Earl R. O'Cathey
Biography
Born in a log cabin in Ada, Oklahoma, Indian territory. Married to Opal with a son. (She died in 1978.) Served 25 years in the U. S. Air Force. Employed as a plumber and combustion engineer. He claimed that he enjoyed 37 different hobbies.
Author of History of Wooden Money.
Member of the Masons and a Shriner.
He died in a hospital in Fontana, California.
obit: CW 12/22/82 (photo), NN 12/25/1982
Source credit: Pete Smith, American Numismatic Biographies
Bio Snapshot
Date of Birth: 1903 - Dec - 1Place of Birth: Ada, Oklahoma, Indian territory
Date of Death: 1982 - Nov - 18