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Lyle Hague 04-1987 Submitted by: Tim Dotterer
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Funeral services for retired Alfalfa County farmer and longtime Cherokee civic leader, Lyle Hague, 91, were held at 1:30 PM Wednesday in the First United Methodist Church of Cherokee, with Dr. William Chace and Rev. Don Bradford officiating.
Burial was in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Masonic graveside rites were conducted by Corinthian Lodge Number 307.
Hague was born on April 21, 1895 in Oklahoma Territory on his father's Homestead to Jay A. And Annie Dunlavy Hague.
He attended Riverside school, in a country schoolhouse built by his father and other homesteaders in 1894. He attended Ingersoll High School and graduated from Cherokee High School.
On April 8, 1917 Hague married Helen Millspaugh. They farmed and lived on his father's Homestead 3 miles north of Cherokee until moving to Cherokee in 1950. The Hagues would have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary next week.
Hague's success in farming was recognized in 1926 when he was named an Oklahoma Master Farmer, the youngest of 20 selected by the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman for the award.
Judging was based on farm operation, organization, appearance, upkeep of farm, business ability, home life and citizenship.
It was his last qualification that was to mark his activities from that time, principally in agriculture related projects until illness forced his retirement some 50 years later.
During the Dust Bowl and Depression days of the 1930s, some of the most far-reaching developments in farm legislation resulted from his efforts as a director and secretary of the Farmers National Grain Corporation for six years.
The giant cooperative grain marketing agency did much to improve grain trade practices.
Hague assisted in organizing 30 new farmer–owned grain cooperatives in Oklahoma and was one of the 21 farmers who organized the Farmers Cooperative Elevator Association in Cherokee.
He served on the state board of both the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association and the Oklahoma Grain Growers Association.
For 40 consecutive years he served on the Board of Directors of the Enid Production Credit Association and 18 years as director of the Ninth District Farm Credit Board of Wichita, Kansas.
He was one of 12 men selected nationally in 1936 to study the needs for crop insurance, which became a law in 1938 as Federal Crop Insurance.
Hague was appointed to the Oklahoma State Committee for the Agriculture Adjustment Act, Production Marketing Act and the Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, serving for 25 years.
He was agricultural representative on the Board of Directors for the Tenth District Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas city for 12 years.
Hague was active in many clubs and organizations. He was a Rotarian, a 33rd degree Mason and a member of the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce for 52 years.
Hague was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cherokee.
Survivors include his wife, Helen, of the home; one daughter, Beth Meyer of Enid; two sons, Milton Hague and J. Lawrence Hague, both of Cherokee; one sister, Gladys Kerr of Oklahoma City; six grandsons and 12 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one sister, two brothers and one grandson.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Goodwin Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to the Alfalfa County Hospital through the funeral home.
Helen Millspaugh Hague 03-1991 Submitted by: Tim Dotterer
The funeral for Helen Millspaugh Hague, 93, was at 1:30 PM Wednesday at Cherokee First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Mike Jared officiating. Burial was in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery directed by Goodwin Funeral Home. She died March 2, 1991, at Highland Park Manor, Enid.
She was born January 3, 1898, on the family homestead West of Cherokee to John Franklin and Delphina Corson Millspaugh. The family moved to Cherokee and she graduated from Cherokee High School. She earned a teaching certificate from Alpha Normal and taught at Enterprise Rural School
On April 8, 1917, she married Lyle L. Hague. They lived on the Hague Homestead North of Cherokee until 1950, when they moved to Cherokee. He died in 1987.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Ingersoll and Cherokee chapters of Order of Eastern Star and Mothers Self Culture Club. She had been a member of Better Farm Homes Home Demonstration Club.
She served it 19 years as Alfalfa County 4–H club leader. During World War II, she helped organize the Alfalfa County chapter of the American Red Cross and was vice-chairman.
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