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| W.F. "Bill" Gerber July 18, 1918 December 4, 2007 |
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| Cherokee-Funeral service for W.F. “Bill” Gerber, age 89, will be Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 2:00 P.M. at the United Methodist Church in Cherokee with Rev. Jim Edmison and Rev. Tom Cooksey officiating. Burial will be at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Cherokee. Viewing will be Friday from 9:00 A.M. until 7:00 P.M. with the family present from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home. The casket will be open after the service at the church. Bill was born on July 18, 1918 in Cherokee to Glenn and Edna Gerber and died Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at Greenbriar Nursing Home in Enid. He grew up in the Byron community and graduated from Byron High School in 1937. On July 19, 1941 he married Helen Goeken in the Cherokee Methodist Church. He enlisted to serve his country in the United States Navy in 1944 and spent his military career in Guam. After his discharge he and Helen moved to Cherokee where they farmed and ran the Gerber Dairy. In 1958 they moved to Denver, Colorado where he owned Gerber Fountain Equipment Company. Bill and Helen retired in 1982 and moved to Cherokee where he resided until his death. Bill was a member of the United Methodist Church, Order of the Eastern Star, Scottish Rites in Denver, Colorado and was a 32nd Degree Mason. Surviving are two daughters, Jean Carpenter and husband, Don of Cherokee and Gelnda Hachenberger and husband, Don of Steamboat Springs, Colorado; one sister, Mary Jane Evans of Cherokee; two brothers, Glenn Gerber of Lehi, Utah and Robert E. Gerber of Vancouver, Washington; nine grandchildren, Susan Yarborough Teresa Yarborough, Annalisa and Tim Roggow, James Carpenter, Jeff and Carol Carpenter, Lance and Ingrid Carpenter, Tammy Duncan, Kristen and Peter Colangelo, D.J. Hachenberger; eighteen great-grandchildren, one great- great-grandchild; one sister-in-law, Ada Goeken and many friends and relatives. Bill was preceded in death by his wife, Helen; his parents; one brother and one great-grandchild, Justin Snider. Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the Cherokee Library Memorial Fund – Pioneer Spirit Foundation. |
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