Obit of Frances Ackley (a240) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  9 Oct 2000   
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::Red Hill Cemetery--Hammon OK

Surnames: Ackley, Hensley 

Funeral services were held for Frances Ackley on Oct. 29 in the 
Savage Funeral Home Chapel, in Elk City, OK. Frances Hensley Ackley 
was born on March 28, 1906, in Indian Territory, the daughter of 
Carroll and Kity L. Blount Hensley. She died on Oct. 27, 1986 in 
Sayre Memorial Hospital, at the age of 80. She was married to Reed 
D. Ackley on July 12, 1924 in Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, OK and 
made their home on a farm near Hammon. Reed preceded her in death on 
April 25, 1958. She was a member of the Hammon Church of Christ. She 
devoted her life to working with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian people. 
Mrs. Ackley served many years as Treaurer of the Red Hill Cemetery 
Assn. She is survied by two daughers, June and Joan Tomberlin, one 
son-in-law, Leon Tomberlin, all of Hammon; three grandsons and their 
wives, Mike and Pam Tomberlin, Dean and Terri Tomberlin all of 
Hammon and David and Kay Tomberlin of Duncan; six great 
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by parents, her husband, 
one brother, one sister, one daughter, Jean and one granddaughter. 
Burial was in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, OK