Alta Mae Gass Curtis

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Alta Mae Gass Curtis will be held in the Church of Christ in Hammon Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Dwight Holland officiating.

Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Mrs. Curtis was born July 19, 1898, to John and Julia Gass and died April 14, 1987 in the Pauls Valley General Hospital at the age of 88.

She moved with her family to a farm just east of Hammon where she was raised and attended the Hammon School.

On February 15, 1920, she was married to Ray Franklin Curtis in Hammon. He preceded her in death on October 25, 1972.

She made her home in Hammon until December 1985 when she moved to Pauls Valley where she had lived since.

Survivors include her son, John Curtis and his wife, Mildred of Pauls Valley; one sister, Mrs. Mary Bynum of Okmulgee; three grandchildren, Jill Beaty of Arapaho; Judy Jones of Carrollton, Texas and John F. Curtis of Edmond; and eight great grandchildren.