Obit of May White Skunk (w325) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 10 Sep 2002 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ==================================================================== Surnames: White Skunk, Elk River, Shankey, Jessepe, Hamilton, Penn, Yellow Eyes, Lee, Sheridan Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5188 Funeral services for May White Skunk, 63, Hammon were held Tuesday in the First Baptist Church in Hammon. Mrs. White Skunk, the former Mary Elk River, died late Thrusday night at the Clinton Indian Hospital. She had lived in the Hammon area all of her life. In 1940, whe was married to Edward White Skunk. She belonged to the Redman Service Club, the Cheyenne Veterans Organization and was a former sister (princess) of the Kit Fox Society. Mrs. White Skunk was a member of the Bethel Mennonite Church. Burial was in the Bethel Mennonite Cemetery under the direction of the Kern-Schneider-Kiesau Funeral Home of Clinton. Survivors include her husband, Edward; a son, Edward, Jr. of Hammon; nine daughters, Jean Shankey of El Reno, Rosanna Jessepe of El Reno, Josephine Hamilton of El Reno, Nellie Penn of Burns Flat, Carol Yellow Eyes of El Reno, Hallie Lee of Weatherford, Clarice White Skunk of Hammon; Julia Sheridan of Macy, Nebraska and Mary Edwina White Skunk of Hammon; and 13 grandchildren. All night wake services were held Monday night at the Bethel Mennonite Church in Hammon. The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK