Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Rev. Elliot Leitka, Sr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   LEITKA
   Rev. Elliot LEITKA, Sr., was born June 14, 1913, in Wewoka. He died
   April 4, 1989, at an area hospital. Wake services and funeral services
   were held at the Wewoka Baptist Church. Officiating the wake services
   was Jimmy ANDERSON. The funeral services on April 7 were conducted by
   Russell BEGAYE and Robert HASKINS. Interment was in the Buck Family
   Cemetery near Wewoka.
   He served during World War II in the U.S. Army. He was active in the
   ministry for over 40 years, holding such positions as a missionary for
   the Muscogee Seminole Wichita Association among Creek speaking
   Cherokees in eastern Oklahoma, helping Dr. Frank Belvin start the
   Okmulgee Tech Mission in 1960, ministering to Western tribes at the
   Clinton Indian Baptist Church, moving to the Brighton Indian
   Reservation in Florida to help build a new church building and
   parsonage in 1978, and after his return to Oklahoma in 1984 he
   pastored the Glenpool Indian Baptist Mission, expanding that church
   property while serving there. He also worked with the Muscogee
   Seminole Wichita Association as director of the Sunday School and
   Baptist Training Union. He had been pastor of the First Indian Baptist
   Church in Okmulgee since last year.
   He married Cora BUCK on May 19, 1937, who served in all these posts
   with him. She survives her husband.
   Also surviving him are his two sons, Eugene LEITKA and Elliot LEITKA,
   Jr., ; his five daughters, Betty PASSAH, Sarah WARD, Ruthie BURGESS,
   Wanda JONES and Loretta DENNY; one brother, Frank LEITKA of Wewoka;
   one sister, Susie WALTERS of Wewoka; 19 grandchildren and three great
   grandchildren.