Cherokee Indian Nation - OBIT:  Gilbert Reed Sparkman

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From the Cherokee Advocate
News from the Cherokee Nation


   SPARKMAN
   Gilbert Reed, SPARKMAN, 84, of Miami, died at St. John's Regional
   Medical Center in Joplin, Mo.
   He was born on July 26, 1906 the oldest son of A.H. and Annie CROTZER
   SPARKMAN.
   Survivors include his wife, Cornelia Jean ESSEX SPARKMAN, of the home;
   two sons, Ronald and David; and one daughter, Janice; one brother,
   Kenneth; four sisters, Edna, Feral, Myrtle and Alma; ten
   grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.