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Obituary
Memory Lane Cemetery, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Dale Talkington
© The Chickasha Express-Star September 17, 2010 Claude Wilbur Gillett CHICKASHA - Graveside services for Claude Wilbur Gillett, 94, of Chickasha, will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, September 18, 2010, in Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko, Oklahoma, with Gene Hankins officiating and Boyd Ash assisting. Claude Wilbur Gillett was born June 24, 1916, in Ft. Thompson, South Dakota, the son of Claude Wallace Gillett and Mae Emily McNutt Gillett. He died Wednesday, September 15, 2010 in Weatherford, Oklahoma. He came to Anadarko, Oklahoma with his family in 1920, when he was four years old. He graduated from Anadarko High School in 1934. Wilbur graduated from Central State College, now the University of Central Oklahoma, with a B.A. degree in public school music in 1938, and with a BME degree in Music Education/Voice in 1939. He joined the U.S. Army, serving for forty-five months during WW II with thirty-eight of those months being overseas in the South Pacific. Following his military service he taught in the Anadarko Public Schools for five and half years. He came to Chickasha in 1951, and had taught Music in the Chickasha Public Schools for twenty-five years, retiring in 1976 due to illness. Wilbur did post-graduate work at the University of Kansas during the summers of 1948-1951. He studied with Forrest West, F. Melius Christiansen, Morton Luvass, Peter Tkach and most notably with Noble Cain. His close association with Cain afforded him the opportunity to assist in a number of choral clinics and music festivals throughout the United States. Wilbur became a Christian at an early age. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Chickasha and in later years attended Faith Baptist Church. He composed and published several choral arrangements, notably "The Gate of the Year," and wrote many poems which he shared with those he loved. He was preceded in death by both parents and one brother, Truman Gillett. Wilbur is survived by two brothers and sister-in-law; M.E. "Pete" and Thelma Gillett, of Tulsa, E.C. "Ike" Gillett, of Newton, Kansas, two nephews; Mike and Mark Gillett, two nieces; Patricia Stapp and Emily Medders; many great nieces and nephews and a host of friends. A luncheon following the service's will be served for a time of sharing and fellowshipping together at the Faith Baptist Church, West on Frisco, past 29th Street, in Chickasha. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Faith Baptist Church, c/o Ferguson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 1187, Chickasha, Oklahoma, 73023. |
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