Obit of Mcclure, Mollie - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 29 Jan 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Memory Lane Cemetery--Anadarko OK Chickasha Daily Express 3 September 1996 Mollie Elizabeth Venable McClure Funeral services for Mollie Elizabeth Venable McClure, age 90, of Anadarko, will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, September 4, 1996, in the First Baptist Church of Anadarko, with Rev. Bert Harrison and Rev. Ron Chastaine officiating. Mollie Elizabeth Venable McClure was born April 6, 1906, in Denison, Texas, the daughter of Willie Lee Venable and Myrtle Harrison, and died September 2, 1996, in Chickasha. Mollie moved to Oklahoma from Texas in 1908 with her family and settled in th Springcreek community north of Gracemont. She attended rural schools in the Springcreek area before marrying her husband, Samuel J. McClure in the Springcreek Baptist Church, on December 17, 1922. The McClures farmed, ranched, and ran a dairy operation in Caddo and Grady Counties for over sixty years before moving to Anadarko in 1983. Mrs. McClure was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Anadarko and served as  the secretary for the Senior Adult Sunday School department for many years. After studying Art at the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha, Mrs. McClure was an active artist and worked with numerous art media including oil and acrylic paint as well as china painting. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Sam in September of 1995, three sisters, Charlie Mae Venable, Willie Blue and Faye Carr, three grandsons, Don Ray McClure, Allan Adkisson, and Edwin Adkisson, and one great-granddaughter, Darci McDuffey. Survivors include three sons,   ................  Venable of Verden; two sisters, Thelma Powell, of Oklahoma City and Lena Talkington of Verden; 16 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Inrterment will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery of Anadarko, under the direction of the Smith Funeral Home of Anadarko. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html