Carter County, Oklahoma Obituary Collection

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Jack Dempsey Miller
Services for Jack Dempsey Miller, 71, will be 3 p.m. Monday at Griffin-Kennedy-Watts Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charles C. Hays officiating. Interment will follow at Nelda Cemetery.
Born Feb. 7, 1926, at Durwood to Onis and Dessie Lee Miller, he died Aug. 15, 1997, at Oklahoma City.
A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, Miller married Vera Darlene Lane on June 14, 1946, at Ardmore. He had lived in Ardmore since 1967, moving from Ada. Miller was retired from Dr. Pepper and Colvert Dairy. He was a member of the Orthodox Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; one son, Arthur Lane Miller; one daughter, Lou Ann Pickens; one brother, Buck Miller, all of Ardmore; two sisters, Lavern Pendley, Shawnee, and Edith Lollis, Piedmont, S.C.; and five grandchildren.
Bearers are Jerry Royall, Gary Phillips, Buddy Morton, Kevin Morton, Alan Cook and Alvin Hardison.

Bennie M. Thompson
Services for Bennie M. Thompson. 66, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ted Clark officiating. Interment will follow at Clearview Cemetery.
Born Sept. 6, 1930, at Marlin, Texas, to Sam and Rena Nollin Holloway, she died Aug. 12, 1997, in an Oklahoma City hospital. She was married to Willie D. Thompson. He preceded her in death in December 1989.
Mrs. Thompson was a member of the Children of the King Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Holloway and Mona Thompson; two sons, John and Willie Thompson; three sisters, Otha Mae Fletcher, Vera Mae McDonald and Erma Brown, all of Marlin; one brother, R.N. Holloway, Midland, Texas; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Bearers are the nephews.

James H. Carter
LONE GROVE -- Memorial services for James Henry Carter, 79, were at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church in Lone Grove with the Rev. Jill Clark officiating.
Carter died Aug. 12, 1997, in the Ardmore hospital. He was born Feb. 1, 1918, at Burneyville to Jesse "Jack" and Ruby B. Turner Carter.
Reared at Burneyville, he graduated from Murray State College and received his degree in engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1942. He worked 28 years as a turbine generator engineer for General Electric, then was in fields sales in Jackson, Mich. He retired from the Utility Power Corporation in 1983 and moved to Ardmore in 1984. He was a member of First United Methodist Church. He and Vivian Elaine Bruce were married Jan. 31, 1942, at Stillwater.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; three daughters, Janet Carter, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sally Carter, Gallup, N.M., and Cindy Maloney, Inglewood, Calif.; a son, James II, Boulder, Colo.; two sisters, Beryle Moore, Ardmore, and Jean Cole, Midland, Texas; a brother, Turner, Oklahoma City; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 314, Lone Grove, OK 73443; or Valley Hope Rehabilitation Clinic, 100 S. Jones, Cushing, OK 74023.

Lena M. Cox
MADILL -- Services for Lena M. Cox, 87, will be 11 a.m. Monady at Trinity Baptist Church with the Rev. Lyndol Adams and the Rev. Donnie Lehr officiating. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery.
Born June 19, 1910, at Cushing to William and Florence Lish, she died Aug. 13, 1997, at Huntsville, Ala.
She married Jesse A. Cox on April 21, 1927 at Drumright. Mrs. Cox was a former resident of Ardmore, Wilson and the Madill area.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; two sons, Donald Cox, Madison, Ala., and William C. Cox, Fredericksburg, Texas; and one grandchild.
Services are under the direction of Griffin-Kennedy-Watts Funeral Home.

Jesse J. Duke
RINGLING -- Graveside rites for Jesse J. Duke, 90, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Cornish Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Gillum officiating.
Duke died Aug. 14, 1997, in a Ringling health care facility. He was born Feb. 24, 1997, in Jefferson County, Indian Territory, to Claude and Myrtle Richardson Duke.
He graduated Zaneis School and was employed as a mechanic for as long as his health permitted. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Ruth L. Welch, in 1989; three sisters; and three brothers.
Survivors include a daughter, Delores Songer, Wills Point, Texas; six grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
Services are under the direction of Alexander Funeral Home.

