Major County, Oklahoma

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Seiling – the funeral for Olive Eileene Unwin, 81, will be 2 PM today in Elm Grove Church. James Tynes, Virginia Carthrage and Michael Brien will officiate. Burial will be in Hope Cemetery, southeast of Chester. Arrangements are by Redinger Funeral Home.

She was born June 6, 1919, in Tivoli Community to Thomas Harold and Fannie Belle Leora Reed Pierce and died Friday, November 3, 2000, at Seiling Municipal Hospital after a brief illness.

She attended Tivoli school. On July 29, 1937, she married Francis Creel Unwin at Fairview. They lived on the Unwin family farm, moving to their own farm in July 1942. She was an active member of Midway Assembly of God where she taught Sunday school, led song service and served in several other capacities. In November 1977, they retired and moved to Seiling. She became active in Seiling Assembly of God.

Surviving are her husband, Creel of Seiling; one daughter, Sherry White of Chester; three sons, Roy of Chester, Creel of Pearl City, Hawaii and Neil of Plainview, Texas; three sisters, Ruth McCaskey of Longdale, June Smith of Fairview and Dorothy Smith of Rose Hill, Kansas; 12 grandchildren; 32 great – grandchildren; and two great – great – grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one sister.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Seiling – Chester Center for Senior Citizens.

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