Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  LEONA BONNIE McGRAW

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LEONA BONNIE (COUCH) McGRAW

OCNS - Archives - Mrs. Leona Bonnie (Couch) McGraw, 72, longtime resident 
of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and retired Cities Service Company employee, 
died at 7:00 a.m., Friday, March 19, 1982 in the Jane Phillips Medical 
Center following several months illness.

Funeral services for Mrs. McGraw were held March 23, 1982 in the Memory 
Chapel of the Arnold Moore Funeral residence with the Reverend Richard 
Ludden, minister of the Evangelical Methodist Church officiating.   Casket 
escorts were Fred R. Brown, George Carroll, Gerald Kelsey, Edward Stephens, 
Edward J. Martin and William S. Johnson.   "Peace in the Valley" and "The 
Old Rugged Cross" were performed by Mr. Clinton Thatch, vocalist, 
accompanied by Mrs. Bettye Spangenburg, organist.   Committal prayers and 
interment was directed in the White Rose Cemetery, Bartlesville by the 
Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs. McGraw was born July 3, 1909 in Falcon, Laclede County, Missouri, the 
daughter of Arminta (Morehouse) Couch and Andrew Couch.   When Leona was 
ten years old, she came with her family by covered wagon to Slick, 
Oklahoma and began her education in the rural schools near Slick before 
moving to Ponca City, Oklahoma in 1926 and completing her education. 

October 9, 1928, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Leona married Shelby James McGraw.   
Mr. McGraw was active in ranching in Washington and Osage Counties where 
he was employed with the Drummond, Chapman-Barnard, Mullendore and K.S. 
Adams ranches until they moved to Bartlesville.   He preceded her in death 
on January 11, 1966. 

Mrs. McGraw was employed by the Cities Service Company in Bartlesville 
until she retired in 1956.   She was a member of the Evangelical Methodist 
Church. 

Survivors included two sons, Shelby Milton McGraw and Donald Perry McGraw, 
both of Bartlesville and a daughter, Mrs. LeRoy (Dinah Arvilla) Widowski 
of Jenks, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren; 
one brother, Virgil Andrew Couch of Mendon, Missouri and two sisters, Mrs. 
Myrtle Hunt and Mrs. Vina Carrington, both of Pawhuska.   Three brothers 
and three sisters preceded her in death.