Reynolds Cantrell, Jr., born December 2, 1935, in Healdton, Oklahoma, to Reynolds and Joyce Wilkerson Cantrell, died December 19, 2008, at United Regional Hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas, of complications from gastric cancer.

Reynolds graduated from Healdton High School in 1953, attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated from Central State College. He taught secondary school science at Elmore City, Doyle, and Edmond, Oklahoma, for eleven years.

He married Lynda C. Burge in 1966. in 1969, they began a career with the Department of Dependent Schools. He taught high school science in Japan for five years and served as a guidance counselor for grades K-12 in Korea, Okinawa, and Germany for twenty-one years. He retired in 1995, and returned to Waurika, Oklahoma, where he and Lynda have resided for the past thirteen years. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Waurika.

Survivors include: his wife, Lynda, of the home in Waurika, OK; three sons - Reynolds Cantrell IV and his wife Kristin of Oklahoma City, OK, David Cantrell and his partner Glen Eyet of Tucson, AZ, and Bradley Cantrell and his wife Susan of New Orleans, LA; one daughter - Laura and her husband Mark Schroeder of Madison, WI; seven grandchildren - Hannah and David Cantrell, Emerson and Felix Schroeder, Holly Rodriguez, and Kelly and Cory Beaver; and three great-grandchildren - Kaylee Rodriguez, and Kinsey and Braxton Roberts.

A memorial service for Mr. Cantrell will be at 11:00 AM, Saturday, January 3, 2009, at the First Christian Church in Waurika with Rev. Curtis Plant officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church Building Fund, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, or a charity of your choice.

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