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Kingfisher Times and Free Press, March 29, 2000 Wake services for Anthony G. "Tony" Mueggenborg, who died Monday, March 27, 2000, at Stillwater Medical Center, will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, at the Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Stillwater with Father Dan Mueggenborg and Father Bob officiating. Lunch, provided by the Altar Society, will follow in the church basement. Family members and friends will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday at Holy Trinity Church in Okarche for the funeral procession. Burial will follow at 3:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, followed by a social gathering at Holy Trinity Parish Hall. Pallbearers will be Kenny Meyers, Jerry L. Mueggenborg, Harold Mueggenborg, Bernard Mueggenborg, Gary Mueggenborg and Leo Rother. Following is Mueggenborg's autobiography: I, Anthony G. "Tony" Mueggenborg was born the youngest of 10 children to Dora Ann Boes and Henry B. Mueggenborg on a farm northeast of Okarche, Okla., on Nov. 8, 1921. My early education was in Clear Creek County School. I graduated from Holy Trinity Scholl from eighth grade in Okarche. I went to Conception, Mo. for the ninth grade. I came back home and worked on the farm. After I turned 18 years old, I started construction work and farmed on my own and with other farmers. After my marriage on July 15, 1943, to Ruth E. Laughlin we lived on Oklahoma City for four years. I was doing construction work when my wife was working at Flight Command at Linker Field. [The next two lines are not readable in the copy of the obituary that I have.] We have lived on the same farm since. My five children were all raised there. I was a farmer-rancher and construction worker from 1946 to 1955. I mainly roofed, framed and sided houses, In 1956-`978, I began pumping oil wells and farmed more. By 1978, the farming operation had grown into a large scale operation and I sold it to my two oldest boys, John and Lewis, in 1979. After a year vacation, I went into full-time oil operation. In 1980, I began buying crude oil and Tony's Crude Oil was born and I opened Tony's Disposal Service in February 1981. In 1986, I sold Tony's Crude Oil operation to my youngest son, Darrel, In 1986, I semi-retired. From then to 1990, I went to plugging abandoned wells. In 1990, I bought shares with oil companies in Lincoln County. In 1997, I fell down in ill health, scaled down my workload, but stayed actively involved in producing oil and gas wells in Lincoln, Payne and Noble counties. During my farming and ranching operation, I received two awards. One, the Payne County Conservation Bankers award and one for best tractor driver at the Payne County Fairgrounds. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Catholic Order of Foresters, Oklahoma Farmers Union, Oklahoma Sheriff's Association, Cushing Chamber of Commerce, Cushing and Drumright Elks Lodge and a member of 51 East Water, Inc. of Stillwater and a member of the Farmers Coop of Perry, Okla. He is survived by five children, John Andrew, Lewis Vernon, Darrel Ray, Virginia Ann Cussner, all of Yale, Okla., and Mildred Marie Overholt of Mannford, his wife, Ruth E. Laughlin Mueggenborg of Yale, one brother, Paul Mueggenborg of Stillwater, Okla., and 11 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and six brothers.
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