Donna Kay PAUL

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RINGLING-Services for Donna Kay Wade, 21, were to be 2 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church, Ringling with Rev. Joe Wiggins, Emmanuel Baptist Church, officiating and Rev. Charley Addy, Ringling, assisting. Burial was to follow in Odd Fellow Cemetery.
Mrs. Wade was Killed in an automobile accident Saturday near Wilson. She was born March 31, 1951 at Ringling. She attended Leon school and was a 1968 graduate of Ringling High School.
Survivors include a daughter, Brandi Don; her parents Mr and Mrs. Karl M. Paul, Ringling; two brothers Ronald Gene Paul, Ringling, and Larry Paul, Dallas, Tex; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Bessie Slawson, Leon; and paternal grandfather F.W. Paul, Ringling.
Services were under direction of Leslie Funeral Home.

RINGLING WOMAN DIES IN COLLISION
A Ringling woman was dead on arrival at an Ardmore hospital following a two-car collision near Wilson Saturday morning.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Ray Hudson said Donna Kay Wade , 21, was a passenger in her own 1972 Volkswagon which was driven by Thomas C. Tucker, 24, 420 H St. NW, Ardmore. She was killed when the VW was in collision with a 1969 Ford on U.S. 70 at the north edge of Wilson on a service road.
A passenger in the Ford, 11 year-old Susan A. Bazzrea, is in critical condition, Hudson said. The Ford was driven by Faron Henry Bazzrea, 16, also of Wilson. He and Tucker received minor laceration, according to the trooper.
The VW was traveling east Hudson said when the Ford turned left across the highway without yielding. Both cars were demolished in the smashup.
The accident occurred about 11:20 a.m.

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RINGLING-Services for Karl M. "Snooty" Paul, 72, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church. Rev. J.W. Ray and Ronnie Carroll will officiate with interment in Ringling Memorial Cemetery.
Born April 22, 1917 in Lindsay, Garvin County, Okla. Paul died Thursday in an Oklahoma City hospital after a sudden illness. Son of the late Fred W. and Mary Parlee (Thomas) Paul and the grandson of Eli Washington and Anna Mae (Wheeler) Paul.
They moved to the Ringling-Healdton area in 1920. He attended Dundee schools, west of Healdton, where he played three years of football and was a track star. He graduated in 1939 from Orr High School, Orr, Love County, Oklahoma, where he was the Captain of the basketball team, and was President of the senior class.
In 1940, he joined the National Guard at Healdton, Okla. He served 1 year, 1 month and 26 days. Karl joined the U.S. Army on April 4, 1941, at Fort Sill, Okla. and was stationed at Camp Walters, TX. He was later transferred to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, where he was assigned to the 6th Division, 63rd Infantry Regiment, Company B.
During World War II he served in the South Pacific Theater, and was stationed at Hawaii, New Guinea, and Luzon in the Philippine Islands.
Karl was a Staff Sergeant and a Squad Leader, he supervised a rifle squad in advances against the enemy; directed deployment and tactics in combat; fought in jungles and took advantages of cover, concealment and camouflage; saw that squad members were supplied with ammunition and rations; and led patrols and scouting missions to determine enemy location, strength and disposition. By the end of the war, the 6th Division had 306 days of combat and they hold the worlds record for 219 days of continuous combat. Karl's decoration and citations
included; Combat Infantrymans Badge; Victory Ribbon; American Defense Service Ribbon; American Theater Campaign Ribbon; Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Bronze Stars and 1 Bronze Arrowhead; Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 1 Bronze Star; Good Conduct Medal; 4 overseas Service Bars; 1 Service Stripe and a Presidential Unit Citation.
He married Evelyn M. Slawson Jan. 12, 1946 at Healdton, Oklahoma.
Karl was a Oil Field Driller and an Iron Worker. He was a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans and the Commander of the Ringling, Oklahoma Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10628.
He was preceded in death by a daughter Donna Kay Wade in March 1973.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; two sons, Ronald Paul Ringling, and Larry Paul, Mesquite, TX., six grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; two sisters, Flora Houghton, Liberty, TX. and Oleta Yeats, Dallas, TX. and four brothers, Luther Paul, Arizona, Fay Paul, Wynnewood, Okla. Alva Paul, Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb., Fred Paul Jr., Ardmore, Okla.

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Karl married Evelyn Mildred SLAWSON on 12 Jan 1946 in Healdton, Oklahoma. Evelyn (daughter of John Lunsford SLAWSON and Bessie MILLER) was born on 27 Jun 1925 in Grady, Oklahoma; died on 4 Dec 2010 in Ringling, Jefferson Co., Oklahoma; was buried in Ringling Memorial Cemetery, Ringling, Jefferson Co., Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Brown, Jefferson Co., Oklahoma
• Census: 1940, Living with parents in Ringling, Jefferson Co., Oklahoma

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Ardmore - Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Mildred (Slawson) Paul, 85, of Ringling, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at the Alexander Funeral Home Chapel of Ringling with Rev. Mike Williams officiating. Interment will follow at the Ringling Memorial Cemetery.

Evelyn was born June 17, 1925, at Grady to the late Mr. John Lunsford Slawson and Mrs. Bessie (Miller) Slawson. She departed this life Saturday Morning of December 4, 2010, at a Ardmore nursing facility.

Evelyn was a native to this area being raised here attending school at Grady, Atlee and graduating high school from Ringling in the early 40's. She and the late Mr. Karl Malcom "Snooty" Paul were united in marriage the 12th of January, 1946, at Healdton. They resided for a short period in Pearsall, Texas, before making their home in Ringling in 1949. Evelyn was always a very devoted homemaker and housewife to her husband and children. She loved to sew, especially doll clothes for her grandchildren, and also enjoyed quilting. She liked watching old movies, particularly old westerns, and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Ringling.

Preceding her in death are her parents; husband, Karl, who died Feb. 1, 1990; daughter, Donna Wade ? 1973; sisters, Roxie, Verna and Barbara; and brothers, Donald and Terry Dale.

Survivors include, her two sons, Ronald Paul and wife, Belle of Ardmore, and Larry Paul and wife, Dee of Mesquite, Texas; sister, Patty Woods of Sandpoint, Ind.; three brothers, Melburn Slawson of Rush Springs, Johnnie Slawson of Shawnee, and Montie Slawson of Jimtown; six grandchildren, Terry, Vance, Laura, Carla, Brandi, and Heather; 11 great-grandchildren; and numerous other family and friends.

Casket bearers will be her grandsons and great-grandsons.

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