Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Margaret Marie Easterling

Submitted by Wanda Purcell

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   Funeral services for Margaret Marie Easterling will be conducted at 10
   a.m.  Tuesday from the First Baptist Church of Sayre with Robert Lakey
   officiating. Interment will follow in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon,
   Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin Funeral
   Home of Sayre, OK.
   Margaret  was  born  July  20,  1918  at  Rankin, to William and Edith
   Petersen  and  died  early this morning Friday October 19, 2001 in San
   Pablo,  California at the age of 83. Margaret spent her early years in
   Rankin  and then Reydon, where she graduated from high school in 1936.
   Her  family  moved  to  Riverside,  California.  She  married  Acie W.
   Easterling, in Holbrook, Arizona on November 11, 1938. Margaret became
   a career Army wife when Acie enlisted in 1943 and traveled with him in
   many  assigned  post  in  Europe  and the United States. In 1980 after
   almost  20  years  in  California  Margaret  and  Aci4e  moved back to
   Oklahoma  and settled in Sayre, where she became active in a number of
   clubs  and  church activities, and was a fervent supporter of Oklahoma
   football.  Last  December Margaret moved from her home in Sayre to the
   San Francisco Bay Area to live with her son Jeff and his family.
   She  is survived by her sister, Geraldine Sandri of Union, Oregon; one
   son, Jeffery Easterlin and wife Sheelagh; and 2 grandchildren.
   (The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 19-Oct-2001)