Harmon Co. OK Obit for: Ralph William Sherrill
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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 
11/28/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Nov. 1, 2002

Ralph William Sherrill, 88, Vinson, died Saturday at Harmon Memorial Hospital 
in Hollis. 

Funeral services were 10:30 a.m. today at Stewart Funeral Chapel, Hollis with 
Reverend James Westmoreland, officiating. 

Burial followed at Independence Cemetery. 

He was born April 16, 1914 to William and Cora Sherrill in Lone Wolf. 

He married Veldima Green February 1, 1933 in Hobart. 

He retired after farming and ranching in the Vinson area all his adult life. 

He lived in the Vinson community for 74 years. 

He enjoyed fishing, hunting and gardening. 

He is survived by three sons, Gerald and his wife Patricia Sherrill, R. W. (Dub) 
and his wife Ella Sherrill, both of Vinson, Ralph "Fudd" and his wife Pauline 
Sherrill, Frederick; five daughters, Joyce Brown, Levelland, Texas, Melva and 
her husband Don Thompson of Anadarko, Earlene Pierce, Childress, Texas, Pat and 
her husband Homer West of Dallas, Texas and Ruth and her husband Mutt Lawson of 
Southgate, California; one daughter-in-law Lorene Sherrill of Bartlesville; 
twenty-nine grandchildren; fifty-five great-grandchildren, fifteen great-great 
grandchildren; one brother Rufus Sherrill, Vinson; and one sister, Louetta of 
Arizona. 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Veldima in 1999; a son R. L. Sherrill in 
1998; four grandchildren; and his parents William and Cora Sherrill.