Obit of Flowers, Clara May - Pawnee County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 17 Oct 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 ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Flowers, Clara May Clara May Flowers, 98, a former schoolteacher, active churchwoman in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and devoted mother, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, at home in Fort Worth. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, in Chapel of the Good Shepherd at University Christian Church, 2720 S. University Drive, Fort Worth. Drs. Alan Lobaugh and Newell Williams, Clara's former Sunday school pupils, will preside. Clara was born May 10, 1907, on a farm near Pawnee, Indian Territory (Oklahoma became a state Nov. 15, 1907), to Alva Monroe and Lela Jane Tefertiller. She was the first of five children. She married John Paul Flowers on June 12, 1931. They lived in Tulsa, Okla., where Paul was a firefighter. Clara won the high school penmanship championship for northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas in 1924. She taught school in Quay, Okla., was a homebound teacher in Tulsa and was coordinator of children's education at First Christian Church, Tulsa. The accomplishment of which she was most proud was caring for their blind daughter, Linda, and especially being her reader and study companion when Linda earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tulsa. Clara was preceded in death by her husband, Paul; brothers, Ben and Hubert Tefertiller; and great-granddaughter, Jodi Leigh Key. Survivors: Daughter, Linda Flowers; son, Ronald Flowers and wife, Leah, all of Fort Worth; sister, Gladys Going and husband, Raymond, of Choctaw, Okla.; brother, Carl Tefertiller of Snyder; grandchildren, Jennifer Key of Fort Worth, Philip Flowers of Austin and Paul Flowers of Dallas; great-grandchildren, Jessica Key and Jillian Key; and very special friend, Maggie Thomas, all of Fort Worth. Published in the Star-Telegram on 1/13/2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pawnee County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pawnee/pawnee.html