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(From various funeral homes in the Ardmore, Lone Grove, Healdton, Wilson and Dickson area, as well as towns from surrounding counties: Tishomingo, Madill, Sulphur, Ringling, and Rubottom.)

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Carter County, Oklahoma Obituary Collection

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Marie Lydolph
LONE GROVE -- Funeral services for Marie Lydolph, 72, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Harvey-Douglas Lone Grove Chapel with the Rev. John Wackler officiating. Interment will be at Newport Cemetery.
Daughter of the late B.M. and Elsie Ann Charlton Carnathan, she was born Dec. 23, 1926, at Camay, Texas, and passed away at her residence following an extended illness Jan. 9, 1999.
She had lived in the Lone Grove area since 1960, moving here from Arkansas. She married Ernest Lydolph Jan. 16, 1970, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.
She is survived by her husband, of the home; three sons, John and his wife, Rita Potter of Antlers, Hollis Potter of Lone Grove, and Charles, and his wife, Tracy Lydolph of Tishomingo; four daughters, Ann, and her husband, Willie Metcalf, of Hatfield, Ark., Delores, and her husband, John Jeans, of Ardmore, Linda, and her husband, Dennis Scholl, of Monett, Mo., and Patsey Potter of Lone Grove; and a brother, Ben Carnathan of Broken Bow; a sister, Louise Bruce of Lone Grove; a stepson, Randal Lydolph of Milwaukee, Mis.; a stepdaughter, Kathy Lydolph of Wichita Falls, Texas; 21 grandchildren, Brian and David Metcalf, Billy and Toni Luetkahans, Elesa King, Chris, David, John and J.P. Potter, Missy Davis, Stacy and Dena Owens, Misty Walker, JoAnn Christian, Brandon and Josh Garner, Angela Hokett, Chad, Chris, Jessica and Julie Lydolph; and 14 grandchildren, LaTrisha, Trey, Cierra, Billy, Brandon, Brianna, Jeff, Tyler, Tylena, David, Charlie, Teri and Kaci.
Serving as bearers will be Ray Shelton, Lynn and Bobby Davis, Gary Barton, Jerry Gunter and Virgil Warren.
Mrs. Lydolph will lie in state at the Lone Grove Chapel.

Ethel Jordan
Services for Ethel Jordan are pending from Ragsdale-Grant and Sons Mortuary. She died Jan. 9, 1999 in the local hospital.

Houston L. Crews
Graveside rites for Houston L. Crews, 80, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rose Hill Cemetery with a chaplain from Fort Sill officiating.
Son of Jack and Addie Skinner Crews, he was born Sept. 14, 1918, at Seminole, and died Jan. 10, 1999 at the Oklahoma Veterans Center after an extended illness.
Crews was a veteran of World War II, serving the Army, and was a sergeant with the 54th armored division during Normandy and the Rhineland Ardennes campaigns. He was awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart, American Defense Service Ribbon, EAME Service Ribbon with one Silver Star Service, the Air Medal and three Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters.
He and Jessie Palmra Roda were married July 3, 1943, in Lancaster, Penn. He moved to Ardmore in 1959 and was a pipeline gager for Conoco Oil Co. before he retired in 1974. He was a member of VFW.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; a son, Glenn M. Oklahoma City; three daughters, Barbara Dannatt, Houston, Texas, Phyllis Crews, Plano, Texas, and Mary Utley, Tulsa; and six grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home this evening from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home will direct services.

Virginia Black
HEALDTON -- Interment for Virginia Black, Hobbs, N.M., will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Mount Olive Cemetery under the direction of Hobbs Funeral Service.
Mrs. Black died Jan. 8, 1999 in Lubbock, Texas. She was born June 9, 1922, in Soper.
She graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and taught school 42 years in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, 26 of those years at Hobbs. She and Merlin C. Black were married Aug. 23, 1946, at Durant.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; a daughter, Melissa Engle, Phoenix, Ariz.; brother, Julian Hall, St. Louis, Mo.; and sister, Betty Callaway, Edmond.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Masonic Charity Foundation, P.O. Box 25004, Albuquerque, N.M. 87125.

