Jacob Bruce Waltermire

May 17, 1910 – May 26, 1998

Jacob B. Waltermire Sr., 88, died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, at Abbeville General Hospital in Abbeville, Louisiana.

Born in Ceres, Oklahoma, on May 17, 1910, he was the son of Ellwood James Waltermire and the former Mattie Eleanor Dunham. During his high school years he was an outstanding football player. In 1927 he was named by the Northern Conference coaches as an outstanding athlete in the conference. Outside of school he was active in DeMolay. Following his graduation from Perry high school in 1929, he attended Oklahoma State University, where he was a member of the Chi Beta fraternity.

He was hired by the Lauflin Brothers, drilling contractors of the Continental Oil company in the Tepetate field of Lousiana. He met Audrey Hundley in Eunice, Lousiana, and they were married in 1936. This union was blessed with a son and a daughter.

After 25 years of employment in the oil industry in the Acadiana, Louisiana area, he retired in 1960. He resided in Lafayette since 1955 where he was a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason.

He was a note rose gardener.

Survivors include one daughter and her husband, Leah Anne and David Simmons of Birmingham, Ala; one son, J. B. Waltermire Jr. of Springfield, Virginia; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren; and his former wife, Audrey Alice Hundley Oliver.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four sisters, and four brothers.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28, 1998, at Lafayette Memorial Park. Interment will take place in Lafayette Memorial Park.