Obit of Cole, Ray (c400) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 22 Oct 2000 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Cole, Owen Ray Cole, 88, was born October 13, 1898 on the Washita River in Day County, Oklahoma Territory to James F. and Genia Humprey Cole and passed away Thursday evening, October 16, 1986 at the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne following an extended illness. Ray grew up to manhood near Hamburg in Roger Mills County after Day County was abolished in 1907. He made his home for 82 years on the place where his father homesteaded in the 1892 Cheyenne Arapaho run. Ray attended the Shaw Country School, the Canadian, Texas public schools, A Baptist Boarding School at Goodnight, Texas and Cordell Christian College, Cordell, Oklahoma. On October 14, 1939 Ray was married to Faith Owen at Dallas, Texas. He was a farmer-rancher for 60 years and had been a member of the Magnolia Baptist Church for a number of years. Those who preceded him in death were his parents, two sisters, and one brother. Survivors include his wife Faith of the home, two sisters, Dorothy Thomas of Durham, Oklahoma and Hazel Peterson of Cleveland, Oklahoma; two nephews, Gene Johnson and Gordon Thomas; seven nieces, Linda Gayle Milauk, Neila Padgett, Betty Carmen, Dana Hartley, Georgia Sue Nix, Virginia Stickler and Alice Cristy. Funeral services were conducted Satuday, October 18, 1986 at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Reydon with A.L. Martin and Ernest Ashcraft officiating. Interment followed in the Cheyenne Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service of Cheyenne. Pallbearers: Clyde Earle, Bryan Berry, Howard Metcalfe, Wayne Sadler, Thoral Shaw, and Lloyd Hammond. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html