2 Obits for Grace Fernandes - Logan County, Oklahoma 

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Guthrie Daily Leader
August 18, 1970
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Former Guthrie Resident Dies

Guthrie friends have received word of the death of a former resident, Miss 
Grace Fernandes, 88, who died in Stillwater nursing home on August 10.

Services were held Wednesday, August 12, in Strode Funeral Home Chapel 
with Rev. James Struthers of the First Presbyterian Church officiating, 
Burial was at 4 p.m. in Summit View cemetery.

Miss Fernandes lived in Guthrie 60 years ago and taught at Banner School 
when Miss Marguerite Byrne was the principal. 

Stillwater News Press
Tuesday August 11, 1970
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Grace Charlotte Fernandes Dies: 

Service Set Wednesday

First Presbyterian Church Minister James Struthers will officiate at 2 p. 
m. Wednesday funeral services for Grace Charlotte Fernandes, 88, a 
Hearthstone Resident who died Monday, Aug. 10, 1970 at the nursing home.  
The services will be held in Strode Funeral Home Chapel and friends may 
call at the funeral home until noon Wednesday.  Burial will be in Summit 
View Cemetery, Guthrie, at 4 p.m. that day.   Miss Fernandes was born in 
Marion County, Indiana Aug. 17, 1881, the daughter of D.H. and Grace Clara 
Fernandes. A member of the First Presbyterian Church here, she is survived 
by four cousins of Dallas and Chicago.  In 1956, she retired as advisor 
with the State Department of Welfare. Before being appointed to that 
position, she was associate professor of sociology at OSU and had been 
employed here since 1923 with the division of home economics, the 
experiment station in the department of home economics research and with 
the department of sociology. She was an OSU alumnus, receiving the 
bachelor's degree in 1923 and master's in 1924.  She had spent two years 
working toward the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of 
Chicago, where she placed emphasis on the study of economic and social 
problems of the family.  In addition to her affiliation with the American 
Association of University Women, which covered the entire period since the 
branch was organized in Stillwater, she had been cited in American Woman, 
and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, 
Omicron Nu and Pi Gamma Nu.  Her social affiliations included Alpha Delta 
Pi, PEO, and DAR. 
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