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Note: Heavener Ledger News, January 1957
W. A. Condley Funeral Rites Held Tuesday
William Anderson Condley, 73, a resident of the Zoe Community, died in a Poteau hospital Sunday afternoon after a long illness.
Funeral service was held in Dowden Funeral home chapel Tuesday with Rev. J. Marvin Gaskin, pastor of the First Baptist of Heavener, officiating.
Burial was in Heavener Memorial park. Mr. Condley spent most of his life in Zoe, and was a member of the Zoe Baptist church. He was employed for years by the Buschow Lumber Co. Born in Arkansas, October 29, 1883, Mr Condley moved to Zoe at an early age.
Survivors include his wife, Zella, of Los Angeles, Calif., two sons, Boyd and Steve, both of Norwalk, Calif., and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Walker and Mrs. Virginia Churchman, both of Torrance, Calif.
Pallbearers were: Orville Pledger, Elmer Lockhart, Walter Lockhart, Ike Breeding, Joe Walkup, Louis Kannady.
COPY, Sept. 16, 2001
Debbie,
I knew a William Condley who fit the description of your William Condley. This Bill used to drive a Mule team for Bushaw lumber company. He later worked for my grandfather Walter G Breeding where Billwas the local Blacksmith, he also took care of Walter's livestock.. hauling hay with the wagon & mules. He also was the local barber, cut my hair many times. This all occurred at Zoe, OK.
Walter & Bill's relationship went way back, they built Bill a one room house on the premises where he lived in for many years. He finally entered a nursing home in Heavener, OK. I think that it was byBill own choice, he seem to still be functional at that time. Im not exactly sure as to when Bill entered the nursing home. It was sometime after I left Zoe and entered the Army in Nov. 1954
Walter Breeding died on August 26, 1952 so that left Bill, Ella, widow of Walter and Ike Breeding, Walter & Ella son who lived across the road from where Bill & Walter houses were. Joe & Beulah Breeding Walkup lived across the railroad tracks from where Walter & Bill lived.
This Bill seem to have a little trace of Indian blood in him. We talked a lot but I was very young then. I never knew much about his personal life, although I had heard that he perhaps was married atone time and maybe had two children. This man took no crap off anybody in his younger days.
Bill Walkup Sapulpa, OK.
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