Obit of Gwartney, Rachel Marie Allen - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 25 May 2008 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 ===================================================================== ::Red Hill Cemetery--Hammon OK Surnames: Gwartney, Allen, Cleveland, Shelton Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/8673/mb.ashx Funeral services for Rachel Marie Gwartney will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. from the Baptist Church of Hammon with Michael Fetters and Stan Baker officiating. Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home of Elk City, Oklahoma. Rachel Marie Gwartney was born October 13, 1913 at Allen, New Mexico to J. W. and Ella Cleveland Allen and died Wednesday December 19, 2007 at the age of 94. She traveled to Arkansas and then to western Oklahoma by covered wagon, she married Jack Gwartney on January 22, 1934 in Cheyenne and lived in the Hammon area. She was a long time member of the First Baptist Church of Hammon where she taught Sunday school. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, two sisters and four brothers. Survivors include two sons, Jerry Gwartney and wife, Mary of Elk City; Bill Gwartney and wife Sherry of Edmond; one sister, Juanita Shelton of Elk City; two brothers, Raymond Allen of Tahlequah and Elvin Allen of Hammon; four grandsons, 10 great grandchildren. Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 21-Dec-2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html