Kay County OK Obit for: Blanche (Hazelbaker)Rhoades ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kay/kay.html http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Submitted to the archives by: Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net Date submitted: 2/21/2003 *********************************************************************** Blanche Rhoades Dies at Age 63.... Ponca City News..August 28, 1966..... Mrs. Blance Rhoades, 63, wife of Warren B. Rhoades, died this morning in the Oklahoma Medical Research Center, where she had been a patient since August 5. She had been ill since the middle of July. Mrs. Rhoades was born June 7, 1903 at Pawnee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hazelbaker. She received her education at Pawnee and as a young woman moved to Tonkawa. On Nov. 12. 1926 she was married to Warren B. Rhoades at Perry and they established their home in Tonkawa, where they lived for 30 years before coming to Ponca City. She was a member of the First Christian Church. Art was her hobby and she worked in oil, charcoal and pen and ink. Surviving her are her husband of the home, 519 South Second, a daughter, Mrs. Bonita Riger of Dewey, one brother, Harvey Hazelbaker of Long Beach; four sisters, Mrs. Alma Ireland of Orange Cove, Calif and Mrs. Okla Cather, Mrs. Opal Sneed and Mrs. Florence Byers of Pawnee and four grand children. Mrs. Rhoades was preceded in death by a brother and a sister. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday in the chapel of the Grace Memorial Chapel with Lewis Corporon, associate minister of the First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery. The casket will not be opened at the service. Friends may drop by the funeral home up until time for the service. *********************************************************************** copyright USGenwb 2003 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ***********************************************************************