SERVICES FOR SHOE DEALER SET TODAY

Ernest LeCompte Burial To Be in Fairlwn Services for Ernest LeCompte,. 54 years old, 1416 West Thirty-Fifth Street who died Friday, will be conducted by Rev. Samuel M. Gibson from the Street & Draper mortuary at 4 pm, Saturday. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery.

Bearers will be Edward McKay. Paul Strieby. Rex Kendall. James Thomas. Barrett Galloway. and Hugh N. Roberts of Wichita, Kan.

Coming here front Ottumwa. Iowa. in 1912. LeCompte started the Booterie shoe store and since has opened other stores.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Betty and Edith, of Oklahoma City; his mother, Mrs. J. E. Mitchell of Ottumwa and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Day Fezler, of Oklahoma City.

submitted August 2009 by Zoey Fryhover, transcriber.