OK Obits

© Enid News and Eagle
06-2016
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Ivan Wayne Nighswonger

March 9, 1934 ~ June 24, 2016

Ivan Wayne was born on the farm northwest of Alva, OK March 9, 1934. He was raised on the farm and attended school at the old Farry schoolhouse. While seeing a movie at the Rialto Movie Theatre, he met a gal that caught his eye, a pretty little thing, Phyllis Davis. After a courtship they married on Christmas Day, 1955. To their marriage came three children, Clifford Mack, Nancy Jane and Iva D'Ann.

Ivan Wayne worked as a cowhand for several years and then secured a job with Lehl and Son Water Well Drilling in Alva. Some years later he and Phyllis divorced and Ivan Wayne then moved to Oakridge, Oregon. He obtained a job with the Southern Pacific Railroad as a lineman. Ivan Wayne loved the railroad but he still loved Phyllis more. So they rekindled the relationship and remarried.

After Ivan Wayne retired due to medical conditions the couple moved back to Enid, Oklahoma. Ivan Wayne lost the love of his life, Phyllis, June 21, 2010. Ivan Wayne spent his remaining days at the United Methodist Home, The Common in Enid, where the lovely staff took good care of him til his final breath, Friday morning, June 24, 2016. Now he and his bride are together again.

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