Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Jack Harjo
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   HARJO
   Jack HARJO was born March 3, 1927, in Eufaula. He died in 1986 at
   Eufaula Municipal Hospital. No month or day was given. Funeral
   services were held at the Harjo family home north of Hannah, with the
   Rev. Coleman BYRD officiating. Pallbearers were Jim COOK, Johnny
   BILLY, Gary LITTLEHEAD, Dean MANIOUS, Junior BYRD and Tiny HARJO.
   Burial was at Jackson Cemetery at Hanna. Blacks Funeral Home of
   Eufaula was in charge.
   He had attended Fame School and was employed for the ten years before
   retirement in 1975 at both Oklahoma Department of Transportation and
   McIntosh County. He was a member of Little Coweta Baptist Church. He
   served in the Army during World War II.
   He was married to Nancy GOUGE in March, 1949, at Hannah. She survives.
   His other survivors include his five daughters, Kizzie COOK, Janetta
   HARJO, Coleen HARJO and Bernice HARJO, all of the Hannah, and Helen
   MANIOUS of Tulsa; his five sons, Daniel HARJO of Glenpool, Alex HARJO
   of Tulsa, and Woodrow HARJO, Lewis HARJO and Leroy HARJO, all of
   Hanna; his mother, Louisa TARLOSHAW of Eufaula; and three brothers,
   George HAWKINS of Eufaula, Judy HARJO of Sapulpa, and Paul HARJO of
   Tulsa.