Oscar D. Ford

The Cheyenne Star

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Oscar D. Ford passed away on January 19, 1970 at his home in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Born January 5, 1911, he was a longtime resident of the Kiowa Community southwest of Hammon, Oklahoma, where he helped work the family farm.

An Army veteran of World War II, he moved to Midwest City, Oklahoma in 1954 where with his cousin, Freddie Lacey, operated a service station and feed store business for over ten years until he retired in 1965.

Services were held at the Eisenhour Funeral Home in Midwest city, with Elder Alan West of the Primitive baptist Church delivering the service.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Ford of the home; four daughters, Janice and Linda Ford, stepdaughters, Dena Mullenix, all of Midwest City and Deloris Berna of Seattle, Washington; three stepsons, Dena Mathews of McCloud, Oklahoma, Chester Mathews of Choctaw, Oklahoma and Delbert Mathews of Shreveport, Louisiana; five sisters; Lena Ford, Leila Evett both of Oklahoma City, Laone Bartlett, Hammon, Oklahoma, May Zelle Brothers of Wichita, Kansas and Georgia Brothers of Fairview, Missouri. One brother, Dennis Ford of Morton, Texas, an aunt May Lacey and an uncle George H. Lacey, both of Hammon, Oklahoma.

Oscar Darwin Ford

1911 - 1970

Eulogy written by his brother-in-law, Lawrence E. Evett

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Oscar Darwin Ford was born January 5, 1911 in the Kiowa farming community southwest of Hammon, Oklahoma of hard-working pioneer parents who settled there at the turn of the century.

He helped his parents, sisters and brother wrest a living from the soil. He gave of himself unstintingly in his early years and during the depression during the thirties.

When World War II was declared he was drafted in the service of his country in May 1942, and served in the Coast Artillery as a cannoneer. He was discharged from an Army hospital in December of 1942 and continued working on the home farm until he moved to Oklahoma City and went into the service station and feed store business with his cousin Freddie Lacey in October 1954.

He married Dorothy Mathews, a widow, in November of 1954 and helped raise her fine five children and two lovely grils that were born of this union, Janice and Linda Ford.

Oscar Ford was a loving and devoted father to all his children, he was a truly kind human being, who treated all people as he knew he would like to be treated. He had the honesty of Lincoln and would rather be cheated than to cheat any man.

Oscar Ford could never find it in his heart to turn away anyone that needed his help, - his outgoing cheerfulness and well-developed sense of humor, sustained him and those close to him in times of adversity. If ever there was a man that lived by the religious and moral concepts of this life and by the admonition that a "soft answer turneth away wrath" that man was Oscar Darwin Ford.

All who knew him well and loved him will greatly miss his passing, but we can take heart in the words of Tennyson "In Memoriam" when he wrote "God's finger touched him, and he slept".

Note: Oscar died suddenly at his home at 10101 NE 12th Street. Cause of death: acute cardiac arrest.

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