1900 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 14 June, Prairie Township, page
10B, Hse #169, Fam #173
Jenkins, Charles Head W M Mar 1866 34 Single MS SC MS Farmer Owns
Jenkins, Lillie E Sister W F Aug 1879 20 Single AR SC MS
Jenkins, William E Brother W M May 1882 18 Single AR SC MS Farm Laborer
Jenkins, Nancy B Sister W F Jul 1887 12 Single AR SC MS
About 1902 Nancy Belle married W E Padgett. By the time of the 1910 census,
they have two children.
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Belle Jenkins
Age: 16, Birth Year abt 1887
Residence: Saint Charles, Arkansas, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: W E Padgett
Spouse's Age: 23
Spouse's Residence: St Charles, Arkansas, Arkansas
Marriage 1 Nov 1903 Arkansas
Marriage License Date: 31 Oct 1903
1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 29 April, North
PraireTownship, District 12, page 6B, Hse/Fam #109
Padgett, W E Head M W 30 Married 6 years AR NC AR Farmer
Padgett, Belle Wife F W 22 Married 6 years 2 children, 2 living AR MS MS
Padgett, Jessie Son M W 4 AR AR AR
Padgett, Mamie Dau M W 2 AR AR AR
1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 14 February, PrairieTownship,
District 15, page 9A, Country Rd off St Charles Rd, Hse/Fam #172
Padgett, Belle Head F W 32 Widow AR AR AR Farmer [born abt 1888]
Padgett, Jesse Son W 14 AR AR AR Farm Laborer
Padgett, Annie Dau F W 12 AR AR AR Farm Laborer [born abt 1908]
Padgett, Will Son W 4 AR AR AR [born abt 1916]
In 1922, Belle married George Williams.
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
George Williams
Age: 51
Residence: Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Bell Padgett
Spouse's Age: 35
Spouse's Residence: Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas
Marriage License Date: 25 Mar 1922 Arkansas County
1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 11 April, Prairie Township,
District 24, page 3B, Hse #54, Fam #55
Williams, George Head M W 60 Married First married at age 23 MS AL AL [born
abt 1870]
Williams, Belle Wife F W 42 Married First married at age 16 AR MS MS [born
abt 1888]
Williams, Lorene Dau F W 5 AR MS AR [born abt 1925]
Barker, Mayme Step-Dau F W 21 AR MS AR [born abt 1909]
Padget, William Step-son M W 13 AR AR AR [born abt 1917]
Mayme Barker is Belle (Jenkins) Padgett Williams' daughter, who was married
and then widowed apparently without children. This daughter matches the
daughter named Annie in 1920. I have insufficient clues to tell me the order
of the names. I will use Annie Mayme. A family genealogy has Mayme's name as
Mayme Mae, but provides no documentation for this or other information
presented.
Mamie Mae Padgett
Birth 27 Jul 1908 in Ethel, Ark
Death 10 Dec 1974 in Tichnor, Ark
Marriage 16 Dec 1933 to [Private]
-- Jana, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/30852014/person/12317563099
1940 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 15 April, Prairie Township,
District 1-24, page 6B, Hse #86, Owns $300
Williams, George Head M W 73 Grade 7 b Miss same house in 1935 Cotton Farmer
Williams, Belle Wife F W 53 Grade 8 b Ark same house in 1935
Williams, Lorene Dau F W 15 Single Grade HS-3 b Ark same house in 1935
Nancy Belle Jenkins
Birth 29 Jun 1887 in St Charles, Ark, Ark
Death 15 Dec 1971
Parents:
Ephriam Jefferson Jenkins 1812 - 1889
Nancy Ann Jackson b 1844
-- Jana,
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/30852014/person/12317562993?ssrc=&ml_rpos=1&ftm=1
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
Nancy Williams
Born 29 Jun 1887
Died Dec 1971
Last Residence Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas 72048
SSN 431-76-4578 issued Arkansas (1958)
Gravestones of Mt Pleasant
Nancy Belle (Jenkins) Williams June 29, 1887 Dec 15, 1971
Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas
Photo by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 28 October 2018
I created a memorial on Find a Grave for Belle.
Nancy Belle Jenkins Williams
Birth 29 Jun 1887 Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
Death 15 Dec 1971 (aged 84) Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arkansas County, Arkansas
Nancy Belle, or Belle as she was usually known, was the daughter Ephraim
Jefferson Jenkins and Nancy Ann Jackson of Ethel, a White River community in
Arkansas County, Arkansas. Belle was born and lived out her life in this
community.
Belle's first husband was William Edward Padgett, who died in a logging
accident in 1917 after they had had three children. She married George
Williams, who had recently moved into the community.
Spouse William Edward Padgett 1880-1917 (m. 1903)
Created by Orville Jenkins 17 Apr 2019
-- Find A Grave Memorial 198411853,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198411853/nancy-belle-williams
1900 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 14 June, Prairie Township,
District 7, page 10B, Hse #170, Fam #174
Jenkins, Jacob Head W M Nov 1870 29 Married 9 years AR SC MS Farmer Owns
Jenkins, Stella Wife W F Aug 1871 28 Married 9 years 4 children/3 living MS
NC NC
Jenkins, Nancy Dau W F Mar 1892 8 Single AR AR MS
1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 5 May, Point DeLuce Township,
District 11, page 12B, Hse/Fam #229
Jamerson, James Head M W 29 Married 2 years AR TN TN Farmer
Jamerson, Nancy J Wife F W 19 Married 2 years 1 child/1 living AR AR MS
Jamerson, Ollen [Olan?] Son M W 1yr3mos AR AR AR
Jenkins, Leona Sister-in-Law F W 12 AR AR MS
Jenkins, James Brother-in-Law M W 9 AR AR MS
Jenkins, Ivy Sister-in-Law F W 6 AR AR MS
Jenkins, Ola [Viola] Sister-in-Law F W 17 AR AR MS
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Colorado Springs, Colorado, City Directory, 1955
Jimerson Jas C (Louise) Carp Geo Teats Constn r 3900 N
Weber
Harold K Christian, in his Jenkins Family Genealogy (private paper for family),
reports the name of this child as Nannie May Jenkins. She was named after a
sister of Julia Virginia of the same name. The name is also spelled as Nannie
in information on the family thought to be from Nannie's mother Jennie Terry
Jenkins.
I suspect the middle name is spelled Mae, as Julia Virginia's sister Jeffie
Mae. I have not found a confirmation of the spelling from any first-hand
sources.
The Jenkins family had moved back to Marlow from Bradley between the time of
Nannie May's birth in October 1905 and her death in September 1906. Nannie
May was buried in Marlow Cemetery.
"Nannie May was born on 29 October 1905, probably following Joseph's move from
the farm into town at Bradley. Apparently Joseph returned with his family to
Marlow from Bradley about 1906. Joseph and Virginia lost their baby daughter
Nannie May who died on 23 September 1906. Nannie was buried in the Marlow
cemetery."
-- Jenkins Family History by Harold K Christian,
http://objgenealogy.com/articles/josephsanfordjenkinshistory.pdf, p 16
I found Nannie Mae's burial listing in the Marlow Cemetery register.
"Jenkins, Nannie -- Oct 25, 1905 - Sep 23, 1906; dau of J A and J W"
-- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt
There is also a Find-a-Grave memorial for Nannie, with a photo of her
gravestone.
Nannie Jenkins
Birth Oct 25, 1905 Bradley, Grady County, Oklahoma
Death Sep 23, 1906 Stephens County, Oklahoma
Daughter of J A & J V Jenkins
Parents:
Joseph Asa Jenkins (1866 - 1962)
Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins (1880 - 1966)
Siblings:
Sallie Hester Jenkins Christian (1893 - 1982) Half-siblng
Ocy Belle Jenkins (1896 - 1896) Half-sibling
Mary Nettie Jenkins Yates (1897 - 1991) Half-sibling
Mabel Clare Jenkins Hill (1901 - 1990)
Thomas Asa Jenkins (1903 - 1969)
Rhonda Fay Jenkins Boyd (1907 - 1963)
Arthur Carthal Jenkins (1909 - 1955)
Orville Lee Jenkins (1912 - 1987)
Gladys Lahoma Jenkins Hendron (1914 - 1991)
Martha Netheline Jenkins Callaway (1918 - 2007)
Virginia Jo Jenkins (1925 - 1930)
Burial Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA
Created by Jean Dec 10, 2007
-- Find A Grave Memorial #23324199,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkins&GSiman=1&GScid=423984&GRid=23324199&
No middle name has been found in any sources for Nell. She appears in the 1860
census with the initial N. All children were reported only by initials, but
some had initials for both names.
1860 Federal Census, Cass County, Texas, 17 October, Beat #3, Post Office
Unionville & Cusseta, Page 73, Hse #483, Fam #495
Jinkins Jno 32 M W Farmer 300 SC Cannot read and write
Jinkins L 36 F W MS
Jinkins N 14 F W MS Attended school during the last year
Jenkins Family History compiled by Harold K. Christian reports that Nell was
believed to be a child of a marriage of Joseph Sanford Jenkins before that to
Lucinda Amanda Taylor. But Nell's age in the census of 1860 in Cass County,
Texas, indicates she was born in 1846 -- one year AFTER the marriage of Joseph
Sanford to Lucinda Amanda, according to a report that Joseph was 19 when
married to Lucinda. But he also states that they were likely married shortly
before 1850.
At the time of his marriage to Lucinda Amanda, JS was 19 years old, according
to one reference in the family tradition. At age 19, it seems unlikely he
would have been married before. No family researcher has found any evidence
of a prior marriage. The source given by HKC is "Family Tradition and records
indicate that Joseph was married three times." I have found no such records
in the information Harold provided to the family, or in subsequent attempts to
verify this from other family or public sources.
One indicator that led to the belief of a wife before LA was a comment by
Joseph Asa, reported by his daughter Sallie Christian that he had two
half-sisters in Mississippi that he had never seen. I can find no correlation
between names, dates and places that seems to allow this.
On another occasion, JA also reported he had cousins in Mississippi. This is
evidenced, and possible connections have been found.
Perhaps the comment about half-sisters was a mis-statement in a distracted
confusion of terminology. Or it might have been remembered incorrectly by the
adult family member reporting it from childhood memories. It has also been
suggested in family circles that Joseph Sanford Jenkins was married
simultaneously to two women in Mississippi.
Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Jenkins Infant
Birth 30 Jan 1910
Cass County
Father's name Stewart Jenkins
Certificate #485
Nona Lee Jenkins
Birth 30 Jan 1910 Cass Co., TX
Death 29 Dec 1918 McCurtain Co, OK
Father J Stewart Jenkins (1881-1918)
Mother Irene E (1888-)
-- Cass County Texas - Americas Melting Pot,
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=8508600&pid=-939421355
No burial information is known in family sources. She is not buried in the
Marlow Cemetery. She probably was buried on the family farm near Marlow. I
created a memorial for this infant on Find a Grave.
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Ocy Belle Jenkins
Birth May 27, 1896 Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
Death Oct. 13, 1896 Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
Ocy Belle lived only a short time in the year 1896, the daughter of Joseph Asa
Jenkins and Hester Ann Smith Jenkins. Her place of burial is not known. She is
not in the Marlow Cemetery. She was likely buried on the family farm, just
outside Marlow town. It was in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, at that
time. Her father Joseph Asa Jenkins was the Town Marshall for several years.
Parents:
Joseph Asa Jenkins (1866 - 1962)
Annie Hester Jenkins (1870 - 1900)
Non-Cemetery Burial
Specifically: Her burial place is unknown, not in the Marlow Cemetery;
probably on the family farm.
Created by Orville Jenkins Feb 06, 2015
-- Find A Grave Memorial #142263951,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142263951
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1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 22 April, St Charles, District
12, page 3A, Hse/Fam #41
Jinkins, Charly Head M W 48 Marriage 2 Married 4 yrs MS SC MS Farmer [b abt
1862]
Jinkins, Belle Wife F W 31 Marriage 2 Married 4 yrs 7 children/6 living AR Unk
Unk [b abt 1879]
Jinkins, [No Name] Son W M 8mos Single AR AR AR [b abt July 1909]
1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 9 January, Prairie Township,
District 15, page 2A, Shoot Rd (Chute Rd), Hse/Fam #21
Jenkins, Charley Head Owns M W 53 TN TN TN Farmer
Jenkins, Ella Wife F W 40 AR AR AR
Jenkins, Oregon Son M W 10 Single AR TN AR
1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 9 April, Prairie Township,
District 24, page 2A, Public Rd, Hse #29, Fam #30
Jenkins, Belle Head Owns F W 51 Widow Married at age 14 Unknown Tenn Tenn
Farmer
Jenkins, Oregon Son M W 20 Single AR AR AR Farm Laborer
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Argon [Oregon] Jenkins [Argon represents the local pronunciation; another
transcription has the name as Orgon]
Gender Male
Age 28, Birth Year abt 1911
Residence St Charles, Arkansas, Arkansas
Spouse's Name Beatrice Ellenberg
Spouse's Age 18
Spouse's Residence Saint Charles, Arkansas, Arkansas
Marriage 22 Jul 1939 Arkansas County
Marriage License Date 22 Jul 1939
1940 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 4 April, Ethel, District 1-24,
page 5B, Road to Game Reserve, Hse #65, Rents $100
Jenkins, Oregon I Head M W 30 Grade 6 b Ark same place in 1935 Farm Laborer
Jenkins, Beatrice Wife F W 16 Grade 4 b Ark same place in 1935
Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
Argon Jenkins
Age 37, Estimated birth year 1910
Death 14 Sep 1947 Pulaski County
Volume 57, Certificate
#829
Family History as compiled from family records by Harold Keith Christian
reports this child's name as Orland Frederic. The name is reported in
Epperson Genealogy as Orlando Frederick.
Birth Announcement for Orville Boyd Jenkins
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O L Jenkins Announce Son
Mr and Mrs Orville L Jenkins of Chickasha announce the arrival of a son,
Orville Boyd, on July 21 [1948]. ... Mrs Jenkins is the former Miss Lou Ila
Gregory who, before her marriage, lived near Lindsay. After moving to
Chickasha she was employed as dietician [sic] at the Chickasha hospital. The
baby's father finished highschool [sic] at Chickasha and is owner of a radio
and appliance store there.
-- clipping probably from the Lindsay News, Lindsay, Oklahoma, about 24 July
1948, exact publication date uncertain; courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins,
who saved this from the original edition, to Orville Boyd Jenkins 31 January
2018
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Lou Ila married Orville Jenkins, an appliance repairman in Chickasha, OK.
