Obit of Reed, Nila Ione - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>   30 Apr 2006
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::Lawson Cemetery--Yale OK

Reed, Nila Ione

NILA IONE REED, 75, passed away Saturday, January 18, 2003, at her home in 
Oklahoma City. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning, January 
22, at 10:30 a.m. at the Strode Funeral Home in Stillwater, OK. Burial 
will follow the service at the Lawson Cemetery in Yale, OK. Pallbearers 
will be Steve Dyer, Bethany, OK, Stan Dyer, Kansas City, MO, Mitchell 
Tarver, Chandler, OK, Bret Tarver, Cushing, OK, Kevin Fry, Mannford, OK, 
Rudy Mandeville, Perkins, OK. In recent years Mrs. Reed was president of 
Independent Accounting, Inc., in Oklahoma City a tax service with clients 
throughout the city, including numerous families and businesses in the 
Asian-American community. She and her husband Jess Barton Reed were 
devoted and loving partners in life and also in, various businesses, 
including owner and manager of Capitol Hill Beauty College in the 1970s. 
Nila was born in Ripley, OK, on July 28, 1927, to John William Mitchell 
and Lois Isabel Straughn Mitchell. She graduated from Ripley High School 
in 1946. Her grandparents and great-grandparents settled in Payne County 
during the 1892 Sac and Fox land run. Besides her parents, Nila was 
preceded in death by two brothers, Corliss Mitchell and Norman Mitchell. 
Besides her husband, she is survived by a step daughter, Karen Rae Reed of 
El Reno, and Dan W. Reed of Oklahoma City. She leaves four sisters: Laveda 
Dyer of Sedan, KS; Reva Mandeville of Stillwater; Doris Gates of Mannford; 
and Sue Tarver of Stillwater; sisters -in-law Gloria Mitchell of Oklahoma 
City and Mabel Louise Reed of Fort Smith, AR; and brothers-in-law Gene 
Gates and Tommy Tarver. Nila will be remembered by her sisters as the one 
who invested, many hours each day in personal and phone conversations that 
brought healing and compassion through all the passages of their lives. 
She is also mourned by five first cousins, Ruth Spivey of San Antonio, TX, 
Alice Clark of Brevard, NC, Harold Straughn of Oklahoma City, Janet Mills 
of Mission, KS, and Keith Straughn of Little Rock, AR. Her three nieces, 
Meredith Fry, Marna Drury, and Rilla Johnston, along with her six nephews, 
Steven Dyer, Stanley Dyer, Jimmy Gates, Rudy Mandeville, Mitchell Tarver, 
and Brett Tarver, all who looked upon their Aunt Nila as a source of joy, 
love, and endless encouragement, as she showed interest in their many 
achievements, and constantly supported them during times of loss.

Published in the Oklahoman on 1/22/2003.
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