Enid, OK — The funeral for Jimmie Hazlewood, 88, of McAlester, will be 2 p.m. today, Nov. 14, 2009, at Bishop Chapel of Memories, McAlester. The Rev. Bob Young will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
He was born Aug. 5, 1921, in LeHigh to Jess J. and Leannah Jane Hallmark Hazlewood and died Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at St. John Medical Center, Tulsa.
He graduated from Savanna High School and entered the Army Air Corps during World War II, serving at several air fields across the United States.
Following his discharge, he married Lillian Inez Jenson Oct. 2, 1947, in Sherman, Texas. He worked in Calvin, instructing returning World War II veterans for four years. She died Nov. 13, 2008.
He received his associate degree from Eastern Oklahoma State College and then received his bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Oklahoma A&M; College, Stillwater.
He began his teaching career in Hunter, where he continued for seven years as vocational agriculture instructor. He later worked 15 years as the vo-ag teacher in Mooreland and then Enid, retiring in 1986 and moving to McAlester.
He was named National Honorary American Farmer of the Future Farmers of America in 1971. In 1972, he received the Teacher of Teachers Award from the National Vocational Agricul-ture Teachers Association. In 1975, he received the Pfizer Vo-Ag Teaching Award in livestock production and was elected president of the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association.
He attended First Baptist Church of McAlester and Mooreland Lions Club. He was a Masonic member of McAlester Blue Lodge 96 and had received his 60-year pin.
Surviving are three daughters, Janet Yarbrough of McAlester, Jennifer Cook of Houston and Jamie Cook of Claremore; one brother, Vestal Hazlewood of McAlester; three sisters, Lillian Wood and Beulah Jenson, both of McAlester, and Ann Anderson of Muskogee; and six grandchildren.
In addition to his wife, Inez, he was preceded in death by one brother.
