Obit of Daisy Dunn (d500) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 2 May 2003 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Surnames: Dunn, Camp, Avriett, Whittenberg Bowes, Brown Originally Posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5389 Services for Daisy Dunn were conducted Tuesday, Marh 27, 1973, in the Methodist Church in Cheyenne with Rev. Richard Benefield in charge. Mrs. Dunn died Sunday, March 25, 1973 in Woodward after a long illness. Immediate survivors are a son, John Dunn and wife Marcia; a daughter, Mary and husband Col. (retired) Giles Avriett; two granddaughters, Mary Jane Avriett and Cynthis Ann Dunn, two grandsons, Giles Avriett and Johnny Dunn, all of Woodward; another granddaughter Diana Whittenberg-Bowes and a great granddaughter Ashley Elizabeth Bowes, both of Amarillo, Texas. Also surviving is a sister Mrs. J.W. Brown of Del Rio, Texas. Daisy Camp Dunn was born in Montague County, Texas August 7, 1882. In early life she was a public school teacher. After her marriage to John Dunn, a rancher, on January 3, 1917, she came to Roger Mills County, Oklahoma to make her home on the ranch her husband owned and operated. Working together John and Daisy Dunn expanded their ranch to include a large acreage in Ellis county. Today the Dunn ranch is one of outstanding ranches in Oklahoma. In 1926 the Dunn's moved to Cheyenne where Daisy Dunn became a tireless worker in civic affairs of Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, and western Oklahoma. Her many years of interest in directing attention to the importance of properly marking the site of the Battle of the Washita near Cheyenne was rewarded in 1957 when she turned the first spade of dirt for the construction of Black Kettle Museum in Cheyenne as a memorial to the Cheyenne Indian chief who lost his life in the Battle of the Washita. An active member of the Oklahoma Cattleman's Association, Daisy Dunn promoted its auxiliary, the Cow Belles on the county, state and national level. Daisy Dunn was a life-member of the Platonic Club of Cheyenne a long time member of the Methodist Church, a 50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star. The daughter of a Confederate soldier she was a member of the Mildred Lee .D.C. Chapter of Sayre She was also a D.A.R. Member. Daisy Dunn had been a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Old Timers Association for 45 years. Under direction of Scroggins and Son Funeral Home, committal was in the Cheyenne Cemetery by the side of her husband who preceded her in death in 1939. Casket bearers were Clarence Redden, R.L. Trammell, W.T. Farmer, J.W. Chalfant, Eugene Savage, and Eb Bradshaw, Honorary bearers were Dean Cross, L.L. Males, J.D. Wesner, and Ralph Hanawalt. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 30-Mar-1973 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html