Obit of Eda Ackley (a240) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 9 Oct 2000 ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Red Hill Cemetery--Hammon OK Surnames: Ackley, Flynt Funeral services for Eda Ackley will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at the First Methodist Church of Hammon, OK, Roger Mills County. Officiating will be Rev. Rich Redinger and Rev. David Sanders. Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home. Eda Flynt Ackley was born in Old Johnston in Cleveland County on Feb. 7, 1900 and died in the Methodist Care Center at Clinton, OK, Feb. 5 at the age of 89. She came to Custer County with her parents to a farm just northeast of Hammon when she was ver young. She attended Pie Flat School. On Jan. 28, 1923 she was married to George F. Ackley at Arapaho. They began farming on Quartermaster Creek. In 1925 they made their home in Hammon where they lived until just before WWII. They then moved to California where they lived until 1945. Mr. Ackley was employed at a grocery store in Clinton and they lived in Clinton with the exception of 1 year when they lived in Mead, Kans., in the 1950's. Mr. Ackley preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 1961. Mrs. Ackley and her sister, Mrs. Callie Sketchley operated a cafe in Clinton for 11 years. Eda was a member of the United Methodist Church at Hammon where she served a Secretary and Treasurer. She taught Sunday School in her church for many years. She was a member of the Eastern Star. Besides her husband and parents she was preceded in death by four sisters and two brother. Her survivors include 10 nieces: Mrs. Harvey White, Mrs. Dick Dugger, Mrs. Clifford Allee, Mrs. Bob Pool, Mrs. Carol Burgess, Mrs. Clyde Hammond, Mrs. Leon Tomberlin, Floetta Acklely Seright, Alta Ann Ackley Burgeron and Mrs. Earl Long; 8 nephews: Preston, Fran, and Edward Bailey; Robert, Elbert, and Jo Bill Flynt, J.T. Ackley and Jimmy Stout. Also many great and great great nieces and nephews, and friends