Custer County, Oklahoma Obituary and Death Notices Collection

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Thursday, June 10, 2004
Rites slated for Kennedy at 1:51 pm

Memorial services for Barbara Kaye Kennedy, age 55 of Burns Flat, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of the Kiesau-Marler Funeral Home in Clinton with interment in the Clinton Cemetery.

Kennedy died Wednesday, June 2, 2004, at her residence. She was born on Oct. 25, 1948 in Clinton, the daughter of Sy and Frances (Creig) Deal.

She grew up in Clinton, graduating in 1966. On Nov. 18, 1967 she was married to James Kennedy at the First Baptist Church in Clinton.

At Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford she earned a Bachelor of Science in 1971 and a Master’s in Education in 1973.

Kennedy was president and founder of Geological and Environmental Services. Devoted to her family and business, she liked to garden, travel and collect Fostoria and antique fruit jars.

Her parents preceded her in death.

Survivors include her husband of 37 years, James Kennedy of Burns Flat; daughters, Catherine Kennedy and her husband, Troy, of Burns Flat, Christine Kennedy and her husband, Conrad Condreay of Burns Flat; and a brother, William Deal, and his wife, Jo Ann, of Bethany.

Barbara Kennedy

Brown death is reported at 1:49 pm

Word has been received of the death on April 30, 2004 at the Bloomfield, N.M. Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Charlotte Frances Brown who was born on April 7, 1916 in Clinton, the daughter of Marilla Jane Hampton Barton and Herman Clyde Barton. She was the eldest of seven children.

She joined the Salvation Army at the age of 14 and graduated from Clinton High School in 1934.

Brown then went to the Salvation Army Training College. She worked in Home and Hospitals (homes for unwed mothers) in Atlanta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala. and
Richmond, Va.

She was a captain when she resigned to marry Richard Tripp in Tucson, Ariz. in 1940.

She later married George Brannan Brown in 1947. He was in the Air Force so they lived in Roswell, N.M. until 1952; Limestone, Maine from 1952 to 1957 and Oklahoma City from 1957 to 1976.

He died in 1961, and she worked in Air Force hospitals as a nurse’s aide for 23 years.

In 1976 she moved to Bloomfield, N.M. to be near her daughter.

She was a member of the Salvation Army Church, Salvation Army Home League, AARP, Gold Star Wives, Retired Senior Volunteers Program and Bloomfield Senior Citizens Center.

She was a past member of the VFW Auxiliary and a charter member of the Tucson, Ariz. FOP Auxiliary.

Brown helped her daughter with her first grade classes at Central Primary in Bloomfield for 22 years and was an assistant leader for her daughter’s Girl Scout troops for 24 years.

Her wish was to be cremated so that portions of her remains could be buried with her husband, George, in the Sunnylane Cemetery in Del City, with her parents in the Clinton Cemetery and when the time comes with her daughter in the Bloomfield, N.M. Cemetery.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband; three brothers, two sisters and her first two children who died in miscarriages.

Survivors include a brother, A.R. Barton of Monroe, La. and her daughter, Dorothy, of Bloomfield, N.M.

Cryer rites held June 2 at 1:48 pm

Funeral services for Leon Cryer, formerly of Clinton, were held June 2 at the Day Funeral Home in Marshfield, Mo.

Cryer was born on Nov. 10, 1919 in Austin, Texas and died May 29, 2004 at his home in Grovespring, Mo. after a battle with cancer.

A self-employed truck driver for many years in
Clinton, he was a member of the Prospect Baptist Church.

On Aug. 9, 1941 he married Sammie McClure who preceded him in death on Nov. 15, 2000.

Also preceding him in death were his parents, William Foster and step-mother, Ruby Cryer; and two brothers, William (Bill) and Lester Cryer.

Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Alson of Bentonville, Ark.; two sons, Leland Cryer and his wife, Carol, Billy Cryer and his wife, Jody of Grovespring, Mo.; eight grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Edna Cryer; and many nieces and nephews of Clinton.

Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Huddleston services set at 1:48 pm

Funeral services for Helen L. Huddleston, age 87 of Lawton, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home Chapel with Jim Antwine officiating.

Huddleston died Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at Lawton. She was born on April 1, 1917 in Cloud Chief, the daughter of Mark and Rila Woodward.

