Laone Bartlett

© The Daily Oklahoman

Monday, May 3, 1971

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Death Claims Laone Bartlett at Age of 62

Mrs. Laone Bartlett, 62, of 10021 NE 12, died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Bill Eisenhour Northeast Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Bill Eisenhour Northeast Funeral Home with burial in Kiowa Cemetery at Hammon.

She was born at Hammon and lived in Oklahoma City from 1959 to 1967 before returning to Hammon. She was a nurse and a farmer.

Survivors include a brother, Dennis Ford, Morton, Texas, and four sisters, Mrs. Georgia Brothers, Dumas, Texas; Mrs. May Zelle Brothers, Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Leila Evett, 1312 N. Post Road and Lena Ford of the home.

EULOGY

Written by Lawrence E. Evett, a brother-in-law

Laone Ford Bartlett was born 27 November 1908 on the same farm she lived for the last several years. She died the 2nd day of May 1971 at the Presbyterian Hospital, Oklahoma City. She was preceded in death by her parents, William A. and Margaret FORD and a brother, Oscar Ford.

Her survivors include one brother, Dennis Ford of Morton, Texas; four sisters; Mrs. Georgia Brothers, Dumas, Texas; Mrs. May Zelle Brothers, Wichita, Kansas; Miss Lena Ford and Mrs. Leila Evett of Oklahoma City and six nieces and nine nephews.

Laone Ford Bartlett was a strong-willed, inherently generous and kindly person towards her fellow man. She was a person who went through the trials and tribulations of the great depression of the thirties, working hard to help support the large farm family living just outside Hammon, Oklahoma. She helped integrally with the furthering of the education of her younger sisters, when money at that time was very hard to obtain.

Her sacrifices in those bitter times made the essential difference in the future lives and education of her family. She was sensitively and more acutely aware of the beauties and grandeur of the works of nature in the world, and the artistic creative efforts of her acquaintances than the average person. She had an innate appreciation of the miracle of growing living things in the earth. Laone Bartless had a supreme reverence for the rights and dignity of the individual person and an angry abhorrence for the insanity of war--the violations and discriminations against human dignity and the intrinsic rights of every person.

Laone Bartlett was the ultimate human who dwelt in the "house by the side of the road" and if, as in the Holy Book, you were a stranger, she welcomed you; if you needed clothing, she offered what she had; if you were hungry and thirsty, she offered food and drink; if you were sick, she visited you. She was a person of whom it can be well said was attuned to the main stream of life.

IMMORTALITY

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
When you awake in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Author unknown

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