Funeral services for Virley Lue (Kitty) Eddings, 85, were held Friday,
August 14, 1987 at 10:00 a.m. in the First Baptist Church of Cheyenne
with A. L. Martin officiating. Interment followed in the Sayre-Doxey
Cemetery, Sayre, Oklahoma.

Virley Lue (Kitty) was born March 4, 1902 in Arkansas to James George
Washington and Martha Isabelle Roper and passed from this life Wednesday,
August 12, 1987 in the Hensley Nursing Home of Sayre following an extended
illness.

She was married on September 19, 1919 at the Beckham County Court House,
Sayre, Oklahoma to Daniel Buron Drake and lived in Brinkman, Elk City,
Carter, Mangum and Clinton, Oklahoma before moving to Cheyenne in 1932.
Virley and Buran remained in Cheyenne where they owned and operated the
Drake Café for many years. They built the first city park with a swimming
pool in 1946. Virley, known as Kitty, always wanted a park for the
children in Cheyenne. Mr. Drake passed away in 1967. On June 28, 1970,
she and Aaron C. Eddings were married in Cheyenne where they lived at the
time of his death in 1973.

She had been a member of the First Baptist Church in Cheyenne for a number
of years. In addition to her husbands those who preceded her death were
her parents; 1 son, Rex; 2 grandsons, Jimmy Jack Drake and Bobby Jay Drake;
1 sister and 4 brothers.

Survivors include; 3 daughters, Marchlla Hadlock, of Oklahoma City; Frankie
Green of Canyon, Texas and Judy Boyce Dunlap of Sayre, Oklahoma; 1 son,
Jack Drake of Thackerville, Oklahoma; 11 grandchildren; 13 great
grandchildren; 1 sister Isabella Johnson of Visalia, California, other
relatives and friends. Rose Chapel Funeral Service of Cheyenne was in
charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers were Kenny Drake, Billy Drake, Rodney Green, Justin Boyce,
Andy Taylor, John Green, Babe Frankford served as honorary pallbearer.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK