DeLapp, Jessie John

Funeral services for Jessie John DeLapp, 60 year old former Picher Oklahoma policeman, will be conducted at the First Baptist church at Picher at 2:30 pm Tuesday. The Rev. Gloyde Lukehart will officate. He will be assisted by the Rev. C. E. Bergen. Pallbearers will be Carl Patterson, John Halcomb, Hap Mallett, Henry Fort, Gene Crockett and Richmond Hattabaugh. Honorary pallbearers include Pete Stallion, Earl Bogard, Fred Spoon, Bill King and Alex Laswell. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery at Miami, under direction of the Morton-Lundy funeral home. The body will lie in state at the family home from 6 pm today until the funeral hour. A retired stonemason and miner, DeLapp died at his home, following an illness of about three years. He had lived in Picher since 1917 and was a member of the First Baptist church. DeLapp, served on the police force in 1942.

Jessie John DeLapp, 60 year old retired miner and a former Picher police officer died at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at his home at 540 South Ottawa Street, Picher. He was born to Abe Delapp and Maggie Delapp, Sep 30, 1890, at Webb City Missouri. He moved to Muskogee Oklahoma with his parents at the age of eight, where he learned the trade of his father, a stone mason. In 1911 he was married to Miss Louise White, moving to the Picher area in 1917. He worked in the mines until 1942 and then served a year on the local police force, retiring due to ill health. He was a member of the First Baptist church. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Louise DeLapp; three sons, Jessie Ray DeLapp of Picher, Carl Delapp and Lloyd DeLapp of Kansas City; a daughter, Mrs. Edna Mae Breedlove of Picher; three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Todd and Mrs. C. R. Page of Muskogee Oklahoma and Mrs. W. H. Hanerford of Tulsa Oklahoma; and eight grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Picher First Baptist church with the Rev. Lloyd Lukehart officiating. He was assisted by the pastor, Rev. C. E. Bergen. Burial was in the G.A.R. cemetery at Miami, under the direction of the Morton Lundy funeral home of Picher. Pallbearers were Carl Patterson, John Holcomb, Hap Mallett, Henry Ford, Gene Crockett and Richard Hattabaugh. Honorary pallbearers were: Pete Stallion, Earl Bogard, Fred Spoon, Will King and Alex Laswell.