They had three sons: Orville Boyd, who has been a Baptist Missionary to
mainly East Africa for over forty years, Gregory Wayne, who lives in West
Virginia, where he is a music minister. Gary Lynn, their youngest, was killed
in an auto accident in Arkansas when only nineteen years old.
When Lou Ila and Orville were married, they spent several years in Quanah,
Texas, where Orville owned a radio station -- KOLJ (the OLJ representing his
name, Orville Lee Jenkins). They divorced in 1964 and Orville moved to
Arkansas.
Lou Ila later moved to Vernon, Texas before moving back to Lindsay in 1972.
Lou Ila has been an Avon representative for over thirty-two years.
-- Pikes Peak History Book 1908-2008, pp 27, courtesy of Loretta Gregory Gay
of Lindsay, Oklahoma, January 2020
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U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
Orville Jenkins
2nd Grade, Estimated Age 8 (born abt 1948)
1956 The Chief Yearbook, Quanah Schools, Quanah, Texas, USA
Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan. This got started with a young
co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi and Star Wars fans. My parents called
me Orville Boyd, since my father was Orville. I commonly go by Orville Boyd.
But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.
A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like. I am named Boyd
after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association. The Boyd family name
is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit, a sub-sept of the
Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England. The
name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally
from medieval French, which also has come into the English language as
"butte."
My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials: OBJ.
In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O B
Jay.
I grew up in Quanah under my dad's tutelage in the radio business. He owned
KOLJ, and I tagged along with him from early years. I began working as a DJ
at age 9 and for 4 years I worked on the air, running the end-of-day program,
"The Six Twelve and Twenty Show," a request program.
Dad was very big on natural health and we raised a totally organic garden on a
half-acre, a quarter of a city block behind our home on 11th Street (US Hwy
287). We three boys worked in the garden, helped dad plant an orchard of
fruit and nut trees over the acre of our home and garden plots. We sold
vegetables at a stand in front of the house along 287, and were involved in
other business ventures, like selling greeting cards and delivering papers.
All three of us brothers sold the Grit newspaper, each to our own set of
customers.
I distributed the Sunday Oklahoman weekly newspaper. I remember having to get
up early, even on snowy, icy winter days, before the rest of the family was
up, to roll and bag my papers. I would deliver my papers on my Cushman Eagle
motor scooter, an 8 horsepower motorcycle style scooter, which was very
popular among guys in Quanah. Quanah, Texas, was a small place, safe for
children to roam and work, and full of opportunities. My mother made me
saddlebags of canvas to carry the newspapers.
In November 1961, my mother wrote a letter to her sister Josephine Gregory
Hayes (Aunt Jo to me) in Lindsay, Oklahoma, mentioning the paper routes we
had, among the activities and events of our family at that time.
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Notable content:
(page 1)
Lou notes that she and her family will not be able to join her Gregory family
for Thanksgiving.
All her sons are selling the Grit newspaper and are engaged each weekend with
that.
Her son Orville Boyd additionally has a Sunday Oklahoman newspaper route and
hopes to have a fill-in who can free him on occasions, to take such family
trips.
She hopes they can visit her family at Christmas.
Her husband Orville is also engaged for a short time, because he has sold his
radio station,
(page 2)
and part of that deal was that Orville would remain available as engineer for
three months, and Thanksgiving falls within that period.
She and her husband Orville want to go as soon as he is free to Eastern
Oklahoma and Arkansas to look at some farms they are considering buying, now
that they are free from the radio business.
Lou asks how much their father's recent hospitalization cost, so she and her
husband can send their share to pay on that.
Orville's father, Joseph Asa Jenkins, had a tumor removed from his prostate
gland in Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City.
-- Found among the papers of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, July 2019
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I participated in school band from the 5th grade, playing the tenor saxophone.
The band was responsible for half-time activities at the school football
games. I hated marching and slogging through the mud churned up by the cleats
of the football team in the rainy fall. I just wanted to play music. I stuck
with it and continued with music and primarily play the saxophone today.
I later added the guitar, bass guitar and others along the way. I ultimately
played in various worship bands in several countries and states of the US. I
was in rock, blues and jazz bands, as leader of one and co-leader of another,
and was worship leader for various churches and gatherings over the years. My
folk-rock group (The New Light, playing around Arkansas, USA) and my jazz-pop
group (Some Guys, in Kenya) each recorded one album.
In the 7th grade, I decided to run for the Student Council of Quanah Junior
High School for the next year. I was elected Vice President. That summer I
attended a statewide Student Council workshop with the other new officers,
with our teacher-sponsor Mrs Barnes. I remember riding with her in the front
seat of her beautiful Buick down to Dallas for the workshop. We had a busy
and very productive and instructional workshop at Southern Methodist
University (SMU) in Dallas.
Orville Boyd Jenkins
Post card to parents in Quanah, Texas, from the
State Student Council Workshop at Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Postmarked 3 August 1961
Orville Boyd served the next school year (8th Grade) as the vice president of
the Student Council of Quanah Junior High School, Quanah, Texas
This workshop was in the summer before the 8th grade.
-- From the papers and photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019
At the end of my years of Student Council service, I received a merit award
from my principal, Mr Charles Welch.
Orville Jenkins
Award of Honor for service on the Student Council
Quanah, Texas (Quanah Junior High School)
11 May 1962 (end of 8th grade)
-- Quanah Schools, Signed by Principal Charles Welch, from the papers and
photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019
At the end of that school year I served as Vice-President of the Student
Council, we had a ceremony for installing the newly-elected officers for the
next year. The Quanah Tribune-Chief carried a story about that.
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AWARD WINNERS AT JUNIOR HIGH
Retiring officers of the Quanah Junior High Student council installed the
officers-elect Friday in a general assembly held in the High School
Auditorium.
Chuck Hobbs, 8th grade, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Hobbs and president for the
past year, installed the new student body president, James Gibson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy Gibson.
Orville Jenkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Jenkins, gave installation
instruction to David Francis, vice-president elect and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Francis.
Jane Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, installed as the
incoming secretary, Vonna Hines, 7th grade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Hines.
The service was concluded by each of the new officers lighting candles from
candles already lighted by the retiring officers. The new officers were
presented to the student body and guests as the service closed.
...
Mrs J L Barnes presented the four retiring officers of the Student Council
with awards. Those receiving these were Chuck Hobbes, Orville Jenkins, Jane
Wilson and Rita Butts.
-- Quanah Tribune-Chief, Quanah, Texas, 17 May 1962, p 5,
https://newspaperarchive.com/quanah-tribune-chief-may-17-1962-p-5/
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I participated in Cub Scouts then Boy Scouts. I was a member of Troop 58. We
met in the Scout Hut at the City Park. In 1962 I was elected as the Scribe
and Librarian for the Troop.
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Boy Scout Troop 58 Elects New Officers
Boy Scout Troop 58 recently elected officers to serve for the next six months
term. The officers elected are as follows;
Michael Lewis, Junior Assistant Scoutmaster; Duan Smith, Quartermaster; Joe
Eddy Milligan, Senior Patrol Leader; Orville Jenkins, Scribe and Librarian;
Donald Weeks, Patrol Leader No 1; Randy Newsom, Assistant Patrol Leader No 1;
Leslie White, Patrol Leader No 2; Pat Drake, Assistant Patrol Leader No 2;
Bobby Rawlins, Patrol Leader No 3; Richard Page, Assistant Patrol Leader No 3.
Hubert Felty is Scoutmaster of Troop 58 and Harvey Marshall is Assistant
Scoutmaster.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 22 February 1962, p 12
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We were members of the First Baptist Church, where I was baptized at age 6. I
was in graded choir from my earliest memories, and learned music theory there.
My brother Greg and I were both received a certificate for being involved in a
Texas Baptist State Choir Festival, representing our church in Quanah. The
certificates were signed by Russell H Dilday, later President of Southwestern
Theological Seminary in Ft Worth, then Truett Seminary of Baylor University,
Waco, Texas
Orville Jenkins of the First Baptist Church, Quanah, Texas
Certificate of participation in the Texas Baptist Junior Choir Festival
22 April 1961
Signed by R H (Russell H) Dilday
-- From the papers and photos of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, 27 April 2019
This was very important in the music foundations that later expanded to
singing and playing in various music groups, serving as the music leader for
several churches from age 13 on. I was also nurtured in an exploring faith in
those early years at First Baptist, and at age 15, felt a call to preach, or
more accurately, ministry that would unfold in various channels and forms as
my faith and experience developed.
I actually preached my first sermon at age 13, in the mission church of First
Baptist, on the north side of Quanah, called Quanah Baptist Chapel. Our
family was already involved in this mission on the north side of Quanah, and
with my strong music background, I became the regular music leader for the
worship services at age 12.
Southern Baptist Churches have an annual event called Youth Week, which was an
opportunity for youth of the church to be involved in all the church
leadership activities as part of their discipleship. My assignment was to
preach the evening message in that church, where I was already the regular
music leader. Due to my already long experience, I was ordained the week I
graduated from High School in Conway, Arkansas. I had already been serving as
the pastor of a church for the last two years of High School.
The local paper carried a story about that Youth Week in March 1963.
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Baptist Chapel Youth Week Set, March 17-23
The Quanah Baptist Chapel will observe Youth Week March 17-23. Youth of the
church will serve in places of leadership in the church throughout the week.
Pastors for the week are Orville Boyd Jenkins, son of Mr and Mrs O L Jenkins
and Dennis Howard, nephew of Mr and Mrs M E McDaniel.
Other Youth Week officers include Ray Mahan, Sunday School Superintendent,
Terry McNeese, [transcription undecipherable] Director, Tony Ray, Adult
Superintendent and Janice John, Intermediate Superintendent. Those serving as
the teachers are Barbara Marsh, Orville Jenkins, Janice Johns, and Melvena
Estill. Head man of the ushers will be Perry McNeese. The youth week workers
will be honored with a (undecipherable) at 8:30 Sunday morning. All
interested persons are invited to attend these youth-led services.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 14 March 1963, p 8
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In March 1962 I was mentioned in a news story as one of a group of new members
of the Honor Society for Quanah High School.
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Quanah School Honor Society Inducts New Members
(Headline and first part of article not discernible)
Receiving certificates of membership were: Orville Jenkins, Dale Ford, Glenda
Coburn, Rita Butts, Trudy Fultz, Sherry Kay Green, Sherry Griffin, and Loreece
Whitmire. Being received as probationary members are: Kenneth Tidmore,
Edwenna Fincher, Katie Fiero, Marquita Horton, James Gibson and Dannie Harmon.
Being selected to the Honor Society is an honor and a privilege and any school
benefits from the services rendered by the organization. The lightful torch
is their symbol and the emblem and motto are fitting for “Light is the
symbol of truth†as the guiding force in the pace set in our student body by
these worthy young men and women.
Miss Louise Goodnight, sponsor of the group, led the group in their pledge and
Charles Welch, Principal, presented the new members with membership
certificates.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 1 March 1962, p 4
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I was also in the list of Honor Roll for the final 6 weeks of school that
year.
"High honor roll for the six weeks was announced this week by Principal Welch,
with the eighth grade leading the list with 21 meeting the required level.
The seventh grade was next with ten, and the sixth grade with seven. 8th Grade
- Diane Barnes, Glenda Coburn, Audean Downey, Dale Ford, Betty Howard, Sherrie
Green, Andrea Jones, Christi Long, Vicki Preston, Loreese Whitmire, David
Ellis, Dannie Harmon, Charles Hobbs, Gary Naylor, Sue Braziel, Rita Butts,
Trudy Fultz, Sherrie Griffin, Orville Jenkins, Janet Roberts, Vickie Sebesta."
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 24 May 1962, p 6
I lived in Quanah, Texas, until about June 1963, when my father and I went to
Arkansas to jobs he had arranged for us, as the first stage in a move to
Arkansas, where dad and mom had bought a farm. The last year in Quanah, we
were all listed together as a family in Quanah's city directory for 1962-63.
Quanah, Texas, City Directory 1962-63
Jenkins, Orville L, Lou Ila
Jenkins' Coin-O-Matic
Orville Boyd 14, Gregory Wayne 11, Gary Lynn 10
909 W 11th, (O)
MO 3-8136
I found a news story about an event I don't remember. This was a Christmas
program at the Quanah Baptist Chapel, a mission of the First Baptist Church on
the north side of town, where our family had been participating since I was 12
years old, which would make it since about 1960 or 1961.
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Baptist Chapel To Have Christmas Program
"The Quanah Baptist Chapel will hold their Christmas program December 23 at
7:30 pm. Theme for the program this year is "A Portrait of Christmas" and is
being presented by the young people of the church. Members of the cast are:
Barbara Marsh, Dennis Howard, Orville Boyd Jenkins, Gary Jenkins, Gregory
Jenkins, Linda Marsh, Melvena Estill, Melveta Estill, Larry Graham, Tommy
Gallimore, Tony Ray, Larry Ray and Mike Sloan. "
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 20 December 1962, p 2
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My father and I moved to Faulkner County, Arkansas. We were both working in
Conway during the summer. I went to school at Conway High School.
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
Orville Jenkins
Sophomore Photo
Estimated Age 16, (born abt 1948)
1964 Wampus Cat Yearbook
Conway High School, Conway, Arkansas
Before leaving Quanah, from age 12, I had been leading the music in a mission
church sponsored by our church of First Baptist Church in Quanah. I also
preached my first sermons there in a youth Sunday when I was 13. Not long
after we moved to Arkansas, I was serving as the music leader for a small
church in Conway, Arkansas, where my father and I opened an electronics
service center. At the end of our first year there, before the end of my 10th
grade, I expressed a sense of call to full-time Christian service, and stated
it was for music and preaching. I continued working with my father till I
graduated from high School in 1966.
My pastor gave me opportunities to preach and I began getting invitations to
other churches. Near the end of the summer, I was asked to serve a church in
the neighboring county that met every two weeks. I worked with them till I
graduated from high school. The church was the Springfield Missionary Baptist
Church in Springfield, Arkansas.
"Springfield (Conway County), once the county seat of Conway County, began as
the intersection of the Old Cherokee Boundary Line and a principal route of
the Western Cherokee in their relocation west of the Mississippi River. The
National Road, from St. Genevieve, Missouri, was routed through the area,
taking advantage of a large reliable artesian spring. These roads connected
the area with developing population centers such as Batesville (Independence
County), Clinton (Van Buren County), Lewisburg (Conway County), and Little
Rock (Pulaski County)."
