Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Ada Simmons Deo
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   DEO
   HANNA - Ada Simmons DEO was born June 27, 1908, in Hanna. She died
   December 18, 1992, in Okmulgee. Wake services were held at First
   Baptist Church, Hanna, with Rev. James Rudolph COLBERT officiating. No
   information was given on the place of interment.
   She was a homemaker and a member of the Weogufkee Baptist Church. She
   was an arts and crafts teacher for the Este Muscogee Organization, a
   Sunday school teacher and superintendent of Weogufkee Sunday school,
   and served as first vice-president of the Women’s Missionary
   Union of the Muscogee-Seminole-Wichita Baptist Association. She helped
   establish Wekiwa Baptist Church in Sand Springs in 1951.
   She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Martha SIMMONS,
   and her husband, Amos DEO, who died in May of 1991. She was survived
   by one son, Thomas J. DEO of Hanna; two foster daughters, Amy BRUNER
   of Holdenville, and Susie HARJO of Okmulgee; eight grandchildren, and
   four great grandchildren.