Obit of Cooke, Thelma Mae - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Denison Cemetery--Idabel OK

Obituary: Thelma Cooke

Dated: Monday August 27, 1973

Newspaper: McCurtain Gazette, Idabel, McCurtain Co., Oklahoma p.8 
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= Service for Thelma Cooke Held Sunday =       

Mrs. Thelma Mae Cooke, 63, Idabel, died Friday in Oklahoma City.       

Born March 28, 1910 in Idabel, she had lived in this community all of 
her life.  

She was a memaber of the Missionary Baptist Church.      

Survivors include her husband, Leslie; one son, Jimmy of Oklahoma 
City; three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Bittner and Mrs. Venita Shannon 
of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Velesta Brown of Odessa, Tex.; four 
brothers, Ishmael, Bill ahd Lester Hamilton of Idabel and Julius 
Hamilton of Oklahoma City; two sisters, Edna Freeman and Faye Pugh of 
Idabel; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.      

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Idabel Norwood-
Welch Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Earl Mooney, assisted by the Rev. 
Jim Brown, Officiating.       

Arrangements and burial in the Denison cemetery were under the 
direction of Norwood-Welch Funeral Home.

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Obituary: Mrs. Thelma Mae Cooke

Newsclipping: hand dated Aug. 28, 1973 

Mrs. Thelma Mae Cooke, 63, of Idabel died Friday, August 24, 1973 in 
Oklahoma City.

Services were at 2 p.m. Snday, August 26, 1973, at the Norwood-Welch 
Chapel with the Rev. Earl Mooney and the Rev. Jim Brown officiating.  
Burial was in the Denison Cemetery.

Mrs. Cooke was born March 28, 1910, in Idabel and was a member of the 
Missionary Baptist church.

Survivors include her husband, Leslie cooke; three daughters, Mrs. 
Virginia Bittnea and Mrs. Venith Shannon, both of Oklahoma City, and 
Mrs. Velesta Brown of Odessa, Texas; four brothers, Ishmael Hamilton, 
Bill Hamilton and Lester Hamilton, all of Idabel, and Julius Hamilton 
of Oklahoma City; eight grandchildren and a great grandchild.

Pallbearers were Edgar Province, Roy Voyles, John Fenley, Roy Holmes, 
Rayford Bloodsworth and Arthur Ray.
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