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Charter Oak IA Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, January 23, 2017He liked making people happy.Weathers also liked fixing things for his children, including Scott’s and his brother Steve’s bicycles at home.“Jackie” grew-up as a farm boy on 80 acres near Charter Oak and Santa Fe. His dad was a dirt farmer, Scott said. He attended a one-room school house on South Division Street in Guthrie and was graduated from Edmond High School. Weathers then packed up and drove his Model-A to attend DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago, Scott said.He worked as a grocery store night stocker for two years while earning his degree. Later he returned to Oklahoma to work at a TV shop.“He drove a van. Back then all you had to do is have boxes of vacuum tubes and replaced them,” Scott continued.This was the time when the Weathers TV building at 2 S. Broadway was a grocery store. Weathers had worked for the owner as a teenager.“It was ironic later on that when he opened his own business — the small 12- by 15- room back where the Around the Corner Restaurant is — he worked for Don Stalter. But it was called Bloom Stalter Appliance,” Scott said.Stalter began selling TVs and needed Weathers to provide services. So he let Weathers run a small business out of this building in exchange for taking care of sales, Scott said.Weathers TV was established with a used panel truck and a tool box while Weathers continued his favorite pastime of being outdoors fishing and hunting.“He was a proponent of downtown Edmond,” said Steve Gibson, who owns McCalls men’s store downtown with his father Hoot Gibson. Weathers supported ideas to make downtown thrive, Steve continued.“When my dad first started Krazy Daze, Jack was all in on it,” Steve said. “He was stalwart in downtown Edmond which at the time, that was Edmond, when he opened Weathers TV.”Jack Weathers was preceded in death by his parents; his brother and granddaughter, and his first wife Nelda Weathers.He is survived by his wife, Karen Weathers; sister, Nelda Sherrill; sons, Scott Weathers (Val), Steve Weathers (Denise) and Karen's daughters, Delana Chipman (Chip), ...
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Monday, January 23, 2017He liked making people happy.Weathers also liked fixing things for his children, including Scott’s and his brother Steve’s bicycles at home.“Jackie” grew-up as a farm boy on 80 acres near Charter Oak and Santa Fe. His dad was a dirt farmer, Scott said. He attended a one-room school house on South Division Street in Guthrie and was graduated from Edmond High School. Weathers then packed up and drove his Model-A to attend DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago, Scott said.He worked as a grocery store night stocker for two years while earning his degree. Later he returned to Oklahoma to work at a TV shop.“He drove a van. Back then all you had to do is have boxes of vacuum tubes and replaced them,” Scott continued.This was the time when the Weathers TV building at 2 S. Broadway was a grocery store. Weathers had worked for the owner as a teenager.“It was ironic later on that when he opened his own business — the small 12- by 15- room back where the Around the Corner Restaurant is — he worked for Don Stalter. But it was called Bloom Stalter Appliance,” Scott said.Stalter began selling TVs and needed Weathers to provide services. So he let Weathers run a small business out of this building in exchange for taking care of sales, Scott said.Weathers TV was established with a used panel truck and a tool box while Weathers continued his favorite pastime of being outdoors fishing and hunting.“He was a proponent of downtown Edmond,” said Steve Gibson, who owns McCalls men’s store downtown with his father Hoot Gibson. Weathers supported ideas to make downtown thrive, Steve continued.“When my dad first started Krazy Daze, Jack was all in on it,” Steve said. “He was stalwart in downtown Edmond which at the time, that was Edmond, when he opened Weathers TV.”Jack Weathers was preceded in death by his parents; his brother and granddaughter, and his first wife Nelda Weathers.He is survived by his wife, Karen Weathers; sister, Nelda Sherrill; sons, Scott Weathers (Val), Steve Weathers (Denise) and Karen's daughters, Delana Chipman (Chip), ...
