Obit of Estill, Eva Eunice - Bryan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri    23 Oct 2005
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Surnames: ESTILL, DERSHEM, WOODS
from 1-23-2003 Examiner Enterprise
Eva E. Estill

Miss Eva Eunice Estill, 96, retired longtime Educator, died at 7:55 a.m. 
on Wednesday in the Heritage Villa Nursing Center.

Funeral services for Miss Estill will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday in 
the Sanctuary of the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. The Rev. Ralph O. 
Dershem will be the officiant. Committal prayers and interment will be 
directed in the Memorial Park Cemetery by The Arnold Moore Funeral 
Service.

A native of Utica, Bryan County, Oklahoma, Eva Eunice Estill was born on 
October 3, 1906. She was the daughter of the late George Riley and Carrie 
Olena (Woods) Estill. During her childhood, she moved with her family 
members to Ada, Okla. where she was reared and received her education. She 
was graduated with the Senior Class of 1924 from the Ada High School. She 
continued her education and was a student at East Central State Teachers 
College at Ada from which she was graduated with her Degree in Education 
in 1929. She began her teaching career at Stonewall, Okla. and came to 
Osage County in 1937 where she taught in the Barnsdall schools until 
coming to Bartlesville in 1945. She began teaching in the local school 
system at the old Labadie Heights School which is now known as the Osage 
Hills School where she was made principal. Miss Estill was retired in 1971 
and since that time has continued living in Bartlesville in retirement. 
For many years, Miss Estill served many families in child care.

Miss Estill was a member of the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church and was a 
longtime adult Sunday School teacher; the Oklahoma Education Association; 
the National Education Association and the Osage County; Classroom 
Teachers Association.

She was preceded in death by her father and mother.
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