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Earl Leroy Wilt © Alva Review-Courier 11-01-2024 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Funeral services for Earl Leroy Wilt will be held on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 2 p.m. at Wharton Funeral Chapel with Reverend Taylor Anderson, pastor, Alva First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.
Earl Leroy, son of Gladys Ethel (Hickman) and Frank Clinton Wilt was born December 3, 1940, on a cold and stormy night in an old farmhouse in rural Woods County west of Dacoma, Oklahoma. The inclement weather forced the attending doctor to spend the night there. He passed away at his home in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 83 years, 10 months and 27 days.
At the age of five, Earl attended a one-room county school as a sole first grader. The family then moved to Alva where he attended second through sixth grade at Washington Grade School and junior high at Horace Mann on the NWOSU Campus. His high school years were split between the old Alva High School on Flynn and the new Alva High School on 14th Street.
Earl received a degree in national science with an educational minor from NWOSU. In 1962 he took a teaching job in Sawyer, Kansas, teaching science and history classes for four years until it consolidated. He then began teaching at Jet, Oklahoma, in 1966 and remained there for 26 years as a science teacher as well as principal and superintendent for a time.
He especially enjoyed teaching biology, chemistry and botany. He was proud of his students. He ran a "tight ship" and took many students to summer science camps out of state.
He received his Education Masters Degree from NWOSU in 1967 and further education at Eagle Lake Biological Station, plus ecology studies at Aspen, Colorado, retiring in 1992.
He married Lynn (Von Gunten) Kannamon in Jet, Oklahoma, on February 15, 1991.
After retiring Earl pursued family genealogical research. He loved to travel and study the American West and Native Americans. He was an accomplished student of their histories and lore, and a knowledgeable collector of their art forms. Earl was an avid flower and tomato gardener, spending hours working in his yard.
Earl is surrounded by his wife, Lynn, of the home here in Alva; his brother, Louis Jean of Alva; and a number of other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made through Wharton Funeral Chapel to Northwestern Oklahoma State University Foundation in his name or to the Alva Public Library Genealogy Department.
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