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Seminole resident Perry Aundra Faulkner, 66, died Sunday Nov. 28, 1999 at Seminole Medical Center.
He was born July 31, 1933 in Dallas, Texas to William C. Faulkner and Mertice (Roberson) Faulkner.
He retired from Cooper Airmotive as a supervisor aircraft mechanic.
Faulkner married Melba J. Faulkner in 1957 in Durant who survives him of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Other survivors include two sons, Michael Faulkner, Dallas, and Bill Effinger, Fayetteville, Ark.; four daughters, Gloria Fortner, Roanoke, Texas, P.J. Pearce, Dallas, Casey Kifer and Dana Allen both of Konawa; two sister, Patricia Jelson, Houston and Mary Lane, Dayton, Texas; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Noah Fish
DEL CITY - Funeral services for former Wewoka resident Noah Kirkpatrick Fish Jr., 67, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Glorieta Baptist Church.
Interment will follow at Sunny Lane Cemetery under the direction of Bill Eisenhour Southeast Funeral Home.
Fish died Monday, May 3, 1999 from injuries sustained in a tornado.
He was born Aug. 23, 1931 in Holdenville to Noah K. Fish Sr. and Elizabeth (Coker) Fish.
A Mason, he was member of the First Southern Baptist Church, and graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor’s Degree.
A veteran of Vietnam, Fish retired from the US Air Force in 1972 after 21 years of service.
He also retired from the Indian Health Service.
Fish was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Bernice Fish; and one sister, Shirley Fish.
Survivors include three daughters, Chelsea Fish, of the home; Teresa Longhorn, Shawnee, and Stacy Van Vliet, Rosehill, Calif.; one son, Noah K. Fish III, Roseville, Calif.; one sister, Exie Fish; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Clara Beatrice Flournoy
Graveside funeral services for longtime Seminole resident Clara Beatrice Flournoy, 100, are scheduled to be held at 2 p.m. at Little Cemetery.
Flournoy died Friday, April 2, 1999 at Parkview Nursing Home, Shawnee.
Born Clara Beatrice Bowen, she was born to Elmer and Ellen Bowen on Jan. 17, 1899 in Como, Texas, one of 12 children.
When she was young, three of her brother joined CCC (Civilian Contract Company) to send money home to the other children.
Clara went to work in the cotton and corn fields, and there met her husband, Robert Edward Flourney.
The couple wed on the back of a buckboard wagon by a Free Will Baptist Preacher when they were both just 18 years old.
They had two daughters, and moved from the family farms to a tent in Earlsboro in 1924, so her husband could work in the oilfields.
When there tent burned, they moved to a one-room house in Tracy, where they spent there spare time adding three more rooms onto the house.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Clara canned food from their summer garden to have enough to eat all winter. She saved feed sacks to make dresses and linens with a treadle sewing machine.
During that time, she began each day a 5 a.m., cooking and cleaning for the day, and washing clothes on a rub board. The water was heated outside over an open fire.
After her family was grown, Clara and her husband moved to Seminole and bought there first thoroughly modern house.
Robert Flournoy died of heart problems in 1970 at the age of 71.
Clara recently moved to Shawnee from Pioneer Nursing home to be closer to family.
She was also preceded in death by one daughter, Doris Powers.
Survivors include one daughter, Olyne Hendrix, Ft. Smith, Ark.; five grandchildren, nine great-grand-children and several great-great-grandchildren.
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Mary Ruth Flowers
Funeral services for longtime Seminole resident Mary Ruth Flowers, 69, were held this morning at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
Father Basil Keenan, O.S.B. officiated at the service. Burial followed at Rush Springs City Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home.
Flowers died Saturday, July 3, 1999 at St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City.
She was born May 15, 1930 in Wichita Falls, Texas to Ad and Edith (McCullers) Maguire.
Flowers was employed as a hair dresser, at the Seminole Water Department and a bank clerk at First National and First State Banks in Seminole during her career.
She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and also the Elks Club.
She married Clinton Odell Flowers on Oct. 7, 1950 in Lawton. He survives her of the home.
Flowers was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Patrick.
