Coyle, Logan County, Oklahoma - Obit for Grace E. Wandell Submitted by: Renee Carroll-Sampson PHOTO150@aol.com ************************************************************************ 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.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Obit for Grace E. Wandell Guthrie News Leader Dec. 17, 1976 Grace Wandell Services Slated Services for Mrs. Grace E. Wandell, 99, retired co-publisher of The Cimmaron Valley Clipper, are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Coyle United Methodist Church. The Rev. Eakle P. Allen, Jr., will officiate, and internment will be in the Coyle Cemetery, directed by Davis Funeral Home. She will lie in state at the Coyle United Methodist Church from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, and the casket will not be opened at the services. Mrs. Wandell died at her home in Coyle late Friday evening. She was born in Indiana on Sept. 16, 1877, and was married to Clarence F. Wandell in Logan, Kans., on April 3, 1898. He preceded her in death on July 29, 1957. They moved to Coyle in 1905 and published The Cimmaron Valley Clipper until 1943 when publication ceased. A member of Coyle United Methodist Church, she was a charter member of Y.I.M. Study Club of Coyle and had served as Coyle Postmaster. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Alroye (Doris) Disney, Coyle; seven grandchildren, Ed Wandell and Valenda Teeters, both of Oklahoma City; Lois 'Jeanne' Carroll, Las Vegas, Nev.; Ted Thompson, Lafayette, La.; Sherman Eugene Whittington, Paul Whittington and Dolores Green, all of La Habra, Calif.; 20 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two daughters, Gail, in 1919, and Lois Whittington, in 1958, and one son, Clarence Jr., in 1971. (Corrections By: great granddaughter, Renee Carroll-Sampson, Jan. 2003) "Publication of The Cimmaron Valley Clipper DID NOT cease until 1949, C.F. Wandell retired from 'The Clipper' in 1943. Also Mrs. Wandell was preceded in death by 'two' sons, and 'one' daughter; Gail Wandell was her eldest son, died in 1919."