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Obituary
Rose Hill Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Sandi Carter
© The Chickasha Express-Star 5 December 2001 Emily V. [Alexander] Fletcher Funeral service for Emily V. Fletcher, 95, of Chickasha, will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, December 7, 2001, in the First Baptist Church (1st and Dakota Street) with Pastor Abraham I. Walton officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Fletcher-Jefferson Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Fletcher died December 3, 2001, in Grace Living Center, Chickasha, following a lengthy illness. She was born on October 16, 1906, in Plaquemine, Louisiana, to Joseph and Virginia Alexander. She married Rev. Clarence Newton; he preceded her in death in 1947. She later married Hosea F. Fletcher (local funeral director), and he died in 1980. Mrs. Fletcher was employed as a school teacher in Gene Autry, Tishomingo and Chickasha for more than 40 years. She was a licensed funeral director at Fletcher Funeral Home and Fletcher-Jefferson Funeral Chapel in Chickasha. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, 1st and Dakota, where sheserved as Sunday school teacher, member of the Sanctuary Choir, WMU Circle #1 and the building fund committee. Mrs. Fletcher graduated from Douglass High School and Langston University. She also was in the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Chickasha Human Relations Commission and the Association of University Women. Survivors include: nieces: Thermaple Webber and Bernice Brannon, Tulsa, Beatrice Brown, Marietta Williams, Betty Stovall and Karen Fannin, all of Chicago, Ill., Ernestine Darthard, Kansas City, Mo., Jo Helen Graham, West View, Calif.; nephews: Dewey Alexander, Kansas City, Mo., Ben and Billy Alexander, Tucson, Ariz. Friends may call at the funeral home December 6, 2001, from noon to 8 p.m. |