Other survivors include one daughter, Vicki Hope, Mont Belvieu, Texas; three sons, Richard Flowers, Bowlegs, Mike Flowers, Edmond, and Russell Flowers, Coppell, Texas; three brothers, John Maguire, Missouri, Charlie Maguire, and Tom Maguire, both of Fletcher; and five sisters, Oneta Wolf, Cement, Venita Watkins, Choctaw, Frankie Bueker, St. Louis, MO., Linda Koenig, Blanchard, and Dolly Ludlow, Mich.
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Floyd Forster
Funeral services for Floyd Wesley Forster, 77, are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday at Cromwell First Baptist Church.
Rev. James Wigington will officiate at the service. Interment will follow at Little Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brother Funeral Home, Okemah.
Forster died Thursday, April 15, 1999 at Seminole Medical Center hospital.
He was born Oct. 13, 1921 in Paden to James Claude Forster and Emma Coleman.
Forster served overseas in the ULS Army during World War II, and retired from McDonnel Douglas, where he was a sheet metal fabricator for 20 years.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cromwell, and had lived in the Okemah area from California in 1960.
Forster married Judy Baby Ruth Hail in North Redondo Beach, Calif. She preceded him in death April 28, 1996.
He was also preceded in death by an infant son, Jerry Wesley Forster, in 1949.
Survivors include one son, Michael Forster, of the home; one daughter, Dianne Sanders, Las Vegas; one sister, Juanita Umsted, California; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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L.B. "Smokey" Fowler
Graveside services for Sasakwa resident L.B. "Smokey" Fowler, 64, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Maysville Cemetery.
Rev. Lee Wayne Fowler and Rev. Charles Troglin will officiate at the service. Arrangements are under the direction of Winans Funeral Home, Maysville.
Fowler died June 13, 1999 at Valley View Regional Hospital.
He was born may 11, 1935 in Dell, Ark. to W.O. and Edith Grant Fowler.
Fowler lived a number of places during his lifetime, as his dad was a tenant farmer and moved considerably.
He settled in Sasakwa for the last 30 years, and worked as a farmer, oilfield hand and a road grader operator for Seminole County.
He was a Baptist by faith.
Fowler married Shirley Severs June 24, 1957 in Pauls Valley, She survives him of the home.
Fowler was preceded in death by his parents, one son, Tim Lovelace; one sister and three brothers.
Other survivors include three sons, Rodney Fowler, Paden, Gene Lovelace, Norman and Lee Wayne Fowler, Sasakwa; five brothers, Hershel Fowler, Elmore City, R.V. Fowler, St. Louis, Jack Fowler, Merced, Calif., Jim Fowler, Chickasha, and Benny Fowler, Sasakwa; two sisters, Ellen McCray, Pink, and Rosie Erdman, Sahuarita, Ariz.; and nine grandchildren.
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Jax Fox
Arik Fox
Graveside funeral services for twins Jax Arik Fox and Arik Jax Fox, sons of Shawn and Milo T. Fox Jr., Konawa, are scheduled to be held at High Springs Cemetery.
Rev. Houston Tiger will officiate at the services. Arrangements are under the direction of Pickard Funeral Home.
They were born and died on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1999 in Oklahoma City.
They were preceded in death by two grandparents, Milo T. Fox Sr., and Rosa Cully.
Survivors include their parents, of Konawa; two brothers, Milo T. Fox III and Shane Fox, both of the home; and grandparents, Roy and Connie Prewitt, Konawa.
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Ruth Franks
Funeral services for former Seminole County resident Ruth Franks, 88, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Wolf Freewill Baptist Church.
Interment will follow at Wolf Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home.
Franks died Monday, March 15, 1999 in Tishomingo.
She was born Oct. 13, 1910 in Bowie, Texas to George B. and Anna C. Lack.
A homemaker, she was a member of the Wolf Freewill Baptist Church, and had been a resident of Tishomingo for the past 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Boyce Franks; her parents; three brothers, Frank Lack, James Lack and George Lack; and two sisters, Stella Milam and Sandra Kay Green.
Survivors include one son, Don Franks, Tishomingo; three brothers, Billy Lack and Gene Lack, Norman, and Charles Lack, Wayne; two sisters, Ruby Moore, Antlers, and Wanda Pllack, Noble, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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