Walter J. Estes

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Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

WALTER J. ESTES

CRESCENT - The funeral for Walter J. Estes, 76, who died Friday in a Guthrie hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Abernathy Funeral Home chapel at Crescent. The Rev. Larry Henderson will officiate. Burial will follow in Oakland-Knowles Cemetery, south of Crescent. Masonic rites will be conducted by members of the Masonic Lodge at Crescent.

Estes was born Oct. 29, 1907, at Niles, Okla., to Charles and Martha Estes. He was an employee of the Santa Fe Railroad and a member of the Masonic Lodge at Perry and the Order of Eastern Star at Crescent.

Estes had moved to Crescent from Perry in 1975. He and Ethel Bishop were married June 15, 1929, at Guthrie.

Survivors include his wife, Ethel; three sons, Billy Ray and Roy D., both of Crescent, and Gerald of Stillwater; one daughter, Maxine Dodson, Perry; two brothers, William M. Estes of Crescent and Charles Estes of Perry; one half-brother, Everett Rorabaw of Burkburnett, Texas; two sisters, Edna Privett of Perry and Ann Clark of Collegedale, Tenn.; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sibling.