Creek Indian Nation - OBIT: Lizzie Gouge 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 GOUGE DUSTIN - Lizzie GOUGE was born May 19, 1922, in Okfuskee County. She died September 20, 1991, in Oklahoma City. Funeral services were held at the Woodrow Gouge residence in rural Dustin on September 23 with the Rev. Johnson ROBERTS officiating. Burial was in the Gouge Family Cemetery. She was a homemaker and active in the Salvation Army. She was preceded in death by her parents, William SMITH and Nellie Fields SMITH; a brother, Harper SMITH, and a half-sister, Rosanna POWELL. She was survived by her husband, Woodrow GOUGE; her daughters, Edna BEAR of Okemah, Linda HARJO of Oklahoma City, and Maxine WATKINS of Chickasha; her sons, George GOUGE, Margie GOUGE, and Randy GOUGE, all of Oklahoma City; a grandson, David GOUGE; a brother, Johnson SMITH of Gore; sisters, May FRYE and Lucille SUMKA of Henryetta, and Louise SMITH of Glenpool; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.