Obit of Douglas, Susie Rozetta Eades - Pawnee County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 02 Nov 2008 Return to Pawnee County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pawnee/pawnee.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Arapaho Cemetery--Concho OK Douglas, Susie Rozetta Eades Susie Rozetta Eades Douglas, 81, was Cheyenne and Pawnee and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Her great-grandfather was Bull Bear, who was a Cheyenne peace chief, leader of the Dog Men Society and the first signatory to the Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty of 1867. Her grandfather, Thunderbird (Richard Davis), an artist and writer, is credited with preserving valuable ceremonial information at a time when the Sun Dance and other Cheyenne ceremonies were outlawed. Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, on July 2, 1921, to Richenda Aspenall Davis Eades and Joseph Cleveland Eades, Sr., she was raised in El Reno, Oklahoma, graduated from Chilocco Indian School in 1940 and earned an associate degree in business from Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, Class of '43. Homemaker and Eastern Star, she was a Quilting Society member and an active volunteer worker for the Democratic Party. As an Army wife, she traveled extensively and lived in Oahu, Hawaii, and Naples, Italy, before settling into her longtime home in San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Douglas is survived by her husband of nearly 59 years, Freeland Edward Douglas, Hodulgee Muscogee, and her daughter and son, Suzan Shown Harjo and Dennis Gene Douglas, both Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee. Her daughter credits Mrs. Douglas as the inspiration for the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and sacred places protection and repatriation laws. Her grandchildren are Adriane Shown Harjo and Duke Ray Harjo II, Hodulgee Muscogee and Cheyenne; Cate Star Douglas and Francine Nicole Douglas, Acoma, Cheyenne and Muscogee; and Denise Jean Douglas and Fawn Fixico Douglas, Palute, Cheyenne and Muscogee. Her son Rickey Dean Douglas, sister Rebecca Elizabeth Eades and brothers Miles Richard Eades and Joseph Cleveland Eades, Jr., preceded her. Mrs. Douglas also is survived by sisters Emerydean Eades White and Esther Eades Lamebull; sisters-in-law Mildred Millican Eades, Naomi Bland Eades and Tsianina Douglas Powell; and brother-in-law Jack Byron Powell; as well as a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews. grandnieces and grandnephews. She passed away in San Antonio on Jan. 21, after a bout with pneumonia and complications of diabetes and Alzhelmer's disease. Services for Mrs. Douglas will take place at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25. at the Huber-Benson Funeral Home in El Reno. Burial will take place at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Cemetery in Concho. Published in the Oklahoman on 1/24/2003. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pawnee County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pawnee/pawnee.html