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Thomas Dilford "Ted" Southward

11 Feb 1919 – 19 Aug 2006

Birth	11 Feb 1919
Death	19 Aug 2006
Cemetery	Walters Cemetery Walters , Cotton County , Oklahoma , USA
Added by	Charles Walker on 14 Jan 2021
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15464605

Bio

Funeral for TED SOUTHWARD, 87, Medicine Park, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hart-Wyatt Funeral Chapel, Walters, with the Rev. Royce Littrell officiating. Mr. Southward died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006, at Lawton. Interment will be at the Walters Cemetery. He was born Feb. 11, 1919, at Wilson, to James Claude and Mae T. Keith Southward. He grew up at Zanies. He married Helen Christine Turner in 1938. She died in 1965. He later married Dovie Pauline Tollett on Oct. 28, 1966, at Walters. He worked in the shipyards of Houston for a time before entering the Navy. He served his country aboard the USS Columbia during World War II. He came to Walters where he started Southward Welding and Blacksmith Shop during the oil boom in 1946 and was also engaged in farming. He retired from the welding shop in 1988, but continued farming into the mid 1990s. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, serving in various offices. He helped organize the Kiwanis Club, served on the city council for nine years, served on the Waurika Project Master Conservatory Board for 16 years, and was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce. He enjoyed fishing, bird hunting, farming and round dancing. Survivors include his wife, of the home; three daughters, Lynda Wann of Lindsay, Calif., Sherry Bennett and husband Carl of Waco, Texas, and Linda Kay Munson and husband Kenneth of Medicine Park; two sons, Cairl Wayne Matejek of Sand Springs, and Joe Matejek Jr. and wife Barbara of Levelland, Texas; a brother, Burl Southward of Cleveland; a sister, Claudie Mae Knutson of Waco; ten grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 8 great-great-grandchildren; and other relatives and many friends.

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Parents

• James Claude Southward 1896–1961
• Anna Mae Keith Southward 1899–1936

Spouse

• Helen Christine Turner Southward 1919–1965 FaG
• Dovie Pauline Tollett Southward 1928–2019 FaG

Siblings

• Burl Southward 1921–2008
• Claudie Mae Southward Knutson 1927–2012

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