Willis Walker Koonce

1909 - 1986  (76 years)

• Name	Willis Walker Koonce  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	27 Aug 1909	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	12 Apr 1940	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [5]
  	1. Koonce, Willis, head, renting, value $3, male, white, 30, married, completed 4 years high school, born Missouri, same place in 1935, accountant, OGE, $1800 income 2. _____, Lorena, wife, female, white, 32, married, completed 4 years high school, Oklahoma 3. _____, Carol, daughter, female, white, 4 months, Oklahoma
  MILITARY	14 Jan 1944  [6]
  	Navy, service ended 27 August 1945.
  Residence	Nov 1957	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [7]
  Died	Feb 1986	Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I2376	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Houston Koonce,   b. 18 Nov 1867, Norris City, White, Illinois, USA ,   d. 1928, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Coantha Lenora "Nora" Walker,   b. 25 Jan 1868, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 24 Nov 1957, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 89 years)
  Married	15 Aug 1891	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [8, 9]
  Family ID	F1180	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bertha Lorene "Beanie" Meredith
  Children	1. Helen Carol Koonce,   b. 11 Jan 1940, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA ,   d. 5 Feb 2012, Texas, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F3133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] Missouri - Death records 1910 - 1955 (MO Archives online), («i»Missouri Digital Heritage«/i» (http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/), "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1956," digital image,), File # 36083 Buried Walker Chapel (Reliability: 3). [S92] Oklahoma, Lincoln - 1910 U.S. Census, 1910 U.S. census, Union township, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, ED 114, Sheet 4A, Dwelling 71, Family 71, Robert H. Koonce family, jpeg image (Reliability: 3). [S6125] "U.S., World War II Draft Registration cards," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 October 2020), Willis Walker, serial no. 1053, order no. 323, Local Board Chandler County, Oklahoma; citing The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) for the State of Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147. [S457] SSDI - Ancestry.com, (Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Index," database, «i»Ancestry.com«/i» (http://www.ancestry.com/)), Number: 440-03-8756; Issue State: Oklahoma; Issue Date: Before 1951 (Reliability: 3). [S6123] 1940 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Chandler, enumeration district (ED) 41-6, sheet 61A (penned), p. 69 (stamped, recto), visited no. [not stated], Willis Koonce household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 October 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3306. [S6124] "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 October 2020), entry for Willis Koonce, SS no. 440-03-8756; citing Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D. C. [S6119] "Services Held Tues. for Coantha LaNora Koonce" The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Oklahoma), 27 November 1957, p. 1, col. 4; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 3 October 2020). [S38] Missouri, Howell - Marriage Book 3 & 4, 1889 - 1893 (book, Gen Soc'y), (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1992), Book 4, Page 7 (Reliability: 3). Robert H. Koonce to Cautha [sic] L. Walker, on 15 August 1891, by Samuel T. Proffitt, Minister. [S2832] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 Oct 2012), Howell County, marriage license no. 1648 [loose papers, jacket only, no return], for Robert H. Koonce-Coantha L. Walker (1891); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. .