Raymond Earl Baccus
Sex: M
Birth: 14 APR 1922 in Hollis, Harmon County, Oklahoma
Death: 8 APR 2001 in Del City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma 73117
Burial: 12 APR 2001 Sunny Lane Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Military Service: BET 1941 AND 1944 U.S. Army (life member of DAV)
Occupation: BET 1944 AND 1988 Civil Service, Tinker AFB, Del City, Oklahoma
Religion: First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, OK
Social Security Number: 444-18-8617 issued in Oklahoma

Note:
An undated newspaper clipping: SERGEANT INJURED BY BOMBING JOINS WIFE AT DOUGLAS PLANT
Less than two weeks after he was discharged from the army because of a back injury received in the Sicilian campaign. Sgt. Raymond Earl Baccus joined his wife, Kathryn Baccus, 4901 S. Shields, at the Douglas plant..
Baccus puts rivets to the fuselage section of a C-47 now, but back in July, 1943, he was trucking gasoline with an armored division attached to the famous 45th. As he drove along one day, he was attacked by a German divebomber. His assistant driver was killed.
He was in a cast three months, discharged Jan. 14, 1944 and 13 days later went to work for Douglas. He is among several hundred discharged servicemen who are finding jobs they want at Douglas to help carry on the fight.
Baccus has two brothers in the service. Pfc. Marvin Baccus, stationed with the army in England
and Pfc. Willie Baccus, also in the army, stationed in the southwest Pacific. A step-brother, Marine Lieut. W. C. Spradling, Hollis, was killed in a plane crash last June somewhere in the south Pacific area

The family called him "Burl". According to his sister, Bertha, Raymond Earl's wife, Katie, had to put him in a nursing home because she couldn't keep him safe from harm. He wandered off by himself. Her health is very poor, too.

Obituaries: Thursday, Apr. 19, 2001, Hollis, Harmon Co., OK
Raymond Earl Baccus, 78, of Del City, died Sunday, April 8.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 12, at the Bill Eisenhour Southeast Chapel. Burial followed in the Sunny Lane Cemetery.
Baccus was born in Hollis to Joseph and Elizabeth [Sarah Jane] (Hudson) Baccus on April 14, 1922. He married Lela K. (Katie) Cook(s) in Las Vegas, NV, on Jul. 16, 1942.
Mr. Baccus was a Civil Service employee at Tinker AFB, a member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, the American Legion and a life member of DAV.
Survivors include: his wife of 58 years, Lela, of the home; one son, Daniel Ray Baccus and his wife, Gayle, of Newalla; two grandchildren, Diana Kay Peters and husband, Kevin, of Branson, MO, and Chase Michael Baccus of Yukon; one great-grandson, Kole Austin Peters of Branson, MO; and one sister, Lillian Hill of Hollis.
He was preceded in death by thirteen brothers and sisters.

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006:
Name: Raymond E. Baccus
Service Info.: Sgt. U.S. Army World War II
Birth Date: 14 Apr 1922
Death Date: 8 Apr 2001
Cemetery: Sunny Lane Cemetery
Address: 3900 SE 29th St., Del City, OK 73115

Father: Joseph Nelson Baccus b: BET 22 FEB 1868 AND 1869 in Plano, Collin County, Texas
Mother: Sarah Jane Hudson b: 31 JUL 1877 in Salt Fork, poss. Smyth County, Virginia

Marriage Lela Kathryn Cooks b: 2 JUN 1921 in Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma
Married: 16 JUL 1942 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada 2

Children
Daniel Ray Baccus

Known as Burl

Member First Southern Baptist, Del City, Oklahoma

Occupation Civil Service Tinker AFB, Del City, Oklahoma