Harmon Co. OK Obit for Odis Neal Long 
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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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Odis Neal Long, 71, passed away Sunday at Harmon County Memorial
Hospital. Services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Hollis Church of
Christ, with Jeff Foster officiating. Burial will follow at Fairmount
Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Stewart Funeral Service.

He was born June 1, 1930, in Hollis to Charlie Odis Long and Vivian
Lucille Plummer Long. He attended Arnett High School and spent his
entire life in Hollis. He married Tillie Horton on Feb. 26, 1950 in the
Church of Christ parsonage in Hollis. He was a farmer and rancher and
was a charter member of the Lion's Club. He was a member of the Hollis
Church of Christ and served in the United States Navy. His hobbies were
hunting, fishing and cowboying, but his main interest was his
grandchildren and his new great-grandson.

He is survived by wife, Tillie Long of the home: three sons, Frankie
Long and wife, Donette of Hollis, Lonnie Long and wife, Renae of Altus
and Brad Long and wife Mary of Harrah; one daughter, Marcy Sessions and
husband Jon of Wellington, Texas; five grandsons, Steven Long of
Oklahoma City, Shelby Long and wife, Hollie of Hollis, Landon Long of
Altus, Jackson Long of Altus, and Riley Sessions of Wellington, a
granddaughter, Riles Sessions of Wellington and one great-grandson,
Marek Neal Long of Hollis.

He was preceded in death by his father, Charlie Long in 1974, mother
Vivian Long in 1997 and twin daughters, Elizabeth and Elaine in 1951.