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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Sunday, April 22, 2007 August 23, 1921 ~ April 20, 2007 Graveside service for Charlie Holkum, age 85, of Chickasha, Oklahoma will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in the Fairlawn Cemetery in Chickasha. Charles Kenneth Holkum was born the son of John Henry Holkum and Anna Missouri Hill Holkum on August 23, 1921, in Ada, Oklahoma. He died on April 20, 2007, in Chickasha. He married Quanah Gorham on July 2, 1943 in Chickasha. Charlie lived in Ada until the age of twelve when his family moved to Boswell in southern Oklahoma, near the Red River. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Colorado to work as a cowboy on several ranches in the southern Colorado area. He later moved to Arizona to continue his work as a cowboy. Charlie joined the United States Army and was stationed for a time at Ft. Sill. He served in Pattons Third Army in Europe during World War II and was involved in the invasion at Normandy. After his service, he worked in the oilfield. Charlie went to work for Tinker Air Force Base in 1948 as a heavy equipment operator and later as an aircraft maintenance manager retiring in 1973. After his retirement, he moved to Chickasha. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Missouri Holkum; four brothers, Bud, Jim, Dude, and Johnny; three sisters, Marietta, Bertha, and Estelle. Survivors include: Wife: Quanah Holkum of Chickasha; Daughter: Pam Zamora of Oklahoma City; Son: Johnny Lee Holkum of Oklahoma City; Three Grandchildren: Ches and Kenny Cowell, Hannah Holkum; Three Great-Grandchildren: Reece, Gavin, and Abigail Cowell. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. |
January 2014 June 23, 1924 ~ January 6, 2014 Services for Quanah Holkum, age 89 of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at McRay Funeral Home Chapel, 110 South 8th, Chickasha, with burial in the Fairlawn Cemetery. Quanah Katie Gorham Holkum was born the daughter of Logan and Blanche [Grinstead] Gorham on June 23, 1924, in rural Caddo County and graduated in 1942 from Minco High. She passed away January 6, 2014 in Chickasha, after suffering many years with Alzheimer's Disease. Quanah married Pfc. Charlie Holkum on July 2, 1943 in Chickasha and they were married for almost 64 years before he preceded her in death in 2007. After Charlie returned from WWII, they spent most of those years in Oklahoma City, where Quanah raised their two children, Johnny Lee Holkum of Edmond, and Pam Zamora of Oklahoma City, and worked twenty years for Norick Brothers Printing. Charlie and Quanah both retired in 1973 and moved back to Chickasha where they lived a good life with their horses, friends and much time spent with grandchildren, Ches Cowell and Kenny Cowell of Oklahoma City and Hannah Holkum of Edmond. Quanah is also survived by great-grandchildren Reece, Gavin and Abigail Cowell; step-grandchildren Amy Joplin of Oklahoma City; Lisa Oliver of Jacksonville, Florida; Aimee DeCamp of Moore, and their families. |
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