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© The Tuttle Times Tuttle, Oklahoma August 17, 2006 August 25, 1912 ~ August 7, 2006 Margaret [Bowman] Farr of Tuttle, OK died Monday, August 7, 2006 in Oklahoma City, OK. Margaret was born on the Jim Tuttle Ranch north of Tuttle to Barney Leonidas and Lula Malcom Bowman on August 25, 1912. She started school in the fall of 1918 in a one room school building, Silver City, located two miles north of Tuttle. She went there four years until it was consolidated into Tuttle Schools. She then rode a bus to school. She graduated from Tuttle High School in 1930 and from Draughn Business School, Oklahoma City, in 1936. She returned to Tuttle and worked for Sowers Grocery and also served as Tuttle City Clerk. She married Walter Reed in 1942 and lived in Memphis where her daughter, Lynda, was born. She returned to Tuttle in 1947 and operated Bowman Variety Store with her parents. She married James M. Farr on July 29, 1954 in Tuttle and worked with him in his business Farr Wholesale. She and James moved to Okmulgee in 1970 where they resided for many years. They were both active in the Butler United Methodist Church. Margaret was also an active Volunteer at Okmulgee Memorial Hospital. James and Margaret moved back to Tuttle in 1998. James passed away in 2000. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, two brothers: Clyde M. Bowman and James Frank Bowman; two sisters: Anna Bell Bowman and Jennie Bowman Bailey. Margaret is survived by her daughter, Lynda and husband, William Kruse, granddaughter, Jennifer and her husband, Phillip Hollecker and grandson, Brian Kruse, and two great granddaughters, Danielle and Bethany Hollecker. She is also survived by five loving nieces, one nephew, and several cousins. The family would like to thank Crossroads Hospice for the care they gave Margaret. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Crossroads Hospice Foundation, PO Box 95245, Oklahoma City, OK 73143 or the Tuttle United Methodist Women, PO BOX 198, Tuttle, OK 73089. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 10, 2006 at the United Methodist Church in Tuttle. Burial followed in the Fairview Cemetery at Tuttle under the direction of the Sevier Funeral Home of Tuttle. |
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