Elizabeth M. Beauford
Graveside funeral services for Elizabeth M. Beauford will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Eastern Star rites will be conducted by the Mattie Bruce Chapter.
She was born Jan. 8, 1920, at San Saba, Texas, to Bob and Hattie Ripple Maxwell. She died Jan. 11, 1999, in a local health care facility.
A longtime Ardmore resident, she was married to Howard Beauford here on May 18, 1941. He preceded her in death on Sept. 7, 1989. She was retired from the Oklahoma Veterans Center where she served as a pastry cook. She was a 50-year member of Eastern Star of St. Jo, Texas and a member of V.F.W. Auxiliary.
Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Sherry and Charles McDonald, Luther, Okla.; a son and his wife, Arthur Robert and Delilah Beauford, Ardmore; a sister, Ruby Shields, Avanell, Calif.; a brother, B.T. Maxwell, Ardmore; granddaughter, Charnetta "Charlie" McDonald, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas; two stepgranddaughters, Cindy Clark, Oklahoma City, and Janie Stinett, McLeod, Okla. She was preceded in death by a brother, Herman Maxwell; and two sisters, Clem Brown and Ruth Gorham.
Funeral services are under the direction of Craddock Funeral Home.

Surrena Campbell
Services for Surrena Campbell will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Victory Temple with Chester Figures officiating. Interment will be at Clearview Cemetery under the direction of Ragsdale-Grant and Sons Mortuary.
Mrs. Campbell died Jan. 8, 1999. She was born Feb. 26, 1926, at Idabel, to Butler and Willie Cole.
She is survived by six brothers, Rolland Cole, Idabel, Classic Cole, Kansas City, Kan., James and McKerson Cole, Oklahoma City, and Oland and Augusta Cole, San Francisco; three sisters, Sis Jackson, Oklahoma City, Ruby and Martha Cole, Los Angeles; several grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter.

Vedia Hawkins
Services for Vedia Hawkins, 98, are pending from Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home. Hawkins died Jan. 12, 1999, in a local health care facility.

Earl M. McGahey
Services for Earl M. McGahey are pending from Craddock Funeral Home. He died Jan. 12, 1999, in the local hospital.

Clyde C. McClenny
TEMPLE -- Services for Clyde C. McClenny will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church. Interment will be at Temple Cemetery under the direction of Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home.
McClenny died Jan. 11, 1999, at his home. He was born Aug. 29, 1914, at Red Springs, Texas, to J.C. and Myrtle Brown McClenny.
He moved to Oklahoma in 1925 and served with the Army during the Battle of the Bulge and worked in Oklahoma City.
Survivors include his wife, Martha, of the home; daughter, Dana Custer, Manhattan, Kan.; two brothers, Lennis, Ardmore, and Weldon, Perryton, Texas; a sister, Dovie Douglass, Temple; five grandchildren; and a great-grandson. He was preceded in death by a son, Curtis; and three brothers, Arbie, Olen and Odice.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Lawton Area Inc., 1930 Ferris Ave., Lawton, OK 73507.

Earl M. McGahey
Funeral services for Earl Merritt McGahey will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Craddock Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Robert Peterson, pastor of New Hope Church of God, will officiate. Interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Mr. McGahey was born April 8, 1913, at Legate, Okla., to Walter Elijah and Willie Lucion Willis McGahey. He died Jan. 12, 1999, in the local hospital following an extended illness.
A longtime Ardmore resident, he was married to Bonnie Shurley at Provence on Nov. 6, 1933. She preceded him in death on June 7, 1978.
He was a retired employee of Memorial Hospital. He attended New Hope Church of God.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Norman and Sam West, Ardmore; a son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Joy McGahey, Ardmore; a son, Keith McGahey, Ardmore; his twin brother, Burl McGahey, Ardmore; two sisters, Carra Gilbertson, Visalia, Calif., and Lorene Matthews, Tulare, Calif.; six grandchildren, Debbie McCarthick and her husband, Carl, Ardmore, Mark McGahey and his wife, Melodianne, North Richland Hills, Texas, Brian McGahey and his wife, Nikki, Ringling, Shae McGahey, Ardmore, Sandy McCalip and her husband, Billy Ray, Iowa Park, Texas, and Shelly Weaver and her husband, Darrell, Norman; seven great-grandchildren, Dillon and Austin McCarthick, Britann McGahey, Weston and Laret McCalip, Madison and Ashley Weaver.
Bearers will be Gary Simmons, Marland Vance, Curtis Moore, Tom Moss, Gene Jones and Bob Harris.

