Harold Weddle

Harold Dean Weddle, firstborn son of C.H. ("Buck") and Dorothy Bowen Weddle was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on April 22, 1939 and entered Heaven on December 21, 2024. Although he lived for a few years during World War II in Berkeley California, he primarily grew up in Shawnee attending Washington Elementary School and graduating from Shawnee High School in 1957. During high school he worked at The Daisy Q where he made purple ice cream, played football for the Shawnee Wolves, hunted squirrels along Squirrel Creek and pursued the attention of Nedra Fleming.

Harold was a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He attended Murray State College in Tishomingo and East Central University in Ada where he worked toward a degree in engineering. He married the love of his life on July 22, 1960. Harold and Nedra moved to Ada in 1963 and he began working for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. They had two children Tanya and Steven. Harold was deeply involved in the lives of his children whether attending school and church functions, supporting little league and high school baseball, bringing in pop and nacho ingredients for game nights at the Weddle home, building a tree house, and loading up pickup bed loads of kids to go fishing. Harold deeply loved his wife and his children and never met a stray kid or animal he didn't offer to feed or rescue. As a major fan of Sooner football the only stress his family recalls him routinely experiencing was the result of the score and that was usually addressed by a trip for a chocolate milkshake.

After 26 years of service with ODOT and achieving full retirement, he continued constructing highways, runways and bridges for Muskogee Bridge, Northern Improvement, Silver Star Construction and concluded his engineering career with Chickasaw Nation Roads and Highways. After finding retirement a little boring, he continued to serve his community with a smile serving as a checker at Dicus Grocery.

Harold knew well how to have fun and daily encouraged his children to do so. He is survived by his wife Nedra of the home, daughter Tanya Marical of Tecumseh, son Steven and his wife Kristi of Edmond, granddaughter Skylar Daniel of Edmond, granddaughter Kat Marical-Collins and her husband Jon of Texas with great-grandchildren Kyle, Wayland, Chase, Watson, Baker and Camron. He also leaves behind his brother Don of Jenks and sister-in-law Ladonna Marshall of Bethany and several cousins, nephews and nieces as well as several honorary grandchildren.

Harold was preceded in death by his parents, his in-laws, sister Anna, brothers in law Jack Marshall and Fred Rutherford, grandson Chase, long-time friend Rusty Hudson and beloved dog Gracie.

Services will be held at 10:00am at Criswell Funeral Home in Ada Thursday December 26, 2024. Graveside services will be at Resthaven Cemetery, Shawnee at 2:00pm also on Thursday.

Pallbearers will be Darren Rutherford, John Bowen, John Weddle, Dave Hutcheson, Ben Savoy and Asher Loiacono.  Honorary pallbearers are Zack Marshall, Jim Dicus, Jim Scrivner, and Jon Collins.