McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    Odie Z. Mitchell

Submitted by:  Sandie Welch  sandiewe@verizon.net
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::Holly Creek Cemetery--Holly Creek OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

1947

RITES HELD FOR PVT. ODIE MITCHELL

Funeral services for Pvt. Odie Mitchell, Oak Hill, who was killed in action
in Germany, October 13, 1944, at the age of 26, was held at 2:30 p.m. 
Sunday at Holly Creek cemetery.

A military service was under direction of the Broken Bow American Legion,
and burial under direction of Coffey funeral home.

Mitchell was born at Golden, June 10, 1918, and resided in that community
all his life until he entered service February 9, 1944.  He was stationed
at camp Fannin, Tex., and Fort Meade, Md., before sailing for overseas
service one month before his death.

He was a member of the Baptist church.

Survivors include his father, Ben Mitchell, Sweet Home, Ore.; one daughter,
Patricia Mitchell, Stigler; one brother, Houston Mitchell, Kirby, Ore.;
one sister, Mrs. Whit Caples, Shreveport, La.; one half-sister, Mrs.
Henry Temple, Golden, and grandmothers, Mrs. Ann Mitchell, McAlester, and
Mrs. Laura Alton, Boswell.

The body was accompanied to Idabel from Memphis by Cpl. Lowe D. Ho'zworth.
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