Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Benjamin Eunah Givens, Jr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   GIVENS
   WETUMKA - Benjamin Eunah GIVENS, Jr., was born July 28, 1976 in
   Claremore. He died February 3, 1998, at Columbia Regional Medical
   Center in Tulsa. Funeral services were held February 6 at Sand Creek
   Baptist Church with Revs. Harry ANDERSON and Bill HOBIA officiating.
   Pallbearers were Jesse GIVENS, Michael GIVENS, Sonny GIVENS, Tiger
   HOBIA, Ricky HOBIA, and Brian GIVENS. Interment was in Sand Creek
   Cemetery.
   He graduated from Wetumka Public Schools in 1994, attended Rose State
   College in Midwest City, and Wes Watkins Vocational Technical School
   where he received nurse's aid certification. He was a Red Cross
   volunteer and had been cited for his service during the bombing of the
   Alfed P. Murrah Building. He was a longtime member of the Sand Creek
   Baptist Church were he served as church pianist. He was very active in
   mission programs with the Muscogee-Seminole-Wichita Baptist
   Association.
   He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Mary GIVENS and Louis
   and Agnes HOBIA.
   He is survived by his parents, Benjamin EUNAH and Martha Hobia GIVENS;
   two brothers, Louis GIVENS and Brian GIVENS of the home; three
   sisters, Semvthoye GIVENS, Mary GIVENS, and Justina GIVENS of the
   home; a nephew Justin RHINEHART of the home; grandfather, Eunah
   GIVENS; two great-uncles, Revs. Johnson ROBERTS of Dustin and James
   WESLEY of Wetumka; three great-aunts, Susie MARTINEZ, Minnie WESLEY,
   and Leona GIVENS, all of Wetumka; eight uncles, Jesse, Sonny, and
   Michael GIVENS of Wetumka, Rev. Bill HOBIA of Seminole, Melford HOBIA
   of Weleetka, Wilburn HOBIA of Oklahoma City, Tiger HOBIA of Weleetka,
   and Ricky HOBIA all of Wetumka; Four aunts, Millie SCOTT, June FIXICO,
   Mary GIVENS, and Fannie HOBIA, all of Wetumka; and several relatives
   and friends.