Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituaries: Roy Overacker Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Catherine Widener catz@kcisp.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roy Overacker Roy Overacker, 83, native areas resident and interior and exterior decorator in the Barnsdall community for many years died at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Graveside services will be 11 a.m., Saturday in New Ethel Reece Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Davolt officiating. Committal prayers and interment will be under the direction of Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Service. Mr. Overacker will lie in state in Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home where friends my call for their visitation until he is moved for graveside rites on Saturday morning. Mr. Overacker was born on February 21, 1910, at Ochelata, Washington County, Oklahoma, one of 12 children, to Howard and Hestella (Griffith) Overacker. He was reared and received his education in Washington County and attended Tyner School at Ochelata. He was later associated with religious track ministry. He was active as an interior and exterior decorator until he retired in 1977. Since that time, the Overacker's have continued to make their retirement in Barnsdall. He was a member of the Fire Baptized Holiness Church in Barnsdall. Partial obit dated June 4, 1993