She had worked as a dietician at the Southwestern Hospital and as a sales clerk for Gibson’s Discount Center.

Married to Mannis L. Huddleston, she was a senior volunteer at the Center for Creative Living.

Burial will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery at Snyder.

Survivors include two sons, Donald Huddleston and his wife, Jean, of Las Vegas, Nev., Bobby L. Huddleston of Clinton; a sister, Rae Nell Ney of Mountain Park; and a special friend, Wendy (Wright) Tatroult.

Preceding her in death were her husband, her parents and three brothers, Temple, Howard and J.B. Woodward.

Mildred Stocks funeral June 15 at 1:45 pm

Graveside services for Mildred Mabel Stocks, age 93 of Del City, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, at the Stafford Cemetery west of Clinton.

Stocks died Sunday, June 6, 2004, in Oklahoma City. She was born on Nov. 4, 1910 at a farm southeast of Clinton, the daughter of Eben Anson and Edith Alberta Orendorff Stocks.

In March of 1920 she moved with her parents to a farm in the Stafford community nine miles west of Clinton.

She attended the Clinton Schools until the fourth grade when she transferred to Stafford Consolidated District No. 3, later graduating from Clinton Business College and Drafting School.

She served on the executive board of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Col. Dames Seventeenth Century.

She enjoyed taking flying lessons, tap dancing and working on genealogy.

Over the years, she worked for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in Custer County, the Armour Creamery in Elk City, WPA in Hobart, U.S. Navy in Burns Flat, Ordinance Plant in Camden, Ark. and as an assistant purchasing agent for W&W Steel Co. in Oklahoma City for 20 years until her retirement in 1970.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Ford Funeral Service in Midwest City.

Survivors include two sisters, Sadie Harriett Butler of Elk City, Florence Jane Wass of Stillwater; and nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents Eben Anson Stocks in 1943 and Edith Alberta Orendorff Stocks in 1945; a brother, Guy Silvius Stocks in 1975; sisters, Grace Lenore Ledbetter in 1995, Evadna Adahl Weese in 1997 and Georgenea Mary Meacham in 1998.

Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Jennifer Lira services set at 2:13 pm

Funeral services for Jennifer Lira, age 34 of Clinton, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Pentecostal Church of God Indian Mission with Rev. Ramus Hicks, Rev. Randy Whited and Delfred White-crow officiating.

Lira died Sunday, June 6, 2004, at Integris Clinton Regional Hospital. She was born on Jan. 29, 1970 in Vernon, Texas, the daughter of Juan T. and Ula (Candy) Lira.

Reared in Odell, Texas, she attended school there and participated in the Job Corps in Guthrie in 1985.

She had lived in San Antonio and Vernon, Texas before moving back to Oklahoma in 1987.

She worked as a nurse’s aide at the Cordell Nursing Home until failing health forced her to retire in 2000. In 2001 she moved to Clinton.

She was a faithful member of the Pentecostal Church of God Indian Mission and enjoyed church activities, reading her Bible and spending time with her son.

Preceding her in death were her maternal grandparents, Roy and Ethel (Lefthand) Candy and her paternal grandfather, Marcello Lira.

Burial will conclude in the Clinton Indian Cemetery under the direction of the Stanley-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.

Survivors include a son, Carlos Lira, of the home; her parents, Juan and Ula of Cloud Chief; sisters, Juanita Anaya, Angela Leija and Margaret Nava, all of Vernon, Texas; a brother, Juan Lira, Jr. of Clinton; seven nieces; two nephews; a paternal grandmother, Patricia Lira of Vernon, Texas; and several aunts and uncles, including Freeman Candyfire of Clinton.

Monday, June 07, 2004
Bessie Gray rites slated at 2:00 pm

Funeral services for Bessie O. Gray, age 64 of Butler, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church at Butler with Roy Wilburn officiating.

Gray died Sunday, June 6, 2004, at Oklahoma City. She was born on Sept. 12, 1939 in Waurika, the daughter of Eddith Geraldine and Alcy David Tippens.

She moved with her parents to Texas and later returned to Oklahoma to live at Clair.

She married Leonard Boyed Gray, Sr. at Durant on June 11, 1957, and they moved to Western Oklahoma in 1959, moving to Butler in 1976.

She was a member of the Butler First Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents, two sisters and a brother.

