This information is offered FREE If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. Caddo Co. OK Obits ================================================= CLARENCE HENRY CHAMBERS Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Caddo County, Oklahoma Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1951 Died: Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1951 "Tim Chambers" CHAMBERS SERVICES SET FOR 10 A.M. Services for C. H. Chambers, pioneer businessman, will be at 10 a. m. Thursday in the First Christian church with Harry Hubbard, minister, preaching the sermon. Arrangements are in charge of the Pitcher funeral home and burial will be in the Carnegie cemetery. Masonic rites will be administered at the grave. Mr. Chambers died at 5:10 a. m. Tuesday in the Carnegie hospital after suffering from a heart ailment for about a year. He attended the Quarterback club meeting in the ball park Thursday night and became ill about 10 p. m. He was taken to the hospital Friday morning. A year ago he suffered a heart attack and was in the hospital several weeks. Since then he has followed a strict routine of quiet. He retired from active business and spent most of his time at home. His hobby was baseball and the Carnegie park was his pride and joy. He attended the games the tournament just closed and saw the last bond paid on the park indebtedness. Clarence Henry Chambers was born Dec. 20, 1871, in Windsor, Mo. He went to Wichita at the age of 16, attended school and worked in a grocery. Later he acquired an interest in the store. He was married to Elizabeth Lyons Oct. 16, 1898 in Wichita. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers came to Oklahoma in 1902, locating on the farm which they still own southeast of Carnegie. After two years on the farm, Chambers came to Carnegie to work in the Citizens bank. In 1905 he and J. R. Littlejohn formed the Littlejohn & Chambers partnership. In 1911 the Chambers & Creel partnership built the 50 x 140 building where the business is now located. Chambers bought Creel out in 1920. The chamber of commerce recently presented Clarence a plaque in recognition of his 30 years service as treasurer of that body. He served on the Little World Series committee 21 years, and was a member of the school board 12 years. He was made a Mason in 1914 and was a member of Carnegie lodge No. 294 at the time of his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers of the home; a daughter, Mrs. E. E. Reynolds of this place; two sisters, Mrs. Emily Irwin, Lawrence, Kan., and Mrs. Faye Davison, Wichita; and three grandchildren, Mrs. E. H. Cooper, Lubbock , Texas, Miss Dorris Ambler, Clinton, and Harold Ambler, Rocksprings, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. Ambler, Capt. and Mrs. Cooper and Miss Ambler arrived Wednesday to attend the funeral. sbumitted by Tim Chambers