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SELF, ROY WALTER

Contributed by Bessie Meredith

BORN: JUNE 29, 1909
DIED: JANUARY 16, 1993

Roy W. Self, 83, Lawrence, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 1993, at a Lawrence hospital.

He was born June 29, 1909, in Hugo, Okla., the son of Doss and Sara Jane Springs Self. Mr. Self was graduated from Goodland Presbyterian School in 1927 and attended Murray State in Tishomingo, Okla. He has lived in Lawrence since 1957. He worked at an ordinance plant in Pryor, Okla. and an Army ammunition plant in McAlester Okla. He went to work for DuPont and worked at the Indiana Ordnance Works before he began work for DuPont at the Tecumseh Plant in 1957 as a guard. Mr. Self was a member of Haskell Baptist Mission.

He was married to Eula Myrtle Funderburg June 25, 1936, in McAlester, Okla. She survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Rhonda Bechard, Lawrence; a son, Ronald K. Self, Lincoln, Neb.; a sister, Marie Walker, Hoyt, Okla.; a brother, Frank Self, Phoenix, Ariz.; a stepsister, Imogene Self, Pampa, Texas; two stepbrothers, Billy Doss Self and Barney Ross Self, both of Foreman, Ark.; four grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 pm Tuesday at Rumsey Funeral Home in Lawrence. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. Mr. Self will lie in state after 9 am today at the funeral home where visitation will be from 7 to 9 pm today.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Center for Basic Cancer Research and sent in care of the funeral home.