Body Identified
As All Sherman's
A death certificate bearing the name of Alfred C. Sherman was signed today by a state medical examiner in Tulsa, concluding a two-year search for the Sapulpan who disappeared from a Jenks nursing home just before Christmas in 1975.
Medical examiners using x-rays from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee determined that skeletal remains found along a thicketed bank of Polecat Creek in Jenks Monday were those of Sherman.
The site was less than two miles from the Riverside Nursing Home from which Sherman departed Dec. 22, 1975, on a night of freezing rain.
A watch with the Sapulpan's name inscribed on the back was found Tuesday, and remnants of clothes matching the description of those Sherman was believed wearing when he disappeared also were found.
A massive manhunt was launched after the disappearance; sightings of the refinery worked, who was 54 when he disappeared, were periodically reported but non proved to be Sherman.
Sherman had suffered a stroke in September if 1975, and had suffered lapses of memory. He had been taken to the Jenks nursing home the same day he disappeared.
Born March 13, 1921, in Chandler, he had moved to Sapulpa as a child and lived here all his life. He was an Army veteran of World War 2 and winner of a Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
He was a machinist with the Sunray-DX refinery and had been with the company 34 years. He was a member of the VFW.
Survivors are his widow Myrtle Ilene of the home at 313 W. Norma; a son, Allen D. Sherman of Rt. 1, Sapulpa; two daughters, Mrs. Georgia Wolfe of 206 W. Laura and Mrs. Barbara Ann Burke of 313 W. Norma; and his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Inez Sherman of 315 S. Walnut; five grandchildren; two brothers, Clarence, of 315 S. Walnut and Kenneth, of Marion, Ore.; a half-brother, Wade Hood of Statford, Ariz., and two sisters, Mrs. Vena Burton of Porterville, Calif., and Mrs. Mina Matlock of 215 S. Maple, Sapulpa.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Westside Free Will Baptist church, 704 S. Independence, with the Rev. Millard McGuire and Rev. T. Howard Allen officiating.
Interment will be in South Heights Cemetery under direction of Owen Funeral Home. Military rites will be conducted graveside by the VFW.
The family will headquarter at 313 W. Norma.
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Oklahoma)
04 January 1978, Wednesday • Page 1
As All Sherman's
A death certificate bearing the name of Alfred C. Sherman was signed today by a state medical examiner in Tulsa, concluding a two-year search for the Sapulpan who disappeared from a Jenks nursing home just before Christmas in 1975.
Medical examiners using x-rays from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee determined that skeletal remains found along a thicketed bank of Polecat Creek in Jenks Monday were those of Sherman.
The site was less than two miles from the Riverside Nursing Home from which Sherman departed Dec. 22, 1975, on a night of freezing rain.
A watch with the Sapulpan's name inscribed on the back was found Tuesday, and remnants of clothes matching the description of those Sherman was believed wearing when he disappeared also were found.
A massive manhunt was launched after the disappearance; sightings of the refinery worked, who was 54 when he disappeared, were periodically reported but non proved to be Sherman.
Sherman had suffered a stroke in September if 1975, and had suffered lapses of memory. He had been taken to the Jenks nursing home the same day he disappeared.
Born March 13, 1921, in Chandler, he had moved to Sapulpa as a child and lived here all his life. He was an Army veteran of World War 2 and winner of a Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
He was a machinist with the Sunray-DX refinery and had been with the company 34 years. He was a member of the VFW.
Survivors are his widow Myrtle Ilene of the home at 313 W. Norma; a son, Allen D. Sherman of Rt. 1, Sapulpa; two daughters, Mrs. Georgia Wolfe of 206 W. Laura and Mrs. Barbara Ann Burke of 313 W. Norma; and his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Inez Sherman of 315 S. Walnut; five grandchildren; two brothers, Clarence, of 315 S. Walnut and Kenneth, of Marion, Ore.; a half-brother, Wade Hood of Statford, Ariz., and two sisters, Mrs. Vena Burton of Porterville, Calif., and Mrs. Mina Matlock of 215 S. Maple, Sapulpa.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Westside Free Will Baptist church, 704 S. Independence, with the Rev. Millard McGuire and Rev. T. Howard Allen officiating.
Interment will be in South Heights Cemetery under direction of Owen Funeral Home. Military rites will be conducted graveside by the VFW.
The family will headquarter at 313 W. Norma.
