Floyd "Red" Allen Travis was born at home in Oklahoma City to Rex & Thelma Travis on the first of January in 1934. His claim to fame was being the first baby born in the United States in 1934. He had many newspaper articles and new stories about this. Red passed from this life on 8/02/2018 after battling leukemia.
Red lived in various places in Oklahoma City and graduated in 1952 from SouthEast High School. His was the first class to graduate from the school. He always told us he had to get rid of his driving record so he joined the Navy in 1953 where he began his career as an electrician. He decided to join the Air Force in 1957 "to get rid of his Naval record" as he liked to joke. He left the Air Force in 1961 and worked many types of jobs in different parts of the country until he decided on pipeline work which brought him to Elmore City where he met the love of his life, Nellie Lee Dutton in 1965. They were married on September 18th, 1966.
Red worked for Hammers and Shebester's Oil Companies until he went to work at Uniroyal in 1973 where he retired from in 1993. Red and Nellie made their life together and raised their two children in Elmore City where he was a councilman and mayor for a time in the 80's. They were finally blessed as grandparents in the late 90's and early 2000's, which brought them much joy. They were married for 48 years until she passed in 2014. Red has continued with their shared love of gardening and working outside. He also loved tinkering with his electrical contraptions(if you knew him you know what those could entail), volunteering for his church and the American Legion, visiting with his buddies from the plant for breakfast in Ardmore, mowing yards, drinking a metric ton of Keystone Light, playing "garbage" with Avis Nagy and of late, hosting game night where he cooked up a batch of his famous chili.
Red is preceded in death by his parents, Rex & Thelma, his brother Lee, his sister Kathryn, and his wife Nellie.
He is survived by daughter Lisa Rollings and husband Tom, son Ted Allen and his wife Roberta(Bert) Travis, grandsons Logan Herrod, Dalton Otwell, Joshua Travis and granddaughter Madison Travis all of Elmore City, granddaughter Amber Oliver and husband Richard of Holts Summit, Missouri, grandaughter Ashley Divine and husband Adam of Norman and grandson Jack Otwell also of Norman, great grandchildren, Cailee, Emalyn and Archer, brother Rex and his wife Pat and many nieces, nephews and relatives who will miss his witty humor and vast array of knowledge.
Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., August 6,2018 at the Elmore City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Legion C. E. Floyd Post #202.