Leroy Deaton

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• Census: 19 Apr 1930, Choctaw township, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA; 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
• Census: 26 Apr 1940, Case township, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USA; 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
• Biography: 4 May 2007, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA; 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

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Census:
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].

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Biography:
"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).

Leroy married Carolyn Madonna Saylor in 1941. Carolyn was born in 1919; died in 2018. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]