-- "Springfield (Conway County)," Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and
Culture,
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=6416
I graduated from Conway High School in June 1966. That same week my home
church in Conway ordained me to the gospel ministry, with representatives form
other congregations from Faulkner and Conway counties.
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville Jenkins
Latin Club, p 22;
Spanish Club lineup p 51, Spanish 2
Senior Photo p 113
1966 Wampus Cat Yearbook, Conway High School, Conway, Arkansas
From the week of graduation, I worked as a disk jockey-announcer and producer
at local radio station KVEE in Conway. I later worked at another station in
Conway. During the first year of classes in college, I also served as pastor
of another small church in Cherry Hill in neighboring Perry County. Offerings
from the church sometimes covered expenses.
But I dropped that after the first year, giving priority to my studies and
working to support myself. I worked at the radio station, with whatever else
I was doing. I was a DJ, but also produced some live-band programs we
recorded for Saturday broadcast.
In that first year of college, I also taught myself to play the guitar, and a
couple of the bands I was recording invited me to sit in with them
periodically on their weekly programs. Meanwhile I started my own music group
with some student friends. It was a busy time.
I had to pay my way through school, and I was living on my own. I was often
working 12-16 hours a day at two jobs most of the time, plus taking a full
load of classes, and leading my music group. I slept when I had to.
I worked at KVEE from 1966 till about 1969 or 1970, when I took up another job
at a truck dock in Little Rock. I then also started working for the other
radio station in town, KCON, and worked at those two jobs until I graduated
and left Conway in January 1971.
The following excerpt from an article by a local Conway historian gives the
history of the two radio stations in Conway, and mentions my name as one of
the well-known personalities who had worked at KVEE. This article mentions my
work there to all the period I was in college, but seems unaware that I also
worked at KCON a part of the time.
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KVEE, the other radio station in town, was originally owned by J.C. Willis,
Hugh C. Jones, Harold J. Nichols and William E. Cooper. They sold the station
to Robin Brown of Brown Broadcast, Inc. in 1965. Robin Brown was the son of
Paul Brown, legendary coach of the Cleveland Browns and coach/owner of the
Cincinnati Bengals. The studio was located on Washington Avenue and the
station played mostly country music.
Several notable personalities worked there over the years. From 1966-1971
Orville B. Jenkins was a radio announcer and producer. James “Uncle Macâ€
MacKrell, an Arkansas radio personality who unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas in 1950 and Governor of Arkansas in 1970, began hosting a
radio show called Party Line on KVEE in Conway after the 1970 election.
-- From "I Heard It On the Radio, Part II: 'Looking Back."' Reprinted online
February 13, 2017, Faulkner County Historical Society"
http://faulknerhistory.org/2017/02/i-heard-it-on-the-radio-part-ii-looking-back/
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In the first week of classes at State College of Arkansas, I met Edith Marie
McSwain. We became close and got engaged after two years of school, We
waited till she graduated to marry, in August 1970. The first couple of years
we participated in the Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship on the campus. I
served as pastor of the Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church, in Perry
County, west across the Arkansas River from Conway.
There was a ferry on Hwy 60 at the river, but because of time and uncertainty,
I always took the long way around on US 64 through Plummerville to the west
and south to Perryville, county seat of Perry County, then out a few miles
west to Cherry Hill. Cherry Hill was a rural community with a couple of small
churches. The whole county is rural, with only about 10,000 people.
"Perry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its
population was 10,445 at the 2010 United States Census. The county seat is
Perryville. The county was formed on December 18, 1840, and named for
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero in the War of 1812."
-- Cherry Hill, Arkansas, Facebook,
https://www.facebook.com/places/Things-to-do-in-Cherry-Hill-Arkansas/114626241881599/
"Cherry Hill is not incorporated, and is also the name of the township where
the community is located."
-- "Perry County, Arkansas," Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_County,_Arkansas
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Freshmen, p 226
Orville Jenkins
1967 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville Jenkins; Edith McSwain
MBSF, p 308
1967 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville B Jenkins
Estimated Birth Year abt 1948
1968 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
Edith and I and some of our group also became familiar with the Baptist
Student Union and began to spend more of our time there. In my second year of
college, I organized a Christian folk group called The Folk. Edith was one of
the members. The Folk became fairly successful for a year or so, before some
members graduated and our schedules all diverged.
The Folk went to Daytona Beach one Easter and sang on the beach and in the
bandshell. I was there again as a solo act on another trip through the
Arkansas Baptist Student Union. Edith and I were there once later as we
joined the Arkansas group from our new residence in North Carolina in Easter
1971.
The Folk sang at several events at the BSU and other locales in Central
Arkansas. After some members of the group graduated and moved away, I
organized a new group as a rock band playing Christian folk and rock songs for
the last couple of years I was in UCA. I called this folk-rock band The New
Light.
By 1969 I was working at two jobs, sleeping very little and continued to sing
and preach every chance I could get. The New Light sang quite often in
churches, youth groups, local music festivals, regional and state events and
after-game events for high school and college, especially at the BSU in
Conway.
The New Light was traveling around the state in music programs, mostly at
churches or university music events, various BSU events, as well as local
events around Conway and Faulkner County. In 1970, The New Light recorded an
album, which we sold at our appearances. What a schedule! I continued in
school for a ninth semester for the fall of 1970.
Besides my own music group, I also was asked to be an instrumentalist for two
contemporary music youth musicals performed by the First Baptist Church of
Conway. In 1969 we performed the new contemporary musical "Purpose," composed
by Phillip Landgrave."
One photo and story showed our pastor Pastor, Dr William Flynt, with the
Minister of Music and Youth Choir President, previewing the contemporary
Christian musical "Purpose," by Phillip Landgrave. Another photo article
showed the whole choir in performance at the church. Edith was also one of
the vocalists in this choir. Dr Flynt was the pastor who performed our
marriage in the church on 1 August 1970. I have clippings from these two
stories about this musical from the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway Arkansas, in
April 1969.
In 1970, the First Baptist Church youth choir did a rock musical called "Tell
it Like it Is." Edith was again one of the vocalists and my younger brother
Gary was the drummer for the choir. We presented the musical in the spring,
then did some touring performances, including Arkansas Girl's State and
selections from the musical on one of the Little Rock TV station's noon news
and feature program.
In my last couple of years at UCA, I took courses in music theory as
electives, three semesters of music studies in small classes with music
majors. That was fun and enriching. I took music theory to get a better
understanding of chord structure to boost my writing and arranging for songs
for The New Light. This was a very enjoyable part of my college experience.
I continued with my major in Philosophy and minor in French. I also studied
and became proficient in German, and improved my Spanish skills by taking the
college level courses.
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Conway, Arkansas, USA
Orville B Jenkins, Conway
Estimated Birth Year abt 1949
1969 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
In French I took the teacher preparation courses in French, even though I was
not intending to teach. This gave me deeper exposure to French language and
culture and honed my skills, which I continued to use for the rest of my life,
in international travel, work and study. I later took a course in Commerce in
French with the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, through their branch in
Nairobi, Kenya. Another enriching and fun experience.
U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Conway, Arkansas, USA
Orville Boyd Jenkins
Estimated Birth Year abt 1950 [1948]
1970 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
Orville B Jenkins
Address Rt 2, Vilonia [Should be Conway, as on the class photo page]
Estimated birth year 1950 [1948]
Index, p 357
1970 Scroll Yearbook, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
In 1970 I also became a council member of the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes.
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
Orville Jenkins
Council Member, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, p 180
1970 Scroll Yearbook, State College of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
Edith and I got married in August 1970, and were applying for a 2-year
volunteer period, where we were assigned to Kenya the next year. The New
Light continued when I finished my studies at UCA in January of 1971. Edith
and I moved to North Carolina for me to begin my Seminary study.
I had arranged for The New Light to become the official music group of the
Arkansas Baptist Student Union, succeeding the first group that had filled
this new slot in the BSU work, The Mill Singers. The New Light continued to
sing in various Arkansas locales under their new sponsorship by the BSU,
churches and other events after I went to Kenya in August of 1971.
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
Orville B Jenkins
Index Listing
4th Year, Address Route 2, Vilonia
1971 Scroll Yearbook, State College of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
In 1971 Edith and I were appointed for a two-year assignment working in Kenya
with the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. My
hometown newspaper, the Quanah Tribune-Chief, ran the news story.
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Ex-Quanahan To Africa As Missionary
Photo Header:
Orville Boyd Jenkins approved by Baptist Foreign Mission Board for two-years
work in Nairobi, Kenya.
Orville Boyd Jenkins, son of Orville Jenkins of Arkansas and Mrs Lou Jenkins,
of Vernon, former Quanah residents, is one of 74 young adults approved at a
recent meeting of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board for journeyman
training this summer. The intensive seven-week course prepares Baptist men
and women no older than 26 for two years of work overseas with career
missionaries. They will train at Meredith College, NC.
Their job assignments include teaching, youth work, publishing, nursing,
filming and television production, bookkeeping and secretarial work. Jenkins
will assist the director of Baptist Communications, in Nairobi, Kenya. At
present he is a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake
Forest, North Carolina.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 29 April 1971, p 16
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Soon after arriving in Kenya in August 1971, I was asked by the Director of
Baptist Communications Centre to assist in founding Afromedia, a Christian
Media Production Agency, in Nairobi, Kenya. So I became a founding member of
the Board of Directors and a sound producer in Afromedia's early projects from
1971.
The agency was established cooperatively by several Christian churches and
missions in Kenya for the purpose of TV and film production, and in the late
1980s or early 1990s became an independent agency focusing on children's
programs for Voice of Kenya (VOK).
For a period of several years, I served in production on various short
projects, including short features or TV series for VOK TV, the
government-owned national television entity for Kenya, commercials for local
companies as income-producing projects, and a feature film in the late 1970s
called "Checkpoint" with a Christian theme around the East Africa Safari
Rally.
I was the producer of a children's TV series called Simba Tales, produced for
several years on videotape at the VOK. I wrote and produced scripts for a
children's puppet show series for several years. I served as Executive
Director of the agency for several years. Then until the mid 1990s, I
continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.
One public record reports our Dallas address on Colorado Blvd. This is
actually the address of our friends, Jerry and Martha Gilmore, with whom we
stayed at times on visits from our Kenya assignment and used their address as
a permanent address for a time.
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville B Jenkins
Birth Date 21 Jul 1948
1608 W Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75208-2718
The following Irving, Texas, address was our permanent address for one period
of our service when we were overseas. This was the first home of our son
Gareth Boyd.
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville Jenkins
Birth Date 21 Jul 1948
2110 Cunningham St, Irving, TX, 75062-4292
I found it interesting that there was a directory entry for me at my mother's
address in Lindsay, Oklahoma.
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville B Jenkins
403 SW 6th St, Lindsay, OK, 73052-6011
Over the years, Edith and I had several residence addresses where we lived for
a period, or permanent addresses with friends or family during times we were
out of the country.
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Orville B Jenkins
15 Brookview Dr, Little Rock, AR, 72209-2047 (1989-1990)
3937 Villanova St, Dallas, TX, 75225-5315 (1993)
521 Spinner Rd, Desoto, TX, 75115-4307 (1994)
Over the years, Edith and I were involved in overseas work assignments for 36
years. We were in Kenya over the period 1971-1973, then 1976-1997, with short
periods in the US every 3 or 4 years.
I was a teacher and methods instructor in the Toronto Institute of Linguistics
(TIL) in several summer sessions from 1974 through 1985. I worked there and
on the field working with Dr Donald Larson of Bethel University, and TIL in
Kenya, Zambia and the US in training sessions for volunteers and missionaries,
focusing on language and culture learning methods.
The Toronto Institute of Linguistics was founded in 1949 as part of the
Canadian School of Missions and offered intensive language and culture courses
training missionaries.
Toronto Institute of Linguistics
Archives or manuscripts
Linguistic work, in the Divinity Library Collection
Yale University Library
-- Records of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, Yale University Digital
Content, http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/3512442/Description#tabnav
Listing for the TIL Manual;
Manual of language learning: syllabus in use at Toronto Institute of
Linguistics, Toronto, Canada and Missionary Training Conference, Meadville,
Pennsylvania
Author: Donald N Larson; William A Smalley; Toronto Institute of Linguistics;
Missionary Training Conference (Meadville, Pa.)
Publisher: Toronto: Toronto Institute of Linguistics; Meadville,
Pennsylvania: Missionary Training Conference, 1960.
-- Bethel University Libraries,
http://bethellibraries.worldcat.org/title/manual-of-language-learning-syllabus-in-use-at-toronto-institute-of-linguistics-toronto-canada-and-missionary-training-conference-meadville-pennsylvania/oclc/748289200
After I went through 2 /1/2 years of further preparation in Dallas area
graduate schools, Edith and I were appointed as career missionaries by the
Foreign Mission Board. The Tribune-Chief was again among newspapers that
carried the story.
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Former Quanahan, Wife To Serve In Kenya
Mr and Mrs Orville Boyd Jenkins were among 18 missionaries appointed at the
December meeting of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond,
Virginia. They expect to be assigned to Kenya where he will be a
communications worker.
Rev Jenkins is the son of KOLJ Radio Station originator, Orville L Jenkins,
formerly of Quanah. The elder Jenkins began the station in 1952 and it still
carries his initials in its call letters. Rev Jenkins attended Quanah
schools.
Rev Jenkins and his wife are now living in Dallas where he is associate
director of the North Texas Christian Communications Commission. Arlington,
and a student at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas. Mrs Jenkins is a secretary at Mountain View College in Dallas.
Rev Jenkins was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma and grew up in Quanah. He was
graduated from State College of Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas with the Bachelor
of Arts Degree. He also attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Wake Forest, North Carolina and Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Jenkins
was employed by the board as missionary journeymen in Kenya where he worked in
Baptist Communications.
Jenkins has served as a radio announcer for three [four] different stations;
[KVEE &] KCON, Conway, Arkansas; WYRN, Lewisburg. NC and WIZS, Henderson, NC
before going overseas. He has been a teacher in Dallas and has served on the
language staff of the Toronto, Canada Institute of Linguistics for two
summers.
Mrs Jenkins is the former Edith McSwain of Ethel, Arkansas. She was graduated
from State College of Arkansas with the Bachelor of Science Degree. She has
been a teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas and Dallas. She has also worked as a
secretary in Raleigh, North Carolina.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 24 June 1976, p 7
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Among the academic institutions I studied at there were two more not listed in
the story above. During my time in Dallas-Fort Worth, I also took courses at
Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University (Ministry) and University
of Texas at Arlington (Linguistics).
