Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Bertha Francis Yahola
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   YAHOLA
   MONTESOMA - Bertha Frances YAHOLA was born November 11, 1911 in
   Castle. She died January 11, 1999. Services were held January 15 at
   Montesoma Baptist Church with Rev. Carl NOON and Rev. Jimmy ANDERSON
   officiating. Pallbearers were gransons, Mike DUNSON, Brandon DUNSON,
   Jeremy DUNSON, Justin YAHOLA, Darren YAHOLA, Ashley YAHOLA, Asi
   YAHOLA, and Opothle YAHOLA.   Interment was at Montesoma Cemetery.
   She was educated at Eufaula Boarding School and completed her high
   school and junior college at Bacone College. She attended Bacone on a
   piano scholarship. Her piano lessons were paid for by the Montesoma
   church. She did her education practice teaching at Carter Seminary in
   Ardmore, a boarding school for Choctaw and Chickasaw girls. She was
   the church pianist at Montesoma church for over forty years. She also
   served the church as church treasurer, Sunday school teacher,
   activities leader, mission support chairperson, and women’s
   leader. She served the larger Baptist association as assistant
   secretary of the Women’s Missionary Union, treasurer for the
   Baptist Assembly Training Union, and Women’s Missionary Union
   Association President. In 1997, she was inducted into the Falls Creek
   Baptist Assembly Hall of Fame in recognition of her many years of
   service in her church. She married Lyman YAHOLA on July 3, 1937.
   She was preceded in death by her parents, Sunda and Ella Scott TAYLOR,
   her husband, an infant son, and two brothers. She is survived by six
   of her children, Thomas YAHOLA and Elizabeth YAHOLA, both of Wetumka,
   David YAHOLA of Tulsa, Lela DUNCAN of Bixby, Leon YAHOLA of Muskogee,
   and Joyce CORE of Tulsa; a step daughter, Zelma WIND; two sisters,
   Myra ALEXANDER of Wagoner and Myrtle DENNEY of Okemah; one brother,
   Bob HICKS of Los Angeles, CA; 21 grandchildren and 26
   great-grandchildren