Mrs. Ellen Florence Cree

© Cheyenne Star 1959

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Mrs. Ellen Florence Cree - - Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Florence Cree were held Sunday, May 24, 1959 in the Community Building at Reydon. Rev. Lynn Heard, Baptist pastor preached the sermon. He was assisted in the services by Rev. W. S. Little, Methodist pastor.

Mrs. Cree died on May 21, 1959 in Erick where she and her husband had lived for the past three years.

She was a pioneer of the Reydon community having resided in the community for a number of years.

Relatives attending the funeral services were a sister, Mrs. Maye Davis and a nephew, Ed Murphy of Tulsa; a granddaughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Sewell of Mt. View, California; nieces, Sybil Webster and Evelyn Smith of Sapulpa; Gladys Wilson and Mrs. Walter Latham and husband of Bristow; Mrs. Roy Jones and husband of Abernathy, Texas; and a brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Busge Cree of Springfield, Colorado.

Ellen F. was born June 18, 1880 at McCune, Kansas. She was married August 4,1905 at Mangum to Thomas B. Cree.

A resident of Reydon until moving to Erick three years ago, she was a member of the First Baptist Church, Reydon. Survivors are her husband of the home address; one daughter, Mrs. Margaret McBee of Salinas, California; three sons, E. A. of Redwood City, California; John R. and Perry of Erick; six grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. J. E. Davis of Tulsa.

Committal was in the White Rose cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with Fatheree-Albert funeral home in charge of arrangements.