Obit of Gaines, Emma M - Johnston County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 05 Oct 2008 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Mill Creek Cemetery--Mill Creek OK Surnames: Gaines Howard Anderson Classification: Obituary Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1107 Emma M. Gaines Services for Emma M. Gaines, 87, Shawnee, will be held Thursday, Nov. 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Clagg Funeral Chapel with Rev. Doyle Loveland officiating. Interment will be in Mill Creek Cemetery under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home. Born March 4, 1917 in Mill Creek to Benjamin Howard and Martha Anderson Howard, she died Monday, Nov. 8 in Shawnee. She grew up in the Mill Creek area and attended Bellwood School. She lived in this are until 1999 when she moved to Shawnee. She retired in 1979 after 30 years of service in the dietary kitchen at the Sulphur Veterans Center. She married Frank P. Gaines on January 12, 1934 in Mill Creek. He preceded her in death on August 6, 1988. Survivors include a daughter, Peggy J. Hood, Shawnee; four grandchildren, Lynn and Lee Bell and Robin and Bob Keener; three great grandchildren, Alisha and Jimmy Owens and Shannon Bell; two great-great grandchildren, Taryn and Ethan Gunn and a special nephew, Artie Quinton. She was preceded in death by an infant son; five brothers and two sisters. Pallbearers were Don Payne, Floyd Pittman, Boyd Pittman, Ralph Bellamy, Clyde Runyan and Joe Runyan. Honorary bearers were R. P. Quinton and Don Clark. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html