Published in The Carnegie Herald, Carnegie, Caddo Co., OK, Wed., Dec. 10, 1975
Daughter of Seger Dies
Mrs. Lena Jane Cronk of Colony, 80, last surviving child of the founder of Seger's Colony, died at Cordell Memorial hospital Friday, Nov. 28.
Funeral services were held at the Columbian Memorial Presbyterian church in Colony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, and were conducted by Rev. George Miller, pastor. Burial was made in Redtop cemetery southwest of Colony with Hartronft Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Cronk was born in Colony Dec. 7, 1894, and was a life-long resident of the area. She was a retired telephone operator.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Nadine Yearwood of Cordell, Mrs. Lena Del Shunkwiler of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Mary Stevenson of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and by three sons, Vern Cronk of National City, Calif., John Kenneth of San Antonio, Tex., and Frank of Westpoint, Miss. Two children, Connie and Tom, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Cronk's father, John Seger, employed at the Darlington agency near El Reno, in the early 1880's moved with a group of Indians to a location 75 miles southwest of Darlington and established the Seger Colony.
When Seger asked for the establishment of a postoffice near a school he had founded for Indians, he received a letter from the postoffice department stating the postoffice would have to have a name. He submitted a shortened form of the term, Seger's Colony, by which the Indian school area was known. This is the way in which the town of Colony got it name.
John Seger died in 1928.
Daughter of Seger Dies
Mrs. Lena Jane Cronk of Colony, 80, last surviving child of the founder of Seger's Colony, died at Cordell Memorial hospital Friday, Nov. 28.
Funeral services were held at the Columbian Memorial Presbyterian church in Colony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, and were conducted by Rev. George Miller, pastor. Burial was made in Redtop cemetery southwest of Colony with Hartronft Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Cronk was born in Colony Dec. 7, 1894, and was a life-long resident of the area. She was a retired telephone operator.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Nadine Yearwood of Cordell, Mrs. Lena Del Shunkwiler of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Mary Stevenson of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and by three sons, Vern Cronk of National City, Calif., John Kenneth of San Antonio, Tex., and Frank of Westpoint, Miss. Two children, Connie and Tom, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Cronk's father, John Seger, employed at the Darlington agency near El Reno, in the early 1880's moved with a group of Indians to a location 75 miles southwest of Darlington and established the Seger Colony.
When Seger asked for the establishment of a postoffice near a school he had founded for Indians, he received a letter from the postoffice department stating the postoffice would have to have a name. He submitted a shortened form of the term, Seger's Colony, by which the Indian school area was known. This is the way in which the town of Colony got it name.
John Seger died in 1928.
Published in The Carnegie Herald, Carnegie, Caddo Co., OK, Wed., Dec. 10, 1975
Daughter of Seger Dies
Mrs. Lena Jane Cronk of Colony, 80, last surviving child of the founder of Seger's Colony, died at Cordell Memorial hospital Friday, Nov. 28.
Funeral services were held at the Columbian Memorial Presbyterian church in Colony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, and were conducted by Rev. George Miller, pastor. Burial was made in Redtop cemetery southwest of Colony with Hartronft Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Cronk was born in Colony Dec. 7, 1894, and was a life-long resident of the area. She was a retired telephone operator.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Nadine Yearwood of Cordell, Mrs. Lena Del Shunkwiler of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Mary Stevenson of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and by three sons, Vern Cronk of National City, Calif., John Kenneth of San Antonio, Tex., and Frank of Westpoint, Miss. Two children, Connie and Tom, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Cronk's father, John Seger, employed at the Darlington agency near El Reno, in the early 1880's moved with a group of Indians to a location 75 miles southwest of Darlington and established the Seger Colony.
When Seger asked for the establishment of a postoffice near a school he had founded for Indians, he received a letter from the postoffice department stating the postoffice would have to have a name. He submitted a shortened form of the term, Seger's Colony, by which the Indian school area was known. This is the way in which the town of Colony got it name.
John Seger died in 1928.
Daughter of Seger Dies
Mrs. Lena Jane Cronk of Colony, 80, last surviving child of the founder of Seger's Colony, died at Cordell Memorial hospital Friday, Nov. 28.
Funeral services were held at the Columbian Memorial Presbyterian church in Colony at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, and were conducted by Rev. George Miller, pastor. Burial was made in Redtop cemetery southwest of Colony with Hartronft Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Cronk was born in Colony Dec. 7, 1894, and was a life-long resident of the area. She was a retired telephone operator.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Nadine Yearwood of Cordell, Mrs. Lena Del Shunkwiler of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Mary Stevenson of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and by three sons, Vern Cronk of National City, Calif., John Kenneth of San Antonio, Tex., and Frank of Westpoint, Miss. Two children, Connie and Tom, preceded her in death.
Mrs. Cronk's father, John Seger, employed at the Darlington agency near El Reno, in the early 1880's moved with a group of Indians to a location 75 miles southwest of Darlington and established the Seger Colony.
When Seger asked for the establishment of a postoffice near a school he had founded for Indians, he received a letter from the postoffice department stating the postoffice would have to have a name. He submitted a shortened form of the term, Seger's Colony, by which the Indian school area was known. This is the way in which the town of Colony got it name.
John Seger died in 1928.
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