Raymond Frank Tener 442-34-0756
Gov of Okla named a special day for Ray , in proclamation and award. Had Teners Western Wear near stockyards in OKC at 4320 W Reno.
Rode in a covered wagon to Guthrie to Okla Constitutional Convention where father was member of convention, where family lived for about year while convention held.On 12/7/1941 Raymond and his mother went to church at St Francis in OKC while at same time so did Mary Kathleen Sprehe and her mother Ella Devlin Sprehe to pray after hearing of the tragedy of that day at Pearl Harbor. After church was over Raymond and his mother gave Mary Kathleen and Ella a ride home. Raymond was 38 then and had his store , and Mary, a schoolteacher was 32. They were married less than 6 months later.
buried OKC Resurection Sec3 Blk 18 Lot 12 #1
Raymond started Teners Western Wear Store near stockyards in OKC in 1930. His brothers became involved later.
Ray had a favorite in Will Rogers, and his quotes.middle name may be FRANKLIN but Uncle Ray referred to it as FRANK
passed bar as attorney.....memeber of Okla Bar Assoc. , but never was attorney
in 1910 census in Shawnee..as was wife to be in future.
Entrepreneurial spirit pervades Oklahoma City's historic roots
Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City) , Dec 23, 1999 by Max Nichols
Oklahoma City's development of commerce and industry during the 20th century can be boiled down to three words -- "entrepreneurs" and "small business."
There were no national firms to base Oklahoma City's economy in 1900, and few base their headquarters here today. In the vast majority of cases, entrepreneurs started from scratch with little help from outside resources to build firms that lasted for decades. Some even survived the ravages of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the devastating energy slump of the 1980s with little or no outside help. Even Kerr-McGee was started by Robert S. Kerr and James L. Anderson in 1929 with two rigs and a $50,000 debt. Dean McGee joined the firm as a geologist in 1937 and built it into a worldwide firm.
We should beat our chests with pride in the independence and strength of character that has built our economy and overcome disasters over and over. We should brag about it, instead of moaning about the effects of the "Grapes of Wrath," the dust bowl, the bank failures, tornadoes and even the bombing of the Murrah Building. It's our ability to come together and start over that sets Oklahoma City apart.
Oklahoma City was a town of 9,900 people with horse-drawn wagons and buggies filling the streets in 1900, when business leaders such as Henry Overholser, Anton Classen, John W. Shartel and Charles F. Colcord took the lead in expanding Oklahoma City business. Three railroads in Oklahoma City led to the development of the city's first major commerce -- wholesale distribution. The population jumped to 14,000 in 1901.
Firms such as the Oklahoma Cotton Compress Co., the William- Halsell-Frazier wholesale grocery firm, Plansifter Mills and the Oklahoma Furniture Manufacturing Co. took early advantage of the railroads to ship goods here from major markets and distribute them around Oklahoma. R.A. Vose came to Oklahoma City to join the cotton compress firm, and he eventually helped build the First National Bank.
Classen, Shartel and Overholser, who had brought six prefabricated buildings to the city shortly after the 1889 Land Run, helped organized the first streetcar firm in 1902. That led to housing development and the Delmar Gardens amusement park and an expansion of the city. Classen, Shartel, E.K. Gaylord and Sydney Brock helped the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce in raising $300,000 to attract the Nelson Morris & Co. as the first meat packing firm in here 1908. Colcord, Oscar Lee (Lee Hotel) and C.G. Mills joined the money- raising effort.
Colcord, a former lawman, built the $300,000 Colcord Building in 1909. Joe Huckins started the Huckins Hotel, while Marx and Mose Baum started the Baum Building, and W.T. Hales built the Hales Building. Frank Johnson led American National Bank in constructing a new building. E.K. Gaylord, who had bought The Daily Oklahoman in 1903, opened a new five-story building in 1909 at 500 N. Broadway.
William B. Skirvin started the Skirvin Hotel in 1910 -- a year in which investors poured $7 million into new buildings.
