Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Wilburn Wiley
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   WILEY
   EARLSBORO - Wilburn “Sonny” WILEY was born September 26,
   1920, near Dustin. He died January 27, 1991, at the Veterans
   Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City. Funeral services were held
   January 30 at the Thleqarle Indian Baptist Church with Rev. George
   BUNNY and Rev. Richard Eastman WHITLOW officiating. No information was
   given on the place of interment.
   He was a retired school superintendent, a former director of Indian
   Education for Oklahoma and a former executive director for Creek
   Nation. He was a member of the Glorietta Indian Baptist Church in
   Oklahoma City and the Masonic Lodge. He had been a pilot with the U.S.
   Air Force during World War II and was shot down and held as a prisoner
   of war in Germany for two years.
   He was the son of Mose and Mariah Robison WILEY, both deceased. He
   married the former Billy Jean TAYLOR on September 26, 1939, in Dustin.
   She preceded him in death April 5, 1989. His survivors include his
   son, David Mose WILEY of Ada; his two daughters, Tresha BROCK of
   Oklahoma City and Patsy SCHMIDIKOFER of Earlsboro; two brothers, Louis
   “Speedy” WILEY of Tecumseh and Charles WILEY of Mannford;
   three sisters, Leatrice COACHMAN of Oklahoma City, Francis MILLER of
   Weleetka, and Etta Jean CONNERS of Washington, D.C.; eight
   grandchildren and two great grandchildren.