Obit of Israel, Laura B. - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 04 Feb 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 ===================================================================== ::Santa Rosa Memorial Park--Windsor CA Santa Rosa Press Democrat Published on January 5, 1999 LAURA ISRAEL Laura B. Israel, who had 56 grand and great-grandchildren, died Thursday at a Santa Rosa Convalescent Hospital. She was 84. A native of Oklahoma, she met her second husband, Charles E. Israel, at Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Okla. The couple was married in July 1936 and moved to California in 1940. During the war she worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. She and her family moved many times throughout Northern California until 1953, when they settled for good in Santa Rosa. A homemaker virtually her entire life, she loved to sew and in her younger days was an avid roller skater. She also wrote poetry her entire life, often focusing on the family experience, and in 1989 self-published a collection called "Laugh, Love and Be Happy." She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stony Point Ward. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her son, Charles E. Israel, Jr. of Ukiah; her daughters, Virginia Hays of Penn Valley, Helen McKinney of Seattle and Georgia Reed of Salem, Ore.; her siblings, James Pockrus of Oklahoma, Marion Pockrus of Utah and Ramona Donaldson of Texas; 17 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the LDS Church, 1550 Northpoint Parkway, Santa Rosa. Friends may pay respects in the Relief Society Room at the church at 10 a.m. prior to the service. Burial will be at Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Eggen and Lance Mortuary handled arrangements. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html