Burial will be in the Red Hill Cemetery at Hammon under the direction of the Whinery-Savage Funeral Service of Elk City.

Survivors include her husband, Boyed, of the home; two daughters, Eddith Larson and her husband, Richard, of Edmond, Bonnie Jean Gray of Butler; two sons, Leonard Boyed Gray of Missouri, Larry Joe Gray of Butler; a sister-in-law, Linda Tippens of Etoile, Texas; eight grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

Funeral held for Doughty at 12:30 pm

Graveside services for Mable “Dood” (Little) Doughty, age 89 of Clinton, were held Monday afternoon at the Mound Valley Cemetery in Thomas with Rev. Michael Larson officiating.

Doughty died Friday, June 4, 2004, at the Grace Living Center in Clinton. She was born on Sept. 9, 1914 in San Angelo, Texas, the daughter of Horace and Mable (Graves) Little.

She graduated from Thomas High School in 1932 and retired in 1977 from Tinker Air Force Base due to ailing health and returned to Clinton.

Doughty was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Clinton. She also was a member of the Butler Eastern Star No. 261.

Preceding her in death, along with her parents, were two sisters, Bess Bliss and Evenette Alford; and five brothers, Dick, George, Kenneth, Bud and Odis Little.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Kiesau-Marler Funeral Home in Clinton.

Survivors include four sisters-in-law, Emma Lou Shephard, Maxine Little, Sue Little, Ernstine Little; and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family has suggested that those who desire may
make memorial contributions in her honor to the Trinity Hospice, 222 W. Third, Elk City, OK 73644.

Graf funeral at 10 Tuesday at 1:56 pm
7-24-04

Funeral services for Rhiney Graf, 83, longtime farmer and civic leader in the Corn area, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Mennonite Brethren Church in Corn.

Graf died Friday afternoon, July 23, 2004, in an Oklahoma City hospital from injuries received that morning when the tractor he was driving was hit by a truck on State Highway 152 south of Corn.

Born March 27, 1921, at Henrietta, Texas, he was the son of Karl and Magdalena (Stuckle) Graf. He graduated from Henrietta High School in 1939 and later attended North Texas University in Denton, Texas, and machinist school in Dallas, Texas.

Graf was an Army veteran of World War II.

On Dec. 28, 1947, he married Annie Lee Gossen at Corn. They lived in Texas with his parents for six months, then bought the home place near Corn from his wife’s uncle, Henry Vogt, in the summer of 1948. They had lived there since, raising wheat, alfalfa, cotton and cattle.

They also ran a dairy from 1950 until 1971, and he went on wheat harvest for many years.

Graf joined the Corn Mennonite Brethren Church in 1949 and taught adult Sunday school classes for more than 50 years. While raising his children, he led family devotionals each Saturday night. The family also had morning Bible readings and prayer.

A member of the Corn Bible Academy board, Graf served five years as chairman. He was a church deacon for 16 years and church moderator for 10 years.

He also served on the board and senate of Tabor College, on the Southern District board of trustees, and as member and chairman of the Corn Heritage Village board of directors.

Graf enjoyed gardening, working with his peach and pecan trees, woodworking, and fishing with his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Annie Lee Graf, of the home; one daughter, Jolene Thiessen (and her husband Leon), of Fresno, Calif.; three sons, Harlan Graf (and wife Betty), San Ramon, Calif., Dr. Lyndon Graf (and wife Debbie), Marlow, and Mark Graf (and wife Vonda), Corn; grandchildren Ryan and Dr. Melissa Thiessen, Shawna and Phillip Weathers, Jason and Sheri Graf, Nathan and Amy Graf, Andrea Graf, Dr. Tristan and Dr. Kathy Graf, Gatz Graf, Diana Graf, Mitchell Graf, Marissa Graf and Micah Graf; two great-grandchildren, James and Samantha Graf; two brothers, Albert Graf, Henrietta, Texas, and Marvin Graf (and wife Beth), Wichita Falls, Texas; and one sister, Elsie Strange (and husband Gene), Vienna, Va.

Graf was preceded in death by two brothers, Arnold and Raymond Graf; one sister, Zelma Graf; and a sister-in-law, Louise Graf.

Burial will be in the Mennonite Brethren Cemetery at Corn under direction of Kiesau Marler Funeral Home of Clinton.

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