Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Jack Bighead
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BIGHEAD
   PARKER, AZ - Jack BIGHEAD was born April 23, 1930, in the Sapulpa
   area. He died April 23, 1993.  Funeral services were held at the
   Parker United Methodist Church. Following funeral services, a
   celebration of life was conducted at the family home on the Colorado
   River. Creek hymns recorded by memeber of the Pickett Chapel United
   Methodist Church were played as his ashes were scattered in the river.
   
   He was a 1948 graduate of Pepperdine University after earning Little
   All-American honors in football and track. After serving in the Navy,
   he played two years in the National Football League, with the
   Baltimore Colts in 1954 and the Los Angeles Rams in 1955. He joined
   the teaching staff of the Anaheim Union High School District in 1957,
   teaching and coaching at Western and Magnolia. He joined the Katella
   faculty when it opened in 1966 and coached track before retiring in
   1987.
   He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Joan Odiorne BIGHEAD, La Paz
   County Supervisor; his daughters, Diane BIGHEAD-CLARK of Fountain
   Valley, CA, and Jacqueline BIGHEAD-BARNEY of Fullerton, CA; his
   son-in-law Patrick CLARK and grandsons Casey and Jackson CLARK;and his
   first cousins, Maxine BARNETT and Josephine BIGLER, both of Sapulpa.