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Sarah Bernice (Garten) Gorrell
Oct 13,1897 - Feb 5, 1993

Lyon Valley Cemetery
Kingfisher County

© Jo Aguirre

Obit Posted by Ann Weber

ENID MORNING NEWS - UNKNOWN DATE

Sarah Bernice (Garten) Gorrell, 95, was born near Everest, Kansas October 13, 1897. She moved with her family to the Piedmont, Oklahoma community in 1905 and later to a farm near College Corner school in the Hennessey community in 1911. She grew up attending the Union Chapel Church and was a member of this church most of her life. She taught school in local one-room schools and in the Hennessey school system, but most of her life she was a farm wife and mother. She married Luke Everton Gorrell on June 3, 1923.

She gave birth to twin boys, rearing one to be an adult. They lived on farms Northeast, East and Southeast of Hennessey, living on a farm Southeast of Hennessey from 1945 to 1969 when she and her husband moved to the town of Hennessey.

She remained there until December 1984 when following her husband's death she moved to Edmond, Oklahoma to live near her son. She spent the last year of her life in the Amberwood Nursing Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

She died Friday, Feb. 5, 1993.

She was preceded in death by her mother, father, stepmother, husband, one son, two brothers, and a sister-in-law.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, John S. and Dena Gorrell; Grandchildren: Deanne and husband Christopher Steinmetz, and James Everton Gorrell; four great-grandchildren; Heather & Lindsey Steinmetz and Taylor & James L. Gorrell; two sisters: Grace and Alma Garten; three sisters-in-law: Faye Garten, Ruth Goetzinger and  Dorothy Gorrell; several nieces and nephews; friends and loved ones.

The funeral service will be held Tuesday, February 9, 1993 at 2:00 p.m. in the Union Chapel Church, with Rev. Joe Stubbs of Enid officiating. Arrangements made by Cordry & Sons.