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Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Cokeman2

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Sunday, February 12, 2017.

Alta Dorene Tsoodle

FORT COBB Funeral for Alta Dorene Tsoodle, 85, Chickasha, will be 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, at First Apache Indian Baptist Church west of Fort Cobb with the Rev. J.T. Goombi and Kathy Longhat officiating.

She passed away Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017.

Burial will be in Fort Cobb Cemetery under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home.

Prayer service will be 7 p.m. Thursday, at First Indian Baptist Church, Fort Cobb.

She was born Dec. 14, 1931, the daughter of Martha Bitseedy Tsoodle and Duke Hawley Tsoodle Sr., at her maternal grandfather, Clayton Bitseedy's home west of Fort Cobb. Alta was a life-long member of her family's church, the First Apache Indian Baptist Church, Fort Cobb.

Alta started school early at the Oak View School, west of Fort Cobb at the age of 5. She graduated from Fort Cobb High School and attended Bacone College in Muskogee.

After being relocated to Chicago, Ill., in 1953, Alta was trained and certified as a laboratory technician at Presbyterian-St. Luke Hospital, now Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. In addition, she studied orchestral conducting and participated as a vocalist in the North Shore Opera Society, Skokie, Ill. Her medical laboratory work in nephrology was used in a study published in 1960. The University Of Illinois College Of Medicine's Department of Biological Chemistry, the medical departments of three Chicago hospitals and Schering Pharmaceutical Company acknowledge Alta as one of two contributing technicians to this study.

Her family remembers fondly that she traveled back home as much as she was able to be with them, they will remember Alta always.

Alta traveled to China in the 1980s and to other parts of the country to see her relatives.

Alta grew to love Chicago and all the excitement and opportunities that it offered. She lived there most of her life but she never forgot her love for her family and home in Oklahoma.

She is survived by her sisters, Gloriette Miles, Fort Smith, Ark., Angeline Cabaniss, Norman; as well as her brothers, Duke Tsoodle Jr., Anadarko, and Eugene Tsoodle, Oklahoma City; and numerous other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her sisters, Joycette Tsoodle of the home and Myrtis Drobot Detroit, Mich. Henry "Old Man" Tsoodle and Kau-tone-Pauhoodle [Mary Tanedoah] were Alta's paternal grandparents. Clayton Bitseedy and Catherine Klahsitti were Alta's maternal grandparents.

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