Sandusky, Weldon Leslie
(March 9, 1904 - December 20, 1988)
Like many other lost souls, this one comes to us from the oil fields of Oklahoma. He was born and raised on a farm in Johnson County, Nebraska, the son of Leslie and Nannie Sandusky, but after Leslie passed away in the 1910s, Nannie Sandusky and her children moved to Bald Hill, Oklahoma, where the eldest daughter, Cleo, was the teacher of a common school. She raised three of four children and fortunately Weldon was the only one who could carry on one of the most famous Polish names in America.
On December 1, 1926, Weldon Sandusky married Ada Ruth Siegenthaler, who came from Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her parents when she was a child and grew up on a farm near Eram, Oklahoma, where she graduated from high school. The newlyweds started to raise a family in the oil fields of Oklahoma City and Smackover, Arkansas, and spent the rest of their married life in Carter Nine and Shidler near the Kansas border. After working for Phillips Petroleum Company almost 40 years, Weldon "Sandy" Sandusky died in Shidler and was buried in Grandview Cemetery at Kaw City, and Ada Sandusky, who died in Ponca City, Oklahoma, on July 27, 2004, when she was 96, was laid to rest next to him. They were pillars of the Shidler United Methodist Church.
The survivors included a daughter, Eleanor Ruth McKeever of Burbank, Oklahoma; a son, Ronald Leslie Sandusky of Coos Bay, Oregon; two grandsons, Jimmy Dean Sandusky and Dan Mc Keever and his wife, Tami; four granddaughters, Sandra Perry and her husband Mike, Janet Heningman and her husband David, Denise Sandusky Conrad and Linda Sandusky Monson and her husband Ben; seven great grandchildren, Mike, Jake, and Kristen McKeever, Brittany and Sadie Perry, Jimmy Sandusky Jr, and Blaine Monson. Ada Sandusky was preceded in death by a son, Charles Weldon Sandusky, among others.
One wonders whom Cleo and Doris Sandusky, Weldon's sisters, married and what happened to them. Please respond if you know.From: Edward Pinkowski (2008)