Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Mrs. Maude Creswell Garver

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 Obit for Mrs. Maude Creswell Garver

Mrs. Maude Creswell Garver passed away at her home in Elk City on December 14, 
1953 after a short illness.  She was born in Texas on March 27, 1887.

She came to the farm near Bessie, Oklahoma when she was very young.  Her parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, passed away when she was a small girl.  She was reared 
by her step-mother, Mrs. Ella Allen of Moore, Oklahoma who survives.

In 1902 she was married to James T. Creswell at Bessie, Oklahoma.  They were 
the parents of 6 children which they reared in this part of Oklahoma.  They lived 
in Elk City for many years. 

Mr. Creswell was killed in a car wreck in 1936.  Their son Haskell was killed in 
an airplane crash in 1944, while serving with the aremd forces in World War II.

She and Harry Garver were united in marriage at Wheeler, Texas in December 1946.  
They were living happily at their home at 620 West 5th in Elk City when she passed
away.

She was a member of the Baptist church for 44 years, also a Gold Star Mother of the 
American Legion Auxiliary.

She was a faithful wife and a kind and loving mother.  She has many friends whom 
she loved dearly.  Besides her husband she is survived by her children, Mrs. Beulah 
Kent, Sayre, Oklahoma, Mrs Blanche Kilpatrick, Elk City, Oklahoma, Mrs. Leon Jones, 
Chandler, Oklahoma, Floyd Creswell, Brubank, California and Doyle of Elk City.

Her six grandchildren are Mrs. June Minor, Dean and Blanche Kent, Jimmie and Dora 
Creswell, Larry Jones.  The three great grandchildren are Edwina, Rodney and 
Kelly Minor.

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