Biography of Oscar J. Gandy Sr, St Francis County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V Isbell Date: 19 Nov 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Oscar J. Gandy Sr. was born in Smithdale, Ark., on July 16, 1902, son of Charles S. and Charlotte (Homewood)_Gandy, and a year later cme to St. Francis county with his mother. His father met an accidental death on Dec. 10, 1901. He has been a successful and respected citizen of the county, operating a store in Colt, and farming 500 acres together with two rice wells. He also has 90 head of Polled Hereford cattle. A graduate of the Forrest City High School, he studied at the Victor G. Blue School of Navigation, Norfolk School of Business Administration, Norfolk, Va., and the Navy Signal School, Hampton Roads, Va. He joined the Navy on Sep. 27, 1923, and was assigned to the U. S. S. Bobolink Mine Sweeper, saw duty during the League of Nations Disarmament Program. He was honorably discharged on Sep. 26, 1927. On Apr. 29, 1928, he married Miss Annie Grace Hamilton, daughter of Dewitt and Mae (Waldrep) Hamilton of Forrest City, and to this union has been born a son and two daughters; Dorothy Louise, now Mrs. Donald T. Williams, with one daughter, Toni born May 17, 1953; Rose Marie, married to Joe Burch, farmer of Hughes, with a daughter and a son. Mr. Gandy is a member of the Methodist church, Lions Club, and the Arkansas Real Estate Brokers Assoc., and the Arkansas Insurance Association. He has served as state representative from St. Francis County from 1938-1940, and from 1936-1940 he was a Committeman fo the Farmers Home Administration. He was a director of the Woodruff Electric Coop., and was also involved with the Shearin-Wright Motor Co. SOURCE: HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher -Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas