Obit of Bryant, Lois Rebecca Mizer - Texas County, Oklahoma

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::Hooker Cemetery--Hooker OK

Lois Rebecca Mizer Bryant

HOOKER, Okla. - Lois Rebecca Mizer Bryant, 79, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 
1999.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Ron 
Mimms officiating. Burial will be in the Hooker Cemetery by Roberts 
Brothers Funeral Home.

Mrs. Bryant was born in Estellene, Baca County, Colo., and was raised on 
the family ranch southwest of Pritchett, Colo. She graduated from 
Pritchett High School in 1939. She graduated in 1943 from Panhandle A&M 
College at Goodwell.

She married Sgt. George Raymond Bryant in 1945 at Fort Smith, Ark. They 
lived in Goodwell until moving in 1948 to Hooker, where she taught first 
grade. She also taught at Mount Hope, Kan., Bonner Springs, Kan., Texhoma 
and Tyrone.

She retired from Natural Gas Pipeline Co. in America in 1986 after 23 
years. After retiring, she did genealogy research, volunteered at Hooker 
Elementary and helped with her husband's business.

Mrs. Bryant was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hooker, Business 
and Professional Women, Order of Eastern Star and the Garden Flower Club. 
She was a lifetime member of the Hooker Education Foundation, was listed 
in Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities and was a member of the 
Beaver River Genealogy Society, where she helped create the first and 
current Hooker Cemetery directory.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Robert Bryant of Bartlesville and 
Roger Bryant of Midland, Texas; a daughter, LaRayma Straus of Amarillo; a 
brother, Bill Mizer of Kim, Colo.; and a sister, Jo Mahon of Guymon; six 
grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Hooker Cemetery Fund c/o Roberts 
Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, OK 73945 or a favorite charity.

Amarillo Daily News Oct. 16, 1999
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