Pond Creek Cemetery, Grant County, Oklahoma

ENID, Okla. — Funeral for Laura Belle Sherwood Hoar will be 10 a.m. Friday, March 7, 2014, at Pond Creek United Methodist Church. Burial in Pond Creek Cemetery. The Rev. George Lupton will officiate. Arrangements by Wilson Funeral Home, Pond Creek. Visitation with family is 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the funeral home.

Laura was born Aug. 30, 1920, in Childers, Okla., the fourth daughter of Kenneth Kendall Sherwood and Nellie Matilda Chilton.

She attended school in Nowata County and then Oklahoma State University, graduating in 1942, with a degree in home economics.

On Feb. 9, 1943, she and Keith Cecil Hoar were married in Parsons, Kan.

She taught at Blue Jacket in Helena and Pond Creek for 33 years, beginning with Home Ec, and later taught junior high and grade school courses.

For the past nine years, she has lived in Denver, Colo., where she passed away on Sunday, March 2, 2014.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Keith; infant daughter, Gayla Joy; another daughter, Sharon Kay; and infant great-granddaughter, Lilly.

She is survived by her son and wife, Cecil and Charlotte Hoar of Pond Creek; daughter and husband, Kathy and Skip Scott of Denver, Colo.; adopted daughter and husband, June and Bob Redick of Upland, Calif.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Pond Creek United Methodist Women.

(Submitted by family)

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