Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Roley Berryhill
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BERRYHILL
   OKEMAH - Roley BERRYHILL was born March 19, 1907, in the Okfuskee
   area. He died May 10, 1992, at Okemah. Funeral services were held May
   13 at the Williamson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Thomas LONG
   officiating. Pallbearers were his grandsons. Interment was in the
   Thlopthlocco Cemetery.
   He attended Euchee Mission Boarding School, farmed for many years in
   Hughes and Okfuskee Counties, and later was employed in oil field work
   in Great Bend, KS. He retired in 1972 and relocated to the Cromwell
   area. He was a member of Thlopthlocco United Methodist Church.
   He was the son of Houston and Nettie Tiger BERRYHILL, both deceased.
   He was married to Sarah SAWYER, now deceased, at Holdenville in 1928.
   Also preceding him in death were daughter Nettie Ruth BERRYHILL; two
   brothers and three sisters. He is survived by his four sons, Robert
   BERRYHILL of Lawrence, KS, Chubby BERRYHILL of Holdenville, Sonny
   BERRYHILL of Wetumka, and Joe Lee BERRYHILL of Oklahoma City; his two
   daughters, Peggy Sue JOHNSON of McCLOUD and Linda BERRYHILL of Wewoka;
   thirteen grandchildren; twenty-two great-grandchildren; several nieces
   and nephews; other relatives, and many friends.