Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  David Bible
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BIBLE
   David BIBLE was born July 16, 1904, in Broken Arrow. He died August
   28, 1987, in a Tulsa hospital. Traditional Creek funeral services were
   held Tuesday, September 1, at the Springtown Indian Baptist Church on
   Oak Grove Road where he had been a lifelong member. Pallbearers were
   Daniel CHALAKEE, Chuck McHENRY, Larry BIBLE, Ken CHILDERS, Kenneth
   LOWE and James WILDE. Burial was in Park Grove Cemetery under the
   direction of Hayhurst-Marlin Funeral Home.
   He had been a member of the 1926 championship football team from
   Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. The three surviving members of
   that team were his honorary pallbearers: Egbert WARD, Green Valley,
   AZ, Elijah SMITH, Sun City, AZ, and George LEVI, El Reno. He had been
   a brick mason and had retired in 1969. He was the son of Lewis and
   Mulsie BIBLE.
   In had been married to the former Mildred MALONE for 43 years. She
   survives. Other survivors include their five children, Kathryn JONES
   and David E. BIBLE, both of Tulsa, Shirley THOMAS of Okmulgee, and
   Lucille MILLER and Robert Lee BIBLE, both of Coweta; his stepson,
   Billy Joe REED of Ft. Gibson; two brothers, Rubin CHALAKEE and Webster
   CHALAKEE, bot of Okmulgee; 23 grandchildren and 30
   great-grandchildren.