Services for Hugh J. Rooney, 66, Enid, will be 1 PM Friday at the Fentress Funeral Home, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Burial will be in Fort Smith. Memorial services will be 10 AM Monday at the Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel.
Rooney died Tuesday, June 3, 1986 at an Oklahoma City hospital. He was born September 24, 1919, in Greenwood, Arkansas, to Frank and Sarah Rooney. He grew up in the Fort Smith area, and married Dorothy J. Redden there February 5, 1946. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force. He worked for the Air Force and the family lived in various places before moving to Enid in 1961. He retired as financial manager for the Wing Commander at Vance Air Force Base in 1978. Rooney then owned and operated J. Rooney Pipe and Tobacco Company, in the American Standard North Building.
Rooney was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Fort Smith and attended St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Enid. He was a member of the Noon Lions Club, the American Legion and the U.C.T.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Gene (Sondra) Cox, Levelland, Texas, and Mrs. David (Susan) Elledge, Columbia, Missouri; two sisters, Stella McNabb, Greenwood, Arkansas, and Geneva Edelmann, Vallejo, California, and two granddaughters.
Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, heart division, through Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.