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OKMULGEE DAILY TIMES OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICE - OKMULGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA





Obituaries & Death Notices Year 1970 





VICK KENNETH BROTHERTON, longtime Okmulgee County rancher and pumper. died Monday 

at his home at Rt. 2, Morris. Funeral services will be held at 2 -p.m. today at the 

First Baptist Church of  Morris with Rev. John Glasgow, pastor, officiating. 

Pallbearers will be Robert Whittaker, Earl Howard, Carl Howard, Roy Wise, Ed Rainwater, 

and Cleon Walker. Interment will be in the Morris Cemetery under direction of the 

Buchanan Funeral Home. Mr. Brotherton was born Jan. 15, 1894  in Prairie Grove, Ark. 

He came to Okmulgee County in 1918. He worked for W. B. Pine Oil Co. for 30 years 

as a pumper. He then worked for Walker and Son for eight years until his retirement 

in I966. He had been a county rancher for the past 25 years and was a member of the 

First Baptist Church of Okmulgee. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Brotherton 

of the home, a daughter, Mrs. Dan Bird Jr, Okmulgee, a son, CharIes Brotherton, New 

Castle, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.



MRS. EMMA FERGUSON, Funeral services for. Mrs. Emma Ferguson, 84, will be, held at 

10 a.m. today in the. Davis-Foster Chapel with Rev. William I. Smith, pastor of the 

First United Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in 

the Ohio Cemetery at Burlington Junction, Kansas, under direction of the Davis-Foster 

Funeral Home. Mrs. Ferguson, who died Monday afternoon in the local hospital, was 

born Jan. 26, l885. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church. Survivors 

include a sister inlaw Mrs. Helen Browning, Burlington Junction. Kan., and a nephew, 

P. A. Dale, Oklahoma City.



BILL COLE, Funeral services for Bill Cole will be held at 1 p.m., Sunday the New 

Salem Baptist Church with Rev. M. Wallace officiating. Interment will be in the 

New Antioch Cemetery under direction of the Dyer Funeral Home. Mr. Cole, who resided 

at 904 E. First, died Saturday. Survivors include a son, a Chester Cole, Okmulgee, 

three brothers, Doyle Cole, Tulsa, Velma and Roosevelt Cole Los Angeles, Calif., 

and a sister, Louella Cole, Oklahoma City.







END NOTE: A BIG THANK YOU goes to DARRELL D. SUMMER, President & Publisher of 

Okmulgee Daily Times and Henryetta Free Lance newspaper. Darrell has given me 

permission to post the obituaries and death notices that have been complied and 

printed in the Okmulgee Daily Times & Henryetta Free Lance newspapers in the last 

50 years. Thank you Herman Brown and the staff of Okmulgee Daily Times for all 

your help in preserving the Heritage of our county.



Please check back I will be adding more obituaries to this file.