Obit of Upton, Dortha Leona - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 19 Mar 2006 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Fort Cobb Cemetery--Fort Cobb OK Lawton Constitution 9 May 2003 Dortha Leona Upton APACHE — Funeral for Dortha Leona Upton, 87, Apache, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Apache First Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev. Bud Jones, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Upton died Wednesday, May 7, 2003, in Carnegie. Burial will be at Fort Cobb Cemetery under direction of Crews Funeral Home. She was born Oct. 6, 1916, in Konawa to Thomas Edward and Cena Owen. She married Roy Upton on June 17, 1933, in Anadarko. He died May 10, 1964. She worked as a cook at Broxton School and at Jackson Peanut Co. She also farmed until she retired in 1988. She lived in the Washita and Apache area all her life and was a member of Apache First Pentecostal Holiness Church. Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-law: Ralph L. Upton, Joe and Christine Upton and Calvin and Louise Upton, all of Apache; two daughters and sons-in-law: Betty and Joe Remy, Fort Cobb; and Margie and Tommy Brush, Lawton; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; four great- great-grandchildren; and a brother, Lonnie Owen, Chickasha. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Jeffrey L. Upton; two brothers; and three sisters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html