In this new assignment I was initially involved again in media production and
training work, but after a short time, our mission asked me to transfer to a
new assignment as Director of Language and Orientation, to develop a
linguistically-sound language and culture learning program. I already had the
academic and professional requirements for this assignment with the mission,
having the equivalent of a Master's degree in Linguistics by the time I
finished by varied graduate studies.
I worked in the East African arena, then was asked to expand to Eastern and
Southern Africa areas and became a consultant and trainer for missions all
over Africa. assisting them to set up appropriate training programs with
whatever sources might be available, formal or informal. This grew into a
broader consultancy that involved my travel to conduct seminars or field
surveys and program recommendations in West African countries as well.
I developed training and support for leaders responsible for programs to
enable new mission personnel to learn local languages, cultures and worldviews
as the basis for developing culturally-appropriate communication strategies to
engage the thousands of peoples of Africa.
I developed a community-based and culture-oriented Swahili language learning
program and implemented progress and competence evaluation formats and
conducted similar programs in 7 languages of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Over
the years I developed methods of self-evaluation and implementation of custom
programs in several languages and cultures around Africa, and served as a
resource for various cross-cultural training programs and organizations.
During our 25 years in Kenya, I wrote, edited and/or translated various
resources for language and culture learning and Christian work and life.
Many materials and learning modules were developed for several courses I
designed and implemented for cultural orientation, initially in East Africa,
then over many countries and cultures of Africa. I conducted training
workshops for orientation coordinators and developers in many language groups
of the huge African continent.
Some resources were formally published for broader use and distribution. I
was also a guest lecturer at several Universities or Christian seminaries on
Culture, Islam, language and culture learning, ethnographic research, cultural
worldview mapping, Orality and non-literate culture and worldview, and
anthropological mission strategy approaches.
OBJ Missions A Modern Definition
Monograph by Orville Boyd Jenkins
Cover art by David Stickel
published in 1984 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Published online in 2008, Strategy Leader Resource Kit,
http://orvillejenkins.com/theology/missionsamd.pdf
Also available online at DocPlayer,
http://docplayer.net/39293292-Missions-a-modern-definition.html
The Path of Love: Jesus in Mystical Islam
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1984 as a resource in cultural orientation to East
Africa, in our module on Islam
Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Korean version published 2011 in Daejon, South Korea
This has been online for since 2003 as part of Islam: Life and Values,
http://orvillejenkins.com/islam
Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language Learning
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1989 in Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
Used in many language and culture learning programs, especially in countries
of Africa
This has been online since 2000 as part of the online course and expanded
resource set "How to Learn a Language and a Culture,"
http://orvillejenkins.com/langlearn/
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For many years Orville Boyd Jenkins has been responsible for the language
learning and cultural orientation program for Southern Baptists in East
Africa. During this time, methods and techniques have changed as newer and
better methods have been discovered. Orville Boyd has combined cultural
learning and adaptation into the language learning program where he works at
the Baptist Language Centre, located at Brackenhurst International Conference
Centre, near Limuru, Kenya. He says, "Learning a language means learning a
culture."
More recently he has become Area Language Consultant for Africa and has
traveled widely on the continent assisting missions in establishing language
and orientation programs. As language learning and cultural adaptation have
become increasingly more urgent in reaching people, Orville Boyd has developed
methods to help those studying language to become more proficient in language
and to communicate effectively. He is well qualified to assist new
missionaries in developing an attitude which facilitates language and culture
learning. This book demonstrates his value as a linguist, and I highly
recommend it.
-- Dr John Faulkner, Foreword, Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language
Learning, Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1989
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"Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins is Director of the Baptist Language Centre in Limuru,
Kenya, and also serves as Area Language Consultant for Eastern and Southern
Africa Language Consultant for the International Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention. He has served as guest lecturer at St Paul's United Theological
College (Kenya) and Baptist Theological College (Kenya). He has earned the
degrees of bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and French), Master of Theology and
Doctor of Education (Linguistics)."
-- Back Cover author information, Planning and Evaluating Missionary Language
Learning, Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1989
Outline Introduction to Islam
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1991
Limuru, Kenya by Communication Press
This has been online since 2003 as part of Islam: Life and Values,
http://orvillejenkins.com/islam
"Orville Boyd Jenkins is Communication Resource specialist the International
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (Eastern and Southern Africa). He
was Director of the Baptist Language Centre, Limuru, Kenya, for 13 years. He
has worked in radio-TV and music fields in the USA and Kenya. He has taught
at the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, and has served as guest lecturer in
communications at St Paul's Theological College and in Islam and World
Religions at Baptist Theological College (both in Kenya). He has earned the
degrees of bachelor of Arts, Master of Theology and Doctor of Education.
-- Author page in Outline Introduction to Islam, By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins,
Limuru, Kenya: Communication Press, 1991; This has been online since 2003 as
part of Islam: Life and Values, http://orvillejenkins.com/islam
Dealing with Cultural Differences: Contrasting African and European Worldviews
By Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins
Originally published in 1991 as a resource in Cross-Cultural Communication
training at the Cross-Cultural Centre (formerly known as the Baptist Language
Centre), Limuru, Kenya
Online since 2007
Dealing with Cultural Differences, Strategy Leader Resource Kit,
http://strategyleader.org/langlearn/pdf/dealdiffbooklet.pdf
I was a translator and the Swahili version editor for Living the Responsible
Life, by Cecil A Ray.
Kuishi kwa Wajibu / Cecil A Ray
watafsiri (translators) Wilson M Chiko and Orville Boyd Jenkins; mhariri wa
Kiswahili (Swahili editor) Orville Boyd Jenkins
Nairobi: Baptist Publications House, 1986. 123p; 21cm. Kiswahili translation
of Living the Responsble Life.
Legal deposit reg. no 4238 ([KE86-055] 248.4)
1. Title 2. CHIKO, Wilson M. tr. 3. JENKINS, Orville Boyd tr./ed.
Edith and I lived in Dallas again for about 6 months in 1993, hosted by Park
Cities Baptist Church. Our children attended school in the Highland Park
School District. We were listed in a directory at the address in Dallas that
year.
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Orville B Jenkins
3917 Villanova St, Dallas, TX, 75225-5315 (1993)
Orville & Edith Jenkins
(Edith is not in the photo)
BSM Executive Council, p 53
(Baptist Student Ministries)
1998 The Bronco, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas
In 1998, we moved to the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, 40 miles from
Turkey and 70 miles from Syria. We resided there and worked in ethnic
research and cross-cultural communication strategies and training for
cross-cultural workers until September 2001. We moved to the US right after
travel opened up again after the 9-11 destruction of the Twin Towers in New
York City. We spent 4 years in Richmond, Virginia, when I was organizing and
coordinating an international research network on all the ethnicities of the
world.
I was the first Editor of the Registry of Peoples (ROP), a new codeset for
ethnicities of the world, designed to enable databases of any form and format
to exchange and compare information to gain a more accurate picture of the
peoples of the world and the changing factors generation to generation.
The ROP was a project of Harvest Information Systems. I directed this project
for the first four years from Richmond, Virginia, then continued when we moved
to South Africa, from October 2005 to January 2008.
I moved to South Africa in 2005, where I worked halftime or so on the
international people research about half time, while working in more local
settings in Eastern Central and Southern Africa with local teams in various
countries working on people research and cross-cultural communication
strategies. Moving back to the United States, I handed this responsibility to
the succeeding editor, Dr Jim Courson, in 2009 after served as Editor for over
7 years before final retirement from service in April 2010.
"My daughter, Susanne Uno, told me about your page. You do not remember, of
course, but I knew you before you were a year old, as I knew your father,
Orville. He was my husband's uncle. I am the widow of Harold Christian. By
the way, Harold was born in 1922, not 1919. I am still trying to find the
father of Joseph Sanford Jenkins. I would enjoy hearing from you."
-- Ruth Christian, Guestbook Entry, OBJ Genealogy, 10 November 2008
When we returned to the US in 2009 to take up residence, I established myself
in Real Estate investing for a few years. Following is my profile on one of
the Real Estate sites on the Internet.
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Orville Jenkins
Real Estate Consultant, Investor
Specialties: Consulting, Buying As-Is with Quick Close, Creative Strategies
Can't sell your house? Call me. Helping people is my primary goal. I like
people and I like to find solutions to problems. I value individuals and
their unique situations. I am honest and faithful in my commitments and
relationships. I believe every deal can result in a win for everybody. I
provide free and confidential consultation. Let's Talk!
I grew up in North Texas (Quanah, Hardeman County). I was involved in various
business enterprises in early years, in the radio business with my father, in
agriculture and cattle and electronics; professional broadcasting experience
in the US and overseas. I attended SMU graduate school, lived in Dallas.
I moved back to the Metroplex in 2009 and settled in Arlington with my wife,
Edith. Our two sons were born in Kenya, went to university in Texas, and
settled in DFW. I extended my business interests with Real Estate training
first in 2002. I focused on Real Estate investing when we moved to Arlington,
Texas, in 2009, learning the market and following the dramatic financial
changes, building networks with DFW Real Estate professionals.
-- Zillow, https://www.zillow.com/profile/Blues-Wailer/
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Here is my profile from my Facebook Page, as of 30 March 2019.
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About You
Native of Chickasha, Oklahoma; raised in Quanah, Texas; lived in several US
States, but most of my adult life in Kenya,
Some years in Cyprus and South Africa; have taught, spoken or consulted in
Europe, Canada, US, many countries of Africa; research on languages or
cultures in several countries of the world; some field experience, analysis or
program learning design in about 55 languages of the world.
Established language and culture learning programs in several countries of
Africa. Taught several summers in 1970s and 1980s in the Toronto Institute of
Linguistics (University of Toronto). Founding director of Interfaith Research
Centre, Nairobi, Kenya (1994-1997). Director Cross Cultural Communications
Centre, Limuru, Kenya, 1977-1990. Research Consultant on Ethnicity and Culture
since about 1994.
Guest lecturer of several colleges in Kenya, visiting speaker in several US
colleges and universities. Myers-Briggs Profile: INTJ
See my websites http://orvillejenkins.com/; http://obj.name/; genealogy
http://objgenealogy.com/
Languages
Swahili language · Spanish (language) · French · Português (idioma) ·
German language
Religious Views
Christian - Baptist but non-denominational, focus is Jesus' teachings and New
Testament writings); I enjoy discovering the meaning of the biblical texts in
their own historical context, in contrast to holding them captive to the
popular cultural worldview. I respect followers of other formal religions. In
my living in Kenya, South Africa and the Middle East, I have had personal and
business relations with people of various Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim sects.
Political Views
Independent, Libertarian, International, African and Latin Affinities; We are
all genetically related
-- Facebook,
https://www.facebook.com/orville.jenkins/about?section=bio&info_surface=intro_card&lst=1179614090%3A1179614090%3A1553998657
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Mullinax Descent
I am descended from the original Mullinaxes, John and Sarah. Two direct
descendants of John and Sarah, the surname Mullinax are my direct lineal
grandmothers. One channel of direct descent is from Sarah Mullinax, born
1826, who married Marick (Merrick) West.
Sarah Mullinax (1826 - 1914) is your 3rd great grandmother
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Augustus Lafayette West (1853 - 1888) son of Sarah Mullinax
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Lou Ada (sometimes appears as Luada) Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of
Augustus Lafayette West
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Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Lou Ada (sometimes found as
Luada) Caldonia West
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Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green
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Orville Boyd Jenkins. You are the son of Lou Ila Gregory.
Another channel of descent connects through George Ross Mullins, son of
Frances Ann Mullinax and John M Mullins.
Frances Ann Mullinax (1799 - 1870) is your 5th great grandmother
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George Ross Mullins (1819 - 1896) son of Frances Ann Mullinax
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Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1843 - 1911) daughter of George Ross Mullins
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Amanda A Tatum (1860 - 1945) daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins
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Lou Ada Caldonia West (1877 - 1907) daughter of Amanda A Tatum
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Alpharetta Mae Green (1895 - 1963) daughter of Luada Caldonia West
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Lou Ila Gregory (1920 - ) daughter of Alpharetta Mae Green
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Orville Boyd Jenkins (1948 -) son of Lou Ila Gregory
You can see that from the two charts above, the dual chain of descent joins
into my maternal line with Augustus Lafayette West, son of Sarah Mullinax, and
his wife Amanda Tatum, daughter of Nancy Elizabeth Mullins, who was the
granddaughter of Frances Ann Mullinax.
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Residence8 Notes
I had prevoiusly been to MLC a few times as a training resource person in
Language and Cutlure Learning methods and phonetics trainer.
In the January-May session 1976, Edith and I were participants in the
Orientation progam aas appointees for service in Kenya. Again in that session
I assisted in the phonetics training component of the language learning and
assisted the new resident linguist in the language and culture learning
modules.
Over subsequent years, when I was in the US, I continued to be a visiting
trainier in culture and language.
Orville was an 8-month-old infant when his mother bundled him off to the train
for an international trip with all her children. They were traveling from
Oklahoma to British Columbia to join his father, who was working on the
Canadian-Alaska highway project.
Canadian immigration records report their entry at the border post of White
Rock, British Columbia, on their way to Vancouver. This reports that all the
children, as well as Jennie, were born in Texas, though we know from family
sources and censuses that Orville and all these children were born in
Oklahoma. Notice the record says even 8-month-old Orville is a Farmer, as are
all the children!
Canadian Immigration Records, White Rock, British Columbia, 12 Dec 1912
Jenkins, Mrs Jennie Female age 30 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train
CMR 356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver $3.00 Cash To Husband
Jenkins, Mary Female age 15 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR 356
from Oklahoma to Vancouver
Jenkins, Mable Female age 11 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR 356
from Oklahoma to Vancouver
Jenkins, Asa Male age 8 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR 356 from
Oklahoma to Vancouver
Jenkins, Ronda Fay Female age 5 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR
356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver
Jenkins, Carthal Male age 3 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR 356
from Oklahoma to Vancouver
Jenkins, Orville Male age 8months Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR
356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver
After about 2.5 years they moved back to Oklahoma. They are recorded in Kiowa
County, in the 1920 census.
1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, 3 January, Mt View, District 14,
Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
Jenkins, Joseph A Head M W 54 TX NC MS Farmer
Jenkins, Juliva V [Julia Virginia] Wife FW 39 TX GA NC
Jenkins, Orville L Son M W 7 OK TX TX
When I was a boy my father, Orville Lee Jenkins, would tell us stories about
his childhood. He told us about his father being a lawman in frontier
Oklahoma. His father served as town marshal in Marlow, Fort Cobb and Mountain
View, Oklahoma.
