Huntsville, AR
13 Apr 1972
A. Newton (Slim) Bolinger, 74, retired Phillips Petroleum Co. employee and formerly of the Bartlesville, (Okla.) Police Department, died at 1:30 a.m. April 2 in the Heritage Manor where he had been a resident since January 10. He had been in failing health for the past 15 months.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. April 5, in Bartlesville, Okla. in Memorial Chapel of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. Paul Enabnit, minister of the Dewey First Christian Church officiated and interment was in the Memorial Park.
Mr. Bolinger moved to Bartlesville in 1943 when he joined the police department there and after four years' employment, joined the Phillips Petroleum Co. in the Security Department in which he remained until he was retired on October 1, 1962.
Mr. Bolinger was born at Wharton Creek in Madison County September 23, 1897. He was reared in Arkansas and during his youth moved to California and worked in the Los Angeles area for several years. In 1930 he returned to Oklahoma and became the city marshal at Salina and worked in that vicinity for seven years.
Mr. Bolinger was also employed as a guard at Northwestern State Hospital in Vinita for four years and in 1941 moved to Pueblo, Colo. where he was a U. S. ordinance plant guard. He moved to Parsons, Kansas where he was employed in the Kansas ordinance plant as a military policeman during WWII and remained there until he moved to Bartlesville to join the police department in 1943. He and Miss Viola Mae Eaton were married April 13, 1944 in Bartlesville and she survives.
His survivors in addition to his wife of the home, include one son, Percy Garland Bolinger; one daughter, Mrs. Freda Holiday, Miami, Arizona; four brothers, Ted Bolinger, Locust Grove, Okla.; Don Bolinger, Springdale, and Garner and Denton Bolinger, Huntsville; two sisters, Mrs. Sam Steele, also of Huntsville, and Mrs. H. F. Wooley, Modesto, Calif.; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were nephews, all from Arkansas, Dwight, Duane and Leon Steele, Rec, Jerry and Max Bolinger. Others attending the funeral services were nieces, Lilliam Fancher, Wilma Faddis and Vera Parson, also Helen Steele Tait of Kansas City, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bolinger of Locust Grove, Okla., and their four daughters and their families.
Huntsville, AR
13 Apr 1972
A. Newton (Slim) Bolinger, 74, retired Phillips Petroleum Co. employee and formerly of the Bartlesville, (Okla.) Police Department, died at 1:30 a.m. April 2 in the Heritage Manor where he had been a resident since January 10. He had been in failing health for the past 15 months.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. April 5, in Bartlesville, Okla. in Memorial Chapel of the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. Paul Enabnit, minister of the Dewey First Christian Church officiated and interment was in the Memorial Park.
Mr. Bolinger moved to Bartlesville in 1943 when he joined the police department there and after four years' employment, joined the Phillips Petroleum Co. in the Security Department in which he remained until he was retired on October 1, 1962.
Mr. Bolinger was born at Wharton Creek in Madison County September 23, 1897. He was reared in Arkansas and during his youth moved to California and worked in the Los Angeles area for several years. In 1930 he returned to Oklahoma and became the city marshal at Salina and worked in that vicinity for seven years.
Mr. Bolinger was also employed as a guard at Northwestern State Hospital in Vinita for four years and in 1941 moved to Pueblo, Colo. where he was a U. S. ordinance plant guard. He moved to Parsons, Kansas where he was employed in the Kansas ordinance plant as a military policeman during WWII and remained there until he moved to Bartlesville to join the police department in 1943. He and Miss Viola Mae Eaton were married April 13, 1944 in Bartlesville and she survives.
His survivors in addition to his wife of the home, include one son, Percy Garland Bolinger; one daughter, Mrs. Freda Holiday, Miami, Arizona; four brothers, Ted Bolinger, Locust Grove, Okla.; Don Bolinger, Springdale, and Garner and Denton Bolinger, Huntsville; two sisters, Mrs. Sam Steele, also of Huntsville, and Mrs. H. F. Wooley, Modesto, Calif.; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were nephews, all from Arkansas, Dwight, Duane and Leon Steele, Rec, Jerry and Max Bolinger. Others attending the funeral services were nieces, Lilliam Fancher, Wilma Faddis and Vera Parson, also Helen Steele Tait of Kansas City, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bolinger of Locust Grove, Okla., and their four daughters and their families.
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