Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Fred Beaver
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BEAVER
   Internationally acclaimed Creek artist Fred BEAVER was born July 1,
   1911, at Eufaula. He died in August, 1980, in the Muskogee General
   Hospital. No information was given on the place of the funeral. He was
   a member of Eufaula Okfuskee Southern Baptist Church. At the artist's
   request, funeral and graveside services were conducted in English and
   Creek by his boyhood friend Rev. Archie THOMAS. Pallbearers were
   Freeman MITCHELL, Dr. Rennard STRICKLAND, Jack DOYLE, Slim HAMILTON,
   C. J. BROWNING, Charlie HAM, Hugh RIDDLE and R. L. SIMPSON, III.
   Interment was at Fort Gibson National Cemetery.
   He was a 1935 graduate of Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. He was
   one of nine recognized masters of American Indian Art. His Creek name
   was Itshersewah (Brown Head). He was honored last May by the City of
   Eufaula and received the McIntosh County Historical Society's
   distinquished citizen award at a banquet held at Fountainhead Lodge.
   Other festivities that week included the hanging of some of his works
   in the Eufaula Public Library and a reception held there in his honor.
   He is survived by his wife, Vyta Corbin BEAVER of Sycamore Bay, one
   sister, Mattie BEAVER of Wetumka, and numerous other relatives.