Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Caroline Brewer Killian

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P.O. Box 38, Hominy, Okla 74035
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::Fairlawn Cemetery--Stillwater OK 

The Hominy News Progress
Vol. 38, No. 42
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Page 5

Caroline Brewer Killian

Caroline Killian passed away October 10, 2002, in her home.  Services were 
held at the First United Methodist Church on Sun. Oct. 12 at 10:30 a.m., 
with Pastor Wanda Murray officiating.  Interment followed at Fairlawn 
Cemetery in Stillwater.  Services were under the direction of Strode 
Funeral Home.

Caroline Killian was born Ruth Caroline Brewer on May 24, 1912, in Oklahoma 
City, to Frank Wilson and Maud Smith Brewer.  The family soon relocated to 
a ranch near Indiahoma, OK, where the Brewers raised their four daughters.

Mrs. Killian graduated from Indiahoma Schools and then attended Cameron 
College and Central State Teachers' College.  After teaching school one 
year, she attended Oklahoma A&M College, where she met Byrle Garner Killian.  
They were married April 25, 1937.  After living in Guthrie where 
Mr. Killian taught Vocational Agriculture, the couple returned to 
Stillwater where Mr. Killian advanced to his career with the State 
Vocational Educational Department.  Stillwater became their lifelong home 
where they raised their children.

Caroline enjoyed telling how her father rode his horse from Indiana to 
Oklahoma City to practice veterinary medicine.  It was there that he met 
and married Maud Smith, who had arrived by train to work at St. Anthony 
Hospital after her nurse's training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL.  
Her love of history was the basis for her interest in genealogy.  She spent 
many happy hours roving her lineage for numerous patriotic organizations, 
including National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons, Daughters of the 
American Colonists, National Society of Dames XVII Century, and Daughters 
of the American Revolution.

Caroline was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, a Charter 
Member of Chapter IP of the PEO Sisterhood, Zeta Tau Alpha Alumnae, RAR, 
and the Bridge Club.

Caroline Killian is preceded by her parents, her husband, and her sisters 
Mary Lee Friels and Margaret Martin.

She is survived by her son Ed and his wife Judy of OKC, and her daughter 
Carol Ann Drummond and her husband Leslie of Hominy, and grandchildren 
Karlene McCarty and her husband Dave of Edmond, Suzanna Killian of Yukon, 
Gentner and Catherine Drummond of Tulsa, David Drummond of Tulsa, Jonathan 
and Catherine Drummond of Tulsa, David Drummond of Tulsa, Jonathan and 
LeAnn Drummond of Stillwater, and Caroline Tawwater and her husband Darren 
of Edmond, great-grandchildren Connor and Corrine McCarty, Savannah 
Hartness, Cate, Alexander, Madeline, and Jackson Drummond, Allison and 
Christine Drummond, and Ben Tawwater.  She is also survived by her sister 
Winifred Watkins of Lawton and nephew Jim McLauchlin and his wife Nedra of 
Stillwater, plus many other fine nieces and nephews, grandnieces and 
grandnephews.  Caroline was particularly blessed in her final years by 
having the tender care of her beloved grandson Jonathan and her friend 
Freda Lee.

Pallbearers were Caroline Killians' grandsons, grandsons-in-law, and Jim 
McLauchlin.
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