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Leola Pearl Rhodes
Jan 26, 1918 - Jul 13, 2010
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Leola P. and Raymond W. RHODES
Alva Cemetery
Posted by Jo Aguirre
Paper: Enid News and Eagle (OK)
Deceased: Leola Pearl Rhodes
Published 7-14-10
The funeral for Leola Pearl Rhodes will be 10 a.m. Friday, July 16,
2010, at First Christian Church, Alva. The Rev. Paul Bates will
officiate. Burial will be in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are
by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva. Visitation with the family will be 7-9
p.m. Thursday at the Funeral Home.
Leola Pearl, daughter of Leah (Rodgers) and Andrew Jackson Holt, was
born Jan. 26, 1918, in Carmen, Okla. She passed away at Beadles Nursing
Home on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the age of 92 years, 5 months and 17
days.
She attended Alva school system, where she graduated from high school.
On Sept. 20, 1938, she was married to Raymond Walter Rhodes in Cherokee,
Okla. To their marriage Roger and Andrew were born.
After their marriage they lived and farmed in the Hardtner, Kan., area,
then moved to Alva, where they operated their own mechanic shop and gas
station. In 1961, they purchased Alva Body and Fender, and in 1969, they
started Rhodes Auto Salvage, where she was bookkeeper for 48 years.
She was a member of Barnes Street Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister; two sisters
and their husbands, Ethel and John Lakely and Velma and Harry Rhodes;
two brothers and their wives, Clifford and Pauline Holt and Alfred and
Lucille Holt; and two brothers-in-law, Rosco Rhodes and Leonard Spencer.
Leola is survived by two sons and their wives, Roger and Gloria and
Andrew and Donna, all of Alva; six grandchildren and their spouses,
Colette and Charles Hayden of Alva, Christine and Derrick Harris of
Enid, Randall and Lari Rhodes of Alva, Lisa Melton of Alva, Tammie and
Brian Gaddy of Alva, Matthew and Lindsey Rhodes of Norman; 11
great-grandchildren, Roger and Charles Hayden, Devan and Jordon Harris,
Rayden, Ryland and Rhett Rhodes, Constance and Jacquelyn Melton and
Landry and Lakin Gaddy; three sisters, Freda Rhodes, Verda Murrow and
Hazel Spencer; two sisters-in-law, Bernetta Warehime and Lula Belle
Watkins; a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
Contributions may be made in her memory to Barnes Street Church of
Christ.
Condolences may by made online at
http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com/.
(Submitted by family)
Copyright 2010, Enid News and Eagle
R Surnames - Alva Cemetery
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