My grandfather, Joseph Asa Jenkins, was a peace officer for a total of 20
years, serving as chief of police in Marlow, deputy sheriff in Mountain View
and city marshal of Fort Cobb. My father inherited an old hammer-fire shotgun
that my grandfather used in his police work.
It appears that Joe moved his family from Mountain View to Fort Cobb in about
1921. The 1920 census reports Joseph Asa still farming in Mt View Township.
His daughter Mabel told a story that would place the beginning of the Marshall
job in October 1921. Harold Christian quotes Joe's daughter Mabel as saying:
"When Kerwin was about 3-4 days old, Poppa was made City Marshall."
Kerwyn was born in October 1921. If Mabel's memory is right, then Joseph Asa
became Marshall of Fort Cobb in October 1921. And they may have been living
in Ft Cobb already before that time. It may also be that Joe actually took up
duties as town marshal of Ft Cobb before the family moved from the farm near
Mt. View. The two towns are not far apart, in neighboring counties. He could
have been formally installed at the time Mabel reports, whether or not the
family had already moved to Ft Cobb.
It was in 1928, when he was 16 years old, that Orville had an accident that
caused a bone bruise to his right shoulder that ultimately resulted in the
loss of his right arm, and considerable crippling from osteomyelitis. During
his long recuperation he took a correspondence course in electronics and
learned to repair and build radios and related equipment. He began a business
by fixing neighbors' radios while learning and it became a business. He tried
to return to school but his business was growing so fast and the logistics and
formal requirements for attendance so strict, he dropped out.
1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26,
p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
Joe A Jenkins Head M W 63 TX MS MS
Julia Jenkins Wife F W 49 TX GA NC
Orville Jenkins son M W 17 OK TX TX
Stories about some of Joesph's spectacular experiences as a lawman there were
reported in the Fort Cobb paper in 1931 and 1932. Joe and his remaining
family moved to Chickasha some time after 1935, according to the records. The
1940 census (see below) reports that in 1935, the family still lived in Fort
Cobb.
By 1938, Orville had a thriving radio repair business. He is listed in the
residential and business directories of Chickasha, Oklahoma in 1938. He had
the only radio repair shop in Chickasha.
Chickasha City Directory 1938, p 107
Jenkins Orville radio service 113 N 4th r[esidence] 1417 S 18th
Chickasha City Business Directory 1938, p 301
Radio Repairing
Jenkins Orville 113 N 4th
Fourth street was in downtown Chickasha, on the main north-south highway going
through town. The highway numbers running along this route now are US 81, US
277 and Oklahoma 92. They were about a block south of the main highway
running east-west through Chickasha.
By 1940, the Chickasha City Business Directory indicates that Orville had four
competitors in the radio repair business.
Chickasha City Business Directory 1940, p 259
Radio Repairing
Dunham Geo W 423 W Minnesota av
Ernest's Radio Service 515 Chickasha av
Franklin Avon L 925 S 20th
Home State Electric Shop 705 S 1st
Jenkins Orville 113 N 4th
Chickasha, Oklahoma. City Directory 1940, p 92
Jenkins Jos A (Virginia) h 1710 S 19th
Jenkins Netheline cash Rialto Theatre h 1710 S 19th
Jenkins Orville radio repair 114 N 4th h 2002 S 15th
It appears that Orville had his own residence, as reported by the directory at
2002 South 15th St in Chickasha, but in the census, he is reported with his
parents at their address at 1710 19th St in Chickasha. Perhaps he was
reported by his parents in their household for convenience. Or perhaps
Orville moved shortly after the census and the information for the directory
was gathered later in the year, after Orville had moved to his own residence.
1940 Federal Census, Grady County, Oklahoma, 12 April, Chickasha Ward 1,
District 26-9B, page 11B, 1710 19th St, Hse #1710, Rents $25
Jenkins, Joseph A Head M W 74 Grade 5 b Texas lived in Caddo Co OK in 1935 No
Occup
Jenkins, Julia V Wife F W 64 Grade HS-2 b Texas lived in Caddo Co OK in 1935
NO Occup
Jenkins, Orville L Son M W 27 Single Grade HS-3 b Oklahoma lived in Caddo Co
OK in 1935 Radio Repair
Jenkins, Netheline Dau F W 21 Single b Oklahoma lived in Caddo Co OK in 1935
Cashier, Amusements
In 1940 Orville registered for the draft.
Registration Certificate
This is to certify that in accordance with the Selective Service Proclamation
of the President of the United States Orville Lee Jenkins,
Chickasha-Grady-Okla has been duly registered this 16th day of October 1940.
(signed) Bernard E Lowe, Registrar for Precinct 4, Ward 1, Chickasha, Oklahoma
-- back side --
Description of Registrant
White Brown Eyes
Brown Hair Ruddy Complexion
scar on right side face No right arm
-- WWII Draft Registration Card, selective Service, Chickasha, Oklahoma, in
possession of Orville Boyd Jenkins
In July 1944, he was granted an exemption under Class IV-F, permanent
disability.
Due to his bout with osteomyelitis at age 16, Orville had suffered
considerable bone damage and lost his right arm. His hips were fused and one
knee was stiff.
"Notice of classification Orville Lee Jenkins Order No 398 has been classified
in Class IV-F [disability exempted] until further notice. 7-27-44 [Back
side] Local Board No. 1 Grady County Jul 27 1944 City Hall Chickasha,
Oklahoma."
-- WWII Draft Exemption Card, Selective Service, Chickasha, Oklahoma, in
possession of Orville Boyd Jenkins
During World War I Orville was a radio/radar technician supervisor at Tinker
Field in Oklahoma City. For a while, he lived with his brother Bud and his
wife Eyline in the City. Bud's son Trent comments on that period.
"I remember your dad so well and fondly, as with your mom, Aunt Lou. He and
my dad, Bud, were close. In fact, Uncle Orville lived with us for a time in
Oklahoma City during WW2, about 1942. At 5 years old I was fascinated by how
he put his clothes and socks on with one arm & a clothes hanger. He was
always very technically minded too, right, fixing radios, etc? I can remember
going to your house in Chickasha to watch the TV series, "Victory at Sea,"
sitting on the floor in front of the TV with your mom holding a baby -
probably you [Orville Boyd Jenkins]! Guess you had a television set before we
did! But our dads were in business together for a while, I think."
-- Trent Jenkins, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 16 May 2009
Among Orville's belongings, in the possession of his daughter Julia Mabel
Jenkins Willadson, there was an employee album with pictures and job
assignments of all employees at Tinker Field Air Force Base (now called Tinker
Air Force Base) Midwest City, Oklahoma.
"Orville L Jenkins, Junior Radio Mechanic"
As a child and on into my teen years, I remember my father telling me about
being a Radar Repair Supervisor at Tinker Field. In this employee book, he is
described as a Junior Radio Mechanic. This may have been an earlier initial
title, after which he was promoted to the Radar job and became a supervisor.
The year of this Tinker Field employee album is not known. Thought to be
about 1943. -- Orville Boyd Jenkins
Also among his belongings was a wallet containing cards and photos (now in the
possession of his son Orville Boyd Jenkins). One card was his police radio
operator license for Chickasha, Oklahoma. This document is undated, but would
have been about 1945.
It correlates with the Chickasha police annual of 1945, where he was listed as
a member of the Chickasha Police Department, with the responsibility of Chief
Radio Operator. I found it interesting that it was still in his wallet, with
other cards and later photos of his family in Vilonia, Arkansas, where he
lived with his second wife till he died.
City of Chickasha
This is to certify that Orville L Jenkins the bearer whose signature,
photograph and description appears [sic] on reverse side is employed by the
city of Chickasha, Oklahoma, as Chief Radio Operator Sta. KACF.
(signed) G E Krell, Chief of Police
-- back side --
Description
Age 33 Ht 5' 7" Wt 120 Col W
Hair Dk Brown Eyes Brown
Comp. Dark
Left Index Finger (he had no right arm)
There is no photo attached and no fingerprint appears
I find it interesting that in the description they do not add anywhere that he
had no right arm, a distinctive characteristic.
Orville met Lou Ila Gregory, from near Lindsay, Oklahoma, after she came to
work in Chickasha. Lou worked as a cook in the Grady County Hospital. They
decided to marry. Their marriage license/certificate was issued 27 August
1946 in Grady County, Oklahoma.
They were married 1 September 1946 at Calvary Baptist Church, Chickasha, by
Pastor Paul R Morgan. Witnesses at their wedding were Orville's brother Asa
Jenkins of Anadarko and Lou's sister Dessie Gregory of Lindsay. The marriage
was recorded 5 September 1946 in Grady County Marriage Record Book 31, page
550.
Grady County, Oklahoma Marriage Certificate
Grady County Marriage Record Book 31, page 550
Ceremony 1 September 1946
Officiated by Rev Paul Morgan at Calvary Baptist Church, at Chickasha, Grady,
Oklahoma
Recorded 5 September 1946
Witnesses:
Asa Jenkins of Anadarko, Oklahoma (brother of the groom)
Dessie Gregory of Lindsay, Oklahoma (sister of the bride)
Grady County, Oklahoma, license issued 27 August 1946 at Chickasha, Grady
County, Oklahoma
Orville L Jenkins of Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, age 34
Miss Lou Ila Gregory of Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, age 25
Filed 5 September 1946
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Lou Ila married Orville Jenkins, an appliance repairman in Chickasha, OK.
They had three sons: Orville Boyd, who has been a Baptist Missionary to
mainly East Africa for over forty years, Gregory Wayne, who lives in West
Virginia, where he is a music minister. Gary Lynn, their youngest, was killed
in an auto accident in Arkansas when only nineteen years old.
When Lou Ila and Orville were married, they spent several years in Quanah,
Texas, where Orville owned a radio station -- KOLJ (the OLJ representing his
name, Orville Lee Jenkins). They divorced in 1964 and Orville moved to
Arkansas.
Lou Ila later moved to Vernon, Texas before moving back to Lindsay in 1972.
Lou Ila has been an Avon representative for over thirty-two years.
-- Pikes Peak History Book 1908-2008, pp 27, courtesy of Loretta Gregory Gay
of Lindsay, Oklahoma, January 2020
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The 1947 Chickasha Directory lists Orville and Lou and shows that Orville has
moved his shop about two blocks around the corner where major east-west and
north-south highways meet and diverge. The new address is now 312 Choctaw
Street. His radio repair shop is now located on the main east-west street in
northern Chickasha
The highways running on this route are US 81, Oklahoma 9 and 92. Now his
brother Bud (Arthur Carthal) is sharing the building with Orville, running a
Maytag appliance store at the street address 308 Choctaw Street.
The first Jenkins listing in Chickasha is Bud's appliance store. I list here
the entries related to our family.
Chickasha, Oklahoma, City Directory 1947, p 135
Jenkins Appliance Co (Arthur C Jenkins) 308 Choctaw av
Jenkins Arthur C (Eileen; Jenkins Appliance Co) h[ome] 1227 S 6th
Jenkins Jos A (Jennie) h 2002 S 15th
Jenkins Orville L (Lou I; Jenkins Radio Co) h 2027 S 14th
Jenkins Radio Co (Orville L Jenkins) 312 Choctaw av
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O L Jenkins Announce Son
Mr and Mrs Orville L Jenkins of Chickasha announce the arrival of a son,
Orville Boyd, on July 21 [1948]. ... Mrs Jenkins is the former Miss Lou Ila
Gregory who, before her marriage, lived near Lindsay. After moving to
Chickasha she was employed as dietician [cook] at the Chickasha hospital. The
baby's father finished highschool [sic] at Chickasha and is owner of a radio
and appliance store there.
-- clipping probably from the Lindsay News, Lindsay, Oklahoma, about 24 July
1948, exact publication date uncertain; courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins,
who saved this from the original edition, to Orville Boyd Jenkins 31 January
2018
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Orville became interested in radio broadcasting and began investigating sites
for a transmitter and studio. By 1949, he finally settled on Quanah, Texas,
just south of the Red River near the panhandle. A newspaper clipping
announced the filing of a permit for that location. This and another short
newspaper item were found as Lou Ila Jenkins was sorting through some papers
in January 2018. Correlating with other available information, it was first
thought these two articles were from 1950.
The clippings had no notations or indication of publication date. However, in
July 2019 the text of an article in the Quanah paper was found, and it was
dated in March 1949. Though the text is somewhat different, the Quanah
article matches the second story below from the Chickasha paper.
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Jenkins Applies to Operate Radio in Quanah, Texas
Orville Jenkins has filed an application with the Federal Communications
Commission to operate a 250-watt radio station at 1150 kilocycles in Quanah,
Texas.
The FCC acknowledged Saturday having received the application.
Mr Jenkins said Saturday night there are still various steps and red tape to
be cleared before he receives final word concerning the station.
-- Newspaper unidentified, but appears to be from the Chickasha Daily
Express, Chickasha, Oklahoma; date uncertain, but to be early 1949, since
follow up stories on 3 March and 4 March 1949 announced that the station
permit had been issued and reported that Orville Jenkins of Chickasha,
Oklahoma, was in Quanah examining possible sites for the station; clipping
courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, Lindsay, Oklahoma, January 2018
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An article was published in the Quanah Tribune-Chief Newspaper on 3 March 1949
reporting that Orville was in Quanah scouting for a site for the station.
Orville Jenkins, Chickasha appliance store owner, who applied for a radio
station permit for Quanah, was here last week looking over the location.
Jenkins said that when the commission granted a permit to start construction,
he would need a building on the outskirts of town. He said that he expected
for the time to have a studio and transmission station combined. Mr Jenkins
said that he would move his family to Quanah at a later time.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 3 March 1949, p 1
A similar article appeared the following day in the Chickasha, Oklahoma,
newspaper.
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Quanah Radio Station May Be Started in Near Future
Quanah, March 4 -- Orville Jenkins of Chickasha, Okla, who holds a permit for
a radio station in Quanah, was in this city examining locations. He is now
waiting for a permit to start construction.
Jenkins stated that he would need a building on the outskirts of Quanah, and
that for the time he planned to have a studio and transmission station
combined.
-- Newspaper unidentified, but appears to be from the Chickasha Daily
Express, Chickasha, Oklahoma, 4 March (1949), clipping courtesy of Lou Ila
Gregory Jenkins, Lindsay, Oklahoma, January 2018
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The Quanah paper reported that Orville was in town again the next month.
