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© The Chickasha Daily Express pg 4, col 7 Chickasha, Oklahoma January 11, 1955 Wilder T. McGuffin Halsey Mrs. Halsey Rites Pending Funeral services are pending for Mrs. J. R. Halsey, 71, who died this morning in her home at 827 Iowa. Mrs. Halsey had been a resident of Chickasha for the past year, coming here from Cement, where she had lived for 50 years. She was a member of Cement First Baptist Church, Order of Eastern Star and Rebekah Lodge. Survivors include her step-mother, Mrs. Roland McGuffin of Oklahoma City; three sons, J. E. Spurgin of Odessa, Tex., G. O. Halsey and J. C. Halsey of Chickasha; two daughters, Mrs. Calvin Calaway of El Dorado. Ark., and Mrs. Gene Rice of Chickasha. One sister, Mrs. Artie Freeman of Chickasha; two half-sisters, Mrs. Tony Bacon and Miss Margaret McGuffin of Oklahoma City; four half-brothers, Gana McGuffin and Dallas McGuffin of Cement, Urban McGuffin of Altus and J. R. McGuffin of Oklahoma City; and six grandchildren. Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. |
© The Chickasha Daily Express pg 2, col 3 Chickasha, Oklahoma October 4, 1955 Gilbert Owen Halsey HALSEY RITES TO BE FRIDAY Funeral services for Gilbert O. Halsey, 44, who died Sept. 1, at a Sinclair Oil camp near Diara, Ethiopia will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Brown Funeral Home chapel with full military rites provided by Tinker Air Force Base. Mr. Halsey was born and raised in the Cement area, graduating from Cement High School. He attended the University of Oklahoma for one year before attending Spartan Air School. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force on May 1, 1941, and transferred to the Army Air Force Sept. 16, 1942. On Jan 24, 1944 he assumed command of an air force fighter squadron in England. A Major in the U.S. Air Force he participated in the first flight in which the USAF used belly tanks and penetrated into Germany. He had been decorated with the British Distinguished Flying Cross by the Duchess of Kent and the American DFC and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Following the war he became an oil field driller, spending a year in Arabia, a year in South America, and a year in Ethiopia. He had returned to the states for two years to fly as a pilot for Indian Mud Company. He was called back to Ethiopia with Sinclair and had been working there only five months. Mr. Halsey had returned from a two day leave when he became ill and died. The body arrived in New York by boat yesterday and will arrive in Oklahoma City tomorrow. Interment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Brown Funeral Home. |