Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Carmen Griffin Fife
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   FIFE
   Carmen Griffin FIFE was born November 2, 1915, in the Okfuskee
   Community near Weleetka. She died on her birthday, November 2, 1986,
   in a Tulsa hospital. Funeral services were held November 6 at
   Thlewarle Indian Church with Rev. Jimmy ALEXANDER officiating,
   assisted by the Rev. Roley Haynes. Interment was in the Fife Cemetery.
   She had just recently been named as "Outstanding Indian Mother of the
   Year" for 1986 by the Oklahoma Federation of Indian Women. She was a
   homemaker and reported community news for a local newspaper. She had
   been the 1934 valedictorian graduate of Chilocco Indian School. She
   studied teaching at Santa Fe Indian School and Adams State Teachers
   College in Colorado and the University of Oklahoma and taught at at
   the Sherman Institute in Riverside, CA, and Graham Public School in
   Weleetka. She was active in school, community, and Creek tribal
   affairs.
   She was preceded in death by a daughter, Hannah FIFE in 1938. Her
   survivors include her husband, James FIFE of the home, and her
   children, Bill FIFE of Bryant, Timmie FIFE and Bryan FIFE, both of
   Dustin, Jimmie Fife STEWART of Washington, Sharon MOUSS of Henryetta,
   Phyllis Fife PATRICK of Stillwell, Sandy WILSON of Morris, and Robin
   FIFE of Tahlequah; one brother, Robert GRIFFIN of Weleetka; three
   sisters, Esther BALES of Norwalk, CA, Adeline FEATHERS of Hughson, CA,
   and Joan GRIFFIN of Los Antlers, CA; 19 grandchildren and one great
   grandchild.