Ella Mae Crowder, 84, died Tuesday night at Southwestern Memorial hospital in Weatherford. She had been in failing health the past two years and seriously ill the last two months.
Funeral services are scheduled Friday at 2 p.m. in Weatherford First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lisa Tolly, associate minister of the church, and the Rev. Ozzie Byrum officiating, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery of Weatherford under direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.
She was born April 29, 1903, near Plymouth, Neb., to Edmund J. and Dorothea Weichel, and came to Oklahoma with her parents in 1907 when they homesteaded a farm southwest of Colony. She attended school at Redtop School near Colony.
On April 12, 1925, she married Dr. Verner F. "Bob" Crowder in her parents' home. They made their home in Corn, where she assisted her husband in his chiropractic practice. In 1946 they moved to Weatherford and she continued to make Weatherford her home up to the time of her death. Her husband died in October 1965.
She was very active for many years in Weatherford Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Matron in 1956, District Deputy in 1961, and Grand Representative to the State of Illinois in 1978. she was a member of First United Methodist Church of Weatherford and of United methodist Wemen't Guild. In 1974 she was honored as KWEY Mother of the year.
She is survived by her three sons and daughters-in-law, Verner and Louise Crowder of Bethany, Dale and Maxine Crowder of Weatherford, and Bob and Jolene Crowder of Hydro, Mark Crowder of Garland Texas, Tom Crowder of Gordonville, Texas, don Crowder of Oklahoma City, Linda Smith of Tecumsch, and Joy Jones of Oklahoma City.
Also surviving are a foster grandson, Darrel Wendt of Omaha; three great-grandchildren; na dthree foster Great-grandcheldren.
Brothers and sisters surviving are Alfred, Harvey and Edmund Weichel of Colony; Adaila Nikkel of Corn, Alma Goucher of El Reno, Dorothy Isaac of Yukon, Anna young of Batesville, Ark., and Walter Weichel of Houston.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond Weichel in 1986, and a baby brother in 1925; a daughter-in-law, Mary Beth Crowder; Kaylinn Crowder, both in 1985.
Funeral services are scheduled Friday at 2 p.m. in Weatherford First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lisa Tolly, associate minister of the church, and the Rev. Ozzie Byrum officiating, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery of Weatherford under direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.
She was born April 29, 1903, near Plymouth, Neb., to Edmund J. and Dorothea Weichel, and came to Oklahoma with her parents in 1907 when they homesteaded a farm southwest of Colony. She attended school at Redtop School near Colony.
On April 12, 1925, she married Dr. Verner F. "Bob" Crowder in her parents' home. They made their home in Corn, where she assisted her husband in his chiropractic practice. In 1946 they moved to Weatherford and she continued to make Weatherford her home up to the time of her death. Her husband died in October 1965.
She was very active for many years in Weatherford Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Matron in 1956, District Deputy in 1961, and Grand Representative to the State of Illinois in 1978. she was a member of First United Methodist Church of Weatherford and of United methodist Wemen't Guild. In 1974 she was honored as KWEY Mother of the year.
She is survived by her three sons and daughters-in-law, Verner and Louise Crowder of Bethany, Dale and Maxine Crowder of Weatherford, and Bob and Jolene Crowder of Hydro, Mark Crowder of Garland Texas, Tom Crowder of Gordonville, Texas, don Crowder of Oklahoma City, Linda Smith of Tecumsch, and Joy Jones of Oklahoma City.
Also surviving are a foster grandson, Darrel Wendt of Omaha; three great-grandchildren; na dthree foster Great-grandcheldren.
Brothers and sisters surviving are Alfred, Harvey and Edmund Weichel of Colony; Adaila Nikkel of Corn, Alma Goucher of El Reno, Dorothy Isaac of Yukon, Anna young of Batesville, Ark., and Walter Weichel of Houston.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond Weichel in 1986, and a baby brother in 1925; a daughter-in-law, Mary Beth Crowder; Kaylinn Crowder, both in 1985.
