Cora Lou Eakins

© The Hammon Advocate

Thursday, 25 July 1963

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Services Held For Mrs. Cora Eakins

Services for Cora Lou Eakins, Hammon, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the first Baptist Church of Hammon with Reverend Lee Slaten and Harold Heiney, officiating. Burial was in the Kiowa Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Mrs. Eakins was born in Cisco, Texas April 2, 1983 and was married to Roy L. Creach in 1917 at Hammon. Mr. Creach died in 1930 and she married Fred J. Eakins in 1937. He preceded her in death in 1956. She was an active member of the Hammon Baptist Church for more than 50 years and was a residnet of Roger Mills county since 1896.

She is survived by four step-children: Fredda Lancaster, Los Angeles; Joanne Hutchinson of Los Angeles; Rex Eakins of Borger, Texas and Gus Eakins who is with the U. S. Navy. She is survived by four sisters: Mrs. Minnie Houston, Anderson, California; Mrs. Stella Carder, Yakoma, Washing; Mrs. May Dick and Mrs. Rose Allen of Elk City, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by five brothers and one sister.

Additional data on Cora Eakins. Cora Loucreta Moore was born 2 April 1893 in Cisco, Texas daughter of Millard Monroe Moore and Molly Morton. She was one of a large family of children, namely; William Ocie, Minnie Etta, Mintie May, Calvin Joshua, John Nathaniel, Rose Malinda and Stella Ida Fay.

Cora did not have any children of her own but she was loved and respected by her Eakins step-children whom she had mothered from their early years. She was preceded in death by parents, two husbands, brothers; Ocie, Calvin and Nat; sisters, Minnie Etta and three infant siblings.

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