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Seeks Site For Quanah Radio Station
Seeking a site and location for a radio station which will meet with the
approval of the Radio Commission, Orville Jenkins of Chickasha was in Quanah
this week. Mr Jenkins, who made the application for the radio station for
Quanah, said that the proposed station of 500 watts would be the most powerful
in this area. He said that he hoped to have the station in operation by
November 1st if there is no delay in granting of permits.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, ll April 1949
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BUILDING PERMITS
The owner of the franchise for a radio station in Quanah, Orville Jenkins of
Chickasha, has approached the Quanah Chamber of Commerce for assistance in
establishing the station Directors of the Chamber of Commerce have invited Mr
Jenkins here to discuss his proposition.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 1 December 1949, p 1
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RADIO STATION PLAN DISCUSSED BEFORE GROUP
OWNER PLANS OPERATION BY JULY OF 1950
A radio station will be in operation in Quanah by July if plans of Orville L
Jenkins of Chickasha are completed, he announced here Tuesday. Mr Jenkins, an
appliance dealer in Oklahoma, who secured the Federal franchise for a station
for Quanah last year, met with a group of Quanah citizens. An outline of the
[transcription indecipherable] and program of [transcription indecipherable]
new station was shown, the tune [?] by Mr. Jenkins.
The station will be one of the most powerful in this area and will fill an
opening which was [transcription indecipherable] in this part of the state.
The focus [transcription indecipherable] Washington to complete plans the
station and said that he hopes to be able to [transcription indecipherable]
Quanah during the coming months of 1950.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 29 December 1949, p 1
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There were delays but finally things were falling into place. An article in
the Tribune Chief had an item on this in early 1950.
There has been further delay on the radio station. Orville Jenkins of
Chickasha, time with the limited amount of Okla, who is going to construct
this station, says construction will start as soon as a construction [site has
been located for the] radio station. Orville Jenkins of Chickasha, Okla., who
is going to construct
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, February 09, 1950, p 12
Orville moved his family to Quanah in early 1951, and the station went on the
air on 1 May 1951.
"The local radio station, KOLJ, 1150 on the dial, went on the air from 1:00 am
until 4:00 am, Wednesday morning for the first time while equipment tests were
being conducted. Station owner, Orville Jenkins, announced this week that the
station would be on the air about May 1st or a few days following that date."
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 19 April 1951, p 1
I found a listing for Orville and his radio station in a Yearbook of the
Broadcasting Industry in Texas. Here is a transcription of the entry for
1951. This issue lists the station still in the stage of having the
construction permit. It is unclear just when Orville received his
Construction Permit (CP) from the Federal Communications Commission. However,
we know from the article above that they began broadcasting on 1 May 1951.
QUANAH (Hardeman County)
KOLJ 1150 Orville L. Jenkins p, gm
CP 500-D Chickasha, Oklahoma
(Phone) 3260
[Abbreviations mean: proprietor, General Manager, Construction Permit, 500
Watts, Daytime, Proprietor's residence and phone #]
-- Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook 1951, p 305
The designation CP means KOLJ has been granted a Construction Permit and is in
the process of getting its buildings and equipment set up for broadcasting.
They have been granted broadcasting rights on the frequency 1150 with a power
output of 500 Watts for daylight only.
Orville kept this radio repair business in Chickasha going until after he
moved to Quanah, Texas, in 1951. His radio shop was run by employees during
his trips to Quanah while establishing the radio business and installing the
broadcasting equipment before going on the air in 1952. He later sold the
radio shop in Chickasha. Orville's family moved to Quanah in early 1951. His
second son Gregory Wayne was born there on 31 May 1931.
A letter from the Texas State Department of Health to Mr and Mrs Orville Lee
Jenkins confirming registration of the birth was postmarked in Austin, Texas,
on 17 April 1952, almost 11 months after his birth. The letter is not dated.
At the time of the birth, Orville and Lou were living at 1106 W 3rd, in
Quanah, Texas. This was the Jenkins' first address in Quanah.
-- Document courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, January 2017
Orville and Lou moved shortly from 3rd Street to a small house at 207 W 13th
Street, where they lived until June 1952, when they moved to the Stepp farm,
renting a house south of town on the Crowell Highway. Lou confirmed the date
of this move on 30 December 2017 in a conversation with her son Orville Boyd
Jenkins and daughter-in-law Edith McSwain Jenkins. They were living in this
house when Gary was born on 19 August 1952. They bought a house on west US
Highway 287, and moved there in the summer of 1955. Their address there was
909 West 11th Street.
Orville's radio business was listed in the 1952 Chickasha, Oklahoma, directory
with no residential address.
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Chickasha, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1952, p 113
Jenkins Orville (Jenkins Radio Co)
Jenkins Radio Company (Orville Jenkins), J A Hulse, Mgr, Philco Refrigerators,
Television, Radio, Appliances-Sales and Service, 312 Choctaw av, Tel 3260 (For
further information see page 34 Buyer's Guide)
On page 354 of the same directory, he appears again in the Business Directory.
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Chickasha, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1952, p 354
Radio and Television Sets -- Sales and Service
Jenkins Radio Company, 312 Choctaw av, Tel 3260 (For further information see
page 34 Buyer's Guide)
A similar entry appears on the facing page under Refrigerators:
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Chickasha, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1952, p 355
Refrigerators -- Sales and Service
Jenkins Radio Company, 312 Choctaw av, Tel 3014 (For further information see
page 20 Buyer's Guide)
("Page 20" is an error. There is no ad for Jenkins Radio Co on page 20. The
only ad I have found for this company is on page 34, as noted in two later
entries.)
The Buyer's Guide entry on p 34 of the same directory is a 1/4 page ad for the
company.
Philco
Jenkins Radio Company
Philco Refrigerators - Television
Radio Appliance Sales and Service
J A Hulse, Mgr
312 Choctaw Ave Tel 3620
On the same page, Orville's brother Arthur (Bud) is listed with his business.
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Chickasha, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1952, p 113
Jenkins Appliance Co (Arth C Jenkins) hse hold [sic] appliance
224 Chickasha av
Jenkins Arth C (Dorothy E; Jenkins Appliance) h 1522 S 17th
It is not known exactly when Orville sold his r ado business in Chickasha.
Staff are reported in the 1955 yearbook of the Broadcasting industry.
QUANAH (Hardeman County)
KOLJ 1150 Orville L. Jenkins o, gm, co-pd Richard O Dormier, ce J
R Chism, sd
Bob Stabler slm & co-pd Richard Newton, nd Kay Dunn, wd
1952 500-D P. O. Box 566
Network KBS (Phone) 654
-- Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook 1955, p 302
In the 1955 Directory Orville's full staff was listed. Richard (Dick) Dormier
is reported as the Chief Engineer. Orville is reported as the Owner (o)
rather than President. He is General Manager and Co Program Director with his
salesman Bob Stabler. Richard (Dick) Newton was the News Director. J R Chism
was the Sports Director.
The 1955 yearbook reports again that broadcasting began in 1952. But the
articles we saw indicate it was 1951.
The 1956 yearbook is similar to 1955, but with no discrete listings for staff,
QUANAH (Hardeman County)
KOLJ 1150 Orville L. Jenkins p, gm, ce
1951 500-D P. O. Box 566
Montrose 3-2572
-- Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook 1956, p 307
Note that this was the year the phone numbers in Quanah changed from the old
3-digit number to the new 7-digit numbers. KOLJ's new phone number was
Montrose (MO) 3-2572. This yearbook reports Orville as the Proprietor and
General Manager in 1956, as in the 1951 report. He is also listed here as the
Chief Engineer.
Orville gave a lot of people a chance, and gave several their start in the
radio business. One was Joe L Short, of Chillicothe, a few miles to the east
of Quanah. He worked at KOLJ while he was in high school. He went on to KWFT
in Wichita Falls, and had a life career in broadcasting.
"My last day as a DJ at KOLJ was December 31, 1958. I had worked at the
station since the start of my Sophomore year in high school."
-- Joe L Short, comment on Facebook Group "Remember The Good Times in Quanah,
Texas," on an ad for KOLJ in the 1960 The Chief high school annual
Orville owned the radio station until 1960, when he sold the business to Neal
Eggleston of Vernon, Texas. The sale was finalized in late 1961, ending in
November or December with Orville serving a three-month period as engineer
after Neel took over ownership. A letter from his wife Lou Ila to her sister
in Oklahoma gives us that bit of detail, indicating that the Jenkins family
would not be free to join the Gregory family for Thanksgiving in 1961 because
of this final three-month engineering responsibility, but planned to come for
Christmas. (For details on the Jenkins family at that time, see a summary of
the letter in Notes for Lou Ila Gregory.)
letter from Lou Ila to her sister Josie gives us some details of things that
were happening and changes underway with the Jenkins family by 1961.
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Letter from Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins in Quanah, Texas, to her sister Josephine
Gregory Hayes in Lindsay, Oklahoma, written 19 November 1961
Notable content:
(page 1)
Lou notes that she and her family will not be able to join her Gregory family
for Thanksgiving.
All her sons are selling the Grit newspaper and are engaged each weekend with
that.
Her son Orville Boyd additionally has a Sunday Oklahoman newspaper route and
hopes to have a fill-in who can free him on occasions, to take such family
trips.
She hopes they can visit her family at Christmas.
Her husband Orville is also tied down for a short time, because he has sold
his radio station,
(page 2)
and part of that deal was that Orville would remain available as engineer for
three months, and Thanksgiving falls within that period.
She and her husband Orville want to go as soon as he is free to Eastern
Oklahoma and Arkansas to look at some farms they are considering buying, now
that they are free from the radio business.
Lou asks how much their father's recent hospitalization cost, so she and her
husband can send their share to pay on that.
Orville's father, Joseph Asa Jenkins, had a tumor removed from his prostate
gland in Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City.
-- Found among the papers of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, July 2019
----------------------
In the meantime, Orville had also gone into business with a coin-operated
laundry across the street from his home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287) at Combs
Street.
While Orville still owned KOLJ, he put in another business across Combs Street
from the Jenkins home on 11th Street (US Hwy 287). This was the Jenkins
Day-N-Night Coin-o-Matic Laundry. He had all Maytag equipment.
Dad and I (Orville Boyd) did all the maintenance work on the machines, and we
rebuilt many. All three of us boys had to clean the lint filters on the
dryers, sweep and mop and other tasks every day before school. Long day!
Another important periodic job that primarily fell to me, with supervision
from Dad, was mucking out the septic tank for the laundry drain, behind the
building.
In January 1962 Dad added a coin-operated dry cleaners next door, which again
he and I ran. These buildings now house other businesses. He had an ad in
the newspaper about the expanded cleaning center.
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Quanah Tribune Chief Newspaper
Advertisement
Automatic Dry Cleaning Has Come to Quanah
Yes, Jenkins Coin-O-Matic Cleaning Center has installed coin operated Dry
Cleaning Units in our growing plant on West 11th. Now you can clean up to 10
pounds of clothing for $1.50 in only 30 minutes. Just installed this week.
Try it today!
Also 4 more big Clothes Dryers for a total of 8 units.
Plus 20 Maytag Automatic Washers in Service AT ALL TIMES.
Watch for the grand opening of our enlarged and complete cleaning center
coming soon.
JENKINS COIN-O-MATIC CLEANING CENTER
West 11th St. QUANAH
Orville Jenkins, Owner
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 11 January 1962, p 12
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In the same issue of the Tribune Chief, there was also a news story about the
opening of the new cleaning center.
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Coin Operated Dry Cleaning Plant Installed
A coin operated dry cleaning system has been installed this week at the
Jenkins Coin-O-Matic Cleaning Center, it has been announced by Orville
Jenkins, owner. The unit will dry clean up to 10 pounds of clothing in a 30
minute cleaning cycle, he said. Jenkins also added four more clothes dryers
for a total of eight while he has 20 automatic Maytag washers in service. A
grand opening of the enlarged cleaning center is planned for a later date.
Jenkins said he plans to install vending machines for cold milk, hot
chocolate, and other similar items.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 11 January 1962, p 4
----------------------
Orville and Lou and the family were listed in the Quanah City Directory for
1962-63, for the residence and the laundry business.
Quanah, Texas, City Directory 1962-63
Jenkins, Orville L, Lou Ila
Jenkins' Coin-O-Matic
Orville Boyd 14, Gregory Wayne 11, Gary Lynn 10
909 W 11th, (O)
MO 3-8136
Orville was an antique car enthusiast. His pride was a 1923 Model T Ford
Touring car. He drove this in parades and on other special occasions. The
following story excerpt refers to his participation in the Gay 90s parade in
July 1962.
"... The well-restored old automobiles in the parade drew much attention,
among them the 1912 Ford with its gleaming brass radiator, and the 1915 Buick
touring car owned by E Kennel of Crowell. Jimmie Jones and Orville Jenkins of
Quanah drove their antiques, and not far behind came Chillicothe's Walter
Golleher in his “T-Model’ truck, loaded with Mrs Marian Forbau’s singing
Chillipeppers. ..."
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 26 July 1962, p 7
Lou's 1961 letter to her sister said that she and Orville were planning to go
look at some land in eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas they wanted to consider
buying for a farm place to move to.
After looking at several places in Oklahoma and Arkansas, they had decided to
buy a farm in Faulkner County, right in the center of the state, east of
Conway, near US Hwy 64, in the Friendship community, south of Liberty. The
laundry business was sold when the family decided to move to Arkansas. In the
summer of 1963, the family had planned to move to Faulkner County, Arkansas.
On a prior trip to Conway, Arkansas, Orville had arranged a job for both
himself and his eldest son Orville Boyd. They planned to go to Arkansas, work
through the summer and prepare everything for the rest of the family to come
before school started. Orville and Orville Boyd had the 1960 Mercury station
wagon loaded for the trip, and the doors of the car were open as they started
to get in to leave. But then disaster hit. Lou Ila came out on the porch and
handed something to Orville before he got into the car.
It was divorce papers. It was at the time of that move that Lou decided
things had gotten so bad between her and her husband Orville, and she did not
want to move to Arkansas, that she filed divorce papers. Their Quanah home
and the laundry business across the side street from their home were sold by
early 1964.
In preparation for the move to Arkansas, and up to the time they were going to
Arkansas, Orville advertised all his property for sale.
The first ad was short and did not contain any specifications. This was
published on 2 May 1963.
FOR SALE: Valuable business property on West 11th Street. Two corner lots, 100
and 150 foot frontage, facing highway in business area. See or Call Orville L.
Jenkins. MO3-8136
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 2 May 1963, p 8
It seems this and some subsequent ads were in connection with the planned
move, because the dates of the next two ads are about the time he and his son
were leaving for Arkansas. He ran ads the first and second weeks in June
also.
