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Funeral services for Miss Eldee Starr, well known poneer Cherokee Indian leader, who died Tuesday night at 11:30 in St. Anthony hospital, Oklahoma City, following a period of failing health, dating back two or three years ago when she suffered a broken right hip in a fall were held Friday afternoon at 2:30 in a Tahlequah Funeral home, with Rev. J. R. Main, Methodist pastor officiating. Burial was in the Tahlequah cemetery
Miss Starr, daughter of Ezekial Starr, former treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, was born in 1881 at the family homestead east of Stillwell. She served as member of the Cherokee Indian Council and was for 30 years field clerk with the Indian agency. She was serving as field agent at Stillwell at the time of her retirement in 1947. Prior to that time, he was with the agencies at Muskogee, Tulsa, and Tahlequah.
She was a graduate of the Cherokee Female Seminary and of Forest Park University, St. Louis, Mo. She was a member of the Muskogee Indian Club, Eastern Star, and was a member of the Methodist Church.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Robert Wyly and Mrs. Sam Stanley, both of Oklahoma City, and three brothers, E. B. and J. Mavs of Tahlequah, and E. L. of Stillwell.
Among the relatives from Stillwell attending the funeral were C.L. Starr, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Starr, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Starr, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Starr, George Starr and daughter Lucille, Col. Starr, Mrs. Sam Alberty, Mrs. C. W. Blakemore, John Paden.
And Judge Joe Lynch, County Attorney Owen Grant, Mrs. Susie Doherty, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Montgumery, H.C. Kinnard, Mr. and Mrs, Wren Fletcher, Mr. Fletcher serving as pall bearers.
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