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Nettie A. Helms Crosslin © Trout Funeral Home & Crematory 11-2020 Submitted by: Glenn
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June 6, 1921 - November 26, 2020
Nettie A. Crosslin, 99, of Broken Arrow, OK, left this life on November 26, 2020. A Graveside Ceremony will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Bayard Cemetery, Deer Creek, OK, Tuney Ropp, Sr. officiating. Viewing will take place from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM Friday, December 4, 2020, with the family present from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, and from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturday, December 5, 2020. Face masks are required.
For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be live-streamed. The broadcast can be accessed by visiting www.troutfuneralhome.com starting at 1:45 PM, and selecting the live stream link in the upper right hand of the homepage. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory.
Nettie was born June 6, 1921, in Lamont, Oklahoma, to Raymond Earl and Eva Ellen (Tabor) Helms. She was the oldest of four children and grew up on a farm between Lamont and Eddy, attended 8 years in the New Home Country School, and graduated from Lamont High School in 1939. She then attended four months of radio school in Tonkawa during World War II, where she was called to work in the Arizona desert in a relay station, but turned down the job.
She then moved to Blackwell, where she was employed at the S.H. Kress Store at the time of her marriage to Clarence E. Crosslin on October 15, 1944, in Caldwell, Kansas. They settled on the farm West of Deer Creek that his father Emanual Crosslin had taken in the opening of the Cherokee Strip Land Run and was the place Clarence was born and spent his entire life. To their marriage, two children were born: Carl E. and Ann M.
Nettie accepted Christ as her Savior at age 16 and began a long life of service teaching children in Sunday School in the Methodist Church in Lamont, in the Deer Creek-Nardin Mission where she also served in other areas, and then teaching adult Sunday School classes and singing in the choir at First Baptist Church in Blackwell. after she moved there.
Nettie was preceded in death by her parents, her son Carl, husband Clarence, her brother Harley Helms and sister Fleta Henderson.
She leaves behind her daughter, Ann, of Broken Arrow, OK; grandchildren, Cathy Haws, of Broken Arrow, OK, Shawn Davies and his wife, Mandy, of Broken Arrow, OK; great-grandchildren, Caity Haws, Emily, Landon and Ethan; sister, Mary Penka, of Ponca City, and several other relatives and friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601.
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