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Joseph Lee Selmat © Enid News and Eagle 10-05-2008 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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The funeral for Joseph “Lee” Selmat, 79, of Wakita, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at Wakita United Methodist Church. The Rev. Kyle Anderson will officiate. Burial will be in Rosemound Cemetery, Medford, with military honors conducted by the Army. Arrangements are by Hills-Ely Funeral Home, Medford. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
He was born March 16, 1930, on a farm west of Renfrow to Joseph and Antonia “Tony” Mesis Selmat and died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, at Northwest Specialty Hospital, Enid.
He attended Hickory Center District 19 School. He joined the Army March 20, 1951, serving in Korea for 13 months. He returned to the U.S. in 1953 and remained active with the 95th Reserve out of Blackwell.
He worked for the Soil Conservation Service in the 1950s, helping with the seeding of waterways. In addition to farming in the 1960s and 1970s, he also helped build homes in the Medford area and grain elevators in Lamont, Renfrow and Eddy.
He married Nevaleen Joy Schmitz April 29, 1961, in Lamont. They moved to Medford and then Wakita in 1966.
He was a member of Wakita Methodist Church, serving as a trustee. He had been a member of Wakita Lions Club since 1964. He served as secretary of Clyde Co-op board for nine years and was president of Lodge Trocnov 121 of Caldwell, Kan. He was an honorary member of Wakita Future Homemakers of America (now FCCLA). He and his wife hosted exchange students in their home.
Surviving are his wife, Nevaleen Joy, and two sisters, Lavona Baker of Caldwell and Barbara Straka of Oklahoma City.
He was preceded in death by two sisters and one brother.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home, P.O. Box 280, Medford, OK 73759, to FCCLA’s Lee and Nevaleen Joy Selmat Scholarship Fund or Walter H. and Pansy Moore Scholarship Fund at Phillips University Seminary.
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