Obit of Sweetman, Artie Earlene - Cleveland County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 14 Mar 2006 Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== :Maysville Cemetery--Maysville OK Norman Transcript 26 Oct 2003 Artie Earlene Sweetman Artie Earlene Sweetman, 90, of Lexington, died Friday at the Lexington Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Lexington First Baptist Church, with Rev. Dale Kirkhuff officiating. Burial will be at Maysville Cemetery. Wilson-Little Funeral Home in Purcell is handling arrangements. Mrs. Sweetman was born May 5, 1913, in Cottonwood to John McWhirter and Virgie L. Jenkins . She attended Cottonwood School — a one-room country schoolhouse — and Hughes school, where she played on the basketball team. She met Ollie James "O.J." Sweetman at one of her games. They were married on Oct. 14, 1929, in Maysville. They moved to Lexington in 1956 to a farm two miles north of town, and then moved to town a year later. During her younger years, Mrs. Sweetman was a member of the Garvin County Homemakers Club, Women’s Auxillary Club and the Home Demonstration Club. She was employed at Williams Candy Co. in Oklahoma City and later worked for the State Department of Mental Health in Lexington and Norman until her retirement. She was a member of the Lexington First Baptist Church. She is survived by daughters Barbara Ann Duty of Lexington, Sue Skaggs and husband, Allen, of Lexington, and Linda Lee and husband, Clayton, of Dibble; sons James Sweetman and wife, Joyce, of Noble, Gary Sweetman and wife, Oletha, of Lexington, and Paul Sweetman and wife, Sharon, of Lexington; brother E.J. McWhirter and wife, Anita, of Maysville; 22 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html