Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Mattie Long
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   LONG
   OKMULGEE - Mattie LONG was born November 23, 1925, in Holdenville.
   She died in January 1993.  No day of death was given.  Funeral
   services were held January 23 at Salt Creek United Methodist Church in
   Holdenville and in Newtown Methodist Church in Okmulgee.  Rev. David
   Long, Jr., officiated the service.  No information was given on the
   place of interment.
   She was raised in Holdenville and  had attended Eufaula Boarding
   School in Eufaula and Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, KS.  She was
   a member or Honey Creek United Mathodist Church west of Okmulgee.  She
   was a Creek Nation Head Start teacher at Sapulpa.
   She was the daughter of Amos and Minnie Hunter FIXICO, both deceased.
   She was married at Salt Creek in 1949 to Thomas LONG.  He survives.
   She is also survived by her six daughters and three sons-in-law,
   Vickie and Russell WATASHE, Minnie and Rick WOLFE, Karen LONG and
   Sidney LONG, all  of Okmulgee, Thomasine LONG of Mounds, and Lou Ann
   and Kenneth MESSER of Muskogee;  her two sons, Bob LONG of Preston,
   and Guy LONG of Tulsa; 12 grandchildren; one brother, Alex FIXICO of
   Bethany; as well as nieces, nephews, and other relatives.