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Morton Raymond Malott © Enid Morning News 12-1967 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Services for Senior Major Morton Raymond Malott, 79, retired Salvation Army officer, will be at 2 PM Wednesday at the Salvation Army Citadel, 317 N. Grand. Burial will be in the Enid Cemetery under direction of Henninger – Allen Funeral Home.
Major Malott, a resident of 1715 N. Washington, died Friday while visiting a daughter in Dallas, Texas.
Born August 10, 1888, in Girard, Kansas, he entered Salvation Army work at age 17 and was commissioned in 1906 and sent to Lawrence Kansas. He served at Winfield, Kansas, Hobart, McAlester an Oklahoma City, coming to Enid in 1909. He married Edna Lenhert on Easter Sunday, 1911, in Enid.
His career centered in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, with time spent as a chaplain at Marfa, Texas, in World War I. He retired to Enid in 1953 and continued to build an endowment fund for the Salvation Army Home and Hospital at Sand Springs and the Salvation Army Harbor Light for Alcoholics at Mobile, Alabama.
Senior major Malott is survived by his widow of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Brig. Robert (Helen) Ball of Dallas, Mrs. James (Fern) Gildea, 2112 N. Independence, Mrs. Douglas (Pearl) Holmes of Colorado Springs and Mrs. Don (Evangeline) Evans of Westchester, Pennsylvania; a son, C. Roy Malott of Wilmington, North Carolina; a sister, Mrs. Grace Whittaker of Salem, Oregon; 13 grandchildren and six great – grandchildren.
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