Clarence HETHERINGTON Enid Morning News
Enid, Garfield Co., OK
August 2002 Submitted by: JO Aguirre
Funeral services for Clarence Hetherington, age 91 of Enid will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 20, 2002, in the Henninger-Allen Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. J. Ross Swope officiating. Burial will follow in Enid Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Henninger-Allen Funeral Home.
Clarence B. Hetherington was born to James M. Hetherington, Sr. and Pearl Barton Hetherington in Reagan, Texas, Jan. 19, 1911, and died Saturday August 17, 2002, at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center. He farmed with his father until April 1934, at which time he joined the U.S. Army Corps at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. In Oct. 1948 he was married to Irlene Sterrett of Enid.
During World War II, he served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with the 22nd Bomb Group. In 1949 he was assigned to the Berlin Airlift for 10 months. In December of 1958 he retired at Vance as a Master Sergeant. Subsequent to his retirement from the Air Force he was employed at Vance as a civilian for a number of years.
In 1957 he became a member of the West Side Baptist Church in Enid and remained active until his deth, having served at various time as Usher, Deacon, and Sunday School Superintendent.
He is survived by his nieces and nephew; Arlyne Shelton, Mansfield, TX; Barbara Winkelmeyer, Fort Worth, TX; Janis Bennett, Dallas, TX; Bonnie Manley, Dallas, TX; and James Hetherington, Dallas, TX; sister in law, Alaine Hetherington, Dallas, TX.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, one brother, two sisters, and a nephew, Ernest B. Golding Jr.
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