Obit of Cole, Retha Jean (c400) - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 19 Jan 2004 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Transcriber Notice: Please note that I am only transcribing this information and do not have any affiliation with this family. Survivors omitted. Durant Daily Democrat Tuesday, January 6, 2004 Retha Jean Cole, 72 Services for Retha Jean Cole, 72, Riverdale, Calif., who passed away Sunday, Dec. 7, 2003, at the Hanford Community Hospital were held at 1 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Riverdale United Methodist Church with the Revs. John and Marge Whittemore officiating. She was born June 10, 1931, near Bennington, to Francis T. and Cora (Henderson) Haggard. She graduated as valedictorian from Bokchito High School in 1949, and received her master’s in elementary education from Southeastern State University at Durant in 1964. She taught home economics in Hastings for two years, then fourth grade at the Riverdale Elementary School 22 years before retiring in 1984. She was of the Catholic faith and an avid reader. She married Boyd Webb Cole Dec. 27, 1953, in Lawton. She was preceded in death by her parents. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery, Laton, Calif., under the direction of Wallin’s Riverdale Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Steven Cole, Mark Aviso, Brandon Aviso, Bruce Roberts, David Hennessee and Dennis Wofford. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm