Obit of West, Gertrude Mitchell - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Obits101 26 Dec 2010 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Fairlawn Cemetery--OKC OK Surnames: Mitchell, West, Brown Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.oklahoma/3250.6/mb.ashx The Daily Oklahoman 06-01-1976 p.21 GERTRUDE M. WEST Services for Mrs Gertrude Mitchell West will be at 2 pm Wednesday in Guardian Midtown Funeral Home with burial in Fairlawn Cemetery. Mrs West died Sunday in the Yukon Convalescent Home following a brief illness. She came to Oklahoma in 1893 during the land run and was a retired school teacher from the Oklahoma City School System in 1953. She later became the prinicpal of the Children's Convalescent Center, Bethany. Mrs West was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Sorosis Club, Amercian Association of University Women, Kappa Kappa Iota sorority. She was graduated from Eastern Oklahoma State University in 1918 and also Oklahoma City University in 1925. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Brown, Birmingham, Ala.; two step-sons, Raymond West, Edmond, and Robert West, Tulsa; seven grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html