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Graveside services for long time Sasakwa resident Vera Elizabeth Coleman, 71, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Lone Dove Cemetery under the direction of Stout Funeral Home
Coleman died Wednesday at her home.
Rev. Carl Wills will officiate the service.
Coleman was born Nov. 8, 1924 in Texas to Mont and Martha Welch.
She was raised in Sasakwa and a member of the Church of Christ.
She married Preston Coleman in 1951. He survives her of the home.
Coleman was preceded in death by two brothers, Larence Welch and Clifton Welch.
Other survivors include two sons, James Jacobs, Sasakwa, and Dalen Jacobs, Lawton; five sisters and two brothers.
Pallbearers include Kelton Welch, Gary Welch, Ronnie Welch, Chubby Welch, Jacky Reich and Danny Leslie.
Honorary bearers will be Shannon Welch, Jason Welch and Jimmy Welch.
8-21-97
Pauline Collins
Graveside services for Pauline Collins are scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Maple Grove Cemetery in Seminole. David Collins will officiate. Burial will be under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home.
Collins, 79, died on Tuesday at McAlester Regional Health Center.
She was born March 27, 1918 in Seminole to Floyd Oscar Barton and Dora M. (Langford) Barton.
She married Leroy Collins April 18, 1936 in Sulphur. He preceded her in death on Dec. 1, l983.
Barton was the executive director of Seminole Campfire Girls and was a lifelong resident of Seminole County.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and one grandson.
Survivors include a son, David Collins of Canadian; two daughters, Linda Arnhart and Paula Geuin of Canadian, and a niece she raised, Carol Raper of Konawa.
Other survivors include five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
8/6/97
Glen Collins
Graveside services for Glen Charles Collins, 69, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Memorial Park Cemetery in Ada under the direction of Smith Funeral Home of Ada.
Rev. Harold Spooner will officiate.
Collins died Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
He was born Oct. 18, 1927 in Konawa to Benjamin and Artie (Crenshaw) Collins.
He graduated from Konawa High School, and from East Central State College.
Collins served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and in the U.S. Army as an officer during the Korean Conflict.
He served as a state representative from Konawa in 1950-54, and as a state senator representing Seminole and Pontotoc Counties from 1954-58.
He married Johnnie Stubbs on Oct. 16, 1952 in Ft. Smith, Ark. She survives him of the home.
Collins was preceded in death by one sister, Helen Delaney.
Other survivors include two sons, Glen C. Collins Jr., Colorado Springs, Colo. and Michael T. Collins, Madison, Wis.; one daughter, Suzanne Jones, Seminole; one brother, Gene Collins, Oklahoma City; one sister, Barbara Hale, Oklahoma City; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Military honors will be performed by Desert Storm Post #11194 from Konawa.
8-28-97
Ben Frank Cummings
WEWOKA - Graveside services for lifelong Wewoka resident, Ben Frank Cummings, 78, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Oakwood Cemetery.
Cummings died Tuesday in Holdenville General Hospital.
Rev. Dan Factor will officiate. Burial will be under the direction of Stout Funeral Home.
Cummings was born in Wewoka on Sept. 13, 1918 to Richard Cummings and Myrtle (Bramlett) Cummings.
On Jan. 8, 1944 he married Irene Cummings in Wewoka; she survives him of the home.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, W. C. Cummings, and two sisters, Launa Henley and Viola Adams.
Other survivors include one son, James Cummings, Dallas and one daughter Myrtle Green, Yeager; three brothers, Bill Cummings, Gainesville, Texas, Perry Cummings, Arlington, Texas, and Jerry Cummings, Graham, Texas; one sister, Christeen Jones, Wewoka, three grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
9/10/97
Mary Sue Davis
Mary Sue (Streater) Davis, formerly of Wewoka, died July 30, in her home in Oklahoma City.
Private cremation services were held.
Davis was born in Wewoka to A.F. and Golden Streater on January 7, 1918. She graduated from Wewoka High School.
She worked as a legal secretary until the beginning of WWII, when she volunteered in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and was honorably discharged as Auxiliary First Class.
She was a member of First Baptist Church of Wewoka.
Davis was married to Earl A. Davis. He preceded her in death in 1986.
The family requests memorials be made to Visiting Nurses Association of Oklahoma City, Wewoka Public Library or the Seminole Museum in Wewoka.
8/10/97
Rita Dawson
Rita Inez Dawson was born March 3, 1906 and died June 29, 1997 at the age of 91.
Graveside services were held Tuesday in El Reno. It was a victory celebration because she was looking forward to seeing Jesus.
Officiating was Rev. Terry Patterson, pastor of the Northwood Church of the Nazarene in Seminole.
Rita was well known in Seminole because she and her husband, Guiles Dawson, owned Dawson Flower Shop on State Street from l930 until it burned in 1972. Guiles passed away in l984 after a long illness.
Rita joined the Church of the Nazarene at the old location at 520 Simpson in l932 and was a charter member of the Northwood Church of the Nazarene when it was reorganized in l986 at the new location at 1227 Highway 9 West.
For more than 60 years she was active in the church serving as teacher and missionary president and many other positions.
In the late 1940s and early l950s the Dawson Flower Shop sponsored the Dawson Comets, a baseball team of teenage boys. There were two special rules, the boys must attend church and no games were ever played on Sunday or Wednesday evening.
Rita was a talented and prolific artist and poet. She was skillful in arranging flowers and catering weddings.
Rita leaves a great legacy to hundreds of Seminole children who passed through her Sunday School classes since l932. She not only taught the Bible but taught about life in the real world. She was a real inspiration to any who knew her.
Rita took care of her handicapped brother, Carl Winfrey, for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Guiles, three brothers and five sisters.
Survivors include a son and his wife, George W. and Harriet Dawson of Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Letha Lemonn, also of Long Beach; four grandchildren, Kent Dawson of Seminole, Keith Dawson of Guthrie, Paula Russell of Louisiana and Donna Breslin of Long Beach.
She is survived by eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson and a host of friends and other relatives.
7/2/97
Lindsey O. Denny
Graveside funeral services for Lindsey O. Denny were held at Wolf Cemetery, 10 miles south of Seminole at 10 a.m. today.
Services were officiated by Rev. Charles Welch of Owasso under the direction of Hunsaker-Wooten Funeral Home of Fairfax.
Denny died Saturday at the Fairfax Memorial Hospital at the age of 90.
He was born on Sept. 13, 1906 in Uniontown, Ark. to Jacob Simon Denny and Margaret E.(Morrison) Denny.
He attended Uniontown schools.
On Oct, 11, 1937, he married Pansy Evelyn Villines in Fort Smith, Ark.
The couple made their first home in Snomac, near Seminole before moving to Fairfax in 1977.
Denny had been self employed at a grocery business in Midwest City after working as a car salesman.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, three sister, Laura Hiatt, Flaura Cook and Florence Denny and one brother, Clyde Denny.
Denny is survived by a daughter, Carol Carver of Fairfax, one granddaughter, and one great granddaughter.
7/29/97
