Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Effie McGowin
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/07/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK 
MARCH 29, 2002

     Tahlequah-Graveside services for Effie McGowin of Tahlequah were held at 2 
p.m. Friday, March 29, at Mollie Fields Cemetery.  Services were under the 
direction of Hart Funeral Home.
     Honorary pallbearers were James Green, Douglas Scott, G.L. Coppedge, Ricky 
Green and Kevin Statham.
     Effie McGowin was born March 31, 1912, in Tahlequah and departed this life 
Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at her home in Broken Arrow after reaching the age of 
89.
     Effie loved to be outdoors; she enjoyed fishing, working in her flowerbeds 
and spending time in the vegetable garden.  She was a wonderful mother, 
grandmother and great-grandmother who loved her family dearly.
     She was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas "Jack" McGowin; one son, 
Calvin McGowin; her parents, Bert and Florence Johnson; three brothers and two 
sisters and one great-granddaughter, Ashley Dawn McGowin.
     Survivors include three daughters, Maxine Green of Bixby, Lavenia Morris of 
Broken Arrow, and Lorine Clark and husband Kevin, of Tulsa; one sister, Eulah 
Conley; three grandsons, Doug Scott and wife Anne, Rickey Green and wife Sharon, 
and Thomas McGowin and wife Kathy; two great-grandsons, Skyler McGowin and 
T.J.Green; very close friends Ruby Coppedge of Broken Arrow and Robert Sisco of 
Tulsa; many nieces and nephews; and a host of friends and loved ones.