Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Katheryn Mildred Ford
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/24/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY [PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001

KATHERYN MILDRED FORD
     Tahlequah--Funeral services for Katheryn Mildred Ford, 75, of Tahlequah, 
will be held at 2 p.m./ Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, at the Reed-Culver Funeral 
Home with Rev. David L. Young officiating.  Burial will follow a the Moody 
Cemetery under the direction of the Reed-Culver Funeral Home.
     Pallbearers are Zach Ford, Dylan Ford, Rusty Thomas, Jesse Brackett, Lance 
Harless, and Dale Dreadfulwater.  Honorary Pallbearers are Chris Sartain and 
Harland Clary.
     Katheryn was born May 17, 1926, in Bentley, Atoka County, the daughter of 
Wyatt and Marlin (Sewell) Wilhite and she passed from this life on Wednesday, 
Sept. 12, in Tulsa.  Her mother passed away at an early age, so Katheryn grew up 
in an orphanage in Tipton.
     She was married to Lester Ford June 28, 1947, and they lived in California 
for 38 years.  They returned to Tahlequah in 1980.  Katheryn was a loving mother 
and homemaker.  She was a member of the Church of Christ.
     Katheryn was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and a sister, Alma 
Dean Zunino.
     She is survived by one son Lester Ford Jr. of Welling; three daughters, 
Sheila Stagnaro of Stockton, Calif., Betsy Clary of Gravett, Ark., and Stephanie 
Ford, of Tahlequah; one brother Max Wilhite of Sheboygan, Wis.; one sister, 
Beulah Young of Lake Texhoma, Texas; nine grandchildren and four great-
grandchildren.