Kay County OK Obit for: Zenuia Aleta (Bowen) Pershall 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/12/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, 
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Zenuia Aleta (Bowen) Pershall

PAWHUSKA - Zenuia Aleta "Zen" Pershall, longtime Shidler resident, 
died Monday afternoon, July 15, 1996, at the Forrest Manor Nursing 
Center in Dewey. She was 90.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Johnson Funeral Home 
Chapel in Pawhuska with the Rev. Bill Long officiating. Burial will be 
in Sunset Memorial Gardens in Ponca City. Friends and family may visit 
at the Johnson Funeral Home in Pawhuska prior to service time.

Zenuia Laeta "Zen" (Bowen) Pershall was born May 7, 1906, in Oktaha, 
Okla., the 10th and youngest child of I. Thamer and Lacy Belle (McBride) 
Bowen. 

As a child she moved with her family to Muskogee, Mannford, and then 
Wild Horse, where she completed 8th grade. 

In 1923, the family moved to Webb City.
She was married to Charles Clyde "Shortie" Pershall in Newkirk, on 
Jan. 22, 1925. The couple established their home at Shidler. 

Mrs. Pershall recently moved to the Forrest Manor Nursing Center 
in Dewey.

Survivors include two sons, Wesley L. of Bartlesville and Lewis 
Dean of Grand Junction, Colo.; four daughters, Genevieve Adams of 
Artesia, N.M., Aleta Herrington of Ochelata, and Louetta Mow and 
Carol Long, both of Pawhuska; 15 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren 
and seven great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by 
one infant son, Charles Clinton, and nine brothers and sisters.

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