Mary Ethel Mastin Cole

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Mary Ethel Mastin Cole were July 24, 1990 at the First Methodist Church of Weatherford.

Mrs. Cole died July 20, 1990 at a Lawton Nursing Home.

She lived at Weatherford since 1948.

Ethel Mastin was born December 23, 1903, at Butler, Oklahoma to Lula Hazelwood and James William Mastin.

Her parents died when she was 7 years old, and she was raised by an older brother and his wife.

After attending school at Hammon, she married Alva Allen Cole in 1922. He died in 1978.

For 15 years Mrs. Cole operated a boarding house for college students at Weatherford, retiring in 1965.

She was active in the First United Methodist Church of Weatherford, in the Sr. Citizen group there, and in the Republican Party.

Survivors include four sons, Allen Joe Cole of Okemah; George Wendall Cole of Oklahoma City; James Kenneth Cole of Independence, Kansas and Alva Fred Cole of Perkins; two daughters, Vera Mae Tippens of Lawton, and Katherine Anna Skinner of Westlake Village, California; eighteen grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.

Burial was in Red Hill Cemetery.