Johnston, OK -- Lorraine Maytum  1909 - 1998

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                                   MAYTUM
                                      
   Claremore Progress Tuesday, July 14, 1998 Page 3
   
   Lorraine Maytum
   
   Funeral service for Claremore resident Lorraine Maytum will be at 1
   p.m. Thursday, July 16, 1998, at First Christian Church with Rev. Mark
   Newman officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetary, under
   direction of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Service.
   
   Mrs. Maytum died Sunday, July 12, 1998, at Claremore Regional Hospital
   following a lengthy illness. She was 88.
   
   The daughter of Daniel Emmet and Cordia Edith Valentine Jones was born
   August 18, 1909, in Wapanucka. She attended Boggy Depot schools and
   Central High School in Tulsa. She worked as a PBX operator for the
   telephone company. She married Amos Maytum on February 28, 1932, and
   they lived in Tulsa where she was a member of the First Christian
   Church. In 1954, they moved to a ranch north of Claremore. She took
   care of the ranch herself after her husband passed away in 1959. She
   became involved in the First Christian Church in Claremore where she
   had been very active. In October, 1980, she was presented a
   Distinguished Service Award from the church. She had been Christian
   Women's Fellowship president five times and also served as treasurer,
   secretary and corresponding secretary. She has been outreach chairman,
   first woman elder in 1983, representative on the NEDCCO board and
   representative to General Assembly.
   
   Mrs. Maytum is survived by her sister and husband, Gladys and Charles
   Richard York of Claremore; nephews, A.L. Gilmore of Coweta and Richard
   York II of Claremore; nieces, Sandra Abercrombie of Sand Springs and
   Mary Fry of Edmond, five great nieces and nephews and five great-great
   nieces and nephews.