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Funeral services for Wendell Lavern Francis, 80, of Springdale, Arkansas were held Saturday, February 15, 2003 at Sisco Funeral Chapel in Springdale with Reverend Larry Branum officiating.
Burial was in the Friendship Cemetery in Springdale.
Wendell was born August 2, 1922, in Cordell to Elbert "Bunt" and Ola Mae Montgomery Francis. He died February 12, 2003 at Springdale Rehab Center.
He graduated from Lake Valley High School. He attended Southwestern Teachers College in Weatherford, Oklahoma until being drafted to military service into WWII. Wendell returned to Mountain View, Oklahoma and married Lila Faye Smith. They purchased a farm near town where they had a son in 1948. They lived there until 1950, when they moved to Springdale, Arkansas.
Wendell's first job was cooking at A.Q. Chicken House. He worked there for a year, and went to work at Emerson Monument Company. He left there to open monument companies in Snyder, Oklahoma and then in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He operated these for five years. At that time he went to work for Tyson Foods and Randall Road Hatchery. He was manager at the hatchery until health reasons caused an early retirement. His fellow employees at Tyson were his best friends. He retired in 1975 to live in Springdale.
Survivors include a son, John B. Francis of Springdale; cousins, Rita and Kenneth Cornett of Huntsville, Arkansas, Saundra Cain of Kingston, Arkansas, Kent Cornett of Huntsville, Arkansas; an aunt, Leo Green of Cordell; a sister-in-law, Ima Lee Francis of Mt. View, Oklahoma; a niece, Kay Daniel of Mt. View, Oklahoma; cousins, Ray and Jerri Johnson of Oakwood, Oklahoma; Joanne Nye of Oakwood, Oklahoma, Bob and Gary Johnson of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Jim Johnson of Enid, Oklahoma; a dear friend, Junior Buchanan of Springdale; cousins Shan Fitzgerald of Cordell, Oklahoma and Denny Green of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
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