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John Ellis Poarch was born on December 6, 1935, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the youngest of nine children born to David and Inez Poarch, who journeyed to Oklahoma from Tennessee in horse-drawn wagons. Growing up on a farm near Crescent, Oklahoma, where his father was a sharecropper, John learned the value of hard work early. He told stories of driving a tractor at age seven and using it to pull cars from snow drifts after storms. …

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Born

December 6th, 1935
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Passed away

May 5th, 2025
Edmond, OK

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