Richard Bemo Obituary

**********************************************************************
USGENWEB NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent.
**********************************************************************

Funeral services for Konawa resident Richard Allen Bemo are scheduled for 1 p.m. 
Wednesday at Spring Baptist Church in Sasakwa. Interment is to follow services at the Burgess-Bemo Family Cemetery in Wewoka under the direction of Stout-Phillips Funeral Home.
Wake services are scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Stout-Phillips Funeral
Chapel.

Bemo, 87, died Thursday, March 17, 2005 at Carl Albert Indian Hospital 
in Ada. He was born Jan. 5, 1918 in Wewoka to George and Lena (Fish) Bemo.
He attended New Model Schools for nine years and married Irene Burgess Oct. 2, 
1937 in Wewoka.
Bemo was an employee at Tinker Air Force Base for 30 years. In addition, he was a 
member of the Seminole County Sheriff Auxiliary, Ocese Band of the Seminole Nation member, who served as Chairman in the 1970's, and served on the General Council 
of the Seminole Nation.
He was the adopted son of May Tobi of the Konawa Tribe and was a Spring Baptist 
Church Deacon who received a 35 year plaque from the Semi-nole City Indian Credit
Association.
His parents; wife Irene Bemo; two daughters, Bernita Whitekiller and Roxie Morris; 
two brothers, Simeon and George Bemo and sister Madeline Burgess.
Surviving him are sons Rickey Bemo of Tulsa and Charley Bemo of Twentynine Palms
Calif.; son-in-law John Michael Morris of Stafford, Va.; brother Glenn Sharpe of Wewoka;
 sister Norma Sharpe of Wewoka; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers for the services will be Mitch Buck, Ricky Burgess, Roy Sisco, Michael Burgess, Russell Bemo, Tommy Gibson and Bobby Bemo.
Listed as honorary bearers are his grandsons, Bo, Kip, Eric, Michael Phillip, David Haney,
Jerry Haney (former Principal Chief of Seminole Nation) and the Seminole County Indian Credit Associate Members.
The body will lie in state at the home from Sunday at 4 p.m. until 1 p.m. Tuesday.