Will C. Jenkins

The Ponca City News

January 19, 1934

Submitted by: Shirley Harlan

W. C. Jenkins, Tonkawa Resident, Dies Here

Will C. Jenkins, 60 year-old long-time resident of the Tonkawa vicinity, died at a Ponca City Hospital about 9 o'clock Wednesday night. He underwent an appendix operation several days ago.

Jenkins, a pioneer citizen of this vicinity, had spent most of the past 30 years farming.

He is survived by a son, Charles J. Jenkins of Blackwell; two brothers, Henry Jenkins of Anadarko and Claude Jenkins of Tonkawa and a sister, Mrs. May McCoy of Tiffany, Colo.

Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the McCafferty Funeral Home with the Rev. Bayne Driskill, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery.

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