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Graveside services for former Seminole County resident, Larry Allen Edmonson Sr. are tentatively scheduled for 11 a.m. and visitation from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, April 17 in Murray, Ky.
Services are under the direction of Churchill Funeral Home of Murray, Ky.
Edmondson died April 15, 2004.
He was born March 1, 1945, to Herbert and Alpha Edmondson.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Garry Edmondson and Ernest Edmondson and his mother, Alpha Edmondson.
He is survived by his father, Herbert Edmondson, one daughter, Carol Lloyd and Kevin of Seminole; three sons, Wayne Edmondson and Angie of Seminole, Larry Edmondson Jr. and Julie of Virginia; Tony Edmondson and Annette of Tecumseh; two brothers, Sam Edmondson of Murray Ky. and Danny Edmondson of Benton, Ky.; two sisters, Martha Hale of Murray, Ky. and Joan Shelley of Indiana; and nine grandchildren.
Jeffrey Ellig
Private services for former Seminole resident, Jeffrey Mannng Ellig will be held at a later date under the direction of Walker Funeral Service of Shawnee.
Ellig died Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at the age of 56 at his mother’s home in Tecumseh.
He was born May 14, 1947, in Henryetta to Oscar Manning and Catherine Lahoma (Harrelson) Ellig.
He attended Seminole Public Schools.
His grandparents and his father, Manning Ellig, preceded him in death.
He is survived by one son, Jason Manning Ellig of Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; his mother, Catherine Lahoma Ellig of Tecumseh; and two sisters, Becky Culver of Henryetta and Cathy Satawake of Earlsboro.
Essie Emery
Funeral services for Seminole County resident, Essie Mae Emery of Konawa are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, June 5 at the Pickard-Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel with Ed George officiating.
Interment will follow at the Grayson Cemetery in Konawa under the direction of Pickard-Swearingen Funeral Home of Konawa.
Emery died Monday, May 31, 2004, at the age of 80 in her home in Konawa.
She was born Feb. 11, 1924, in Boswell to Paul Whitehead and Clara Alfred.
She married Lincoln Emery on Nov. 26, 1996, in Stonewall.
Emery was a Baptist and a member of the Mount Zion Christian Church.
She lived in the Konawa for the past 50 years and had retired from the Konawa City Hall where she worked as a secretary.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lincoln Emery on May 26, 2000, and one daughter, Geraldine Osborne.
She is survived by her mother, Clara Alfred of Konawa; three daughters, B.J. Potts of Konawa, Bertha Dirk of Bethany and Lynn Confield of Oklahoma City; one brother, Eugene "Lucky" White of Oklahoma City; 12 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Dennis L. English
Funeral services for Dennis L. English will be 10 a.m. on Wednesday at Parks Brothers Funeral Chapel in Stroud with Harvey Wilson officiating. Interment will be in the Stroud Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Service in Stroud.
Dennis L. English died Sept. 17, 2004. He was born in Stroud on Dec. 5, 1918 to Charley Robert and Alva Mae Buchan English.
English grew up in the Stroud area, attended school there and later went to Oklahoma State University. He helped form the first Chapter of Future Farmers of America in Oklahoma and was their first State President.
He served as a Sergeant in the Eighth Air Force during World War II in an aviation tower in England. English married Juanita Sullivan on Jan. 6, 1946 and they had three children.
English raised cattle and worked in the electrical trade until 1970 when he became the building superintendent at Central Vo Tech in Drumright and later taught electrical trade at the facility.
The family moved to Drumright in 1972. He retired in 1983 and continued to live in Drumright until December of 2000, when the couple moved to Maud. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, woodworking, and spending time with his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife Juanita of the home; one brother, Darrell English and wife Lana of Stroud; one son, Larry English and wife Kathy of Oklahoma City; two daughters, Jane Schmit and husband Jim of Maud, and Shirley Schoonmaker and husband Kenny of Rogers, Ark.
Additional survivors include seven grandchildren, Michelle Callis and husband Scott of Dallas, Texas, Todd English and wife Billie of Sapulpa, Stephanie VanMeter and husband Erik of Dublin, Ohio, Darrell Newcomb and fiancée, Tamara Wilburn of Stillwater, David English and wife Amanda of Owasso, Stephen Remington and wife Courtney of Cushing, Christi Swan and husband Nathan of Lampe, Mo.; and seven great-grandchildren, Kannon, Kutter, and Kaleigh Callis, Alex English, Kate VanMeter, Scan and Matthew English; two nephews, Charles and wife Missy of Bristow, and Derrick English of Stroud; and numerous other relatives and friends.
