Rose Hill Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma

© The Chickasha Express-Star
4 December 2003

Loyd W. Cole

Funeral service for Loyd W. Cole, 91, of Chickasha, Okla., will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, 2003, in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.

Loyd W. Cole was born Nov. 13, 1912, and died on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003.

Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.
© The Chickasha Express-Star
4 December 2003

Loyd W. Cole

November 13, 1912 to December 2, 2003.

Funeral service for Loyd W. Cole, 91, of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 1:30 p.m., Friday, December 5, 2003, in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.

Loyd was the first child born to William Frank and Agatha [Nelson] Cole, Chickasha, Oklahoma. He graduated from Pioneer School in 1928, and attended Oklahoma A & M. In 1930 he met and fell in love with a girl from Sherman, Texas, Reba Calhoun. Reba was the daughter of William Thomas and Edna Pearl (Crumby) Calhoun. The Calhoun family moved back to Sherman not too long after they met, so Loyd would catch a ride on a freight train to visit her. On November 24, 1932, the couple eloped, with Reba's sister and a friend riding in the rumble seat of a borrowed car.

After their marriage, the couple made their home in Chickasha. Loyd started out farming, and then began building houses during the War. He built a small grocery store (Cole's Grocery) at the corner of 16th and Grand in 1943, and later built their home next to the store, where they raised their four children. Later in his life, he developed a housing addition and built many of the homes on Orchard Drive, along with a home for himself and Reba. He was active in his community, and served as president of Fin & Feather Club and City Councilman. Loyd shared many hours of fishing with friends like Clayton Horn, Henry Baker, and J. C. Linvile. He loved his home and his friends, but most of all adored his wife, children, and being Paw Paw to his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Loyd has been a resident of Grace Living Center for over a year, and quietly left this life while surrounded by family and the compassion of his caregivers there.

Loyd is preceded in death by his parents, William Frank and Agatha Cole, both of Chickasha, his wife Reba, after 68 years of marriage in September 2000, his only son, Jerry Cole, in April 2000, and an infant grandson, Loyd, in 1965.

Loyd is survived by his three daughters, Janelle Kendall and her husband, Don Kendall, Janice Wehling and her husband, Jerry Wehling, and Judy Cole, all of Chickasha; his grandchildren, Lisa Ramsey, Chickasha, Jeff Kendall, Chickasha, Brett Cole, Oklahoma City, Greg Cole, Sugarland, TX, Jerry Ray Osborn, Gilbert, AZ, Michelle Wills, Oklahoma City, and Jennifer Garner, Oklahoma City; his great grandchildren, Wesley and Whitney Cole, Sugarland, TX, David Kendall, Chickasha, J. J. Osborn, Gilbert AZ, and Emily Cole, Oklahoma City. He is also survived by one brother, E. B. "Buster" Cole, two sisters, Aline White Woods, Lawton, and Betty Ruth Dowell, Antioch, CA, many nephews and nieces and his sister-in-law, Dorothy Fowler, Sherman, Texas.

Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.