Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma
Monday, February 3, 1975
page 10

W. K. Banks Dies at 74

William Kinley Banks, 74, of 209 S. Water, died Sunday morning at his home after suffering an apparent heart attack.

Born Aug 31, 1900, in Kentucky, he came to Oklahoma in 1908. He retired in 1966 from the L. B. Jackson Oil Co. after 33 years service. He was a member of the First Assembly of God church and for the past few years had served as its custodian.

Survivors are his widow Nellie of the home; two sons, Bob and William Kinley Banks, Jr., both of Sapulpa; five daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Burke of Redding, Calif., Mrs. Patricia Freeman of Bristow, and Mrs. Neoma Kelin, Mrs. Ann Kelin and Mrs. Norma Deshazer, all of Sapulpa; 19 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Sapulpa, Phil of Bakersfield, Calif., and Hobart, of Mansfield, Tex., one sister, Maude Scott of Salma, Calif., one half-brother Sol Banks of Anaheim, Calif., and one half-sister, Bercie Walton of Longview, Tex.

Services will be at 2 pm Wednesday in the First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Harold Powell officiating. Interment will be in Green Hills Memorial Gardens under direction of Smith Funeral Home.

Greenhills Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma