Leroy Deaton

1920 - 2007  (86 years)

• Name	Leroy Deaton
  Born	21 Aug 1920	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	19 Apr 1930	Choctaw township, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA   [3]
  	1. Deaton, James W., head, owns farm, male, white, 36, married, first married age 24, can read and write, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, farmer, general farm, not a veteran, farm schedule no. 167 2. _____, Minnie A., wife, female, white, 34, married, first married age 22, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 3. _____, Estell C., son, male, white, 11, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Leroy, son, male, white, 9, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 5. _____, Floyd M., son, male, white, 5, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri
  	1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Choctaw township, enumeration district (ED) 07, sheet 10A (penned, recto), p. 87 (stamped, recto), dwelling 232, family 237, James W. Deaton household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, [roll not stated].
  Census	26 Apr 1940	Case township, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USA   [1]
  	1. Deaton, J. W., head, male, white, 46, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, in 1935 Oklahoma County Oklahoma, farmer, truck farming, farm schedule 93 2. _____, Minnie, wife, female, white, 44, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, housework, general housework 3. _____, Leroy, son, male, white, 19, attending school, completed 1 year college, born Oklahoma, student, state university 4. _____, Floyd M., son, male, white, 15, attending school, completed grade 8, born Oklahoma, public school student 5. _____, Carrie Dean, daughter, female, white, 9, attending school, completed grade 3, born Oklahoma 6. _____, Walter E., son, male, white, 7, attending school, completed grade 1, born Oklahoma
  Died	26 Apr 2007	Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA   [2]
  Biography	4 May 2007	Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA   [2, 4]
  	Obituary: "LeRoy Deaton Born: Chandler, Oklahoma, August 21, 1920 Died: Austin, Texas, April 26, 2007 Farm boy of James William and Minnie DeBoard Deaton along with Estle, Floyd, Carrie, and Walter Baseball Player, Oklahoma University Married: Carolyn M. Sayler, the Queenbee, 1941, who survives him after 66 years of marriage. Family man: Son William J. Deaton. M.D., and Patti, who is gone; grandchildren Carolyn Atkinson and Doug (1st is on the way), and Christina Deaton - attorneys all, made him happy and proud. WWII: Third Army (Patton), Bastogne, Belgium to Linz, Austria earning a Bronze Star for dodging Nazi machine gun and sniper fire while toting injured American soldiers from the field of battle. Liberators of Mauthausen Concentration Camp and greeters of Russians at the most eastern American front. Business man: CEO Frazier Sports, Waco, Texas; from a two man venture to a thriving Corporation. Founding sponsor: Lakeway Church, Lakeway, Texas. LeRoy, a man, one of many of that generation, although reared in poverty not known today, from the farm in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl , never complained. LeRoy , a man, one of many of that generation who left their fledgling families to go to war to preserve our freedom, returned and went to work and never complained - one of many of that great generation. He loved: His life. His Family, His Friends, His Lord. The family praises all the dedicated professionals
  	"Funerals and Memorials: LeRoy Deaton," Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas),4 May 2007, p. B4 [20], col. 1; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 12 June 2021).
  Person ID	I1725	Full
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	James William "Bill" Deaton,   b. 2 Feb 1894, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. Mar 1981, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Minnie Anna Deboard,   b. May 1895, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. Feb 1983, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma  (Age ~ 87 years)
  Married	1918	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA
  Family ID	F229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Carolyn Madonna Saylor,   b. 1919,   d. 2018  (Age 99 years)
  Married	1941  [2]
  Children	1. Dr. William J. Deaton
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F3208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S6328] 1940 U.S. census, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Case township, enumeration district (ED) 14-3, sheet 5B (penned, recto), p. 27 (stamped, verso), visited no. 106, J. W. Deaton household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3284. [S6329] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 June 2021), memorial 19199827, for LeRoy Deaton (1920?2007), digital photo of marker and unattributed obit, citing Austin Memorial Park Cemetery (Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA). [S6326] 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Choctaw township, enumeration district (ED) 07, sheet 10A (penned, recto), p. 87 (stamped, recto), dwelling 232, family 237, James W. Deaton household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 June 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, [roll not stated]. [S6330] "Funerals and Memorials: LeRoy Deaton," Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas),4 May 2007, p. B4 [20], col. 1; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 12 June 2021).