Billy Epperly
Funeral services for Billy John "B.J." Epperly, former Seminole County resident are scheduled for 10 a.m., Wednesday, March 17, at the Palms Funeral Home in Angleton, Texas, with Rev. Gary Lanier officiating.
Visitation with the family will be at the funeral home on Tuesday from 5-7 p.m.
Interment will follow at Angleton Cemetery under the direction of Palms Funeral Home.
Epperly died March 13, 2004, at the age of 72 in Houston, Texas.
He was born December 19, 1931, in Sasakwa to Albert and Goldie Epperly.
He spent most of his childhood time in Wewoka.
He attended Oklahoma State University, where he played two years of football.
He then went to work for Phillips Petroleum Company where he worked for 41 years.
After retirement B.J. enjoyed traveling in his motor home throughout the United States with his wife.
He enjoyed fishing, camping and watching all kinds of sports.
He was preceded in death by his parents; Albert and Goldie, his brothers; Son, Rass, Jay, George, and Jackie; one sister; Ruth Reed.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years; Loretta Epperly; children, Lawrence Gene Epperly Sr, Lisa Gregg, Stephen John Eppperly, and Lawrence Gene Epperly Jr. all of Angleton, Texas, and Ruth Ashley of Lake Jackson, Texas; two sisters; Opal Epperly and Lois King both of Wewoka; one brother; Joe Epperly of Oklahoma City; two grandchildren; one great grandson; and other relatives and friends.
Pallbearers are Bill Parker, Gerald Propst, Roy Sawyer, Layton Davenport, Jim Cooley and Larry Smith.
Honorary pallbearers are Gaylon Ludwig and Bill Kirkham.
Helen Cousins Exum
Memorial Set for Last Member of Douglass’ Graduating Class of ‘28
The last surviving member of the Douglass High School Class of 1928 has died in Frankfort, Ky.
Helen Cousins Exum died Nov. 29, 2003, at her home in Frankfort.
A memorial service is planned this weekend during the Douglass High School Alumni Reunion and business meeting, 10 a.m. Saturday at the Wewoka Civic Center.
All alumni who have died in the past year will also be honored.
Douglass was Wewoka’s first high school for African-American students.
Exum was a senior the year the school opened and was a member of the first graduating class.
She had been born in Lima, to Rev. Henry and Mame Howell Cousins.
Her early years were spent in Wewoka and Lima, where she attended public school.
She attended college at Talladega. She accepted her first teaching position at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla.
There she met and married her husband, William Henry Exum; both her husband and son, Henry, preceded her in death.
Exum completed a master’s degree in language at the University of Michigan and spent her life "moving around" with her husband as her pursued a career as a coach, athletic director and member of many national and international committees.
Exum found herself back in Wewoka during World War II, while her husband served in the military.
When he returned, they lived at Jefferson City, Mo., where he coached at Lincoln University, then went to Kentucky State in 1950.
She began teaching language classes at that time and accompanied her husband on vacations and Olympic trips.
She studied for a summer in France and brought the joy of speaking French to her students.
She was an active member of Beta Upsilon Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and was recognized as a "Diamond Soror" for her 75 years of service.
She was also a charter member of the College Park Church, the Believers Club, a stewardess and faithful member of the History Committee.
She was a member of the Third Thursday Quintet.
Survivors include her grandson, Zachary Exum of Sunderland, Mass.; the daughter-in-law she considered a daughter, Patricia Crutchfield, Southwich, Mass., and many other friends.
"The Douglass High School Alumni Association of Wewoka mourns the passing of the last member of the first graduating class, " said Wayne L. Chandler Sr., who was a freshman that first year Douglass opened.
Chandler recalled how Wewoka’s first African American school came to be.
Prior to Douglass’ opening, the only black high school in Seminole County was in Lima.
William Frazier had been principal of Douglass Junior High in Wewoka; when he resigned, D.W. Lee was hired and began a movement to get a high school open.
He and a number of leaders met with the school board and they agreed that if they could get most of the eighth grade graduates to remain.
When most of the eighth graders agreed to stay, Douglass High School was established.
"The education leaders in Wewoka had planned to make Douglass High School the largest consolidated school in Oklahoma, " Chandler remembered.
"Just about this time, C.R. Johns came to Seminole and wanted to have a high school there."
When Lima school was closed and students began attending in Wewoka.
Chandler said he called Exum in mid 2003 to ask her to come to the 2004 alumni reunion.
"She told me of the many problems she would encounter if she came and I assured her that the problems would be eliminated in Wewoka, " Chandler said.
"We ended the conversation with my thinking that more than likely the last living graduate of the first graduating class of 1928 would be with us."