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Oklahoma)
04 January 1978, Wednesday • Page 1
Body Identified
As All Sherman's
A death certificate bearing the name of Alfred C. Sherman was signed today by a state medical examiner in Tulsa, concluding a two-year search for the Sapulpan who disappeared from a Jenks nursing home just before Christmas in 1975.
Medical examiners using x-rays from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee determined that skeletal remains found along a thicketed bank of Polecat Creek in Jenks Monday were those of Sherman.
The site was less than two miles from the Riverside Nursing Home from which Sherman departed Dec. 22, 1975, on a night of freezing rain.
A watch with the Sapulpan's name inscribed on the back was found Tuesday, and remnants of clothes matching the description of those Sherman was believed wearing when he disappeared also were found.
A massive manhunt was launched after the disappearance; sightings of the refinery worked, who was 54 when he disappeared, were periodically reported but non proved to be Sherman.
Sherman had suffered a stroke in September if 1975, and had suffered lapses of memory. He had been taken to the Jenks nursing home the same day he disappeared.
Born March 13, 1921, in Chandler, he had moved to Sapulpa as a child and lived here all his life. He was an Army veteran of World War 2 and winner of a Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
He was a machinist with the Sunray-DX refinery and had been with the company 34 years. He was a member of the VFW.
Survivors are his widow Myrtle Ilene of the home at 313 W. Norma; a son, Allen D. Sherman of Rt. 1, Sapulpa; two daughters, Mrs. Georgia Wolfe of 206 W. Laura and Mrs. Barbara Ann Burke of 313 W. Norma; and his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Inez Sherman of 315 S. Walnut; five grandchildren; two brothers, Clarence, of 315 S. Walnut and Kenneth, of Marion, Ore.; a half-brother, Wade Hood of Statford, Ariz., and two sisters, Mrs. Vena Burton of Porterville, Calif., and Mrs. Mina Matlock of 215 S. Maple, Sapulpa.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Westside Free Will Baptist church, 704 S. Independence, with the Rev. Millard McGuire and Rev. T. Howard Allen officiating.
Interment will be in South Heights Cemetery under direction of Owen Funeral Home. Military rites will be conducted graveside by the VFW.
The family will headquarter at 313 W. Norma.
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Oklahoma)
04 January 1978, Wednesday • Page 1
As All Sherman's
A death certificate bearing the name of Alfred C. Sherman was signed today by a state medical examiner in Tulsa, concluding a two-year search for the Sapulpan who disappeared from a Jenks nursing home just before Christmas in 1975.
Medical examiners using x-rays from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee determined that skeletal remains found along a thicketed bank of Polecat Creek in Jenks Monday were those of Sherman.
The site was less than two miles from the Riverside Nursing Home from which Sherman departed Dec. 22, 1975, on a night of freezing rain.
A watch with the Sapulpan's name inscribed on the back was found Tuesday, and remnants of clothes matching the description of those Sherman was believed wearing when he disappeared also were found.
A massive manhunt was launched after the disappearance; sightings of the refinery worked, who was 54 when he disappeared, were periodically reported but non proved to be Sherman.
Sherman had suffered a stroke in September if 1975, and had suffered lapses of memory. He had been taken to the Jenks nursing home the same day he disappeared.
Born March 13, 1921, in Chandler, he had moved to Sapulpa as a child and lived here all his life. He was an Army veteran of World War 2 and winner of a Purple Heart and two Oak Leaf clusters.
He was a machinist with the Sunray-DX refinery and had been with the company 34 years. He was a member of the VFW.
Survivors are his widow Myrtle Ilene of the home at 313 W. Norma; a son, Allen D. Sherman of Rt. 1, Sapulpa; two daughters, Mrs. Georgia Wolfe of 206 W. Laura and Mrs. Barbara Ann Burke of 313 W. Norma; and his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Inez Sherman of 315 S. Walnut; five grandchildren; two brothers, Clarence, of 315 S. Walnut and Kenneth, of Marion, Ore.; a half-brother, Wade Hood of Statford, Ariz., and two sisters, Mrs. Vena Burton of Porterville, Calif., and Mrs. Mina Matlock of 215 S. Maple, Sapulpa.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Westside Free Will Baptist church, 704 S. Independence, with the Rev. Millard McGuire and Rev. T. Howard Allen officiating.
Interment will be in South Heights Cemetery under direction of Owen Funeral Home. Military rites will be conducted graveside by the VFW.
The family will headquarter at 313 W. Norma.
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Oklahoma)
04 January 1978, Wednesday • Page 1
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ALFRED CHARLIE SHERMAN
PFC US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
1921 † 1978
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