Harmon Co. OK Obit for Poleda Ona (Polly) Ray Hawkins 
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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 
8/2403/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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AUG. 11: Hawkins Poleda Ona (Polly) Ray Hawkins died at Harmon Memorial 
Hospital, Hollis on Friday, 12 days before her 89th birthday. 

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Patterson Greer Chapel with 
Pastor Jim Westmoreland officiating. Burial will follow at the Gould Cemetery. 

The granddaughter of Greer County pioneers, she was born Aug. 22, 1913 to Frank 
and Carra Allen Ray in Greer County. 

She and her husband Claude T. Hawkins owned and operated grocery stores in the 
Louis Hill and Gould community for 25 years. 

She joined the Methodist Church and later became a member of the Louis Baptist 
Church with all her family in the 1940s. 

Later she and her husband became members of the Gould Baptist Church, where they 
remained active members. 

She was preceded in death by her husband. 

She is survived by children,Raymona Davis and her husband C.A. Davis of 
Mesquite, Texas, Poleda LaVona (Polly) Holliday of Oklahoma City and Claude 
Hawkins, Jr. and his wife Carolyn of Richardson, Texas; grandchildren Gary Davis 
of El Paso, Texas, Terry Davis of Dallas, Texas, Poleda Stacy Taylor Holliday of 
New York City; Kenya Davis Jaskula of Kaufman, Texas and Caryn Hawkins of 
Richard, Texas; seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; 
sister Joyce Kendrix and brother Elmo Ray and several nieces and nephews