Creek Indian Nation - OBIT: Eugene Russell Canard Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Crawford scburn1@oklahoma.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbits Abstracted by: Eulala McDowell Pegram http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbits/musnation.html ==================================================================== OKbits File Muscogee Nation News Creek citizens from across Creek Nation CANARD WAGONER - Eugene “Gene” Russell CANARD was born May 10, 1911, in Wetumka. He died March 15, 1991, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. Funeral services were held March 17 at the Wagoner Mallett Chapel. Burial was in the Wetumka Cemetery, where he had asked to be buried next to his father, Roley CANARD, Principal Chief of the Creek Nation for many years. He had served with the U.S. Army engineers in the Phillipines during World War II. He was a member of Thlopthlocco Tribal Town and had served in the House of Warriors. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was the son of Roley and Annis Carr CANARD, both deceased. He was survived by his wife, Ruth S.CANARD of Wagoner; his daughter, Darla Jean ATKINS of FL; two granddaughters and one great granddaughter; and two brothers, Virgil CANARD of Albuquerque, NM, and Curtis CANARD of Tulsa.