Obit of Fox, Blanche May (f200) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 19 Jan 2001 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: Fox, Wallace, Asher, Watson Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/1922 Blanche May Fox was born on Novembr 26, 1893 near Velma, Oklahoma. Her grandfather a Kentucky Captain in the Confederate Army, was killed in action during the Civil War, Robert Henry Wallace, her father, served a three year stint as a Texas Ranger, then married Lydia Zerida Asher and in 1888 moved the family to Indian Territory. At the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country he made the run and filed on a claim where Blanche was born. While the family resided near Velma, death claimed two of her older brothers, Jessie and Willie. Both Blanche and her brother were well educated. Dr. George H. Wallace was an early day physician and surgeon who died in 1931. In 1915 Blanche was featured a a senior in the first issue of the "Shy Annual" with the following quotation: "Little in stature, but not in mind; To every creature she strives to be kind. She is resolute, demure, reticent, And in fact, a girl most pleasant." After marrying E.E. "Doc" Fox on May 16, 1917, Blanche became active in culltural and community affairs; she was a charter member of the D.W.W., a Federated Women's Club, and as a committed Christian she was an involved member of the Durham Baptist Church. Blanche passed away on February 16, 1981, in Clinton, Oklahoma. She was preceeded in death by her husband, her nephew, Bob Wallace, and by Ernest Watson. A cheerful, generous person who loved children and animals, she cherished these words that she long ago adopted as her personal creed: "Nothing that happens can hurt me, Whether I lose or win. Though life may change on the surface, I do my main living within." Interment in the Fairview Cemetery, Durham, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html