Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Cora Leitka
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   LEITKA
   WEWOKA - Cora LEITKA, 76, died (in 1992?). No information was given on
   her birth date or place, or death date or place. Funeral services were
   held at the Stout Funeral Home Chapel inWewoka officiated by Rev.
   Jimmy ANDERSON, Rev. Eddie LINDSEY, and Rev. Paul WHITTAKER. No
   information was given on the date or place of her death. Burial was in
   the Buck Family Cemetery.
   She and her husband worked in the Baptist ministry for many years.
   They served in the Wewoka Indian Baptist Church, as a missionary to
   the Beaver, Vian Creek, Sand Springs, and Cedar Springs churches under
   the direction of the Muscogee-Seminole-Wichita Indian Baptist
   Association. Her ministry also included mission work in Okmulgee with
   college students, the Clinton Indian Baptist Church, and Brighton
   Indian Reservation in Florida. In 1984, she returned to Oklahoma where
   she and her husband pastored the Glenpool Indian Baptist Mission.
   She was married to Rev. Elliott LEITKA in May, 1937, inWewoka. He
   preceded her in death in April 1989. She is survived by her five
   children, Elliott LEITKA, Jr., of Carson, CA, Sarah WARD and Wanda
   JONES, both of Shawnee, Ruthie BURGESS of Okmulgee, and Loretta DENNY
   of Glenpool; one stepson, Eugene LEITKA of
   Albuquerque, NM; one stepdaughter, Betty PASSAH of Oklahoma City; 14
   grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives.