Eldon Adler
Funeral services for Eldon Henry Adler, 89, of Weatherford, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Zion Church of Weatherford.
Adler died Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, at the Clinton Veterans Center where he had lived since May 2014.
He was born June 20, 1926, in the family farm home three miles north of Corn, to Henry and Rena (Kissler) Adler. He attended Enterprise rural school, then Weatherford H.S. where he graduated in 1944.
After graduating Adler helped his father on the family farm until 1945, when he was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps. He served stateside from July 1945 until his honorable discharge in November 1946.
In 1949 he married Rosella Sauer at Zion Congregational Church, which was then located only two miles from his childhood home. The couple farmed on the home place for six years before moving into Weatherford. They had one child, Larry Paul, in 1955.
Adler worked for some time with A.J. Sawatzky in the construction business. He then operated a Phillips 66 service station on Main Street in Weatherford.
In 1961 he opened Adler’s Conoco at 817 E. Main, a business he ran for more than 25 years.
Adler was a board member of the Weatherford Area Chamber of Commerce during his business career. He also was involved in the Kiwanis Club for many years. He was a lifelong member of Zion Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents; four sisters, Rachel Kaiser, Dorothy Genett, Ethel Dalton and Adelia Yost; an older brother in infancy; and three brothers-in-law, Clarence Kaiser, Frank Genett and Woodrow Yost.
Survivors include his wife of 66 years, Rosella, of the home in Weatherford; one son, Larry Adler and his wife, Terry, of Edmond; two grandsons, Justin Adler and wife Brooke, of Charlotte, N.C. and Derek Adler and fiancée Brittney Taylor, also of Charlotte, N.C.; one granddaughter, Taylor Adler, of Weatherford; two great-grandsons, Hudson Brennan Adler and Merritt Henry Adler, both of Charlotte, N.C.; and husband, Dan, of Celina, Texas; and one brother-in-law, Kyle Dalton of Bonham, Texas.
Services will be officiated by Pastor Ron Thiessen. Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to Zion Church or the Clinton Veterans Center.