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Enid, Oklahoma December 1015 December 19, 1928 ~ December 18, 2025 John was born in Enid, Oklahoma on December 19, 1928. He was the fourth of seven children between Frank and Albertina Lunday. In 1935 when John was six, his father passed away. The times were tough and lean. John and his siblings had to work in order to survive and support the family. John found work delivering milk door-to-door with Paul Oberlin and also delivering newspapers with all proceeds going to help support the family. At the age of 14, John attended military school in Muskogee, Oklahoma. After a year, he became interested in becoming a brother with the Catholic Church. He transferred to a brother's school in New Jersey and became brother Bartholomew for a couple of years. According to John he decided the life of servitude was not for him. He had not experienced enough of life yet. He returned home at the age of 19 and got a job for the Santa Fe Railroad as an oiler. He would pack and oil the axles of train cars from midnight until 8 o'clock in the morning. In 1950, when John was 20, the 45th Infantry Division was mobilizing. He and his younger brother Paul enlisted and served together in the Korean War. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant first class in 1953 and returned home. He then married Rosetta Rochelle "Shelly" on June 2, 1956. They raised four children: Douglas Geis, Gregory, Patricia, and John Lance Lunday. He was a loving and devoted family man who continued to work hard to support his family. He was working for Gilt Edge Farms Milk Dairy in Enid and in 1967 the company transferred him to the Oklahoma City plant. John then settled his family in Moore, Oklahoma where he lived for the rest of his life. b When he retired from the milk industry, he devoted himself to taking care of his wife. She was showing early signs of dementia and needed full-time care. They were married for 52 years before her passing in 2009. John's family wish to express what a caring, loving, and devoted man he was. He was their champion and hero who will be sorely missed. But now they can celebrate his reunion with his beloved wife, Shelly. |
John M. Ireland Funeral Home Moore, Oklahoma March 2009 April 4, 1937 ~ March 4, 2009 Shelly Lunday left this world to be with our Lord on March 4, 2009, unexpectedly after a brief illness. Shelly was born on April 4, 1937 in Alva Ok. She was preceded in death by her father, Walter Kline and one son, Gregory Lunday. Survivors include her husband of 52 years, John Lunday, of Moore; three children, Doug Geis, of Kingwood, Tx., Lance Lunday, of OKC and Patricia "Patsy" Lunday, of OKC; her mother, Bessie Kline-Welch, of Enid; her brother, Les Kline, of Fayetteville, AR.; her sister Mary Frech, of Paradise, Tx.; and four grandchildren, Greg, Alex, Victoria and Vanessa Geis. Services were held at 10:30 am, March 9, 2009, in the chapel at Golden Oaks Village, located at 5801 N. Oakwood Road in Enid, OK. Interment followed at Memorial Park Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to the Salvation Army, 311 SW 5th, Oklahoma City, OK. 73109. Services were under the direction of the John M. Ireland Funeral Home & Chapel, Moore Ok. |
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