Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Hepsey McGirt
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   MCGIRT
   Hepsey McGIRT was born September 3, 1908, in Coweta, Wagoner County.
   She died March 23, 1988, at the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in
   Tulsa. Funeral services were held March 26 at the Wetumka Indian
   Baptist Church. Officiating the service were Rev. Jonas PARTRIDGE and
   Rev. Christopher HARJO. Pallbearers were Otho LITTLE, David (Sonny)
   McKINNEY, Leonard HARJO, Bobby MORGAN, Donnie ASBURY and Howard TYLER,
   Jr. Interment was in the Wetumka Cemetery.
   She was a member of the Wetumka Indian Baptist Church and served as
   society deaconess and Women's Chairman. She enjoyed hymns in both
   Creek and English and her favorite hymn was "Mumis Komvkes."
   She married Isaac McGIRT on April 14, 1937. He precede her in death on
   February 26, 1959, as did two of their sons, Dan McGIRT on January 5,
   1972, and John Thomas McGIRT on January 21, 1978. She was survived by
   one son, David McGIRT of Wetumka; four daughters, Irene McQUEEN,
   Rachel ASBURY, Darlene MORGAN and Deborah McGIRT, all of Wetumka; six
   brothers, Jake MARSHALL of Wewoka, Jim MARSHALL of Shawnee, George
   MARSHALL of Dustin, and Paul MARSHALL, Louis MARSHALL and Joe
   MARSHALL, all of Wetumka; seven sisters, Ella HERIOD of Holdenville,
   Martha WELLS of Okemah, Christine HARJO and Mary LANDSBERRY, both of
   Henryetta, and Annie TIGER, Ruth HARJO and Mimmie MARSHALL, all of
   Wetumka; 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.