In 1918, Hugh Johnson, brother of Frank, bought an interest in the State National Bank. The Johnsons merged the city's two largest banks in 1927 and formed the First National Bank and Trust in 1930.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma City was booming with small business firms. M.B. Blake came from Mangum in 1910 to join his cousins in opening a wholesale dry goods company. In 1918, he helped organize the Liberty National Bank. The growth of wholesale distribution also led to the development of an assembly plant by Henry Ford in 1915 and Automobile Alley on Broadway, where more than 50 dealers were located in 1920.
It was also in 1920 that L.A. Macklanburg and a German craftsman shaped the first piece of weatherstripping. That led to Macklanburg- Duncan, a city firm that now produces more than 3,500 products. G.A. Nichols, a former dentist, began his development of more than 12 additions near streetcar lines and later developed Nichols Hills. It was also during the 1920s that Virgil Browne developed the Coca-Cola bottling operation beyond Oklahoma City. C.R. Anthony opened his first store in Cushing during 1922 and later became an Oklahoma City leader. Tom Braniff, an insurance leader, built the Braniff Building in 1923, helped pioneer group insurance and started Braniff Airlines in 1928.
Meanwhile, in 1921, S.E. Townley started Townley Dairy, and Ray Tener started Tener's Western Wear, both from scratch. Townley started with one cow and seven customers. Every time he added seven more customers, he added another cow until the firm had 20,000 cows. Tener started with the job of sweeping the shop of his uncle in Stockyards City for 15 minutes and never left. He put up $100 to become a partner.
All this expanded in 1928 with the discovery of the Oklahoma City Oil Field. The field expanded to 135 completed wells and 173 drilling rigs on location by 1930 as independent oilmen established offices here. Oilman Frank Buttrum was named Oklahoma City's Most Useful Citizen in 1926. The First National Bank started construction of a 31- story tower, and oilman W.T. Ramsey started the 31-story Ramsey Tower.
Mary Katherine Sprehe 442-48-2406
Taught in OKC schools
buried OKC Resurection S3 Blk 18 Lt 12 #2
lived at 2004 NW 18th OKC
Delegate to Okla Constitutional convention to become a state held in Guthrie. Family lived in Guthrie about a year while constitution being written. (district 42)
have seen name spelled Hyman and Hymon
H O TENERH. O. TENER, 58 years old, long prominent in state affairs, died at his home in Oklahoma City, Monday
morning, June 18, 1928.Mr. Tener was elected delegate to the Constitutional convention, from Dewey county, where he settled on
coming to the state.Mr. Tener was elected delegate to the Constitutional convention, from state and framing the laws that
govern the people of Oklahoma.Shortly after the convention had accomplished its work, Mr. Tener moved to Pottawatomie county, settling
in Shawnee; from that county he served three terms as legislator. Governor C. N. Haskell appointed him
member of the State Board of Health, where he served with distinction.Mr. Tener is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter, whose names are as follows: daughter,
Kathryn, Paul K., Raymond S., and John G., all of whom are worthy citizens of Oklahoma.from Okla Chronicles
buried Newblock section 16 Row 2 #17 at Fairlawn OKC funeral by Watts/McKeen(now Guradian) buried in Catholic section also referred to as Resurrection.
Kathryn Anna QUILLIN was b 1/7/1879 Larkinburg, Jackson Ks.
buried Fairlawn OKC blk 12 Row 1 #6 Smith /Kernke funeral home OKC buried in Catholic section also referred to as Resurrection. or blk 13 row 1 #6
Had seen name as QUILLAN or QUILLEN in 1880 census
name shows as Elizabeth in 1880 census in error, which is middle name of older sister
Larkinsburg Ks, was originally called Larkin Ks...named after her gr uncle Michael E Larkin
Leroy Fountain Sipes 442-03-0557
lived on 2200 blk of 22nd place before building new home abt 1960 on old Titus estate sub lots at 2802 S Yorktown.
Ky death cert. #11198 Vol. 023 at Woodford Ky. died in nursing home , complications of altzheimers
where he was living close to his daughters home.Buried Memorial Park Tulsa Sec-6 L-683 Space 1 next to Mary Ester. Chairman of Sipes Food Markets. Had race horses interest.
F probably stands for Fountain in his name
lived west of us at Forest and Yorktown.
