Carl Dean Wood, a longtime Oilton resident, passed away on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at his home at the age of 83 surrounded by his loving family. Graveside services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 5, 2014 at the Highland Cemetery in Oilton, Oklahoma. Mark Campton will officiate. Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery in Oilton.
Arrangements are entrusted to Palmer Marler Funeral Home, Oilton, Ok.
Carl Wood was born on the Pure Oil (R.P. Richards) lease east of Oilton where the company provided housing, gas and water (but not electricity). He grew up with his older sister Maxine in Oilton where he graduated from high school in 1949. After high school, he went to work for the Big Four Petroleum Company working as a roustabout and doing anything they needed done. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Lou Arnold, in 1952.
Carl was in the reserves and was called up into the Army in 1953. He and Mary Lou spent three months in New Jersey until he received his orders to ship out to Iceland in late 1953. He drove his wife and baby daughter, Carla Jean, back to Oklahoma in a snow storm before shipping out. His duty in Iceland was to guard the air force base there.
After the Army, Carl returned to Oilton and got a job with Sinclair Oil (later brought out by Atlantic-Richfield). He had a variety of jobs during the years and retired as a Field Foreman after 33 years of service, including overseeing the shutdown and dismantling of the plant that he had worked at for those many years south of Oilton, Oklahoma. Carl was an avid gardener, wood worker and carpenter. His projects included designing and building a beautiful roll top desk and a lot of renovation to the house they still live in.
Carl is survived by her two daughters: Stephanie Wood of Irving, Texas, and Carla Whipp and husband Lowell of Scottsdale Arizona, on sister: Maxene Eastham of Papillion, Nebraska as well as a host of other family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his Parents, Loving wife Mary Lou.
