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W. Clyde

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Shelton

Dec 12, 1913 — Nov 30, 2009

Obituary

Age 95, Fairfax, Virginia - Services will be 1:00 p.m. Friday in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with The Rev. Dr. William B. Carlin, II, Rector officiating. Mr. Shelton died November 30 in Fairfax, Virginia. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born December 12, 1913 in Klondike, Texas, and spent his early childhood in Hugo, Oklahoma, and moved to Lawton in 1930. He graduated from Cameron State School of Agriculture in 1935 and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1938. He then joined his father's general construction company in Lawton, A.C. Shelton and Son. He married Elvira Crooks on September 23, 1939 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She preceded him in death on February 1, 1997. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II and returned to become the owner of the W.C. Shelton Co. from 1947 until his retirement in 1977. During his 40 years in the construction business in Lawton he built may prominent buildings including the Lawtonian Hotel, the Great Plains Museum, the McMahon-Tomlinson Nursing Center, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and various schools, commercial buildings, churches and hospitals in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. He was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and served as president of both the Oklahoma Builder's Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Lawton Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Rotary Club, the board of the Waurika Project Master Conservancy District, and served as chairman of the Adjustment Board of the City of Lawton. Survivors include a son and daughter in law, Stanley and Mary "Tink" Shelton, Fairfax, Virginia; two grandchildren, Michael Shelton and fiancé Ashley Padvelskis and Stephanie Sydes and husband Chris; two great grandchildren, Jacob and Julie Sydes. Memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 2576, Lawton OK 73502.

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