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Obit of Mary Alice Houk - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com 
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Chickasha, Oklahoma
The Express-Star
Thursday, July 27, 2000

Mary Alice Houk

Funeral service for Mary Alice Houk, 100, of Chickasha, Oklahoma will be held 
at 130 p.m., Friday, July 28, 2000 in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.

Mary Alice Houk was born the 5th of 10 children to J. P. and Anna Mae [Paris] 
Nelson on September 26, 1899 near Sacred Heart, Oklahoma in Indian Territory 
and died Wednesday, July 26, 2000 in Chickasha.

Five of the ten children lived past 90 years of age. Mrs. Houk lived in three 
centuries and saw many changes in the world during that time. She attended 
school at Tarter, a country school near their home.

She and James Roy Houk were married September 28, 1917 near Sacred Heart, and 
in 1939 they moved their family to Chickasha on a farm west of town. Mrs. 
Houk was a homemaker and helped on the family farm.

She attended Michigan Avenue Baptist Church for several years and joined the 
First Baptist Church in the late 1960s. She was active in several church 
organizations and clubs.

Mrs. Houk was preceded in death by husband James Roy Houk in 1967; parents 
J. P. and Anna Mae Nelson; grandson Kenneth Brooks; 2 sons-in-law Jack 
Wimberly and Jim Haran; 4 brothers and 3 sisters.

Survivors include 4 daughters Marie Brooks and husband, Vernon, of Garland, 
Texas, Alberta Wimberly of Garland, Texas, Fern Haran of San Diego, 
California, Jean Grisham and husband, Claris, of Chickasha, Oklahoma; 12 
grandchildren Karen Ashlock, Christine Jones, Donna Karbs, Jan Hooker, 
Yvonne Cresswell, Dennis Haran, Don Haran, Bob Haran, Gary Grisham, Dena 
Keates, Debbie Brewer and Beth Cranton; 1 Sister; Margaret Knight of Vista, 
California; 1 brother Gene Nelson and wife, Jimmie Lee, of Duncan, Oklahoma; 
many great and great great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.

Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Sevier 
Funeral Home.


Submitted by Sandi Carter
Second cousin once removed of Vernon Brooks