Mary Etta Allee Boulware

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Mary Etta Allee Boulware was born in Irving, Texas May 22, 1889. She moved with her father, Joe Allee, to Elk City at the age of eight.

In 1907 she married Charley H. Boulware and they lived on the Boulware homestead near Hammon until his death in 1932.

In 1938, she moved to Clinton where she resided until 1957. She then moved to Bethany, but returned in 1971 to spend the remaining years in her Clinton home.

She was a member of the Muse Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church in Oklahoma City.

The service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. Bill Anderson, with assistance from Rev. Rice Miller of Clinton.

Burial was in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County Oklahoma.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Luttrell of Hammon; Mrs. Naomi Honaker of Bethel, Alaska; and Mrs. Ola Mae Thomason of Bethany, Oklahoma; three sons, J. Kenneth and Charley H. of Huntington Beach, California; and Charley J. Bradley of Amarillo, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. Gertie Hill of Willets, California; Mrs. Jennie Johnson and Mrs. Opal Bible of Freedom, California; one brother, Jim Allee of Bend, Oregon; thirteen grandchildren; twenty six great grandchildren; and one great great granddaughter.

In addition to the surviving children, Mother Boulware was preceded in death by Dollie June, an infant daughter.