OKGenWeb Project 
Contributed by
Mary
Knight McGarr
Wetumka H.S. Football Team -
1926
Hughes County, Oklahoma
Row 3 (back row): Coach Ed Morrison, Fred
Bement, Clay Brady, George Montgomery, Barney Wise, Thurl Jarrett, Unknown
Hamilton, Leo Gillie, turner McCoy, Walter "Preacher's Boy" Wood,
Leon Thompson, Orville Gamble, Roland Smith, Assistant Coach Bob Louder.
Row 2: J. B. Gault, William McCoy, Bryan
Thompson, William Phelps, Jack Knight, "Kozy" Burke, Wayne Chowin
and Unknown.
Row 1: Gibson Palmer, Gene Kinnard, Glen
Bowden, Cloyce Maston, Harold Morrison, and Clark Knight.
Who They Are and What Happened to Them:
Clark Knight is my father. He lived in El
Paso, TX and worked for Piggly Wiggly. He was a pilot.
Jack Knight was my uncle. He also lived in
El Paso, TX and worked for the El Paso Electric Company.
Roland Smith was my uncle (on my mother's side)
and he was a plumber and lived in Ft. Worth.
Gibson Palmer was my father's cousin. He became
a building contractor. He was building a house and fell off the roof and
was killed.
Gene Kinnard became a lawyer. He was an
Indian.
Glen Bowden was in oil driller in Southern
California.
Cloyce Maston was a civil engineer for the state
of Oklahoma.
William McCoy was a car deal and sold
Studebakers. He was an Indian.
Bryan Thompson was a landscape engineer at
Oklahoma A&M. He was my father's best friend.
William Phelps sold real estate.
Kozy Burke was employed at the State Capitol of
Oklahoma.
Wayne Chowin was an oil field worker.
Coach Ed Morrison was president of a college in
Guymon, Oklahoma.
Fred Bement was a prize fighter.
Clay Brady was a farmer.
George Montgomery was an oil field worker.
Barney Wise owned a cleaners.
Charlie Hamilton was a newspaper reporter.
His parents were clerks in a grocery store and decided to become lawyers.
They took correspondence courses and passed the bar exam.
Leo Gillie was a florist in Wewoka, Oklahoma
Turner McCoy was a car dealer. He was an
Indian.
Leon Thompson was killed in a football game.
Orville Gamble ran a filling station.
Bob Louder was the Chief of Police.
The accuracy of these statements is based upon
the 70+ year old memory of my father who passed away in 1992.
