Mable Dewey ~~~1880-1955

April 8, 1955 © The Ponca City News

Submitted by: Shirley Harlan

Mrs. Mable Dewey Dies in Hospital

NEWKIRK--Funeral services for Mrs. Mable Dewey, 74, pioneer county resident, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Methodist Church.

Mrs. Dewey, the widow of Mason P. Dewey, died at 3:20 p.m. Friday at the Ponca City Hospital, where she had been a patient the past five months.

The Rev. George Needham, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Newkirk Cemetery under direction of Stahl Funeral Service.

The body will lie in state between 10 a.m. Sunday and 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home chapel. The casket will not be opened at the service.

Mrs. Dewey was born Oct. 12, 1880 at Ellis, Kan. She and Dewey were married at Ellis April 11, 1899. He made the Cherokee Strip Run into the area and staked a claim 2 miles southeast of Kildare. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1949. They lived on the homestead until 1952, when they moved into Newkirk. He died Jan. 1, 1953. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Woman's Society of Christian Service, the Helping Hand Sunday School Class and the DUV.

Survivors are three sons, Byron M. Dewey, Bayonne,M.J.; Mason P. Dewey Jr., Mesa, Ariz. and Herman L. Dewey, Tulsa; three daughters, Mrs. Marion R. Cracraft, Tulsa; Mrs. Jack Durall, New York City and Mrs. Georgia Owens, Ponca City; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. One brother, Clyde Mason, Salina, Kan., and two sisters, Mrs. Harvey Lopshire, Wichita and Mrs. Laura Prather, Salina, Kans. The family will be at the Dewey home.