Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Benjamin Harrison Sevier, Sr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
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   HENRYETTA - Benjamin HARRISON SEVIER, Sr., was born June 16, 1912, in
   Hitchita.  He died in January  1993.  No day of death was given.
   Funeral services were held January 21 at the Merritt Cottage Chapel
   with Rev. Chris HARJO officiating.  No information was given on the
   place of interment.
   He worked as a laborer and served in the U.S. Army during World War
   II.  He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Little Coweta
   Baptist Church.
   He was preceded in death by his parents, Louis and Amanda Thompson
   SEVIER; his wife, the former Nora CLARK, whom he married in 1937 in
   Okmulgee; two sisters, Annie and Blanche (no last names given); and
   one brother, Willie SEVIER.  His survivors include his three
   daughters, Shirley SEVIER of Guthrie, Carolyn POWELL of Okmulgee, and
   Phyllis JOHNSON of Broken Arrow; his two sons, Ben H. SEVIER and Tom
   SEVIER, both of Tulsa; three brothers, Tom SEVIER of Maude, Louis
   SEVIER of Hitchita, and Charles SEVIER of Okmulgee; one sister, Lena
   SEVIER of Hitchita; eight grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a
   host of nieces and nephews.