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ADA SANDS OBITUARY
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ADA SANDS
1910 - 2000


Ada Cook Sands died Wednesday, August 23, in Tulsa. She was 90.
Mrs. Sands was born January 14, 1910, in Okfuskee County near Paden to Dred Coleman Cook and Alva Retta Cook. She lived in the Prague area most of her life and graduated as valedictorian from Prague High School in 1928.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Federated Arts Club, Prague Historical Society and served as secretary/treasurer for the Prague Chamber of Commerce for 28 years.
She worked as a reporter and editor of the Prague Record newspaper and also as secretary for Prague Elementary Schools.
She married Starling Eugene "Blondie" Sands on April 11, 1931, in Clovis, New Mexico. He preceded her in death in 1966.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and two sisters.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Eugene and Karen Sands, Soldotna, Alaska; daughter, Mary Zell Colquhoun, St. Louis, Missouri; stepson and wife, John Earl and Jo Sands, Prague; stepdaughter and husband, Norma and Tom Fry, Tulelake, California; two sisters, Ollie Dotson, Buffalo, Oklahoma; Grace Stafford, Watonga; four grandchildren, six stepgrandchildren and 10 step great-grandchildren.
Services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Prague with Tim Emmons officiating.
Burial will be in Prague Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Prague.
Memorials may be made to the Prague Historical Museum.
Published August 25, 2000.


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