Daniel Winfield THOMAS

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK Jan. 2001

Submitted by: Lois Burdick

OBITUARY

Funeral services for Daniel Winfield Thomas, 90, of Denton, TX, formerly of Enid will be at 10 am Thursday at the Ladusau-Evans Funeral home with the Rev. Wade Burleson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Thomas was born March 21, 1910 in Enid to Milton Ernest and Almena Maria Walter Thomas and died Dec. 31, 2000 in Denton, TX.

Mr. Thomas graduated from Enid High School in 1927 and attended Enid Business College. On Sept. 28, 1937 he united in marrage with Anna Mae Freeman in the First Baptist Church in Perry, OK.

Mr. Thomas worked for the Enid Community Sale, Knox and Davis Auto Sales, and for many years for the Champlin Refining Co. While a resident of Enid he was active in the First Baptist church and the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Recently he was involved with the reunion of the crew of the U. S. Navy Destroyer Escort , the Harold C. Thomas. The ship was named after his brother who was awarded the Navy Cross in World War II.

He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Dan and Ann Thomas, of Carrollton, TX; two grandsons, Keith Thomas, of Sunnyvale, CA and Craig Thomas and his wife, Karen of Carrollton, TX; two great grandchildren, Scott and Mark Thomas of Carrollton, TX, and one sister and her husband, Erma Ethel and Oscar Hull of Mustang, OK.

His Wife of 58 years, Anna Mae, and three brothers, William Walter Thomas, Floyd Spencer Thomas, and Harold Chester Thomas preceded him in Death.