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Nellie Pearl (Jones) Giddens
Tombstone photo
Dempsey Cemetery
Grimes, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
Obit for Nellie posted by Vicki Corbin
Nellie Pearl Giddens
was born to Ophelia Ella Maltby Jones and Roscius Bruce (R.B.) Jones
on Feb. 2, 1915, near Strong City, Okla. She lived there on the farm
with her parents until she was 3 years old, then the family moved to
a farm in the Dempsey Community where she grew to womanhood and
attended school, at old Dempsey School and later Meridian and
Blueridge. She was converted and joined the Baptist Church when she
was eleven years of age. Most of her adult life was spent in Texas
near Perryton and Spearman, where she was engaged in the cafe
business.
She was stricken with cancer and had to give up her work and lived
with her daughter, Fern Tenney Lyton, at Walters, Okla. Later she
was taken to Oklahoma City to be near her doctor and lived with her
younger sister, Vesta Lewis and family. Her husband, Drew Giddens,
preceded her in death in 1975.
She leaves to mourn her passing 4 children; Fern Lyton, of Walters,
Okla.; Laura Rhodes, in Texas; Leroy Jines and Charley Jines of
Perryton, Texas; 5 grandchildren. Her brothers are Homer Jones, of
Elk City; Bill Jones, of Dumas, Texas; Sam Jones, of San Diego,
Calif.; and Herb Jones, of Salem, Oregon; and sisters Madge Allen,
of Belin, New Mexico; Hazel Reeder, of Amarillo, Texas; Lorraine
Mills, of Beaverton, Oregon; and Vesta Lewis, Oklahoma City; OK.
Two brothers, R. Bruce Jones, Jr., and Clifford Maltby Jones
preceded her in death as did one sister, Kate Hensley.
She passed
away Nov. 9th, 1980 in Oklahoma City.
Burial was in the Dempsey
Cemetery, Roger Mills County, OK beside her parents, Ophelia Ella
and Roscius Bruce Jones.
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