Mary I. Hale
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Graveside rites for Mary Ima Hale, 92, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Seaside Memorial Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, with the Rev. Kenneth Eiben officiating. Friends may call at Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home this evening.
Mrs. Hale died Aug. 17, 1997, in the Ardmore hospital. She was born Aug. 24, 1904, at Comanche, Texas, to William and Josephine Garrett Helm.
She married James Henry Hale Dec. 9, 1922, at Mansfield, Texas, and had lived in Ardmore since 1992. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and AARP. She was preceded in death by her husband March 29, 1947; three brothers, James, Jessie and Walter Helm; and two sisters, Maggie Allcock and Leona Hamil.
Survivors include a daughter, Jessie Sichley, Ardmore; two sisters, Ellen Hale, Corpus Christi, and Eva Appleton, Houston; two grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Hershal E. Harris
Services for Hershal Eugene Harris will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Craddock Memorial Chapel with Raymond Norton officiating. Interment will be at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Harris died Aug. 20, 1997, in Ardmore. He was born Feb. 22, 1951, here to Elmer and Winnie Sisco Harris.
A resident of the Ardmore area most of his life, he was employed by Koch Industries as a mechanical tech before he became a self-employed concrete mason contractor. He and Debra Davis were married Aug. 17, 1993, in Ardmore.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; four daughters, Kimberly Harris and Thresa Wickwine, Ardmore, Rachael and Lisa Kliven, of the home; two sons, Kevin E. Harris and Tim Kliven, Ardmore; his mother, Winnie Harris, Ardmore; four sisters, Carolyn Grayson, Wilson, Betty J. Estep, Rosa-Lie Harris and Kathy Higgs, Ardmore; and two brothers, David, Ardmore, and Daniel, Wilson.
Bearers will be Butch Cook, George Walker, Bill Ingram, D.J., Lee and David Davis.

Anna Evans Minor
OAKLAND -- Graveside rites for Anna Gayle Evans Minor, 60, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Oakland Cemetery with the Rev. Homer Walkup officiating.
Mrs. Minor died Aug. 21, 1997, at her home. She was born April 4, 1937, at Ada.
Reared in Oklahoma City, she married Gary Minor there Aug. 19, 1955, and moved to Madill in 1967. She was co-owner of Minor Printing and M-Team BBQ.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; a daughter, Terri Wagoner; and two sons, Mike and Rick, Madill; her mother, Louise Evans; and two sisters, Jackie Minor and Linda Berry, all of Oklahoma City; a brother, Walt Evans; and six grandchildren.
Watts Funeral Home will direct services.

Florence Adelia Tracy Revelle
Services for longtime Ardmore resident Florence Adelia Tracy Revelle will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church with Denise Balmer, director of Christian Education, officiating. Interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Florence Adelia Tracy Revelle, attorney-at-law, sister, mother, grandmother and friend, was born Dec. 2, 1903, in Taunton, Mass. The daughter of John B. and Florence Adelia Baker Tracy, she was the oldest of seven children. She passed from this life Aug. 18, 1997, at her residence here in Ardmore. She married Harry H. Revelle Sr. in New Haven, Conn., June 24, 1926. He preceded her in death in 1983. "Ga," as she was affectionately called by friends and family, was a "Yankee" and proud of it!
She graduated "suma cum laude" from Radcliff, an all-female school at Harvard. In 1925 she became a graduate of Yale University Law School. She became the fourth member of the Tracy family to become an attorney-at-law, as she joined her father and mother and later a sister in the law profession. She and Harry moved to Ardmore in 1935, where she became the first woman admitted into the Carter County Bar Association. She was very active in her community, volunteering her services to various civic organizations as a legal adviser. She helped establish and was a charter member of the Ardmore Day Nursery for women who needed to work outside the home. She also helped in establishing the Ardmore chapter of the American Red Cross, Oak Hall School, the Goddard Center, and was a lifelong associate of Camp Fire Girls.
She was well known for her many lectures over the years on the symbolism of Chinese ceremonial robes which her father brought back from China in 1925. She often would write her opinions on social and political issues in local and state newspapers. Florence impacted the lives of many. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where she taught Sunday School for many years. She loved young people and was an inspiration to them.
She is survived by one son, Harry Hassell Revelle Jr., Oklahoma City; two sisters, Constance Chreste, Evansville, Ind., and Mary Tracy, Taunton, Mass.; a brother, John B. Tracy Jr., Satellite Beach, Fla.; three grandsons, John Revelle, Panama City, Panama, Mark Revelle, Arlington, Texas, and Hal Revelle, Ardmore; two granddaughters, Dana R. Wilson, Ardmore, and Cindy Cox, Oklahoma City; 14 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Serving as pallbearers will be Mike Hisey, Rusty Noble, Darrell Roberts, Fred Nevill, Osmun Latrobe and John Revelle.
The family will receive friends at the Craddock Funeral Home Friday evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Ardmore Day Nursery, 320 D St. NW, Ardmore, or CASA, Carter County Court House, Room 401, Ardmore.