FOR SALE: One Coin-O-Matic Maytag laundry fully equipped. Ideal income for
retired or semi-retired couple. Three buildings located on 100 foot corner,
valuable highway property. Will sacrifice for quick sale, all or part. Also
will sell residential property on 11th St and one 150 foot corner with orchard
on 12th St. All corner. See Orville Jenkins, 909 West 11th St.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 6 June 1963, p 8 & 13 June 1963, p 8
Exact sale dates are uncertain, but one land sale was reported in the April
1964 in the Quanah paper. It is not clear if this was the home plot or the
business plot across the street where the laundry was.
COUNTY RECORDS
Warranty Deeds:
Orville Jenkins and Lou Ila Jenkins to R G Huffman, all lots I & 2 Bl 255
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 9 April 1964, p 12
The divorce decree was issued in April 1964 and was announced in the same
issue of the Quanah paper as the sale of property to R G Huffman.
District court records show Lou Ila Jenkins and Orville Lee Jenkins granted a
divorce in election.
46th District Court.
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 9 April 1964, p 1
Orville and his son, Orville Boyd (this author) had secured jobs at radio
station KVEE in Conway, Arkansas, the town near their farm. Orville and his
son continued with this work for some months, until the radio station changed
owners in the fall of 1963. Orville and his son decided to start their own
business, going back to Orville's original profession in electronics repairs.
Meanwhile, Orville and Lou lost the farm to foreclosure in the wrangle over
the assets related to the divorce. The final divorce decree was not until 13
February 1964. I remember going back to Quanah, having to take time off from
school, to attend the court hearing on the divorce and testify for the judge
in open court. Later, through various circumstance, her younger sons Greg and
Gary had also moved to Conway to live with their father.
Orville opened up a new business called Jenkins Electronic Service Center on
Harkrider Street (Hwy 64-65) in Conway. Orville carried on this business for
some years, while Orville Boyd continued working with his father part time
while finishing high school and entering university in the local state
university, State College of Arkansas, which became University of Central
Arkansas.
Since they had originally moved to Arkansas to farm and ranch, Orville and his
son still had a cattle herd, which had been protected and retained from the
divorce settlement. After the loss of the Friendship farm in 1964, they
rented a farm on Hwy 64 east of Conway. Orville Boyd gradually sold off his
half of the herd to help cover expenses for college, so by the time he
finished college in January 1971, he was out of the cattle business, but
Orville continued.
Orville became a salesman, announcer and engineer for Brown Broadcast in
Conway, which now owned KVEE, an AM. He was working at KVEE in Conway when
the company opened an FM station broadcasting Easy Listening and Jazz.
Orville was one of the announcers on the air the first day of broadcast on 2
June 1967. In 2017, a blog and column article in the Conway Log Cabin
Democrat newspaper reported this in their news from 25 years ago.
"(1967) KVEE-FM began its first day of transmission. The station was operated
by Brown Broadcast, Inc. Robin Brown was president and Jack Miller was the
General Manager. Announcers were Jim Johnston, Bill Drury and Orville Lee
Jenkins."
-- "Yesterdays" blog, by Cindy Beckman, Staff Writer, Log Cabin Democrat,
Conway, Arkansas, 1 June 2017, for publication 2 June 2017,
http://thecabin.net/news/local/2017-06-01/yesterdays-060217
Orville married Aretha Tucker McPherson in May 1968, and moved to Vilonia,
east of the old farm. He is listed in public directories at Vilonia,
Arkansas, addresses.
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville L Jenkins
Birth Date 10 Apr 1912
RR 3, Vilonia, AR, 72173
118 RR 03, Vilonia, AR, 72173
RR 02 Box 208, Vilonia, AR, 72173
The county road was later named Ballard Road.
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Orville L Jenkins
84 Ballard Rd, Vilonia, AR, 72173-9372
Along in those years, Orville also shifted employment to become a technician
at another electronics service company in Conway, closing his business in the
late 1960s. For some years he continued to serve as consulting engineer for
Radio Station KVEE and also became an engineer for KCON.
Orville Lee Jenkins
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Radio Telephone First Class License (pocket card)
Issued 29 January 1976
Valid until 29 January 1981
-- Found among the photos and papers of Orville Lee Jenkins, in a wallet of
identification and photos, now in the possession of his son Orville Boyd
Jenkins.
The next saga for Orville's former radio station KOLJ came in 1977, with its
sale to the next owner. The Quanah paper carried the story, mentioning
Orville as the founder of the station.
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Sale of the 25-year-old Quanah Radio Station KOLJ was announced this week by
owner Fay Neel Eggleston. The station has been sold to a firm of central
Texas businessmen represented by Joe Willis of Dallas, subject to approval of
the transfer of license by the Federal Communications Commission. Eggleston
will continue to manage and operate the station until FCC approval, which is
anticipated by the end of the year.
As part of the sale agreement, Eggleston has reserved station time in
perpetuity and will continue to sell nationwide livestock advertising which
has been a large part of the station’s programming for the past six years.
The Egglestons and their three sons, Jason, Erie and Kirk, will continue to
make their home at 905 West Third Street in Quanah.
In addition to managing the station, Eggleston is a director of the Security
National Bank and an advisory director of Quanah Federal Savings and Loan. He
also serves as a deacon at the First Presbyterian Church. A native of Vernon,
Eggleston served on the staff of Seymour Radio Station KSEY after attending
Baylor University and prior to purchasing KOLJ and moving to Quanah in 1961.
KOLJ was established here in 1952 by Orville L Jenkins whose initials formed
the call letters of the station. He is now making his home in Arkansas. When
Eggleston took over the station, he changed to a basic country music format
which continues in use today. A new building north of Quanah and new
facilities (says cont'd page 19, but the rest of the article could not be
found on any page) ....
-- Quanah Tribune Chief, Quanah, Texas, 22 September 1977, pp 1
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Orville died on 29 May 1987, as a result of pneumonia leading to general
system failure, after a late freeze that year. He died in the Conway Memorial
Hospital.
Social Security Death Index
Orville Jenkins
Born 10 Apr 1912
Died May 1987
Last Residence Vilonia, Faulkner, Arkansas 72173
SSN 446-24-5252 issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)
Orville's nephew Ervin Mize posted a memorial on Find A Grave. Orville's son
Gary, who was killed in a car crash in 1972, is buried next to his dad. In
February 2015, Ervin added details and links I submitted to provide my
father's family connections on Find a Grave.
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Orville Lee Jenkins
Birth Apr 10, 1912 Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
Death May 29, 1987 Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas
Parents:
Joseph Asa Jenkins (1866 - 1962)
Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins (1880 - 1966)
Son Gary Lynn Jenkins (1952 - 1972)
Note husband of Aretha Jenkins (Living)
Siblings:
Mabel Clare Jenkins Hill (1901 - 1990)
Thomas Asa Jenkins (1903 - 1969)
Nannie May Jenkins (1905 - 1906)
Rhonda Fay Jenkins Boyd (1907 - 1963)
Arthur Carthal Jenkins (1909 - 1955)
Gladys Lahoma Jenkins Hendron (1914 - 1991)
Martha Netheline Jenkins Callaway (1918 - 2007)
Virginia Jo Jenkins (1925 - 1930)
Half Siblings:
James Everett Jenkins 1886-1963
Joseph Benjamin Jenkins 1889-1978
Sallie Hester Jenkins Christian (1893 - 1982) Half-sibling
Ocy Belle Jenkins (1896 - 1896) Half-sibling
Mary Nettie Jenkins Yates (1897 - 1991) Half-sibling
Spouse Lou Ila Gregory (Living)
First wife Lou Ila Gregory, married 1 September 1946 in Chickasha, Oklahoma;
Divorced 13 Feb 1964 in Quanah Texas; married Aretha Tucker McPherson in 1969
in Vilonia, Arkansas
Burial Cypress Valley Cemetery, Faulkner County, Arkansas
Maintained by Orville Jenkins, Originally Created by Ervin Mize Jan 14, 2010
-- Find A Grave Memorial #46663458,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46663458
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"I just located [Ephrain Jefferson Jenkins's] son Jacob on Findagrave and found
out that Jake's wife Susan or Sudie had a half sister named Rebecca Fowler who
married a John Robert Burrell. John is related to my grandma Jenkins, whose
mom was Annie Burrel. So Jake's sister in law was my grandma's cousin's wife.
And grandma married Oscar Jenkins, my grandpa and Jake's great nephew!"
-- Donna Winstead, Ancestry messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 27 February
2015
"My grandparents were Oscar Mabry Jenkins and Maudie Estelle Cleghorn Jenkins.
Grandma's parents were Joseph Cleghorn and Annie Louisa Burrell Cleghorn.
Grandpa Oscar great grandpa was Ephraim Jefferson Jenkins. Jacob Jenkins was
Ephraim's Arkansas son."
-- Donna Winstead, Ancestry messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 7 March 2015
Oscar Mabry Jenkins
Birth Apr. 3, 1902 Newport, Attala County, Mississippi
Death Sep. 28, 1992 Newport, Attala County, Mississippi
Spouse Maudie Cleghorn Jenkins (1909 - 1996)
Burial Seneasha Cemetery, Newport, Attala County, Mississippi
Created by john marshall pilgrim Jun 10, 2010
-- Find A Grave Memorial #53507888,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkins&GSiman=1&GScid=62670&GRid=53507888&
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
O. M. Jenkins
Born 3 Apr 1902
Died Sep 1992
Last Residence Durant, Holmes, Mississippi 39063
SSN 428-92-5269 issued Mississippi
(1962)
"My mother was a Jenkins in Attala County, Ms. My grandfather was Joseph
Samuel Jenkins, whose ancestors settled in Attalaville in the mid-19th. My
great grandfather was Owen Selby Jenkins 1837-1872; my great, great, great
grandfather, Samuel M. Jenkins 1791-1850 & his wife was Sara Catherine; my
great, great, great, great grandfather was James Randolf Jenkins 1760-1824,
and his wife was Deborah Eliz. Darby."
-- Joseph H. Miller, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 29 June 2016
Joseph Samuel Jenkins is one of the children of Owen linked to hs memorial in
Find a Grave (see below).
1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 5 September, Hse/Fam #136
Samuel Jenkins 66 M Farmer $300 Real Estate b SC
Owen Jenkins 12 M b SC
About 1854, Owen married Mary Jane Breazeale. Ther are enumerated in the 1860
census in Attala County, Mississippi, with one 5-year-old daughter named
Julia. A Dr John Young and his family are living in the same household with
them.
1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 19 September, Township 13,
page 200 (scan 466), Hse #1301, Fam #1421
Owen Jenkins 42 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $50 Personal born SC
Mary J Jenkins 35 F Housekeeper born Tenn
Julia Jenkins 5 F born Miss
John A Young 38 M Physician $0 Real Estate $4000 Personal born NC
Rachel Young 25 F born North Carolina
James G Young 6 M born Miss
Henry P Young 2 M born Miss
1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 24 August, Beat #4, PO
Kosciusko, page 70 Hse #78, Fam #78
Jenkins, Owen 37 M W Farmer $50 [sic] Real Estate $250 Personal b Miss [b abt
1833]
Jenkins, Jane 24 F W Keeping House born Miss [b abt 1845]
Jenkins, Julia 14 F W born Miss [b abt 1856] [dau of Mary Jane Brazeale]
Jenkins, Frances 12 F W born Miss [b abt 1858] [dau of Mary Jane Brazeale]
Jenkins, Leonida 4 F W born Miss [b abt 1866]
Jenkins, Mary Ann 3 F born Miss [b aby 1867]
Jenkins, Babe 6mos F W born Miss [b abt Jan 1870]
Owen is buried in Attala County,Mississippi, where his parents died. The
memorial on Find a Grave strangely reports that he died in South Carolina,
when the obituary that is included in the memorial reports he died in Attala
County. The location is not stated.
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Owen Selvy Jenkins
Birth May 13, 1837 [in South Carolina, as the obit below says]
Death Mar 3, 1872 South Carolina
[? The included obituary reports he died in Attala County, Mississippi, where
he was buried.]
Co C 40th MS Inf Confederate States Army,enlisted April 28, 1862 at Attala
County, MS under Captain R. B Campbell for a term of 3 years. On June 30,1862
he was discharged by order of the commander & the proof for disability.
Owen was married to Mary Jane Breazeale & they had 3 children.
After Mary Jane died he married Elizabeth Jane Jenkins they had 4 children:
Mary Ann who married Young Reagan Criswell, Lula Virginia who married Benjamin
Dew & Joseph Samuel who married Allie Edwards.
Owen was born in South Carolina on May 13, 1837 and died in Attala County, MS
march 3, 1872 and is buried at Suggs Cemetery in Attala County, MS.
Source of above information, Book - United Daughters of Confederacy, page 114
Spouse Jane Elizabeth Jenkins Allen (1846 - 1915)
Children:
Mary Ann Jenkins Criswell (1866 - 1934)
Joseph Samuel Jenkins (1872 - 1949)
Burial Suggs Cemetery, Sallis, Attala County, Mississippi
Created by Buena Smith Feb 23, 2011
-- Find A Grave Memorial #66034654,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66034654
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1851 Wales Census, Glamorgan County, Llantrisant Parish, Cymmer Village,
District 6e, Folio 10, Page 72, Hse #261
John Phillips Head Married Age 35 Coalminer born in Caermaethen, Llanstephan
[b abt 1816]
Rachael Phillips Wife Married Age 28 born in Glamorgan, Llansamlet [b abt
1823]
Mary Phillips Dau Age 4 born in Glamorgan, Llanwonno [b abt 1847]
Thomas Phillips Son Age 7mo born in Glamorgan, Llanguonoyd (?) [b abt 1850]
William Philips Lodger Age 24 Coalminer born in Glamorgan, Tythogstone [b abt
1827]
Thomas Evans Lodger Age 21 Coalminer born in Glamorgan, Aberaven [b abt 1830]
Rees Evans Lodger Age 13 Coalminer born in Glamorgan, Pyle [b abt 1838]
Miriam Williams Servant Age 16 General Servant born in Glamorgan, Marthyr [b
abt 1835]
California Birth Index, 1905-1995
Ralph Jenkins
Birth 21 Jul 1928 Los Angeles County
Gender: Male
Mother's Maiden Name Stinson
California, Death Index, 1905-1939
Ralph D Jenkins
Birth Year abt 1928
Death 7 Nov 1929 Los Angeles, California, USA
Age at Death 1
The date of death on the memorial on Find a Grave originally reflected an
error on the gravestone. The death date on the grave is 28 Nov 1929, while
the California death record says it was 7 November 1929. When we pointed this
out, Peggy Hooper made this correction and added a note in the memorial for
Ralph David in October 2014.
