THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014
Funeral services for
Delbert Louis Kauk, 89-year-old resident of
the United Methodist Health Care Center in Clinton, were
held Wednesday at the First Baptist Church in Leedey.
Kauk died Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. He was the 11th of 12
children born to Christian and Magdalena Trost Kauk, and was
born April 11, 1924 on the family farm in Custer County.
Kauk attended the Solid Rock Country School near Butler,
graduating from the eighth grade.
He earned several ciphering and athletic awards and had
seven “perfect attendance” years.
Upon graduation, he was honored with the American Legion
Award for all around good citizenship.
On Sept. 16, 1944, Kauk married Oleta Nadine Haney. The
family made their home on the farm southeast of Leedey. His
first wife preceded him in death on May 20, 1968.
On Dec. 13, 1969, he married Fern Higgins in Elk City. In
the early 1980s, Delbert and Fern moved to Leedey.
Kauk was a farmer who also helped build many local
government
ponds.
Kauk was baptized as a baby on Sept. 28, 1924.
Also preceding him in death were his parents, Chris and Lena
Kauk; a granddaughter, Amy Switzer Jones; brothers, Albert,
Walter, Herbert, Emil, Barney Lee and L.D. Kauk; three
sisters, Vera Riedl, Doris Rhoades and Ruth Robertson; two
nephews, Larry and Paul Kauk; and Fern’s son, Jackie
Higgins.
Survivors include his wife, Fern Kauk of Clinton; children,
Deanna Harris and her husband, Don, of Weatherford, Rhonda
Kauk of Lubbock, Texas, Janet Switzer and her husband, Gary,
of Leedey, Gary Higgins and his wife, Debbie, of Elk City,
and Connie Gass of Hammon; a sister, Bernice Carter of
Leedey; 12 grandchildren, Dena Bass, Dana Bradford, Darrell
Switzer, Amber Mayes, Heath Higgins, Darin Higgins, Kimbre
Danielson, Ricky Higgins, Bobby Higgins, Kelly Leverett,
John Paul Gass and Debbie Spikes; 19 great-grandchildren,
two great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and
nephews.
Interment followed the services in the New Hermon Cemetery,
at Leedey. Arrangements were under the direction of the Shaw
Funeral Home, of Leedey.
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