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Created:  21 Jul 2017
 

 

       AMERICAN VETERAN

Sapulpa Daily Herald 
              Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma
             
April 19, 1989

Monte L. Tanton, 49, of 1127 E. Moman died Tuesday at Sallisaw Hospital, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, after an apparent heart attack.

Services are scheduled for 10 am Friday at Smith Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Fred Brown officiating. 

Burial will be in Green Hills Memorial Gardens. The casket will be closed at the service, but Mr. Tanton’s body will lie in state until 9 am Friday. Mr. Tanton was born July 10, 1939, in Sapulpa and had lived here all his life.

He served in the Navy from 1958 to 1961 and was employed at Hasco Manufacturing. Mr. Tanton was a member of Christ Church in Tulsa.

He married Phyllis Carroll in Sapulpa 27 years ago.

Survivors include wife Phyllis Tanton; grandmother Mae Claudine of Stockton, California; son Michael Leon Tanton, at home; daughter Kellie DiAnn Henshaw of Scott, Arkansas; brothers Joe Pat Tanton of Sapulpa and Danny Tanton of Sand Springs; and one grandson.

 

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Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.

 

 



 
  

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