Estell Conley
CERES, Calif. -- Services for area native Estell Conley, 81, will be Monday in Ceres, Calif.
Mrs. Conley died Aug. 20, 1997. She was born in 1916 at Orr.
She is survived by her husband, Lewis; a son, Bill; and daughter, Betty Holder, all of Ceres; a brother, Dempsey Thompson, Ardmore; and several grandchildren.
Franklyn and Dawn Funeral Home will direct services.

Julia T. Gazaway
Graveside services for Julia T. Gazaway will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at McAlister Cemetery.
Mrs. Gazaway died Aug. 21, 1997, in Ardmore, where she was born Oct. 15, 1903, in Indian Territory, to Henry and Kate Culley.
She was a Methodist and had lived in Ardmore most of her life. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marshall, in 1961; and a son, Royce Craighead, in 1994.
Survivors include three sisters, Hazy Fomby, Dallas, Blanch Craighead, Ardmore, and Eva Smith, California; a brother, Bill Culley Sr., Ardmore; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
Griffin-Kennedy-Watts Funeral Home will direct services.

Edna Ruth Cochran
SULPHUR -- Services for Edna Ruth Cochran, 70, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Free Will Baptist Church with the Rev. Brad Ransom officiating. Interment will be at Condon Grove Cemetery, Milburn.
Mrs. Cochran died Aug. 21, 1997, in Midwest City. She was born Sept. 7, 1926, at Plainview, Texas, to Jim W. and Cora E. Post Jones.
She married Charles C. Cochran March 17, 1950, at Fort Bragg, Calif., and lived in Sulphur, Atoka and Oklahoma City, returning here in 1990. She was a retired salesperson and member of First Free Will Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband Feb. 19, 1991; a son, Jimmy Charles Marler; and a sister.
Survivors include a daughter, Beverly A. Cox, Oklahoma City; a son, Billy P., Sulphur; two brothers, Frank and Yul Jones, Wannette; two sisters, Betty Myers and Irene Watzal, Orland, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Bearers will be Bill Lance, Richard Gates, Jim Garrison, George, Jody and Eugene Kennedy. Honorary bearers are Mike Callis, Melissa Allred, Tamara and Danielle Sullivan, Roberta and Christopher Keeling, Zachary and Samantha Gates, Charles and Billy Cochran.
Clagg Funeral Home will direct services.

Odessa Martin Fagan
TISHOMINGO -- Services for Odessa Mae Martin Fagan will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church with the Revs. Larry Sims and Perry Crisp officiating. Interment will be at Ravia Cemetery.
Mrs. Fagan died Aug. 20, 1997. She was born May 9, 1917, to George and Birdie Martin.
A former resident of Texarkana, Texas, she was a member of Eastern Star and First Baptist Church. She and her husband, Paul, had been married 61 years.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; a son, Eddie P., Oklahoma City; daughter, Glenda Kay, Dallas; two sisters, Ozell Major, Tishomingo, and Norma Roper, Oklahoma City; two brothers, Gene Martin, Victoria, Texas, and Douglas Martin, Tishomingo; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Bearers will be Paul Fagan, Lee Smith, Blake Craft, Lyman Eubanks, Baine Green and Ellis Graham. Honorary bearers are J.B. Posey, Marshal Cole, C.B. Fields, Ken Tate, Bennie Manion and Archie Farris.
Corbin Funeral Home will direct services.

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