Fred L. Ptomey

Duncan Banner
11 August 1974

Fred L. Ptomey

Ptomey Rites Slated Today

Service from Fred L. Ptomey, 68, 11318 Cotton Hills Drive, was to be at 2 p. m. today in the Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Rev. Bryan Halliburton, pastor of the First Baptist Church.

Ptomey died at 12:20 a. m. Saturday in a local hospital after a long illness

. He was born Dec. 15, 1905 in Tonganoxie, Kan., and had lived in Duncan since 1948, coming here from Matton, Ill. He was former vice president and manager of General Oil Tool Co. of Duncan and was serving as company consultant at the time of his death. He was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church and the Duncan Elks Lodge. He married Marie Wishon in 1942 in Monroe, Mo.

Survivors include his wife of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Fennell, Duncan Rt., 1; three sons, James Lowe, 807 N. H, Kenneth Ptomey, 1325 N. 7th, and W. W. Ptomey, 1816 Chisholm Drive; two brothers, Raymond Ptomey, Rosewood, Calif., and Verlin Ptomey, Wilmington, Del; a sister Mrs. Fern Drake, Hesperia, Calif., and six grand children.

Burial will be in the Resthaven Memorial Gardens under direction of the Grantham Funeral Home.