Rogers Co. Obit for: Mildred (Muir) McChesney
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Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 5/25/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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Mildred (Muir) McChesney


Funeral services for Mildred Muir McChesney of El Reno will be at 2 p.m. 
Tuesday, May 21 in the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel of El Reno. Dr. Burrel 
McNaught, associate pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church, will officiate. 
Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Edmond. 

Mrs. McChesney died Friday, May 17, 2002 at Sunset Estates Nursing Center in El 
Reno.

She was born on Sept. 15, 1905 in Banner, Okla., to parents Thomas and Rosa 
Belle (Patterson) Muir. 

Mildred grew up in El Reno and was a graduate of El Reno High School. She 
attended and was a graduate of Hills Business College in Oklahoma City. 

Mildred had lived in Claremore for 27 years and Tulsa for 30 years before 
retiring to El Reno in 1986.

Mrs. McChesney had worked as a secretary for Long Bell Lumber Company, Downtown 
Chevrolet, Standard Life Insurance Company and had also worked for the Oklahoma 
Publishing Company. 

She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, the Tulsa Chapter of the 
Order of Eastern Star, American Business and Professional Women's Club, Oklahoma 
Painting and Contractors of America, the El Reno Study Club, Charter member of 
Galatea, the United Methodist Women and was a former member of the Methodist 
Church in Claremore.

Mildred was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Russell Muir, Alvin 
Muir, Bull Muir and Henry Muir; and two husbands, Lee A. Shipman and R.E. 
McChesney.

Survivors include adopted sons, Thomas Joe Muir of Tucson, Ariz., and Russell 
Edward and wife Laverne Muir of El Reno and many other nieces, nephews and 
friends..

The family suggests memorials be made to either the El Reno Mobile Meals, P.O. 
Box 879, El Reno, OK 73036 or to Russell-Murray Hospice, 221 S. Bickford, El 
Reno, OK 73036.
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