AMERICAN VETERAN
Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
May 30, 1961; pg 14
Leavitts
Funeral Rites
Planned Here
Services for John Henry Leavitts, 85, of 301 N
Gardner, city real estate man who died Monday, will
be at 4 pm Wednesday in Street & Draper Funeral
Home. Burial will be In
Arlington Memorial Cemetery.
Leavitt, born in Frankfort,
Kan. came to Oklahoma in 1890 with the opening of
the Cherokee Strip. He moved to Oklahoma City in
1909.
He was in the real estate business for 30 years. He
was past president of the State and Oklahoma City
Real Estate Boards and had served as county chairman
for the Republican Party. Ho was a former member of
Rotary International.
Surviving are his wife. Julia Anno, of the home; a
daughter. Mrs. Walter S. Jones. 5678 NW 36: a son.
Dr. John A. Tulsa and two stepdaughters, Mrs. C.
Julian Vahlburg. 2232 NW 56, and Mrs. Mary Jane
Crooks, of the home.