1925 and they made their home in that area. Mr. and Mrs. Atteberry moved to Cushing where he was employed in refinery work in November, 1941, for one year. In 1942 they became residents of Tulsa for 10 years and he wa empoloyed in maintenance of several building complexes indlucing hte Philtower, Philcade and the Tulsa Club. The atteberrys moved to Barnsdall in July, 1952 and he and his wife owned and operated the Atteberry Variety for 22 years when they retired. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Bransdall, the Big Heart Lodge No. 486 AF&AM and had served as the worshipful master of the lodge and was the first chairman of the board of the Barnsdall Senior Citizens Center.
Mr. Atteberry will lie in state in the Barnsdall Funeral Home friends may call for visitation une sercive hour on Wednesday.
Surviving Mr. Atteberry in addition to his wife, Mrs. Opal Louise Atteberry of the home, are two sons, Donald Ray Atteberry, Oklahoma City and George Wayne Atteberry, Snohomish, Wash.; one daughter, Mrs. Berle R. (Linda Louise) Clark, 1209 W. Maple, Barnsdall; two sisters, Mrs. George T. (Mabel) Miller, Pawhuska and Mrs. Paul L. (Minnie Vada) Miller, Pratt, Kan.; 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sons Orlus Lee Atteberry and Frank Allen Atteberry, two sisters and one brother. [May 12, 1984]