Obit of Gates, Mary Naomi Russell (g320) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 15 Nov 2000 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Gates, Russell Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/0604 Mary Naomi (Granny) Gates, 71, was born August 23, 1918 in Nebraska to Claude and Clella Warner Russell. She died Monday, December 25, 1989 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital, Cheyenne, OK. Naomi moved as a child with her parents to Roger Mills County near Strong City. On February 12, 1937 she was married to Lee Gates in Sayre. They continued to make their home in Strong City. She owned and operated Granny's Quilts and Things in Cheyenne. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hammon. She was precded in death by her parents, her husband, Lee, in 1970, and one brother. She is survived by four daughters, Barbara Hay of Cheyenne, Mary Gates of the home, Beverly O'Brien of Muskogee, and Judy Evans of Oklahoma City; one sister, Ethalene Peterson of Portland, Oregon; one brother, Robert Russell of Pleasent Grove, Utah; 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be held December 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne with A.L. Martin officiating. Burial will follow in the Strong City Cemetery under the direction of the Rose Chapel Funeral Home of Cheyenne. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html