Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  LILLIE LEOTA (SANFORD) BEAVER

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LILLIE LEOTA (SANFORD) BEAVER

OCNS - June 27, 2002 - Mrs. Lillie Leota (Sanford) Beaver, 90, widow of 
William Beaver and a former long time resident of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, 
died at 9:15 p.m., Monday, June 24, in the Prague, Oklahoma Municipal 
Hospital. 

funeral services were held Thursday, June 27, in the First Baptist Church 
of Barnsdall with Reverend James Brunk officiating.   Committal prayers 
and interment were directed in the Ethel Reese Cemetery by the Arnold 
Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home.

A native of Arkansas, Lillie Leota Sanford was born October 26, 1911 at 
Waldron, the daughter of Walter H. and Hattie (Ford) Sanford and at the 
age of five moved with her family to the Barnsdall community. where she 
attended the public schools.   She graduated with the Barnsdall High 
School Senior Class of 1929 and she and William C. Beaver were married 
December 24, 1930 in Barnsdall.   They made their first home in West 
Virginia and following Mr. Beaver's U.S. Navy career they returned to 
Barnsdall to make their home.   Mr. Beaver was an employee of the Great 
Lakes Pipeline Company which later became the Williams Pipe Line Company.   
Leota was an employee of the Hightower Grocery and the Wells Foodliner for 
over twenty years.   the Beavers had also operated the Shell service 
station in Barnsdall.   Mr. Beaver preceded her in death on October 22, 
1991 in Barnsdall and Mrs. Beaver moved to Prague in 1999 to be near 
family.   She was a member of the Barnsdall First Baptist Church.

Survivors include two nephews, Joe Milligan and wife, Betty of Prague and 
Donald Milligan and wife Ann of Fairfield, Texas, and other nephews and 
nieces.   In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her 
parents, brother, Bill Sanford and a sister, Mrs. Lois Milligan.