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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, September 11, 1940 May 30, 1849 ~ September 10, 1940 Final rites will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock for B. Cole, 91, who passed away at his home Tuesday. His death was attributed to complications due to his advanced age. Services will be held at the First Christian church by Rev. T.T. brown, pastor, and interment will be in the Carnegie cemetery. Pitcher Funeral Home will have charge of arrangements. Mr. Cole, with his snow white hair and beard, has been a familiar figure in Carnegie for the past 30 years. He and his family had located at Colony in early fall of 1900 where they became well established. Mr. and Mrs. Cole came to Carnegie in 1910 where later two of their sons were in the banking business. Mrs. Cole died in June, 1924. Birdine Cole was born in Winston, Mo. May 30, 1849 and was 91 years, 3 months and 11 days of age at the time of his death. He was married to Julia A. Johnson in Winston February 18, 1874. To them were born five sons, three having preceded him in death, one dying in infancy. Survivors are his sons, Frank B. Cole, Carnegie and Homer J. Cole, Thomas; nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren; also one sister, Mrs. Tollevia J. Baker of Casper, Wyoming, and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cole will be here for the funeral and others expected from a distance are his grandson, Seth Cole, Pretty Prairie, Kansas and grand daughter, Mrs. Fern Shouse of Sterling, Kansas, as well as many old neighbors from the Colony community. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, January 3, 1968, page 1, col. 3 & 4 February 6, 1879 ~ December 30, 1967 Earl Cole, pioneer settler in the town of Lathram which later became Carnegie, a retired hardware merchant and a former Carnegie mayor, died Saturday in the Carnegie hospital after a long illness. Funeral services with Masonic rites were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist church with Rev. Bill Dickover, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the Carnegie cemetery. George Earl Cole was born on February 6, 1879, the third son of five children of John L. and Ellen Meek Cole, was reared on a farm near Bethany, Mo. where he grew to manhood. In 1902 he was married to Effie G. Ford and in March, 1903, came to Lathram which later was renamed Carnegie and moved to its present site. Later in June his wife came to Carnegie where he had provided a home. Two children, a son, Ford, and a daughter Kathryn, were born to them. Cole was active as a hardware merchant here for 52 years. He served as town mayor during the time the streets were paved and to town water system was installed. He was a member of the first school board here and was active in the planning and construction of the junior high school, the old vocational agriculture building and the present Baptist church. He had served as president of the Carnegie Fair Board and was a member of the Masonic lodge and Kiwanis club. He was preceded in death by his wife and son. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. T.D. Roberts of Oklahoma City' a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ford Cole of Fergus Falls, Minn.; four grandchildren, Susan, Deborah, and Jim Cole of Fergus Falls, and Dana Earl Roberts of Oklahoma City;' one brother, Roy J. Cole of Bethany, MO.; three nephews, M.C., Wilbur and Clinton Cole, all of Bethany; two nieces, Mrs. E.G. Stoskopt and Mrs. Alex McClure, both of Bethany; one cousin, Mrs. H.O. Crider of Mountain View, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. C.M. Hartman of Norman. Active pallbearers were Rodger Willis, Horton Giles, Mark Hooper, Utah Jones, Jack Moore and Floyd Davis. Honorary bearers were J.O. Willis, Bonnie Netherton, Ben Kuhn, Joe Hull, John Moore and Grover Truitt. © Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, November 23, 1955 After over a half century in the hardware business--dating back to the hitching post days in Carnegie--Earl Cole is stepping aside. He's holding an auction sale starting December 1 to liquidate the business he and Parnell and Thorpe opened here in 1903. It's an epic in Carnegie's history when the store that provided the pioneers of this area with their barbed wire, nails and other essentials and rendered a service to the community for over a half century. Mr. Cole was active all those years in the development of Carnegie, promoting projects that helped build the community from a prairie country to a Tri-County trading center with modern schools, churches and businesses. he was truly a pioneer of this area. He came to this section when it was opened in 1901, but didn't participate in the drawing for homesteads. he returned to his home in Bethany, Mo., to marry Effie Ford in April, 1902. He and his brother farmed the "home place" until the spring of 1903, when he moved into "Lathram," now known as Carnegie, and went into partnership with Parnell and Thorpe of Mountain View, and opened the hardware store. In 1905, Mr. Cole and W.A. Hugill bought the interest of Parnell and Thorpe and the pioneer hardware store "boomed" in a corrugated iron building on Main street until 1907, when the firm started construction of a new building at the corner of Main and Broadway. Mr. Cole bought the interest of his partner in 1915 and continued the operation of the business until the present. During all those years, the most trying time was back in 1942 when the Main and Broadway location burned, and the store was opened at the present location at 24 West Main. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, April 20, 1946 December 9, 1878 ~ February 22, 1946 Paralytic Stroke Is Fatal to Mrs. Cole, Early Day Resident Services were conducted at the First Baptist church at 2:30 p.m. Monday for Mrs. G.E. Cole who suffered a paralytic stroke Thursday morning and died Friday at 9:30 a.m. at her home. Rev. C.N. Price, pastor, preached the funeral sermon. Burial was in the Carnegie cemetery under direction of the Pitcher Funeral Home. Mrs. Cole was in her usual good health the day before she was stricken. Tuesday she had charge of the Delphian program and Wednesday night she attended prayer meeting. Effie Guwilma Ford was born December 9, 1878, in Blue Ridge, Mo., the eldest in a family of eight children She was married to G.E. Cole April 20, 1902, in Bethany, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Cole were among the pioneer settlers in the then town of Lathram. Mr. Cole came here in March, 1903, and Mrs. Cole came in June when a home had been provided. Mrs. Cole accepted Christ early in life in Missouri and united with the Baptist church in her home town. She was the last resident charter member of the Baptist church in Carnegie. Always active in church work, she taught young women's Sunday school classes and worked in the missionary society all of her life. Mrs. Cole was a charter member and a past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a member of the Royal Neighbors. She was a charter member of both the South Side Sewing club and the Delphian society. She served three terms as president of Delphian and was serving in that office at the time of her death. Survivors include the husband, G.E. Cole; a son, Ford Cole, Fergus Falls, Minn.; a daughter, Miss Kathryn Cole, Oklahoma City, and two sisters, Mrs. C.M. Hartman of this place, and Mrs. Rette Hamaker of Gilman City, Mo. Other out of town relatives here for the funeral were W.C. Cole and Mrs. Maude Harding of Bethany, brother and sister of Mr. Cole. and Mrs. Mabel Cole, Bethany, sister-in-law of Mr. Cole. A number of relatives from Mountain View community also attended the funeral |
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