Services for Dr. Welmery Ray Manor, 81, retired medical doctor with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Smith Funeral Home chapel.
Dr. Manor, who made his residence at the Bryan Hotel, died about 1 p.m. Sept. 2 in the Anadarko hospital.
Burial will be in Anadarko's Memory Lane cemetery.
Dr. Manor came to Anadarko to become associated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs local offices in 1944, a position he held until retiring in 1961.
He was born Feb. 17, 1884 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and during his early teens worked for the B & O Railroad for $20 a month in Brunswick, Md.
He worked his way through high school at Shenandoah Valley Academy in West Virginia and completed studies at the age of 26.
He took 10 years to complete his medical studies at Ann Arbor, Mich., working his way through medical school. He was graduated from the Ohio State School of Medicine in 1918.
He began practicing in 1918, and moved to Oklahoma City in 1922, and then to Anadarko in 1944.
He devoted a number of years in the Anadarko area serving as the physician at the Kiowa Indian Clinic which was located at Old Town.
Dr. Manor told friends he decided to study medicine "while in a state of temporary insanity." He was considered an example to youths of this area because of his determination to secure a medical education even though greatly lacking in funds.
His favorite advice to youngsters was, "Stick to your mother and your church; read good books, and you will distinguish yourself."
He was preceded in death by a son and three brothers.
Survivors are two nieces, Mrs. Austin Cunningham and Mrs. John W. Andress, both of Lansing, Mich.
Services for Dr. Welmery Ray Manor, 81, retired medical doctor with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Smith Funeral Home chapel.
Dr. Manor, who made his residence at the Bryan Hotel, died about 1 p.m. Sept. 2 in the Anadarko hospital.
Burial will be in Anadarko's Memory Lane cemetery.
Dr. Manor came to Anadarko to become associated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs local offices in 1944, a position he held until retiring in 1961.
He was born Feb. 17, 1884 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and during his early teens worked for the B & O Railroad for $20 a month in Brunswick, Md.
He worked his way through high school at Shenandoah Valley Academy in West Virginia and completed studies at the age of 26.
He took 10 years to complete his medical studies at Ann Arbor, Mich., working his way through medical school. He was graduated from the Ohio State School of Medicine in 1918.
He began practicing in 1918, and moved to Oklahoma City in 1922, and then to Anadarko in 1944.
He devoted a number of years in the Anadarko area serving as the physician at the Kiowa Indian Clinic which was located at Old Town.
Dr. Manor told friends he decided to study medicine "while in a state of temporary insanity." He was considered an example to youths of this area because of his determination to secure a medical education even though greatly lacking in funds.
His favorite advice to youngsters was, "Stick to your mother and your church; read good books, and you will distinguish yourself."
He was preceded in death by a son and three brothers.
Survivors are two nieces, Mrs. Austin Cunningham and Mrs. John W. Andress, both of Lansing, Mich.
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