Gage Memorial Cemetery
AKA Wolf Valley IOOF Lodge #99 Cemetery

© Marietta Monitor
29 January 1999, Page 4
Submitted by: Martha Reddout

Thank You For Your Service!

Chester R. “Chet” Selby

February 11, 1925 ~ January 20, 1999

Services for Chester R. “Chet” Selby, 73, were Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Woodward. Officiating was Rev. Jim Struthers.

Mr. Selby was born February 11, 1925, in Middletown, North Carolina, the son of Melton Alfred and Nancy Pearl Swindell Selby. He died January 20, 1999, in the Newman Memorial Hospital in Shattuck, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Mr. Selby graduated from Englehard, North Carolina High School and Oklahoma A&M (OSU) in 1951. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1943 to 1946. On December 28, 1946, he and the former Betty Cramer were married at Tulsa. Mr. Selby worked for 35 years for Wilson Foods, retiring as manager of hog procurement in Monmouth, Illinois. Following his retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Selby moved to Gage to be near their family. He enjoyed working with his family in their cattle and feed business and traveling with his wife and friends. Mr. Selby also loved to hunt.

He was an ordained Elder in the Presbyterian Church and a member of the Gage Rotary Club and the Gage American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Betty Cramer Selby of the home at Gage; two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard Ray and Barbara Selby and Frank Melton and Debbie Selby, all of Gage; four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and other relatives.

Mr. Selby was preceded in death by his parents.

Interment was in the Gage Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Good Samaritan Funeral Service, Woodward.

The family has requested that memorials be made to the First Presbyterian Church, the Gage Rotary Club or the Gage American Legion with the funeral home acting as custodian.

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