Mabel Roelse

Enid Morning News Enid, Garfield Co., OK April 1965

Submitted by: Lois Burdick

Services will be today at 4:00 pm in Henniger-Allen Chapel for Mrs. Mabel Roelse, 78, who died Sunday afternoon in a local hospital following a long illness. Rev. Bill Bushness will officiate with burial in Enid Cemetary. Pallbearers will be Tommy Atterberry, H.H. Williams, Gene Brumfield, Erman Swiggart, Harold Brown and Frank North

Born in Newton, KS, Mrs. Roelse made the run with her parents, who staked a claim east of Douglas. She attended a country school northeast of Douglas. Mrs. Roelse was married July 1, 1908, at Douglas to Isaac Roelse. They moved to Chattanooga and returned to Douglas, living there until 1940, when they moved to Enid. She was employed as a practical nurse at Enid General Hospital for a number of years.

Mrs. Roelse was a member of the Davis Park Christian Church, White Shrine and Ruth Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star, to which she belonged for 60 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Isaac, in 1953, an infant son in 1909, and a daughter, Mrs. Ed (Dorothy) Boepple, in 1962.

Survivors include: three sons, Irey and Arthur of Enid, Emory of Pampa, TX; two daughters, Mrs. Ellis (Ellen) Roberts, Marshall, and Mrs. Paul (Maudie) Mercer, Lewisville, TX; a brother, Raymond Irey of Waukomis; two sisters, Maude Daugherty, Waukomis, and Iva Brown, Joplin MO; 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.