SIPES, LeRoy, 82, retired president of Sipes Food Markets Inc., died Saturday. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel. Stanleys.
LeRoy Sipes funeral set for Tuesday By Staff Reports 4/16/1990
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Tulsa's Memorial Park Chapel for LeRoy Sipes, retired president of Sipes Food Markets Inc. Stanleys Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements. Sipes, 81, died Saturday in Lexington, Ky. An Oklahoma City native, he was the son of A.H. Sipes, who started the store chain in Oklahoma City as a group of neighborhood self-service markets. The first Sipes Self Service Store in Tulsa opened in 1930. LeRoy Sipes succeeded his father as head of the chain in 1939. After he opened the first Sipes Food Market in 1945, the chain won national recognition for supermarket design. Sipes also received 12 advertising excellence awards from Woman's Day and McCall's magazines. He was a member of the Food Market Institute, Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and Southern Hills Country Club. Sipes also owned and raced thoroughbred horses. Surviving are his son, David L. Sipes of Tulsa; a daughter, Marietta Conway of Versailles, Ky.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Friends are contributing to the Alzheimer FoundationRetired Sipes Chain President, 81, Dies By Staff Reports 4/15/1990
LeRoy Sipes, retired president of Sipes Food Markets Inc., died Saturday in Lexington, Ky. He was 81. Graveside services will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday in Memorial Park Cemetery, under the direction of Stanleys Funeral Service. A native of Oklahoma City, Sipes took over Sipes Inc. from his father, A.H. Sipes, who started the store chain in Oklahoma City as a group of neighborhood self-service markets. Tulsa's first Sipes Self Service Store opened in 1930. After Sipes opened the first Sipes Food Market in 1945, the chain won national recognition for modern supermarket design, including departmentalization of produce and conveyor belt checkout stands. Sipes also received 12 advertising excellence awards from Woman's Day and McCall's magazines. Sipes owned and raced thoroughbred horses. He was a member of the Food Market Institute, Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and Southern Hills Country Club. Survivors include his son, David L. Sipes of Tulsa; daughter, Marietta Conway of Versailles, Ky.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Conributions can be made to the Alzheimer's FoundationSipes Closes Last Site By Bruce Curtis 2/21/1992
Sipes Foods Markets will close its final location at 5950 S. Yale Ave. in the Holiday Hills shopping center on Saturday. About 61 employees will be left unemployed. "We are trying to renegotiate a lease. It will be closed until we renegotiate a lease," said Bob Hawk, president of Hale-Halsell Co., 9111 E. Pine St., which owns Sipes. Hawk estimates it will take six to eight weeks before the facility can open again. He said, however, the store will not reopen as a Sipes store. The executive said it has not been determined what name the store will have when it reopens. "With the time we are going to be down we will just have to take applications." Hale-Halsell in December 1991 sold two other Sipes Food Markets to Bud's Food Stores, Tulsa's largest family owned grocery retailer. The stores were at 2710 S. Havard Ave. in the Harvard Village shopping center at at 7286 S. Lewis Ave. in the Kensington complex. Bud's closed its store at 31st Street and Yale Avenue and moved its headquarters from there to the former Sipes store at 27th Street and Harvard Avenue. At one time, Hawk said, there were four Sipes stores operating in Tulsa. He said there have been Sipes at 15th Street and Peoria Avenue, 3220 S. Memorial Drive in what is Drysdales Western Wear and Eastgate shopping center at 7826 E. Admiral Place. Hawk said he doesn't know when Sipes grocery stores were established. Hale-Halsell, however, acquired the stores in 1955 from Leroy Sipes who had taken over the family owned business from his father. Sipes is one of 11 subsidiaries owned by Hale-Halsell. The subsidiaries are in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri. Included under its ownership are Git-N-Go convenience stores, Curtis Restaurant Supply and Arkansas Valley Distributing Co., a gasoline marketing division. Hale-Halsell, chartered in 1901, is one of the largest private companies in the United States, according to Forbes magazine.
buried Memorial Park Tulsa Sec-6 Lot-683 Space 1 next to Leroy Sipes