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Johnny C. Quarles © Enid News and Eagle 12-08-2008 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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The funeral for Johnny C. Quarles, 62, of Enid, will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008, at Emmanuel Baptist Church. The Rev. Wade Burleson will officiate. Committal services will be in Zion Lutheran Cemetery , Lahoma, with military rites conducted by the U.S. Army. Pastor Eric J. Brown will officiate. Arrangements are by Brown-Cummings Funeral Home .
He was born June 29, 1946, in Warren, Ohio, to Waldo and Wilma Roach Quarles and died Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, at Integris Northwest Specialty Hospital.
He moved from Warren with his family and grew up in Charleston, W.V. and Grants, N.M., where he graduated from high school. He served in the Army Special Forces Unit in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1963 to 1966. Following his honorable discharge, he worked for Frisco Railroad. He then owned Chances R. Restaurant, and in 1978 went to work for KGWA as account executive and sports announcer for Enid High School.
He married Wendy Frey April 11, 1981, in Enid. He worked for a radio station in Columbia, S.C., as sports announcer and morning talk show host for two years. In the early 1980s, he and Denny Price operated P&Q Well Service.
He returned to Enid in 1988 and began his writing career. He wrote more than 12 novels and wrote television screen plays, most notably the "Lonesome Dove" series. His novels were published by Avon Publishing of New York City where several were on the best seller list. He was novelist in residence at Phillips University from 1995 to 1998. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. He coached football for EJRT, women's softball and youth baseball.
Surviving are his wife, Wendy, of the home ; two sons, John Quarles of Enid and Dusty Quarles of Broken Arrow; two daughters, Nikki and Katy Quarles, both of Enid; his mother and stepfather, Wilma and Garland Quarles of Waynoka; his stepmother, Ann Quarles of Ellijay, Ga.; one sister, Sherry Belleau of Hill City, Kan.; and two granddaughters.
He was preceded in death by one brother.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to his children's college fund.
Condolences may be made online at brown-cummings.com.
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