A LOOK Back: 1920s Rodkey Flour Mill Family

Earl and Emma Rodkey pose for a photo with their daughter, Eloise in the early 1920s. The family is bundled up in winter clothes in front of their house at 19 N. College Street in Edmond. Earl’s father, Isaac, had purchased the flour mill in 1897. In 1913, Earl joined his father, buying one-half interest in the mill, which was producing 300 barrels of flour a day. The Rodkey Mill was one of Edmond’s most successful businesses for decades, and it did not close until 1970.