Volume 10 , Issue 26

Okie Flying Farmer

"The image on the left is a give away match book advertising the White Bros. airport.

The White brothers, Leslie and Orville, were early members of the Flying Farmers. They farmed a few miles west of Lamont in Grant Co., OK. Their air strip was located about three miles west of Lamont on U.S. 60. They started out with an old Piper Cub and went on to be Cessna dealers back in the 1950?s. They and my grandfather Clarence McCary helped each other farm and fished and grabbled together over the years. All these people have passed on.

After Leslie retired, he made the most marvelously perfect furniture from native Oklahoma black walnut. The OKC daily newspaper once featured his furniture making. He was truly a man for all seasons. Besides being a farmer, a pilot, and furniture maker he was also a good mechanic, welder, carpenter, and a fine human being. He could do it all." -- Charles M. Cook in Louisiana Bayou Country
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