From the Laverne OK. newspaper - 1972:
STANLEY Rites Held Sunday -- Funeral services were conducted in the United Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Otto Stanley, 85, who died in Laverne General Hospital October 12, 1972.
Rev. Hugh Harrison officiated at the services. Burial was in Gate Cemetery under the direction of Seeger Funeral Home.
Otto, third son of Charles J. and Lucinda Stanley was born at Valencia, Kansas near Topeka on December 10, 1886.
When he was 12 years old he came to Oklahoma Territory with his family. They settled on Little Robe Creek at Little Robe, Oklahoma Territory, which was 25 miles southwest of Shattuck. He completed the eighth grade and attended Normal School at Alva, OK, then taught one term near Grand, south of the South Canadian River.
With the family he moved to Gate, OK, in 1906. That winter he taught school at Prairie Dell. The first semester of the year 1906-07 he attended school at Lawrence Friends Academy, where he graduated in bookkeeping. He then attended Kansas Wesleyan Business School, where he graduated in stenography in June of 1907.
After graduation he accepted a position as contest clerk at the Woodward Land Office in Woodward, OK.
On October 25, 1908 he was married to Letha Haynes. They became the parents of two sons, Orville and Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley filed on land 17 miles west of Laverne in 1909. In 1910 they moved to Wichita, Kansas where he worked for Wells Fargo until he traded for land 5 1/2 miles northwest of Gate in 1912. He then accepted a civil service position as clerk in animal husbandry at Oklahoma City. In 1915 they returned to the farm where they lived until moving to Laverne in 1944.
Mr. Stanley checked farms for eight years. He also served on the school board for 20 years before moving to Laverne.
He was an active member of the Laverne United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife of the home; two sons, Orville of Guymon and Charles of San Diego, California; one brother, Owen, of Chula Vista, California; six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
STANLEY Rites Held Sunday -- Funeral services were conducted in the United Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Otto Stanley, 85, who died in Laverne General Hospital October 12, 1972.
Rev. Hugh Harrison officiated at the services. Burial was in Gate Cemetery under the direction of Seeger Funeral Home.
Otto, third son of Charles J. and Lucinda Stanley was born at Valencia, Kansas near Topeka on December 10, 1886.
When he was 12 years old he came to Oklahoma Territory with his family. They settled on Little Robe Creek at Little Robe, Oklahoma Territory, which was 25 miles southwest of Shattuck. He completed the eighth grade and attended Normal School at Alva, OK, then taught one term near Grand, south of the South Canadian River.
With the family he moved to Gate, OK, in 1906. That winter he taught school at Prairie Dell. The first semester of the year 1906-07 he attended school at Lawrence Friends Academy, where he graduated in bookkeeping. He then attended Kansas Wesleyan Business School, where he graduated in stenography in June of 1907.
After graduation he accepted a position as contest clerk at the Woodward Land Office in Woodward, OK.
On October 25, 1908 he was married to Letha Haynes. They became the parents of two sons, Orville and Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley filed on land 17 miles west of Laverne in 1909. In 1910 they moved to Wichita, Kansas where he worked for Wells Fargo until he traded for land 5 1/2 miles northwest of Gate in 1912. He then accepted a civil service position as clerk in animal husbandry at Oklahoma City. In 1915 they returned to the farm where they lived until moving to Laverne in 1944.
Mr. Stanley checked farms for eight years. He also served on the school board for 20 years before moving to Laverne.
He was an active member of the Laverne United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife of the home; two sons, Orville of Guymon and Charles of San Diego, California; one brother, Owen, of Chula Vista, California; six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
From the Laverne OK. newspaper - 1972:
STANLEY Rites Held Sunday -- Funeral services were conducted in the United Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Otto Stanley, 85, who died in Laverne General Hospital October 12, 1972.
Rev. Hugh Harrison officiated at the services. Burial was in Gate Cemetery under the direction of Seeger Funeral Home.
Otto, third son of Charles J. and Lucinda Stanley was born at Valencia, Kansas near Topeka on December 10, 1886.
When he was 12 years old he came to Oklahoma Territory with his family. They settled on Little Robe Creek at Little Robe, Oklahoma Territory, which was 25 miles southwest of Shattuck. He completed the eighth grade and attended Normal School at Alva, OK, then taught one term near Grand, south of the South Canadian River.
With the family he moved to Gate, OK, in 1906. That winter he taught school at Prairie Dell. The first semester of the year 1906-07 he attended school at Lawrence Friends Academy, where he graduated in bookkeeping. He then attended Kansas Wesleyan Business School, where he graduated in stenography in June of 1907.
After graduation he accepted a position as contest clerk at the Woodward Land Office in Woodward, OK.
On October 25, 1908 he was married to Letha Haynes. They became the parents of two sons, Orville and Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley filed on land 17 miles west of Laverne in 1909. In 1910 they moved to Wichita, Kansas where he worked for Wells Fargo until he traded for land 5 1/2 miles northwest of Gate in 1912. He then accepted a civil service position as clerk in animal husbandry at Oklahoma City. In 1915 they returned to the farm where they lived until moving to Laverne in 1944.
Mr. Stanley checked farms for eight years. He also served on the school board for 20 years before moving to Laverne.
He was an active member of the Laverne United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife of the home; two sons, Orville of Guymon and Charles of San Diego, California; one brother, Owen, of Chula Vista, California; six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
STANLEY Rites Held Sunday -- Funeral services were conducted in the United Methodist Church here Sunday afternoon for Otto Stanley, 85, who died in Laverne General Hospital October 12, 1972.
Rev. Hugh Harrison officiated at the services. Burial was in Gate Cemetery under the direction of Seeger Funeral Home.
Otto, third son of Charles J. and Lucinda Stanley was born at Valencia, Kansas near Topeka on December 10, 1886.
When he was 12 years old he came to Oklahoma Territory with his family. They settled on Little Robe Creek at Little Robe, Oklahoma Territory, which was 25 miles southwest of Shattuck. He completed the eighth grade and attended Normal School at Alva, OK, then taught one term near Grand, south of the South Canadian River.
With the family he moved to Gate, OK, in 1906. That winter he taught school at Prairie Dell. The first semester of the year 1906-07 he attended school at Lawrence Friends Academy, where he graduated in bookkeeping. He then attended Kansas Wesleyan Business School, where he graduated in stenography in June of 1907.
After graduation he accepted a position as contest clerk at the Woodward Land Office in Woodward, OK.
On October 25, 1908 he was married to Letha Haynes. They became the parents of two sons, Orville and Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley filed on land 17 miles west of Laverne in 1909. In 1910 they moved to Wichita, Kansas where he worked for Wells Fargo until he traded for land 5 1/2 miles northwest of Gate in 1912. He then accepted a civil service position as clerk in animal husbandry at Oklahoma City. In 1915 they returned to the farm where they lived until moving to Laverne in 1944.
Mr. Stanley checked farms for eight years. He also served on the school board for 20 years before moving to Laverne.
He was an active member of the Laverne United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife of the home; two sons, Orville of Guymon and Charles of San Diego, California; one brother, Owen, of Chula Vista, California; six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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