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::Rose Hill Cemetery--Chickasha OK

© The Chickasha Express-Star 06 Feb 2004

Rosalia J. McElreath

Funeral services for Rosalia J. McElreath, 94, of Chickasha, Okla., will 
be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, FEb. 9, 2004, at Christ our Savior 
Lutheran Church.

Rosalia J. McElreath was born March 6, 1909, in Norge, Okla., and died on 
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, in Chickasha.

Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, under the direction of Ferguson 
Funeral Home.

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© The Chickasha Express-Star 08 Feb 2004

Rosalia J. McElreath

Funeral services for Rosalia J. McElreath, 94, of Chickasha, will be held 
at 10:30 a.m. Monday, February 09, 2004, in the Christ Our Savior Lutheran 
Church.

Rosalia J. McElreath was born March 06, 1909, in Norge, Oklahoma, the 
daughter of Lewis Harvard Nelson and Clara Berga Nelson. She died 
Thursday, February 05, 2004, in Chickasha.

Rosalia grew up in the Chickasha area and attended Grady County Rural 
Schools. She graduated from Pioneer High School. After high school, she 
attended OCW in Chickasha (now USAO) and later graduated from OCW with a 
degree in education. She taught in several Grady County schools, 
eventually retiring from Riverside Indian School in Caddo County.

Rosalia married Howard McElreath in Duncan in 1931.

She was a member of the Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church.

Rosalia was preceded in death by both parents, her husband, Howard, in 
1985, and four brothers, Jasper, Lyle, Vernon, and Dr. Arnold Nelson.

Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law: Frances and A.N. Ice, of 
Geary, OK, and Anita and Jerry Burkey, of Fletcher, OK; two sons and 
daughters-in-law: Charles and Iris McElreath, of May, TX, and James Allen 
and Bernice McElreath, of Chickasha; sister and brother-in-law, Cordia and 
Ralph White of Chickasha; two sisters-in-law: Wanda Nelson, of Midwest 
City, OK, and Janelle Nelson, of Dallas, TX; fourteen grandchildren and 
twenty-one great-grandchildren.

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