Ella Mae Crowder, 84, died Tuesday night at Southwestern Memorial hospital in Weatherford. She had been in failing health the past two years and seriously ill the last two months.
Funeral services are scheduled Friday at 2 p.m. in Weatherford First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lisa Tolly, associate minister of the church, and the Rev. Ozzie Byrum officiating, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery of Weatherford under direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.
She was born April 29, 1903, near Plymouth, Neb., to Edmund J. and Dorothea Weichel, and came to Oklahoma with her parents in 1907 when they homesteaded a farm southwest of Colony. She attended school at Redtop School near Colony.
On April 12, 1925, she married Dr. Verner F. "Bob" Crowder in her parents' home. They made their home in Corn, where she assisted her husband in his chiropractic practice. In 1946 they moved to Weatherford and she continued to make Weatherford her home up to the time of her death. Her husband died in October 1965.
She was very active for many years in Weatherford Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Matron in 1956, District Deputy in 1961, and Grand Representative to the State of Illinois in 1978. she was a member of First United Methodist Church of Weatherford and of United methodist Wemen't Guild. In 1974 she was honored as KWEY Mother of the year.
She is survived by her three sons and daughters-in-law, Verner and Louise Crowder of Bethany, Dale and Maxine Crowder of Weatherford, and Bob and Jolene Crowder of Hydro, Mark Crowder of Garland Texas, Tom Crowder of Gordonville, Texas, don Crowder of Oklahoma City, Linda Smith of Tecumsch, and Joy Jones of Oklahoma City.
Also surviving are a foster grandson, Darrel Wendt of Omaha; three great-grandchildren; na dthree foster Great-grandcheldren.
Brothers and sisters surviving are Alfred, Harvey and Edmund Weichel of Colony; Adaila Nikkel of Corn, Alma Goucher of El Reno, Dorothy Isaac of Yukon, Anna young of Batesville, Ark., and Walter Weichel of Houston.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond Weichel in 1986, and a baby brother in 1925; a daughter-in-law, Mary Beth Crowder; Kaylinn Crowder, both in 1985.
Funeral services are scheduled Friday at 2 p.m. in Weatherford First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lisa Tolly, associate minister of the church, and the Rev. Ozzie Byrum officiating, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery of Weatherford under direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.
She was born April 29, 1903, near Plymouth, Neb., to Edmund J. and Dorothea Weichel, and came to Oklahoma with her parents in 1907 when they homesteaded a farm southwest of Colony. She attended school at Redtop School near Colony.
On April 12, 1925, she married Dr. Verner F. "Bob" Crowder in her parents' home. They made their home in Corn, where she assisted her husband in his chiropractic practice. In 1946 they moved to Weatherford and she continued to make Weatherford her home up to the time of her death. Her husband died in October 1965.
She was very active for many years in Weatherford Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Matron in 1956, District Deputy in 1961, and Grand Representative to the State of Illinois in 1978. she was a member of First United Methodist Church of Weatherford and of United methodist Wemen't Guild. In 1974 she was honored as KWEY Mother of the year.
She is survived by her three sons and daughters-in-law, Verner and Louise Crowder of Bethany, Dale and Maxine Crowder of Weatherford, and Bob and Jolene Crowder of Hydro, Mark Crowder of Garland Texas, Tom Crowder of Gordonville, Texas, don Crowder of Oklahoma City, Linda Smith of Tecumsch, and Joy Jones of Oklahoma City.
Also surviving are a foster grandson, Darrel Wendt of Omaha; three great-grandchildren; na dthree foster Great-grandcheldren.
Brothers and sisters surviving are Alfred, Harvey and Edmund Weichel of Colony; Adaila Nikkel of Corn, Alma Goucher of El Reno, Dorothy Isaac of Yukon, Anna young of Batesville, Ark., and Walter Weichel of Houston.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Raymond Weichel in 1986, and a baby brother in 1925; a daughter-in-law, Mary Beth Crowder; Kaylinn Crowder, both in 1985.
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