Harmon Co. OK Obit for Elva Shumate
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
5/05/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Elva Shumate, life long resident of Harmon County, passed away Sunday at
Harmon County Memorial Hospital in Hollis at the age of 85. 
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hollis Church of the Nazarene with
the Rev. James Fishback and the Rev. Rick Simonson officiating. Burial
will follow at the Gould Cemetery under the direction of Patterson Greer
Funeral Home.

She was born Dec. 17, 1815 in Devil's Canyon to Albert Howard and Lula
Mae (Winters) Hopkins. 

She married Carl T. Shumate Jan. 6, 1942 in Hobart. She was a homemaker who enjoyed sewing, 
crocheting, quilting, gardening, cooking, canning and making jams and jellies, fishing and
spending time with her family. 

She was a member of the Hollis Church of the Nazarene and The American Legion Auxiliary.

She is survived by five daughters, Uvelda Wilhelm, Hollis, Barbara
Vanlandingham and husband, Windell of Hollis, Linda McGee and husband
Jeremy of Gould, Carol Colson and husband Loyd of Hollis, Jackie Ballou
and husband Jonnathan, of Gould; a brother, Gilbert Hopkins of Altus; 16
grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren
and many relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert Howard and Lula Mae
Hopkins; her husband, Carl T. Shumate; a son-in-law, James Robert (Jim
Bob) Wilhem; two brothers and two sisters.