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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma December 10, 2006 Sam Gaines Loveless DDS August 13, 1923 ~ December 7, 2006 Funeral service for Dr. Sam Gaines Loveless, age 83 of Chickasha, will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, December 11, 2006, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Danny Griffin of Arlington, Texas will officiate. Sam Gaines Loveless was born the son of B. F. Loveless and Lillie Burd Gaines Loveless on August 13, 1923, in Verden. He died on December 7, 2006, in Oklahoma City. Sam grew up in Verden where he attended school until his senior year. He transferred to Chickasha High School, where he graduated in 1941. Sam attended Oklahoma University studying pre-dentistry and then enrolled at the Baylor University College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas. He was there a short time before entering the United States Army in World War II. During World War II, he served in the Army Dental Corp in Italy. After the war, he returned to Dallas where he was a member of the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church. He was a tenor soloist at the church where he met Helen Louise Wilkie who was his accompanist. Sam and Helen were married in Dallas in 1945. At the same time, he resumed his education in dentistry at Baylor and graduated with his doctorate degree in 1949. At that time, they moved to Frederick where Sam started his first dentistry practice. He was called back to active duty in 1952, and moved to Washington where he served at the Pentegon during the Korean War. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1953, he returned to his practice in Frederick. In 1955, he moved to Chickasha where he operated a dental practice and began farming and ranching. In 1982, he retired from dentistry but continued his farming and ranching operation for the rest of his life. Sam was a member of the First Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors include: Wife of 61 years: Helen Loveless of Chickasha; Daughter: Karen Everly of Edmond; Son: Grant Loveless of Chickasha; Granddaughter: Jan Goodin of Oklahoma City; Grandson: Mark Everly of Frisco, Texas; Grandson: David Everly of Tulsa; Grandson: Jake Loveless of Yukon; Granddaughter: Ande Loveless of Norman; Four Great-Grandchildren: Caroline & Natalie Goodin of Oklahoma City; and Abigail & Olivia Everly of Frisco, Texas. Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. Email condolences may be sent to the family at www.mcrayfuneral.com. |
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