Obit of Dupree, Rosa W. - Craig County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Eddene Thompson 10 Jun 2007 Return to Craig County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/craig/craig.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Fairview Cemetery--Vinita OK Vinita (Ok) Daily Journal, Page 166 October 7, 1975 Rosa Dupree Rosa W. Dupree, 81, 570 N. Smith St., died Monday afternoon in a local hospital after a week's illness. She had been in ill health the past few months. She was the widow of Wright Dupree who died Oct. 9, 1964. Mrs. Dupree was born Jan. 12, 1894 near Pryor, I. T., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Wright. The family lived for a time in Siloam Springs, Ark., and moved to Centralia about 1907. She began teaching at the age of 16, in the old Scott community which later became Bunker Hill. She also taught at Centralia, Banner, Dupree, Shanahan and Couch schools. During World War II she taught in the Wayside and Cobb districts. She was a past president of the Craig County Home Demonstration (now Extension Homemakers) Council and of the Woman's Missionary Union of First Baptist Church. In 1959, she and Mr. Dupree helped organize the Dupree Baptist Church and she remained active in the church until her final illness. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Frances Frost, Mrs. Emma Rose Moore, and Mrs. Mary Jo Jones, all of Vinita; one brother, Clegg I. Wright, Independence, Kans., and three sisters, Mrs. Grace Horrell, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Cora Connor, Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Mabell Burnett, Tulsa, and eight grandchildren. Her son, Louis W. Dupree, died in 1943 while serving in the army at El Paso, Tex. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church. Rev. Clifford Stevens, pastor of the Dupree church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Charles McBee, First Baptist pastor. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery under direction of the Burckhalter Funeral Home. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Craig County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/craig/craig.html