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Dee Villa Thomas

Female 1906 - 1987  (81 years)


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  • Name Dee Villa Thomas  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 4 Feb 1906  Ripley Oak Park Cemetery, Ripley, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Death 3 Sep 1987  Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Elm Grove Cemetery, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • Described as "of southwest Stillwater"

      Payne County area schoolteacher Dee Villa Clark of Perkins died Thursday, Sept. 3, 1987 in Stillwater Medical Center at the age of 81. Her funeral is scheduled Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the First Christian Church in Perkins.

      Internment will be held in the Elm Grove Cemetery. Charles Wall and the Rev. C. Jeffrey Gill will officiate at the service, which are being arranged by Strode Funeral Home.
      Mrs. Clark was born in Ripley on Feb. 4, 1906, the daughter of Edwin V. and Orpha (Phenis) Thomas. She lived in the Ripley area most of her early life, except for a year when her parents lived in Tonkawa.

      She married Earl Harrison Clark on Feb. 21, 1934, on her parents farm west of Ripley. The couple lived in or near Stillwater until he retired in 1968 and they moved to Perkins.
      She graduated from Oklahoma A & M College in 1930 and earned her teaching certificate. She taught school for 38 years in a number of towns in the area and was a member of the First Christian Church.

      Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband; one son, Arthur Edwin Clark of Oklahoma City; one grandchild; one brother, Wayne Haskell Thomas of Yukon; and one sister, Mrs. Howard (Lorene) Mahurin of Olympia, Wash.
    Person ID I5901  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Edward Valejo Thomas,   b. 14 Apr 1872, Xenia, Bourbon County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jan 1945, Ripley Oak Park Cemetery, Ripley, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Orpha Anise Phenis,   b. 28 Sep 1875, Madison, Greenwood County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Sep 1953, Olympia, Thurston County, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 21 Aug 1904  Agra, Lincoln County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Family ID F3021  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Earl Harrison Clark,   b. 9 Aug 1902, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Nov 1994, Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 21 Feb 1934  Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Living
    Family ID F3059  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Jun 2012 

  • Event Map
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  • Sources 
    1. [S259] Oklahoma, Stillwater, Newspress (1953) newspaper cutting titled "Services Planned for Mrs. Thomas." Probably of Judith Keeth (1997).

    2. [S124] Harvey, Kenneth C--Family Member; Gedcom, Printed Descendants Reports of Payne and Gentry Families, Correspondence.

    3. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.).

    4. [S211] Courtesy of Kenneth Harvey, McWethy, Franklin Mead (1956) "McWethy Family Tree." (Duplicated by unpublished 31 page typescript.).