Eda M. Flynt Ackley

© Elk City Daily News

February 1990

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Eda M. Flynt Ackley will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the First Methodist Church of Hammon. Officiating will be Rev. Rich Redinger and Rev. David Sanders.

Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Eda Flynt was born in Old Johnston in Cleveland County on February 7, 1900 and died in the Methodist Care Center at Clinton February 5 at the age of 89.

She came to Custer county with her parents to a farm just northeast of Hammon when she was very young.

She attended Pie Flat School.

On January 28, 1923 she was married to George F. Ackley at Arapaho.

They began farming on Quartermaster Creek. In 1925 they made their home in Hammon where they lived until just before World War II. They then moved to Elk City until 1942. Then they moved to California where they lived until 1945.

Mr. Ackley was employed at a grocery store in Clinton and they lived in Clinton with the exception of one year when they lived in Mead, Kansas in the mid 1950's.

Mr. Ackley preceded her in death on October 25, 1961.

Mrs. Ackley and her sister, Mrs. Callie Sketchley operated a cafe in Clinton for eleven years.

Eda was a member of the United Methodist Church at Hammon where she served as Secretary and Treasurer. She taught Sunday School in her church for many years.

She was a member of the Eastern Star.

Besides her husband and parents she was preceded in death by fpur sisters and two brothers.

Her survivors include ten nieces, Mrs. Harvey White, Mrs. Dick Dugger, Mrs. Clifford Allee, Mrs. Bob Pool, Mrs. Carol Burgess, Mrs. Clyde Hammond, Mrs. Leon Tomberlin, Floetta Ackley Seright, Alta Ann Ackley Burgeron and Mrs. Earl Long; eight nephews, Preston, Frank, and Edward Bailey; Robert, Elbert, and Jo Bill Flynt, J. T. Ackley and Jimmy Stout; also many great and great great nieces, nephews and friends.