Obit of Ford, Lena R. (f630) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 18 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: Ford, Lacey, Brothers, Evett Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/1910 Lena R. Ford, born in Roger Mills county when it was only Oklahoma Territory, died at her home in Oklahoma City, August 5, 1982 after a three year illness following a hip fracture. Lena was born March 19, 1905, in the Kiowa Community to William A. and Margaret Lacey Ford. In her early twenties, she entered nursing training and spent the next twenty years working in that profession at the Musick and Community Hospitals at Elk City, Oklahoma. She is remembered by many as the efficient and pleasant nurse who assisted the late doctors, J.E. and Oran Standifer, in their house calls during the depression years. Later, Lena worked at the Community Hospital when Dr. M. Shadid was still there. When her aging parents needed her, she resigned her job to care for them. After her father's death, she moved with her mother to Oklahoma City where she continued to care for her mother as well as nieces and nephews when mothers were working. Lena is survived by sisters May Zelle Brothers, Wichita, Kansas and Leila Evett, Oklahoma City, several nieces and nephews. One nephew, Bruce Evett, shared her home. Graveside services were conducted at the Kiowa Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, Sunday August 8, 1982. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html