William Louis BRYAN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Balko, Beaver Co., Oklahoma
• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Balko, Beaver Co., Oklahoma
• Census: 1930, Living in Spearman, Hansford Co., Texas
• Census: 1950, Living in Perryton, Ochiltree Co., Texasx

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OBITUARY OF LOUIS BRYAN

Louis BRYAN, aged 79 and early day Perryton grocer, died Friday.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Full Gospel Church. Rev. Harrol Waterbury, pastor, and Rev. Jacob Regier, former pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery, under the direction of Boxwell Brothers.

Mr. BRYAN was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the son of the late W. C. and Beulah BRYAN. Bryan's Corner, the junction of highways 83 and 3 in the Oklahoma Panhandle, gets its name from them.

Graduating from Perryton high school in 1925, Louis BRYAN and his father would open a grocery business a year later in Perryton. The W. C. Bryan and Son and later Bryan's Food Store was operated for more than 40 years at the same location. He was also involved in farming.

He was married to Rhoda PHELPS of Gray, Oklahoma, in May 1929.

Active in the community, Mr. BRYAN was a past president of the Ochiltree Chamber of Commerce and the Perryton Lions Club. He was secretary of the golf club for 17 years and served on the school tax equalization board for more than two decades.

After retiring in 1970, Mr. BRYAN once said the biggest change in his 40 plus years in the grocery business was the move to packaged goods. The BRYANS were first to put in a meat market in Perryton. The store was located where the Sears outlet is now, at First and Main.

Mr. BRYAN was a member of the Full Gospel Church.

Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Joan PLETCHER of Perryton; three sisters, Loucile SHORB of Kansas City, Kansas, Hazel WRIGHT of Guymon, and Eveline HINDS of Geneva, Nebraska; and two grandchildren, Dianne and David PLETCHER.

The family has suggested that memorials to be to one's favorite charity or the Full Gospel Church building fund.

(Published in The Perryton Herald (TX), Sunday, February 03, 1985.)
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Family/Spouse: Rhoda PHELPS. Rhoda was born on 5 Jul 1909 in Grandvlley, Oklahoma; died on 25 Feb 2002; was buried in Ochiltree Cemetery, Perrytown, Ochiltree Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]