Obit for Connie Conner Neil
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
Dated May, 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.
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Connie Connor Neil passed away Friday. 

Services were held Sunday at the First United Methodist Church of Mangum. 

The Rev. Elbert Shumaker and the Rev. Charles Watson officiated. Greer Funeral Home was in charge of 
arrangements. 

Burial was at the Riverside Cemetery. 

She was born Jan. 24, 1903 to Harlan "Cap" and Minnie Rowley Connor in Ross, Texas. 

They came in a covered wagon to Vinson, spending nights in the wagon yards on their way from Ross. 

Their first home was southwest of Cave Creek Cemetery near Vinson. The Cave Creek school was south of the 
cemetery. She attended school there from first grade through the sixth grade. 

She transferred to Mangum schools in the seventh grade and graduated from Mangum High School in May, 
1921. 

She married Clyde E. Neil, in 1923 at Vinson and they had three daughters, Nancy, Carolyn and Lida Sue. 

She attended Southwest Oklahoma State University in Weatherford for two years, receiving a lifetime teaching 
certificate. 

She taught first grade at Vinson from 1926 to 1929. She was a seamstress, sewing for her family and friends. 
She also worked with Girl Scouts and used her artistic talent working with flowers at Mildreds Flower Shop for 
many years. 

In later years she loved quilting and China painting. 

She was active member of the Methodist Church including the United Methodist Women and was a Sunday 
school teacher. 

Survivors include her three daughters and sons-in-law, Nancy and Bob Gee of Miami, Okla., Lida and Ron 
Elkins of Oklahoma City and Carolyn and Elbert Shumaker of Mangum, eight grandchildren, Robert Neil Gee, 
Catherine Gee, Elizabeth Crews and husband Doug, Kenneth Gee, Craig Elkins and wife Virginia, Susan 
Elkins, Lyndon Shumaker and wife Jennifer and Norman Shumaker, four great-grandchildren, Cooper, Grant 
and Monica Elkins and Brittany Rollins, two special friends, Roma Pigg and Ann Williams and other relatives 
and many friends.