Obit of Cole, Mary Ethel (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 Mary Ethel Cole, 86, of Weaterford, died July 20 in Lawton. Funeral services will be Tuesday, at 10 a.m. in the First United Methodist Church of Weatherford with the Rev. Grayson L. Lucky officiating. Burial will be in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, OK She was born Dec. 23, 1903 in Butler. Her father was the first doctor in the western area of Oklahoma. She lost both parents by the time she was seven years old and was raised by her brother and sister-in-law. She attended school in Hammon. She married Alva Cole in 1922. He passed away in 1979. They moved to Weatherford in 1948 where she operated a boarding house and restaruatn for college students from 1950 to 1965. She was very active in the First United Methodist Church where she was also active in the guild. She was baptised at an early age and was an active church worker all of her life. Ethel was also active in the Weatherford senior citizens group and the Republican party. She enjoyed travel and loved to work on jigsaw puzzles. She never met a stranger and was viewed with the highest respect and friendship by the young people that lived in her boarding house. She is survived by four sons, Allen Joe Cole of Okemah, George Wendell Cole of Oklahoma City, James Kenneth Cole of Independence, Kansas and Alva Fred Cole of Perkins, Oklahoma; two daughtgers, Vera Mae Tippens of Lawton and Katherine Ann Sinner of West Lake Village, Calif.; 18 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Mary Roberts in 1982 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html