Jay Claud Hart

Jay Claud Hart was born August 5, 1912 near Cleveland, Oklahoma. He was the son of Alvin Walter and Lavina Dell (Beesley) Hart. Jay was raised south of Cleveland and received his education in the Cleveland School System.

Jay was united in marriage to his first wife, Manie Fay Tompkins on January 28, 1934. Shortly after their marriage, Jay began his career in the oilfields of Northeastern Oklahoma working as a roughneck, roustabout, and later on a pulling unit. During this time Jay and Marie raised their five children, Buster, Bobby, Claud, Phyllis and Lavina.

In the early 1950's, Jay started his own pulling unit business in Cleveland, Hart's Well Service. Jay was married to Eula Lucinda Cook in Arkansas on December 23, 1952. Jay continued to operate his own business for over thirty years, retiring in the early 1980's. Shortly after his retirement from his well servicing company, Jay and Eula moved to Stroud when he accepted employment with the Sooner Spuds Potato Company. He worked there for nearly ten years before returning to Cleveland. After moving back, Jay worked at the glass plant as a hobby making guitars, mirrors and other trinkets. Eula preceded him in death on August 16, 1989. Jay was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland. He loved to travel and just piddle in his garage.

Jay passed away on Thursday, April 25, 2002 at the Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of eighty-nine years eight months and twenty days. He was preceded in death by both parents; seven brothers, Bob, Gilbert, John, Reed, Floyd and Tommy; eight sisters, Lula, Jenny, Mary, Ruby, Grace, Myrtle, Nora and Beulah as well as one step son Garland Cook.

He is survived by his son and wife, Buster L and Faye Hart of Eastland, Texas; son, Bobby Leon Hart of Wyoming; son, Claud Wayne Hart of Anaheim, California; daughter and husband, Phyllis and Ken Trautwein of Loveland, Colorado; daughter, Lavina Hinman of Stroud, Oklahoma; seventeen grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, three great great-grandchildren, special friends, Tom and Claudia Foote of Cleveland, Oklahoma and Edith Hertzer of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Services will be held Monday, April 29, 2002 at 10:00 am in the Woodland Cemetery Chapel with services officiated by Brother Burl Mackey. Burial will be at Woodland Cemetery under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home, Inc. of Cleveland, Oklahoma.

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