Transcribed Obituary for Okmulgee County, Oklahoma



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Ada Marie Harman Roberts, affectionately known 

as “Ada Gran” to her family, departed this life on Saturday, 

May 6, 2006 at the age of 93. She was born Thursday, 

September 12, 1912 in Portales, New Mexico, the first 

of the six children of Louis and Margaret Brown. Her 

husbands, Neil Harman and Clyde Roberts, her parents, 

her sisters, Mary Neilsen, Helen Featherston, Virginia 

Sullivan and her brother, Woodrow Brown preceded 

her in death. 



She is survived by her sister, Louise Nelson of New 

York; her son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Ginger 

Harman and her grandchildren, Brett and Diane Garland 

of Henryetta, Michelle and Curt Johnston of Sapulpa, 

David Harman, Dawn and Devin DeBock of Okmulgee, 

Tina and Ed Roach of Tahlequah and Lisa and Erik 

Tiger of Siloam Springs, Arkansas and twelve great 

grandchildren. 

	

As young marrieds in the 1930’s, Neil and Ada Harman 

and Clyde and Mae Roberts formed a lifetime friendship. 

Neil succumbed to illness in the late 60’s as did Mae in 

the early 70’s. Ada and Clyde were united in marriage 

in the mid 70’s. 

	

Ada is fondly remembered still by some as the private 

duty nurse in her lengthy dark blue cape and black banded 

white nurses cap and by others as the congenial always prim 

nurse in her starched white uniform at the Clinic on the 

corner of East Eighth and Morton streets where she attended 

the health care needs of her doctors’ patients from the 

opening years of World War II until the mid 50’s during 

the tenures of Doctors Ming, Vernon, Kendall, Buell, 

Myers and Powell.