Ralph Stewart
Services for Ralph Stewart are pending from Craddock Funeral Home. He died Jan. 12, 1999, in a local health care facility.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred, of the home; daughter, Shearon Cunningham; and son, Roger, both of Oklahoma City; two brothers, Bill and Wendell; two sisters, Marcella Renick and Barbara Mitchell, Marietta; five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

Debby Stephens Brewer
SULPHUR -- Services for Debby Kay Stephens Brewer, 39, are pending from Cowley-Krien Funeral Home. She died Jan. 11, 1999.

Richard Morris
WILSON -- Services for Richard Morris, Ardmore, are pending from Alexander Funeral Home. He died Jan. 13, 1999, at his residence.
Among his survivors is his wife, Laverne, of the home.

Irving Y. Fishman
GRINNELL, Iowa -- Memorial services for Ardmore native Irving Y. Fishman, 73, were Tuesday in Grinnell, Iowa.
Fishman, who died Jan. 10, 1999, at his residence, was born Sept. 12, 1920, in Ardmore, to Ike and Dora Fishman.
A graduate of Ardmore High School, he received degrees in physiology and zoology from the University of Oklahoma and his doctorate in physiology and biochemistry from Florida State University. He began his career in the biology department at Grinnell College in 1948 and served as chairman of that department 15 years before he retired in 1991. He received many awards and honors and grants and was author of numerous publications relating to his field. He served in the Army during World War II and was discharged from the Army Reserves as Lt. Colonel in 1967. He and Sara Mayer were married July 25, 1942, in Oklahoma City.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; two daughters, Paula Rosenstein, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Elaine Sherp, Dallas; a sister, Ida Yaffe, Ardmore; and five grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Family Outreach of America, 1329 7th St. Suite B, Corpus Christi, TX 78404.
Smith Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Hazel Royal Love
Services for Hazel Royal Love, 78, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Harvey-Douglas Chapel with the Rev. Billy Smith officiating. Interment will be at Pruitt Cemetery.
Daughter of Dewith and Savanah Heathcock Richards, Mrs. Love was born Jan. 23, 1920, in Ardmore. She died Jan. 14, 1999, in the local hospital following an extended illness.
She married Otis Love here and was a lifetime resident of Ardmore. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; sons, Jerry Royal, Atlanta, Ga., Frank Royal, Carlock, Calif., Randy, Arlen and Roger Royal, Ardmore; five daughters, Frances Smith, Velma Roberts, Sandra Royal, Clara Love and DeAnna Love, all of Ardmore; two brothers, Arlin Richards, San Francisco, and Glen, California; two sisters, Irene and Willie Jewell, both of Ballico, Calif.; 29 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
Bearers will be Dee Leon DeBord, Melvin Miller, Gary Caldwell, Bobby Love, Kevin and Mike Royal.

Richard T. Morris
WILSON -- Services for Richard Thomas Morris, 77, will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Wilson First Baptist Church with the Rev. Glenn Morris officiating. Interment will be at Hewitt Cemetery under the direction of Alexander Funeral Home.
Born Oct. 20, 1921, at Tishomingo, to Benjamin F. and Irene Tutt Morris, he died Jan. 13, 1999, at his residence in Ardmore.
Reared in Tishomingo, he graduated from Murray State College and received his degree in engineering technology from Oklahoma State University. He was employed as an engineer for Halliburton International and lived in several towns and five foreign countries from 1969 until he retired in 1984. He was an Army veteran of World War II and member of VFW Post 5474. He and Gwendolyn LaVerne Davis were married Dec. 28, 1946, at Gainesville, Texas.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; two sons, Glenn E., Tampa, Fla., and Mikel D., League City, Texas; a sister, Erma Welch, Mead; a brother, Vernon, Bromide; and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Gary Alan, in 1994.
Bearers will be Carl Cumpton, G.C. Roberts, Mike, Lantz and Vernon Morris. J.C. Kerr is honorary bearer.

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