Roll Call Tribute

Harold G. Place 

September 21, 1930 - October 7, 2024 

Harold G. Place was born September 21, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas to Edgar Sans Place and Beatrice Thomas Place. After a long life of service to God, his family and communities, he passed away peacefully in League City, Texas on October 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm. Harold was 94. There will be a service at Dillon Funeral Home in Sand Springs, OK on Friday, November 15 at 2:00 pm.

Harold grew up in Ft. Worth and met his future wife, Alicia Jean Chastain at Travis Avenue Baptist Church. They were married in 1951 and recently celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary. After enrolling in Texas A&M University, he earned his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering. Harold enjoyed a long and fruitful career in his degreed vocation, working for DuPont Chemical in Victoria, TX and then, gaining employment with Ethyl Corporation, they moved to Baton Rouge, LA where they built a home and family and led very active lives. After a full career, Harold retired from Ethyl.

Throughout his work career, he was very active as a member of First Baptist Church Baton Rouge, singing tenor in the choir, he also developed a great love of Barbershop singing which led him to direct the BR Chapter of Sweet Adelines and then founded and directed the Sugarcane Chorus for decades. He also sang Lead in an award-winning quartet, The Dixie Men of Note. In addition to coaching many quartets, writing arrangements, and travelling to competitions, he developed a little boys’ quartet called The Cane Raisers, who along with the chorus, sang throughout the community, most notably at senior centers and nursing homes. There was also a period when he would take on gratis positions of interim music director at Baptist churches. He loved music so much that when he retired, he enrolled at LSU and got a Bachelors Degree in Music. After hanging up his Barber shopping hat, he auditioned for and won a chair in the tenor section of the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus, where he served as Tenor section leader and eventually Chorus President.

Harold loved boating, water skiing and all sports as well as working on anything with a motor. This man certainly had a serious side but also a streak of corny humor. He loved to laugh and make people laugh. In his later life he greatly enjoyed being a grandfather and mentor to his grandchildren.

Harold is preceded in death by his parents, one brother and many aunts, uncles and cousins. He is survived by his wife Jean of Sand Springs, OK, three adult children, daughter Vicki Place Huckaby of League City, TX, son Chris Place and his wife Annette of Sand Springs, OK, son Tim Place and his wife Marilyn, of Swannanoa, NC, ten grandkids, Lindsay and Shannon Duggan of Clear Lake, TX, Jackson Huckaby of League City, Ian Huckaby of League City, Nick and Cecilia Place of Santiago, Chile, Joshua and Maddie Place of Hershey, PA, Anna Place of Sand Springs, OK, Caleb and Faith Place of Sand Springs, OK, Abigail Place of Erbil, Iraq, Esther Place of Sand Springs, OK, Elizabeth Place of Sand Springs, OK as well as five Great Grandkids- Jack, Liam, Wyatt, Fletcher and Jenna. He will be greatly missed...