NAME: EULA (RHYNE) KELLY, AGE 94, A LONGTIME WARDVILLE RESIDENT.

BORN: FEBRUARY 8, 1907 NEAR CAIRO, COAL COUNTY, INDIAN TERRITORY TO SAMUEL CLARK AND VERDIA MAE (LAMBERT)   RHYNE. PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, MAY 21, 2001 AT HER RESIDENCE IN WARDVILLE, OK. AGE: 94 YEARS 3 MONTHS AND 13 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM LIMESTONE GAP IN 1926 AND ATTENDED EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY AND GRADUATED FROM SOUTHEASTERN TEACHERS COLLEGE. EULA WAS ON THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WOMENS BASKETBALL TEAM FOR CAIRO SCHOOL.

MARRIED: JAMES GORMAN KELLY IN 1930 AT PITTSBURG, OK.

OCCUPATION: EULA TAUGHT SCHOOL FOR 38 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1970. SHE TAUGHT AT SPRINGDALE, CAIRO, VAN HORN, WARDVILLE, LIMESTONE GAP, KIOWA, AND NEAR WESTCLIFFE, COLORADO FOR THREE YEARS IN THE LATE FORTIES.

CHURCH AFFLIATION: PRIMITIVE BAPTIST.

EULA WAS A MEMBER OF THE OKLAHOMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND THE OKLAHOMA RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

SURVIVED BY

NEPHEWS: CLARK RHYNE AND WIFE SUE OF WARDVILLE, OK. KELLY RHYNE OF ADA, OK. MACKEY KELLY OF MINCO, OK.

NIECES: KAREN KELLY OF DENVER, CO. ERLYNN STEYER AND HUSBAND JOHN OF DENVER, CO. LOUISE CARRIGER AND HUSBAND JACK AND SON BILLY JOE OF DURANT, OK.

NIECES AND NEPHEWS WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN OF ROY RHYNE: STANLEY, FRANCIS, NORMA, DELORES, LEQUITA, MAURICE, WALTER, RICHARD, AND JUDY.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: SAMUEL CLARK AND VERDIA MAE RHYNE. HUSBAND: JAMES GORMAN KELLY ON MARCH 8, 1969. BROTHERS: TOD AND ROY RHYNE. SISTER: CATHERINE COURTNEY.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2001 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: GRAVESIDE SERVICES.

INTERMENT: WARDVILLE CEMETERY ~ WARDVILLE, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. KENNETH MCMATH.

CASKETBEARERS: JAMES RHYNE, TOD RHYNE, SAMUEL RHYNE, J. V. NEWBERRY, JOE MIKE SMITH, PAKE MCENTIRE.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: A HOST OF FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.