Jerry Duwayne Waltrip
Funeral services for Jerry Duwayne Waltrip, 72, Arapaho farmer and resident, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Clinton First Christian Church, officiated by Jeff McDowell and Randy Meacham.
Waltrip died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in the Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born July 17, 1942 to Dwayne “Trigger” Waltrip and Verna Pearl (Parr) Waltrip in Clinton.
He was raised in Arapaho where he graduated from high school in 1960 before continuing his education at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He started his farming and ranching career at a young age and had continued until his death.
Waltrip joined the Oklahoma National Guard, serving from 1960 until 1966. He drove an Arapaho school bus from 1961 until 1971 and had worked for the Midwest Farmers Co’op gin from 1965 until the present.
He was married to Jacqui Mann in 1965 in Clinton, and they made their home in Arapaho. Jacqui preceded him in death in 2000. He later married Sharla Parks-Spencer on Aug. 18, 2001 in Clinton.
They continued to make their home in Arapaho.
He was an active and faithful member of the First Christian Church and of the New Generations Sunday school class. Waltrip served on Midwest Farmers Coop Board and the Custer County Coop
Board as well as the Custer County Farm Bureau Board.
He had received his pilot’s license and flew all over western Oklahoma.
Also preceding him in death were his parents; paternal grandparents, Walter and Hester Lee Waltrip; and maternal grandparents, Otto and Pearl Parr.
Survivors include his wife, Sharla, of the home; a daughter, Yvette Johnson, and her husband, James, of Arapaho; step daughters, Shannon Merwin, and her husband, Mitchel, of Oklahoma City, and Jennifer McCammond and her husband, Joey, of Newalla; a brother, Denver Waltrip, and his wife, Carolyn, of Arapaho; five grandchildren, Renee Griffin, and husband Daniel, Jonathon Johnson, Jacky Johnson, Connor McCammond, and Abigail McCammond; and one great-grandchild, Ben Griffin.
The family has suggested memorial contributions in his honor may be made to the Arapaho School Alumni Association or the Clinton Mission House homeless shelter.
Burial will be in the Arapaho Cemetery under direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.