Harmon Co. OK Obit for Vivian (Payne) Cochran
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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. 22

Cochran 

Vivian Payne Cochran, 93, died Wednesday at Jackson County Memorial Hospital. 

Services will be held 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Corinth Baptist Church 
with Rev. Ralph Chapman officiating. 

Burial will be at the Gould Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of 
Patterson Greer Funeral Home, Hollis. 

She was born to Harry and Linnie Payne on March 28, 1909 in Harmon County. 

She lived with her family on the farm her father had filed homestead in 1901. 

Her current home is located on the section directly north of the original 
section. 

She attended schools at McQueen, U.G. No.1, Bethel, LaHoma, and graduated from 
Hollis. 

After high school graduation, she attended Southwestern Teachers College in 
Weatherford. 

She graduated from college Cum Laude on July 26, 1934, with a major in math and 
a minor in science. 

She began her teaching career at LaHoma in 1933 as a grad school teacher and 
high schools girls basketball coach. 

She then accepted a teaching/coaching position at Gould where she took her girls 
basketball team to the state tournament two different years. 

She married Clyde Cochran on May 31, 1936, and quit teaching in 1937 to stay 
home and raise a family. 

She kept busy being a mother, Sunday School teacher and Home Demonstration Club 
member. She also kept busy with her four children who were active in 4-H. 

She returned to teaching in 1955 at Duke and for the next 20 years taught math 
and was the 4-H leader. 

During her teaching profession, she was honored with many awards including being 
named Jackson County Teacher of the Year in 1967. 

She retired from teaching in May 1975. 

She is survived by her husband W.C., Gould; sister LaVerne William; her children 
and their spouses, Rex and Claudia Cochran, Alpine, Texas; Jim and Ann Enix, 
Stillwater; Larry and Rita Cochran, Hobbs, New Mexico and Harry and Linda 
Cochran, Gould. Eleven Grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren and many 
nieces and nephews. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Oklahoma 
4-H Foundation, 205 4-H, Youth Development, Stillwater, OK 74078-6063, or to the 
Christian Challenge, Carin Cochran, Director, c/o Corinth Baptist Church, 
Eldorado, OK 73537