Cora Ella Mills

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Cora Ella Mills were held Thursday, March 19, 1998 at 10:30 a.m. in the Rose Chapel with Russ Dyer officiating. Cora, the daughter of Cornelia Harriett and Edwin R. Millar, was born April 14, 1914 in Washita County, OK and passed away March 13, 1998 in Santa Monica, CA at the age of 83 years, ten months and 29 days.

Cora moved with her parents to Reydon in 1930. She married Myron Alfred Mills on December 24, 1933 in Reydon, Oklahoma where they lived until 1964 when they moved to Carter. In 1970 they moved to Sayre to make their home. In 1990 Cora moved to Santa Monica, CA to be near her daughter.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, one sister, on granddaughter and one great grandson.

She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Delores and Richard Nickel of Santa Monica, CA; one son and daughter-in-law, Floyd and Genene Mills of Oklahoma City, OK; eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

Interment was in the White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.