Obit of Leona Schmitz (s532) - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 4 Oct 2003 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.html ========================================================================== 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. Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat Leona Schmitz, 85 Services are pending with Brown's Funeral Service for Leona Schmitz, 85, Durant, who died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003, at the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma. ========== Thursday, September 18, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat Leona Schmitz, 85 A service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Brown's Funeral Service Chapel for Leona Schmitz, 85, Durant, who died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003, at the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma. The Rev. Buddy Johnson will officiate. She was born July 3, 1918, in Lone Grove, to Harvey J. Beard and Sally Lavera Carroll. She lived in Oklahoma all her life and attended schools in Ardmore. She married Charley D. Schmitz Dec. 22, 1934, in Durant. She worked as a cook at Eat-A-Bite, Cattlemen's Café, Tom's Lunch, Palmers Café and Bryan Memorial Hospital. She was of the Baptist faith and will be greatly missed. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers J.B., Buddy and Harvey Beard, and sons Harvey and Delbert. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with pallbearers Johnny Schmitz, Bill Schmitz, Clark Schmitz, Junior Hendricks, Jerry Epler and Henry Spoon. Family hour is 7-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Brown's Funeral Service is handling arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.html