Remembering 1938
• Built of earth-colored limestone quarried at the Newton Foster place, west of Catoosa; master stonemasons placed each stone with care.
• W.R. Grimshaw Company of Tulsa was chosen as contractor for the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore
• Tulsa World Editor N.G. Henthorne was appointed by Gov. E W. Marland to the first Will Rogers Memorial Commission
• She remembers the cowboy in the big hat on a white horse and a “long car” carrying Mrs. Rogers and her family.
• Ray Stout poured his heart into the mortar that held in place the stone for the arches in the Will Rogers Memorial
• It is a storybook romance and marriage that traces the beginning to Nov. 4, 1938, the day Will Rogers Memorial Museum was dedicated.
• “Darn your lazy soul, don’t you let that get away from me!”
• … They drug me through there. It was packed, all I could think of was how to get out.”
• Trip from Miami unusual adventure
• “It was real muddy so I had Jerry in my arms,” she reflected. “I was wearing a watch I hadn’t had very long.”
• Memories of 70 years ago
• Lantow remembers coming to the Memorial Nov. 4, 1938, but mainly remembers it was a “big deal for Claremore … all the hot shots were there for that ceremony.”
• One of the highlights of Rue DeLozier Hester’s life was as a Chelsea high school girl singing at the Will Rogers Memorial.
• “Take all the photos you want,” he said he was told, and the two never forgot the wonderful experience of visiting Claremore
