Obit of Black, Vida W - Bryan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>  1 Dec 2004
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:Highland Cemetery--Durant

Durant Democrat 12 Nov 2004

Vida W. Black, 92

A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Highland Cemetery for Vida 
W. Black, 92, Durant, who died Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, at Kings Daughters 
and Sons Nursing Home. Rev. Roger Tidwell will officiate.

She was born Sunday, Oct. 27, 1912, in Beccaria Township, Pa., to George P. 
and Ethel May (Karhelries) Waddell. She married William Black June 6, 1936, 

in Rosebud, Pa. She loved to play the piano. She enjoyed square dancing 
with her husband and being around her family. She was a former member of 
the Pottsboro Dudes and Dolls. She graduated from Beccaria-Coapori-Irvona 
High School and George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 
Danville, Pa.

She was preceded in death by her husband June 10, 1992; daughter Gail Cole 
in 2000; granddaughter Michelle Ging in 1987; brother Jesse I. Waddell in 
1992; and parents.

She is survived by daughters Sondra Leavenworth and husband Jack, Howe, 
Texas, and Anita Ging and husband Tom, Golden, Colo.; brother C. Calvin 
Waddell and wife Nellie, Warren, Ohio; granddaughters Ellen L. Hawkins and 
husband Richard, Tom Bean, Texas, Lora Leavenworth, North Bergen, N.J., 
Catherine Turner and husband Robert, Las Lunas, N.M., Kirsten Ging, Golden; 
grandsons John L. Leavenworth, Dallas, Texas, Fletcher Cole and wife Wendy, 
La Mesilla, N.M.; great-grandchildren Tyler and Cory Hawkins, Tom Bean, 
Matthew and Ashley Turner, Las Lunas, and Quintin and Madalyn Cole, La 
Mesilla.

Pallbearers will be John L. Leavenworth, Fletcher Cole, Richard Hawkins, 
Tyler Hawkins, Cory Hawkins, Robert Turner, Clyde Waddell and Jose Mungoia.

Family hour will be from 6-7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Coffey-Murray Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
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