Obit.Cherokee County,OK Walter A Neel
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Submitted by Willora Glee Van Osdol-Krapf his grand niece on 4/14/2004

From a Tahlequah Newspaper
TAHLEQUAH ---- Services for Walter A. Neel, 89, of Tahlequah will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday 
(27 August 1986) at Peggs Community Church with the Revs. Renus Warren and Eark Jenkins 
officiating. 
Burial will be in New Home Cemetery under direction of Reed-Culver Funeral Home. 
Pallbeares will be Wendell Welch, John Hendrickson, Oliver Lusk, Alvin Cole, Ross Lay 
and Edmond Williams.
Neel was born Jan 18, 1897, in Mountain Home, Ark. He died Sunday (24 August 1986) at 
Tahlequah City Hospital.
He was the son of Alex and Minerval Haney Neel. A retired farmer and stockman, he had 
been a resident of Cherokee County suince 1907. Neel lived on Flint Creek at the time 
of statehood; and lived in and around Peggs more than 50 years.
Neel was one of the survivors of the tornado of 1920 in Peggs, and was affectionately 
known as the "Mayor of Peggs". During World War l, he served in the U.S. Army. He was 
a member of Peggs Community Church. His wife, Velma, died in 1941 and a son, Harold Dean, 
Died in 1963.
Survivors are a daughter, Pauline Johnson, of Tahlequah; a sister, Faye Rudy, of 
Burbank, Calif.; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and 
two great-great-grandchildren.