Obit of "Abbie" Abbigail Okerson (o262) - Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Barbara Rogers  <puddel@lightspeed.net>  9 May 1999
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Surnames: OKERSON, SLATER, JONES, STECKMAN, BARNES 

Carnegie Newspaper-June 1944

Services for Mrs. E.S. Okerson who died in California June 17 wre 
held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Pitcher chapel and burial was in the 
Alden cemetery. Rev. Leroy Simmons preached the sermon.

Abbie Slater was born Feb. 22, 1869, at Salt Creek, Howard Co, KS. 
She was married to Edward S. Okerson and they came to Oklahoma and 
settled in the Alden community in 1901. Mr. Okerson died June 23, 
1940.

Mrs. Okerson was the first white child born in Howard Co. At the age 
of 16 she joined the Methodist church. She was in California 
visiting her children when she suffered a heart attack.

Survivors are four sons, Floyd and Raymond of Modesto, CA, Alvie of 
Selma, CA, and Cecil of Stockton, CA; two daughters, Mrs Ethel Jones 
of Stockton, CA and Mrs. Lodie Steckman of this place; one brother, 
Richard T. Slater of this place, and one sister, Mrs. Linnie Barnes, 
Arkansas City, KS.

Services were held in Selma before the body was brought to Carnegie. 
Alvie and Raymond came here from California for the services here.
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