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Obituary
Cache Creek Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
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Submitted by: Cokeman2


Apache, Oklahoma
December 2020

Janelle [Yokesuite] Mowatt
1933 ~ September 6, 2016

CACHE Janelle Yokesuite-Mowatt, 83, of Cache, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, with her loving family by her side.

Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Comanche Nation Funeral Home Chapel with Tina Baker officiating.

Burial with military honors will follow at Cache Creek KCA Cemetery west of Apache. Prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 8, 2016, at the funeral home.

Janelle was born to Henry Lookingglass and Lilly Yokesuite at the Kiowa Indian Hospital in Lawton.

She graduated from Fort Sill Indian School and attended Cameron State Agricultural College, Durant College, and also attended school in San Jose, Calif.

She was a proud member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma and also Sherwood Tsotigh Memorial UMC in Cache.

Janelle Yokesuite-Mowatt enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in Oklahoma City on April 30, 1954, and served until May 13,1955, earning the rank of private. She completed her boot training at Parris Island Marine Corps Training Depot, S.C. After her boot training she was sent by train to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and assigned to the Base Exchange. She also drove for the base commander. She was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.

Janelle was a member of the first all Women's Veterans Color Guard in 2009 and carried the colors at homecoming in Walters. Members also included: Lt.Col. Rhonda Williams, Spc. Eleanor McDaniel, Sgt. Laura Phillips, and Staff Sgt. Jerri Locklear.

Janelle enjoyed going to powwows, listening to Comanche hymns, reading and dancing at powwows; she often made fry bread for the Comanche tribe, Comanche Fair, and the Shunkamolah family at Hominy PowWow. She also adhered to Comanche ways and felt strongly about passing these traditions on to all her kids.

She was a mother to many of the students at Fort Sill Indian School, Riverside Indian School and Concho Indian School, and also to many others who were friends or close to her kids or family.

She really enjoyed lending a helping hand to anyone that needed her. She carried a strong mind and was simply a beautiful soul.

Janelle is survived by three children: Michael Yokesuite, Virgie and Rick Komahcheet, all of Cache; and Teresa "Patty" Bright of Lawton; a brother, Carleton Kopaddy of Cordell; three sisters: Luella Lumbert, Winifred Sovo and Brenda Asheington, all of Lawton; her grandchildren: Jenifer Komahcheet, T.J. Mowatt, Ashley Mowatt Schreutem, Trevor Bright, and Gaenelle Tahah; great-grandkids: Jacob and Julia Tahah, Karissa and Kamille Komahcheet, and Aiyana, Marcus, Tasia, Naima, and JaShon Mowatt; and plenty of other family members and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents: Henry Lookingglass and Lilly Yokesuite; aunts: Marie Yokesuite Haumpy Deloris Yokesuite Kawaykla, Rose Atauvich Yokesuite and Pearl Atauvich, sisters of Lilly Yokesuite. Their dad was Baldwin Yokesuite; and mother to Lilly, Rose and Pearl was Ella Poafpybitty; two brothers: Donnie Yokesuite and Sammy Kopaddy, and two sisters: Lillian Yokesuite Simmons and Sandra Yokesuite Davis.


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