Obit of Gover, Anna Coffey - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 26 Aug 2007 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Deyo Mission Cemetery--Lawton OK Lawton Constituion 8 Aug 2003 Anna Coffey Gover Funeral for Anna Coffey Gover, 95, Lawton, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Deyo Mission Baptist Church. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. today at the church. Mrs. Gover died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003, at a local care center. Burial will be at Deyo Mission Cemetery under direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home. She was born Nov. 21, 1907, near Faxon, to Hovarithka and Perthtay. She was a full-blood Comanche of the Yahparika Band. She was an original allottee of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation. She was a lifetime member of Deyo Mission Baptist Church. She was a granddaughter of Comanche Chief Ten Bear and Chief Cheevers, and a direct descendant of Sacajawea. She attended Fort Sill Indian School and Faxon Public School before going to Bacone College, where she studied languages and music. She was a member of the Bacone Choir. She was a lifelong advocate of Indian Tribal rights and an activist in the Lawton Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. In 1971, she was a delegate to President Nixon's 'White House Conference on Aging' and later served in the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). Survivors include six sons and daughters: Pauline Cox, Phyllis Morales and Beverly Coffey, all of Lawton; Melvin D. 'Tommy' Coffey, Oklahoma City; Wallace Coffey, Lawton; and Karita Coffey, Santa Fe, N.M.; 12 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by six brothers: the Rev. Robert Coffey, William Coffey, George Coffey, Jim Coffey, Walker Coffey and Charles Coffey; five sisters: Nettie Kerchee, Lucy Wahkahquah, Margaret Cheevers Wallace, Roxie Coffey and Ellen Coffey; and a son, Bill Gover. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html