Obit of Jeter, Clara Irene (Farson) - Osage County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri  <NOEMAIL>   28 Sep 2008
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::Ethel Reece Cemetery--Barnsdale OK

Clara I. Jeter

Surnames: JETER, DERSHEM, FARSON, CONNER, SKINNER, WEHMEYER, KHAN, 
FREEMNA

from 3-18-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Mrs. Clara Irene (Farson) Jeter, 83, widow of the late Killis Walton 
Jeter, Jr., died at 6:25 p.m. on Sunday in the Geriatrics Section of 
the Jane Phillips Memorial Medical Center.

Funeral services for Mrs. Jeter will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday 
in the Memory Chapel of The Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. The Rev. 
Ralph O. Dershem will be the officiant. The Bartlesville Chapter #142 
Order of the Eastern Star will accord her final rites. The funeral 
cortege will drive overland to the Ethel Reese Cemetery, Barnsdall, 
Okla. where committal prayers and interment will be directed by The 
Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs. Jeter will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of The Arnold Moore 
Funeral Residence where friends may call for their visitation until 
the service hour on Thursday afternoon.

A native of East St. Louis, Illinois, Clara Irene Farson was born on 
July 10, 1919. She was the daughter of the late Harry H. Farson and 
Una Jane (Conner) Farson. During her youth, she moved with her family 
members to Missouri where they made their home until moving to 
Barnsdall where she continued her education and was graduated with 
the Senior Class of 1937from the Barnsdall High School. She and 
Killis Walton Jeter, Jr. were married on August 7, 1937 in Barnsdall 
and they made their first home there. The Jeter family moved to 
Pampa, Texas until moving to Bartlesville in 1944. Mr. and Mrs. Jeter 
also had residences in Shidler, Okla.; Lyons, Kansas and in 1987 
returned to Bartlesville to live in retirement. Mr. Jeter preceded 
her in death in Bartlesville on October 15, 2000 and since that time, 
Mrs. Jeter hascontinued living in Bartlesville in retirement.

Mrs. Jeter was a member of the Lyons, Kansas First Baptist Church; 
Bartlesville Chapter #142 Order of the Eastern Star; the Order of the 
Amaranth Bartlesville Court #26 as well as the Order of the White 
Shrine of Jerusalem Bethel Shrine #3.

Survivors are three daughters, Ms. Judy P. Skinner and Mrs. John 
(Sharon I.) Wehmeyer, both of Bartlesville and Mrs. Sal (Juana Maye) 
Khan, McPherson, Ks.; one son, Killis Walton Jeter, III and his wife 
Eugenia, Fayetteville, North Carolina; 13 grandchildren; 4 great-
grandchildren; one brother, Gene Farson, Springfield, Missouri and 
one sister, Mrs. Hazel Freeman, Mansfield, Mo. She was preceded in 
death by her father; mother; husband and three brothers, Frank, Joe 
and Ralph Farson.
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