Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Minnie Chisholm Chalakee
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   CHALAKEE
   BROKEN ARROW - Minnie Chisholm CHALAKEE was born May 17, 1903, at the
   family home in Indian Territory near present day Broken Arrow. She
   died February 20, 1995, at Claremore Indian Hospital.  Funeral
   services were held at Haikey Chapel United Methodist Church with Rev.
   Foster HAIKEY officiating. No information was given on the place of
   interment.
   She was the daughter of Anderson and Rosa Fulokta CHISHOLM, both
   deceased. She and her two sisters, Pauline CHALAKEE and Lena CHALAKEE,
   graduated from a Bureau of Indian Affairs School in Lawrence, KS. Her
   mother Rosa donated three acres of family land to help establish
   Haikey Chapel on family property, at what is now l0lst and Memorial,
   and the family continued to live on the property until 1917. She
   married March Pinson MARTIN and had a son, Carl MARTIN, in 1923. She
   later married Jim CHALAKEE, who preceded her in death in 1969. She
   attended Springtown United Methodist Church as long as she was able
   and was a resident of Wood Manor Nursing Home in Claremore for the
   last seven years of her life.
   In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her
   sister, Pauline CHALAKEE. Her survivors include her sister, Lena
   Chisholm BERRYHILL of Okmulgee; her son, Carl MARTIN in Broken Arrow;
   three grandchildren, Sheryl DuPREE of Tulsa, James MARTIN of Sterling,
   VA, and Betty GERBER of Broken Arrow; seven great grandchildren, Anne
   JOHNSON and John SIMMS, both of Tulsa,Tika MARTIN of Medford, Mass.,
   Kevin MARTIN and Kellie MARTIN of Sterling, VA, Jennifer DAY of
   Norman, and Gary GERBER, Jr., of Broken Arrow.