Obit for LaBerta Ackerman ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/ Dated June, 2001 For the Harmon County, OK. archives project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmon.htm 1/26/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives. ************************************************************ LaBerta Ackerman Graveside services were held Friday for LaBerta Ackerman, 78, of Fort Cobb at Fort Cobb's Oak Grove Cemetery. Brian Sokolosky a former student of hers officiated. She died Monday. She was born Nov. 2, 1922 in Harmon County to Bert and Lacree (Putnam) Day. Her parents were former residents of Altus. She married Al Ackerman on Oct. 16, 1948 in Tucumcari, N.M.. The couple moved to Fort Cobb that year. He died Dec. 27, 1999. She was also preceded in death by her parents. She graduated from Central View High School and from Southwestern State College. She taught school for 43 years at Oklahoma City, Clinton, Friendship and at Fort Cobb. Her hobbies include gardening and working in her yard. Survivors include two daughters, Diana Megert and her husband, Larry of Lovington, N.M., and Suzy Deatherage and her husband, Mark of Wichita Falls, two brothers, Jim Day and his wife Norman, of Dillion, Mont. and Bob Day and his wife, Marlene of Houston, Texas, two sisters, Doris Barrick and her husband Roy of Lawton, and Esther Oldland of Oklahoma City, a special friend, Carroll Myers of Oklahoma City, and several nieces and nephews and many friends. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Steverson Funeral Home.