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Adair County, Oklahoma

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Melvin Morris & Ruby Dee Morris-Moore

Baptist Mission Cemetery


Melvin Morris
© The Stilwell Democrat Journal
March 17, 1977
Submitted by: Wanda Elliott
Melvin Morris
no date-March 8, 1977
The Rev. Melvin Morris, 57 year old Stilwell resident, died Tuesday March 8 in the Stilwell Municipal Hospital.
Rev. Morris had pastored churches at Prairie View, Tishomingo, Yuba City, California and Sacramento, California. He retired in 1972 and moved to Stilwell.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruby Morris of the home; one daughter, Melba Dean Mase of Stockton, California; two sons, James Earl Morris of Nevada City, California and Jack Bert Morris, Minot, North Dakota; his mother, Mrs. Kate Harmon of Westville; and four brothers, J. C. Morris of Stilwell, Floyd and Kenneth Morris both of Westville, and Lloyd Morris of Miami, Florida.
Services were held Friday at the Hart Memorial Chapel in Westville with the Rev. Hubert Sponsler officiating. Interment was in the Baptist Mission Cemetery, north of Westville.


Ruby Dee Morris Moore
© The Stilwell Democrat Journal
October 30, 1997
Submitted by: Wanda Elliott
Ruby Dee Morris Moore
April 10, 1915-October 25, 1997
Ruby Dee Morris Moore, 82, a resident of Okmulgee, died on Saturday, October 25, in Okmulgee Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 10, 1915, in Evansville, Arkansas to Timothy J. and Nancy R. (Wilson) Holland. She married Melvin Morris on May 27, 1939 in Westville, Oklahoma. During his life they pastored Pentecostal Holiness churches in Oklahoma, California and Oregon. He preceded her in death March 8, 1977. Mrs. Morris married Rev. Oscar Moore on September 27, 1984 in Bixby, Oklahoma.
Survivors include her husband, Rev. Oscar Moore; three sons, James Morris and wife Lynn of Grass Valley, California, Rev. Jack Morris and wife Mary Margaret of Gaborone, Botswana, and Dan Moore of Boyton Beach, Florida; two daughters, Melba Mase of Tulsa and Lyndah Anderson of Tulsa; two brothers, Timothy Holland and wife Oleeta of Okmulgee, Oklahoma and Wilson Holland and wife Patricia of Hayward, California; grandchildren, Brian Mase of Tulsa, Jeffery and Susan Morris of Grass Valley, California, Mark and Karel Morris of Kansas City, Kansas, Randal Morris of Colorado, Monica and Darrell Buttram, Jr. and Derek V. Morris of Cleveland, Tennessee; great grandchildren Trishelle L. Kennen D. Morris of Grass Valley, California, Danicia KaiLynn, Sierra Marie Morris and Sarah Elizabeth Krolstic, all of Garden City, Kansas. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Clyde Ray Holland and M. Osborne Holland; and one sister Auda Holland Hardin Vedder.
Funeral services for Mrs. Moore will be held Thursday, October 30, at 10 a.m. in the Crossroads Pentecostal Holiness Church in Okmulgee. Rev. Willis Baldridge, Rev. Jerry Morris, Rev. Jack Morris and Rev. Hubert Sponsler will officiate. A commital service will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the Baptist Mission Church in Westville. Burial will follow at the Baptist Mission Cemetery in Westville, under the direction of the Kelley Funeral Home of Okmulgee. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kelley Funeral Home of Okmulgee.

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