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::Hooker Cemetery--Hooker OK

Amarillo Globe News 22 Nov 1997

Howard Raff

ROLLA, Kan. - Howard Raff, 58, died Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1997, in Elkhart.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Rolla United Methodist Church with the 
Rev. Floyd Benson and the Rev. Glenn Bailey officiating. Burial will be at 
4:30 p.m. Sunday in Hooker Cemetery by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home of 
Hooker, Okla.

Mr. Raff was born in Hooker. He attended Hooker schools and graduated in 
1957 from Hooker High School. He attended Southwestern State University at 
Weatherford, Okla., and graduated in 1961 with a bachelor of science degree 
in chemistry.

He married Elvera Mae Enns in 1961 at Hooker.

Mr. Raff was an Army veteran, serving at Fort Ord, Calif., and Dugway, 
Mont.

He attended Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College at Goodwell and 
received his teaching certificate in 1965. In 1969, he received a master's 
degree in counseling from Kansas State University.

He taught school in Spearman, Texas, Longford, Hope and Ellis. He taught at 
Rolla High School, where he also was a secondary counselor and sponsored 
the student council.

Mr. Raff attended First Baptist Church and was a life member of the 
National Education Association and the NRA. He was a member of Phi Delta 
Kappa, the Kansas NEA and the Morton County Teachers Association.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Gary Raff of Overland Park; his parents, 
Lem and Blanche Raff of Hooker; and a brother, Sam Raff of Liberal.

The family requests memorials be to the Hooker Cemetery Fund c/o Roberts 
Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, Okla. 73945.
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