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Ralph David Jenkins
Birth Jul 21, 1928 Los Angeles County, California
Death Nov 7, 1929 Los Angeles County, California
Date on headstone is incorrect. Aged 16 months
Parents:
Joseph Benjamin Jenkins 1889-1978
Lena Fairy Stinson Jenkins 1901-1987
Brother Brian Jay Jenkins 1918-2013
Burial Artesia Cemetery, Cerritos, Los Angeles County, California
Created by Peggy Hooper Jan 05, 2005
-- Find A Grave Memorial #10230011,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10230011/ralph-david-jenkins
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Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
Sallie M Smith
Spouse R S Jenkins
Marriage Date 17 Feb 1898
Attala County
1900 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 2 July, Beat 4, District 9,
page 8B, Hse #374, Fam #380
Jenkins, Rederick S Head W M Dec 1880 19 Married 0 yrs MS MS MS Farmer Rents
Jenkins, Sallie M Wife W F May 1882 18 Married 0 yrs 0 children/0 living
Single MS MS MS
Reddick Smith Jenkins
Birth 21 DEC 1879 Attala County, Mississippi
Death 9 OCT 1951 Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi
Parents:
Samuel Oliver Jenkins 1842-1918
Sarah M "Ann" Smith 1845-1900
Spouse Sallie Malinda Smith 1881-1956
-- Jenkins Family,
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/35326052/person/280059654145/facts?ftm=1
1860 Federal Census, Richmond County, Virginia, 18 July, PO Albemarle, page 129
(scan 65), Hse #936, Fam #940
George Jenkins 42 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $300 Personal born VA Cannot read &
write [b abt 1818]
Mary Jenkins 41 F born VA Cannot read & write [b abt 1819]
James Jenkins 19 M born VA [b abt 1831]
Washn Jenkins 15 M Farmer born VA [b abt 1845]
Nancy Jenkins 11 M born VA [b abt 1849]
Reuben Jenkins 9 M born VA [b abt 1847]
Franky Jenkins 7 F born VA [b abt 1853]
George Henry Jenkins 2mos M born VA [b abt May
1860]
Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
Rachel Sanders
Marriage 3 Jul 1815 Westmoreland County, Virginia
Spouse Reuben Jenkins
Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917
George Jenkins
Birth abt 1813 Richmond County
Death 21 Aug 1860 Richmond, Virginia
Death Age 47
Father Name Reubin Jenkins
Mother Name Rachael
Jenkins
The 1910 census listed her two names as one, spelled Rhondafay.
1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 2 May, District #239, p #18A,
Wall Township, Marlow City, Fourth Ward, Family #347
Jenkins, Joseph A Head M W 43 m-2 9-yrs TX SC MS City Marshall
Jenkins, Julia V Wife F W 29 m-1 9-yrs 5/4 GA (should be TX) GA TX (should be
NC)
Jenkins, Rondafay Dau F W 3 s OK TX TX
In 1912 Rhonda went to Canada along with her mother and all the children, when
they went to join her father Joe in British Columbia, where he had gone to
work on a highway project.
Canadian Immigration Records, White Rock, British Columbia, 12 Dec 1912
Jenkins, Mrs Jennie Female age 30 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train
CMR 356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver $3.00 Cash To Husband
Jenkins, Ronda Fay age Female 5 Farmer Born Texas Citizen of Texas Train CMR
356 from Oklahoma to Vancouver.
The family moved back to Oklahoma, at the beginning of the war or soon after.
In the 1920 census, Mt View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma she is listed as Ronda F
Jenkins.
1920 Federal Census, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, 3 January, Mt View, District 14,
Page 1A, Hse/Fam #1
Jenkins, Joseph A Head M W 54 TX NC MS Farmer
Jenkins, Juliva V Wife FW 39 TX GA NC
Jenkins, Ronda F Dau F W 12 OK TX TX
After graduation from high school, Rhonda attended Draughon's Business School
in Oklahoma City. It is not known how long her course there was, but we have
one grade report sent by the school to her parents in September 1926. She was
with her parents in their home in Ft Cobb, Oklahoma, for the 1930 census. Not
long afterwards she moved to Amarillo, Texas, where she took up her career
work in the business world.
The 1930 census also combined her names as Rondafaye.
1930 Federal Census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, 1 April, Fort Cobb, District 26,
p 9A, Hse #181, Fam #215
Joe A Jenkins Head M W 63 TX MS MS
Julia Jenkins Wife F W 49 TX GA NC
Rondafaye Jenkins dau F W 22 OK TX TX
It was likely in Amarillo that Rhonda met and married Russell Hugh Boyd.
Rhonda and Russ never had any children. They lived in Amarillo.
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Mrs. R. Boyd Complimented
Mrs. Russell Boyd, who was Miss Rhonda Jenkins before her recent marriage, was
complimented recently at a miscellaneous shower given in the home of Mrs J B
Clayton.
Bridge was played during the afternoon.
Attending besides the honoree were Misses Lahoma Jenkins, Frances Ellison,
Cicelia Wilkinson, Claire Hull, Mesdames C W Manley, Floyd Richards and E M
THompson.
Miss Chloie Hall sent a gift.
-- Amarillo Globe, Amarillo, Texas, Tuesday, 25 November 1941
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U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1949, p 67
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda J) h 1403b Ong
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1951, p 53
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda) slsmn h 3614 Cline rd
The 1952 directory reported Russ and Rhonda at the same Cline Road address.
The 1953 directory reported them as resident on West 14th Street.
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1953, p 73
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda) h 615 W 14th av apt 1
By 1954 they had moved again and were reported living on Lawson Lane.
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1954, p 62
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda) h 1811 Lawson la
The 1956 and 1957 directory report their address as Crockett Street in
Amarillo.
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1956, p 193
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda) emp Quonset and Stran Steel Builldings h 929 Crockett
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Amarillo, Texas, City Directory, 1957, p 202
Boyd Russell H (Rhonda) slsmn Plains Steel Bldg h 929 Crockett
Rhonda was active in business and civic affairs. One activity was the
Toastmistress Club. In 1958 an article in the Amarillo paper reported she had
been elected as secretary of her club.
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Toastmistress Club Meets
Toastmistress Club members met recently at the Dresden Inn for election and
installation of officers for the new club year. The new slate includes:
president, Mrs. Charles Hoppin; vice-president, Mrs. Evelyn Pate; secretary,
Mrs. Russell Boyd; and treasurer, Mrs. Gomer Jones. They were inducted by
Mrs. Frank Hoyt.
Mrs. Jones, toastmistress for the evening, presented a past president's pin to
the retiring president, Mrs. Regen Haigh.
Mrs. Hoyt was named by the group as outstanding toastmistress for the past
term.
Topic mistress was Mrs. Myrtle Gilmore. Members gave impromptu speeches on
the subject, "Men From Mars."
It was announced that a speech contest will be conducted Jan. 27, the place to
be announced later.
Guests at the installation dinner, were Mesdames Robert Boynton, Eugene
Augter, V. G. Schlegel, Dan Foran, Lucille Richardson, Jack Self, Peggy Dyer
and Morris Bean.
-- Amarillo Globe-Times, 15 January 1958, found among the papers and photos
of Julia Virginia
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Rhonda was in a hospital in Dallas when she died. Her obituary (see below)
seems to indicate that they had moved their residence to Anadarko, Oklahoma,
some time before her death. Her brother Asa lived in Anadarko. Rhonda
suffered with cancer near the end of her life. Rhonda was being treated for
this in Dallas, Texas, as I rememebr it. But she died there due to infeciton
from heart surgery in 1963. Her husband took her body to Chillicothe,
Missouri, to bury her in his family plot.
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Mrs. Russell Boyd to be Buried Here
Mrs. Russell (Rhonda) Boyd, 55, of Anadarko, Okla., died Friday at a hospital
in Dallas, Texas.
The body is being returned to Chillicothe for burial and will arrive at noon
Tuesday.
Burial services will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Leopolis
cemetery.
The body will be in state Tuesday evening at the Gordon Home for Funerals.
-- The Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune, Monday, Aug 12, 1963, p 1
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Graveside Rites for Mrs Rhonda F Boyd
Graveside Services for Mrs. Rhonda Fay Boyd, 55, who died Friday at Dallas,
Tex., were held at 10 o'clock this morning at Leopolis cemetery, conducted by
Fr. Francis Russ of Trenton.
Burial was under the direction of the Gordon Home For Funerals.
The casket bearers were Forrest McKenzie, James McKenzie, Joe McKenzie, Mark
McKenzie, Bill Feeney and Everett Boyd.
Mrs. Boyd, a daughter of Joseph A. Jenkins and Julia Virginia (Terry) Jenkins,
was born on Aug. 24, 1907 at Marlow, Okla.
Survivors of Mrs. Boyd are her husband, Russell Boyd of the home, 508 W.
Alabama, Anadarko, Okla.; three brothers, Asa Jenkins, Anadarko, Orville
Jenkins, Conway, Ark., and B. J. Jenkins, Los Angeles, Calif.; five sisters,
Mrs. Sally Christian, Chickasha, Okla, Mrs. Mary Yates, Pauls Valley, Okla.,
Mrs. Mable Hill, Chickasha, Mrs. Charles Hendron, Santa Barbara, Calif, and
Mrs. Leonard Calloway [Lenard Callaway], Midwest City, Okla. [Her mother is
not mentioned among survivors, yet did not die until 1966.]
She was preceded in death by her father, two brothers and two sisters.
-- The Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune, Wednesday, Aug 14, 1963,
p 1
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I finally had a confirmation of their shift of residence to Anadarko when I
found her death certificate in July 2014. This stated Rhonda's residence as
408 West Alabama St, Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma. The death certificate
does not report, as in some states, how long Anadarko has been her residence.
My memory of her illness was that she was suffering from cancer of a period of
time, and was in Dallas periodically for treatment. I was surprised to find
that this was not reported as the cause of death, but rather a bacterial
infection that developed from an aortic bypass surgery.
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Rhonda Boyd [Rhonda Jenkins]
Birth 24 Aug 1907 Oklahoma
Residence Anadarko, Caddo, Oklahoma
Occupation Housewife
Father Joseph A Jenkins
Mother Virginia Lewis [should be Virginia Terry]
Husband Russell H Boyd
Age at Death 55, Death 9 Aug 1963 Gaston Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Length of stay in hospital 18 days
Cause of death Septicemia due to Psuedomonas [a bacterial infection], due to
infected Aorto Iliac bypass Graft
Other significant conditions: Arteriosclerotic Occlusive Disease of Aorta
Removal 10 August 1963 for burial in Leopolis Cemetery, Livingston County,
Missouri, by Sparkman's Inc
Filed 12 August 1963, Filed State 12 September 1963
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Certificate 49280
Rhonda Boyd
Death 9 Aug 1963, Dallas County, Texas
Rhonda and Russ are both buried in the Leopolis Cemetery, located eight miles
north of Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri.
I list here all the Boyds in the cemetery:
BOYD, Donna Rita Ann Handford
BOYD, Harold T.
BOYD, Manus C.
BOYD, Mary Patricia
BOYD, Rhonda Fay
BOYD, Robert E.
BOYD, Russell H.
BOYD, Samuel E.
-- Leapolis Cemetery listings, http://www.cemphoto.com/Pages/Page%2067.htm
Updates and family links were submitted to Rhonda's memorial on Find a Grave,
and these were added oin February 2015. Here is the updated memorial.
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Rhonda Fay Boyd
Birth Aug 24, 1907 Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA
Death Aug 9, 1963 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Parents:
Joseph Asa Jenkins (1866 - 1962)
Julia Virginia Terry Jenkins (1880 - 1966)
Spouse Russell H Boyd (1906 - 1966)
Siblings:
Mabel Clare Jenkins Hill (1901 - 1990)
Thomas Asa Jenkins (1903 - 1969)
Nannie May Jenkins (1905 - 1906)
Arthur Carthal Jenkins (1909 - 1955)
Orville Lee Jenkins (1912 - 1987)
Gladys Lahoma Jenkins Hendron (1914 - 1991)
Martha Netheline Jenkins Callaway (1918 - 2007)
Virginia Jo Jenkins (1925 - 1930)
Half-siblngs:
James Everett Jenkins (1886-1963)
Joseph Benjamin Jenkins (1889-1978)
Sallie Hester Jenkins Christian (1893 - 1982)
Ocy Belle Jenkins (1896 - 1896)
Mary Nettie Jenkins Yates (1897 - 1991)
Burial Leopolis Cemetery, Livingston County, Missouri
Created by Cookie Rist Huckaby Sep 01, 2010
-- Find A Grave Memorial #57994008,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57994008/boyd
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From the research of Orville Boyd Jenkins, nephew of Rhonda Fay Jenkins Boyd
Last updated 1 December
2019
1850 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 5 September, Hse/Fam #136
Samuel Jenkins 66 M Farmer $300 Real Estate b SC
Richard Jenkins 1 M b Miss
1860 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 18 September, PO Attalaville,
page 203 (scan #463), Hse #1277, Fam #1396
Samuel Jenkins 66 M Farmer $800 Real Estate $700 Personal born SC [b abt
1794]
Nancy Jenkins 40 M Housekeeper born SC
Dick Jenkins 11 M b Miss
In 1870, Richard was enumerated worknig on the Walker farm near the Jenkins
home.
1870 Federal Census, Attala County, Mississippi, 3 June, PO Kosciusko, page 5,
Hse/Fam #33
Walker, Isaac 53 M W Farming $0 Real Estate $1000 Personal born Tennessee [b
abt 1817]
Walker, Nancy 52 F W Keeping House b Alabama Cannot write [b abt 1818]
Walker, George S 20 M W Works on Farm born Alabama Cannot write [b abt 1850]
Walker, Isaac T 14 M W Works on Farm born Alabama Cannot write [b abt 1856]
Walker, James B 12 M W Works on Farm born Mississippi Cannot write [b abt
1858]
Walker, Edgar J 6 M W At School born Mississippi [b abt 1864]
Walker, Mary F 16 F W At School born Alabama [b abt 1854]
Walker, Nancy L 8 F W At School born Mississippi [b abt 1862]
Buckner, M W 22 M W Works on Farm born Mississippi [b abt 1848]
** Jenkins, R W 20 M W Works on Farm born Mississippi [b abt 1850] **
Dulenes, Henry 25 M W Works on Farm born North Carolina [b abt 1845]
Evans, John 25 M W Works on Farm born North Carolina [b abt
1845]