Obituaries

January 28, 1929
FORMER CIRCUIT RIDER OF STATE BURIED HERE TODAY
J.A. REINHARDT SERVED EARLY CHURCHES IN UNSETTLED AREA:

Funeral services for J.A. Reinhardt, 63, one of the 
early circuit riders who took so active a part in the 
history of the state and who died Friday at his home 
at 3440 E. Haskell St., following a month's illness 
of heart disease, were to be held today at 2 p.m. at 
the Memorial Christian Church, Thirteenth street and 
Wheeling Avenue, with Rev. W.A. Steele, pastor, 
officiating. 
Burial was to follow at Rose Hill cemetery with 
the Tulsa Undertaking Co. in charge. 

CAME FROM MUSKOGEE
Mr. Reinhardt had resided in Tulsa for four years 
during which time he was a salesman for the Price 
Mercantile Co. Prior to his removal here he was pastor 
of the Church of Christ at Muskogee.  Reinhardt had been 
in the ministry since 1892 and during that time had 
preached in various state churches and taught in religious 
schools.  He came to Oklahoma in 1907 from Arkansas and 
here joined the "Army of God" that fearless group of old 
circuit riders that accompanied the advance of civilization 
into the frontier. 

TRAVELED ON HORSEBACK
For a number of years he served the sparsely settled 
counties of McIntosh and Hughes as a minister going from 
place to place on horseback and braving the dangers of 
what was then a lawless territory.  He is survived by the 
widow and three sons: James E., Oklahoma City, John R., 
Muskogee, and Charles of the home address here. 

CHARLES L. REINHARDT
BERKELEY, Sept 17
-Funeral services will be held here today 
for Charles L. Reinhardt, 46, 172 West MacArthur 
Boulevard, who died Monday at a local hospital of a 
heart ailment. 
An optician in charge of the optical department at 
Permanente Hospital for the past six years, Mr. Reinhardt 
was formerly connected with the American Optical Company 
as a manager of the Honolulu Branch in Hawaii, and was there 
during the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. 
A native of Arkinda, Ark., he had lived in Oakland since 
his return from Hawaii in 1942. 
A deacon in the Church of Christ, Prince and Fulton streets, 
he was actively engaged in foreign missionary work for the 
church and was making arrangements for a missionary tour of 
Africa with his wife at the time of his death. 
He is survived by his widow, Thelma, and five children, 
Stanley, 20, and Ann, 17, who were both enrolling in Hardin 
College, Searcy, Arkansas, when he died, and William, 19, 
John, 10, and Emma, 11, all of Oakland. 
Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of 
Christ, with Everett W. Evans, minister of the Salinas Church 
of Christ, and William Baker, minister of the Berkeley Church, officiating. 
Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery.