Obit of Franklin, Cleo Betty Garrison Poore Cox (f652) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 11 Jul 2002 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: Franklin, Garrison, Poore, Cox, McBride, Matthews, Mogg, O'Hair, Pool, Cooper, Britton Cleo Betty Franklin, 79, was born September 19, 1904 to Roy A. and Verdie Garrison at Grimes, Oklahoma. She passed from this life Wednesday November 30, 1983 in Town Hall Estates, Sayre, Oklahoma. Cleo attended and graduated from the Elk City High School and went to South Western College in Weatherford where she graaduated. She taaught school at Meridian, Griems and Delhi Schools. She also worked for the Department of Human Services until 1969. On January 1, 1924, she married Virgil Poore in Elk City. In 1945 she moved form Grimes to Sayre. Mr. Poore died in 1958. On September 1, 1962, she married Mayo Cox in Dumas, Texas. He passed away in 1963. Then in April 6, 1979, she was married to Cleto Franklin and they made their home in Sayre. Mrs. Franklin was a member of the Sayre Church of Christ. Preceding her in death were her parents, 2 husbands, 1 son, Charles Poore and 1 sister, Shirley McBride. Survivors include her husband, Cleto of the home; 1 step son, Lloyd Franklin of Grimes; 2 step-daughters, Mildred Matthews of Ohio, Lura mae Mogg of Cheyenne, 1 brother, Roy A. (Buddy) Garrison of Lweiston, California; 4 sisters, Winifred O'Hair of Lubbock, Texas; Leah Pool of LaCrescenta, California; Salome Cooper of Jacksonville, Florida; Virginia Britton of Lewiston, California, and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted Monday, December 5, 1983 at 2 p.m. in the Sayre church of Christ with Eddie Bear, officiating. Interment followed in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk City. Active Pallbearers were Cargter Cox, Lester Davis, Benjamin Olson, C.A. Wood, Bob Brewer and Gayle Harrington. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html