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Elsie Roads ©: Enid Morning News 01-1969 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Funeral services for Miss Elsie Roads, 89, will be at 2 PM Tuesday in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Robert J. Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Waukomis Cemetery.
Miss Roads died in a local nursing home Saturday morning following a period of ill health. She was born November 8, 1879, at Rainesboro, Ohio.
She came to Oklahoma from Texas in 1893 when her father made the run into the Cherokee Strip, settling 6 1/2 miles southeast of Waukomis.
Miss Roads received her bachelor of arts degree from Central State College in Edmond and a master's degree from Phillips University.
She taught at Waukomis and in Enid at Jefferson Grade School. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Survivors are two brothers, J. W. Roads of Fairview and Harold B. Roads, Enid; a sister Mrs. Mary Goldsmith, Pond Creek.
Harold Roads ©: Enid Morning News 10-1969 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Harold Roads, 78, who died Wednesday following an extended illness, will be at 10 AM Saturday in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Bob Moorehead will officiate and burial will be in the Waukomis Cemetery under the direction of the Henninger-Allen Funeral Home.
He was born at Stanton, Texas, June 2, 1891, and moved to Oklahoma with his parents at the opening of the Cherokee Strip. A graduate of Waukomis High School, he attended Oklahoma State and later took a course in railroad accounting and telegraphy at Topeka, Kansas.
When Prairie Pipe Line and Sinclair merged in 1932, he was transferred to Tulsa where he worked as an operator and assistant wire chief until his retirement in 1956.
A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the Waukomis Masonic Lodge; Oklahoma Consistory, at Guthrie; the Mirza Temple Shrine, Pittsburg, Kansas; American Legion; and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Mary Goldsmith, Pond Creek; one brother, Jim Roads, Fairview; and six nieces, Mrs. Herschel (Jo) Bules, Mrs. George (Armyn) Streets, and Mrs. Lois (Elenor) Lewellyn, all of Enid; and Mrs. Jim (Jackie) Milbourn, Fairland, Mrs. Harriet Mathis, Fairfax, and Mrs. Austin (Martha) Roche, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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