Beckham Co. - Obit for Ocie Odell Harding, 2001

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Ocie Odell Harding 

ERICK, Okla. - Ocie Odell Harding, 87, died Saturday, May 12, 2001, 
in Sayre. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Erick First Baptist Church 
with Mike Mong and Carl Hein officiating. Burial will be in Texola 
Cemetery by Fatheree-Albert Funeral Home. 

Mrs. Harding was born Nov. 28, 1913, in Poteau, Okla., to Cora Ellen 
and William Deaton. Ocie grew up in Poteau before moving to Texola, 
where she met Charlie Harding. They married on March 28, 1934. 

They lived in Shamrock, Texas until 1953, when they moved to Wheeler, 
Texas. Charlie passed away in 1980. She remained in Wheeler until 
1993, when she moved to Erick. She was a member of Erick First 
Baptist Church. 

Mrs. Harding was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, 
Charles Ray Harding; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; four 
sisters and five brothers. 

Survivors include two daughters, Carolyn Abla and husband, Duane, of 
Erick and Patsy Schaffer and husband, Sam, of Wellington, Texas; two 
sons, Paul Harding and wife, Dovie, of Lubbock, Texas and Louis 
Harding of Erick, Okla.; a sister-in-law, Blanche Deaton of Poteau, 
Okla.; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; numerous nephews 
and nieces and a host of other relatives and friends. 

Amarillo Globe-News, May 15, 2001