Obit of Stookey, Naomi "Yvonne" Cordum - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 05 Nov 2006 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 ========================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Surnames Stookey, Cordum, Trent, Gamble, Nichels, Dean, Hennigan, Hufferd, Luster, Long Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6756 Naomi "Yvonne" (Cordum) Stookey was born December 25, 1922, to Clark and Bobbie (Trent) Cordum at Moorewood, Oklahoma. Yvonne spent her younger school years at Moorewood, where her younger brother Delbert Cordum and Yvonne road horses to school. Some years later they moved to Leedey, OK where she and Delbert attended school. Later their parents bought a farm N.W. of Hammon, OK. Yvonne finished her Senior year of school at Hammon, OK with the class of 1940. When Yvonne was 19 and Delbert was 11, their parents had a daughter Deanna (Cordum) Gamble. Yvonne, along with a friend Orpha (Nichels) Dean went off to College together at Stillwater, OK. By these to girls travel to Tulsa, OK is where Yvonne met George Stookey. The two Miss Yvonne Cordum and Private George Stookey were married January 24, 1944. George was graduated from Alluwe, OK High School in 1941. He had just completed a course in the Technical School at Chanute Field, IL. To this union three children were born. While living for a short time at Altus, OK, they had a son, Dennis Edward Stookey, who only lived 24 hours. Moving back to Nowata, OK where George was originally from, five years after the first child, they had a daughter Cheryl Yvette, and seven years later another daughter, Darla Ruth. Yvonne was preceded in death by both sets of grandparents: Willie and Barzine Trent, and Ernest and Maudie Cordum. Also her parents Clark and Bobbie Cordum, the infaznt son, and husband, George passed away January 13, 2006 at the age of 82 years and 2 months. And Yvonne passed away March 14, 2006 at age 83, after suffering a bad stroke 10 years and 4 months ago, July 1996. Those surviving Yvonne are the two daughters and their spouses, Cheryl and Chris Henninan, Darla and Leon Hufferd. Three granddaughters, Angelia Luster, Janie Long and Karen Hufferd and one great grandson, Josh Luster, all of Bartlesville, OK. Yvonne's brother and sister and their families. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 23-Mar-2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html