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Submitted: 1/15/19 • Approved: 1/16/19 • Last Updated: 1/19/19 • R816761-G816761-S3
Oct 17 1884 TN
Oct 7 1937 Cooter, Pemiscot, MO
Mrs. Rebecca O'Kean, 68, died at the home of her son, Claude O'Kean, Sunday with a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. O'Kean had been blind for the past 15 years.
Funeral services were held at the No. 8 cemetery Friday, being conducted by the Rev. Hunt.
Survivors are two sons, Howard of near Marston and Claud of near Cooter; three sisters, Mrs. Lucy Ayers of Caruthersville, Mrs. Bell Wright of Sheron, Tenn., and Mrs. Ida Doran of Dresden, Tenn., and one brother, W.T. Oakley of Gideon.
The Republican - Caruthersville, Missouri - Thursday, October 14, 1937
Mrs. Rebecca O'Kane died at the home of her son, Claude, of the No. 8 community near Cooter last Thursday afternoon, following a stroke of paralysis, October 3, 1937 from which she never regained consciousness. She was 68 years of age and had lived practically all her life in the No. 8 community.
She is survived by two sons, Claude of No. 8 and Howard of Marston; one daughter, Mrs. Maud Raspberry of Keiser, Ark.; one brother, W.T Oakley, Sr., of Gideon, three sisters: Mrs. Lucy Ayers of Caruthersville, Mrs. Belle Wright of Sharon, Tenn. and Mrs. Ida Doran of Dresden, Tenn.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, October 14, 1937
Contributed on 1/15/19 by ttack37
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