Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  JAMES KELLY WESLEY

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JAMES KELLY WESLEY

OCNS - August 31, 2000 - James Kelly Wesley, 96, passed away August 29, at 
the residence of his son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Donna Wesley, in 
Tomball, Texas.

He was born September 18, 1903, in Summerset, Kentucky, the son of James 
Mitchell and Laura Belle (Warren) Wesley and married the former Edith 
Cogburn on December 24, 1928 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. They were married for 
sixty-seven years at the time of her death, February 4, 1995.

A longtime Pawhuska, Oklahoma, resident, James was retired from The Texaco 
Company.

Survivors are two sons and daughters-in-law: Charles and Donna Wesley of 
Tomball, Texas and Johnny and Mattie Wesley of Shawnee, Oklahoma; two 
daughters and sons-in-law, Betty and David Ussery of Gore, Oklahoma and 
Sue and Lloyd Chaney of Webb City, Oklahoma; a sister, Vinnie Lee Carner 
of Sapulpa, Oklahoma and a brother, James Mitchell Wesley, Jr. of Beggs, 
Oklahoma; thirteen grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren and 
seven great great grandchildren.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, a 
brother, Walter Clay Wesley and a sister, LuVena Howard.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, September 1, 2000 in the 
First Church of the Nazarene in Pawhuska, Oklahoma with the Reverend J. 
Dale Wesley officiating. Interment will follow in the Pawhuska City 
Cemetery.

Johnson Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.