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Many thanks to R. Boas for obtaining and posting the headstone photos for Mrs Poolaw and her husband.
3/1/2000
Apache Elder Irene Chalepah Poolaw,
widow of Kiowa hero, passes away at 79
By Liz Pollard
ANADARKO - One of the most respected ladies of the Kiowa and Apache tribes was laid to rest on Tuesday, February 15. Irene Chalepah Poolaw, widow of the most decorated Kiowa veteran, Pascal Poolaw, passed to the land of the spirits on Saturday, February 12 at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The funeral was held at the Apache Tribal Complex in Anadarko on Tuesday morning, and she was buried on Chief's Knoll at Ft. Sill that afternoon.
Poolaw was born an Apache on February 20, 1920 to Alonzo and Rose Maynahonah Chalepah. She met her future husband, Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Sr., at Riverside Indian School. The couple was married on March 15, 1940 at Rainy Mountain. Pascal Poolaw died a soldier in Vietnam in 1967, the most highly decorated Kiowa soldier in history. Poolaw Hall at Ft. Sill was named after him.
The Poolaws had four sons, all of whom were in the Army and three of whom served in Vietnam. Pascal enlisted in the Army in 1942 and won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in World War II, fighting off the Germans from a machine gun position he manned and refused to leave. He fought again, and was wounded and honored again, in the Korean War, and he came out of retirement to serve in Vietnam, hoping his sons would not have to go. Pascal was further decorated for his actions in Vietnam, earning another Silver Star on November 7, 1967. He had been wounded but refused to quit. He carried another wounded soldier to safety, but was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit him.
Two sons, Lester Gene Poolaw of Lawton and Donald R. Poolaw of Anadarko, and one adopted son, John Beatty of Brooklyn, N.Y, survive Irene Poolaw. Her brother, Alfred Chalepah, Sr., still lives in Carnegie. Irene had 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Copyright 2000 by the
Native American Times
Included with their kind permission
(Lisa Snell)
Many thanks to R. Boas for obtaining and posting the headstone photos for Mrs Poolaw and her husband.
3/1/2000
Apache Elder Irene Chalepah Poolaw,
widow of Kiowa hero, passes away at 79
By Liz Pollard
ANADARKO - One of the most respected ladies of the Kiowa and Apache tribes was laid to rest on Tuesday, February 15. Irene Chalepah Poolaw, widow of the most decorated Kiowa veteran, Pascal Poolaw, passed to the land of the spirits on Saturday, February 12 at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The funeral was held at the Apache Tribal Complex in Anadarko on Tuesday morning, and she was buried on Chief's Knoll at Ft. Sill that afternoon.
Poolaw was born an Apache on February 20, 1920 to Alonzo and Rose Maynahonah Chalepah. She met her future husband, Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Sr., at Riverside Indian School. The couple was married on March 15, 1940 at Rainy Mountain. Pascal Poolaw died a soldier in Vietnam in 1967, the most highly decorated Kiowa soldier in history. Poolaw Hall at Ft. Sill was named after him.
The Poolaws had four sons, all of whom were in the Army and three of whom served in Vietnam. Pascal enlisted in the Army in 1942 and won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in World War II, fighting off the Germans from a machine gun position he manned and refused to leave. He fought again, and was wounded and honored again, in the Korean War, and he came out of retirement to serve in Vietnam, hoping his sons would not have to go. Pascal was further decorated for his actions in Vietnam, earning another Silver Star on November 7, 1967. He had been wounded but refused to quit. He carried another wounded soldier to safety, but was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit him.
Two sons, Lester Gene Poolaw of Lawton and Donald R. Poolaw of Anadarko, and one adopted son, John Beatty of Brooklyn, N.Y, survive Irene Poolaw. Her brother, Alfred Chalepah, Sr., still lives in Carnegie. Irene had 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Copyright 2000 by the
Native American Times
Included with their kind permission
(Lisa Snell)
Sources:
Many thanks to R. Boas for obtaining and posting the headstone photos for Mrs Poolaw and her husband.
3/1/2000
Apache Elder Irene Chalepah Poolaw,
widow of Kiowa hero, passes away at 79
By Liz Pollard
ANADARKO - One of the most respected ladies of the Kiowa and Apache tribes was laid to rest on Tuesday, February 15. Irene Chalepah Poolaw, widow of the most decorated Kiowa veteran, Pascal Poolaw, passed to the land of the spirits on Saturday, February 12 at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The funeral was held at the Apache Tribal Complex in Anadarko on Tuesday morning, and she was buried on Chief's Knoll at Ft. Sill that afternoon.
Poolaw was born an Apache on February 20, 1920 to Alonzo and Rose Maynahonah Chalepah. She met her future husband, Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Sr., at Riverside Indian School. The couple was married on March 15, 1940 at Rainy Mountain. Pascal Poolaw died a soldier in Vietnam in 1967, the most highly decorated Kiowa soldier in history. Poolaw Hall at Ft. Sill was named after him.
The Poolaws had four sons, all of whom were in the Army and three of whom served in Vietnam. Pascal enlisted in the Army in 1942 and won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in World War II, fighting off the Germans from a machine gun position he manned and refused to leave. He fought again, and was wounded and honored again, in the Korean War, and he came out of retirement to serve in Vietnam, hoping his sons would not have to go. Pascal was further decorated for his actions in Vietnam, earning another Silver Star on November 7, 1967. He had been wounded but refused to quit. He carried another wounded soldier to safety, but was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit him.
Two sons, Lester Gene Poolaw of Lawton and Donald R. Poolaw of Anadarko, and one adopted son, John Beatty of Brooklyn, N.Y, survive Irene Poolaw. Her brother, Alfred Chalepah, Sr., still lives in Carnegie. Irene had 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Copyright 2000 by the
Native American Times
Included with their kind permission
(Lisa Snell)
Many thanks to R. Boas for obtaining and posting the headstone photos for Mrs Poolaw and her husband.
3/1/2000
Apache Elder Irene Chalepah Poolaw,
widow of Kiowa hero, passes away at 79
By Liz Pollard
ANADARKO - One of the most respected ladies of the Kiowa and Apache tribes was laid to rest on Tuesday, February 15. Irene Chalepah Poolaw, widow of the most decorated Kiowa veteran, Pascal Poolaw, passed to the land of the spirits on Saturday, February 12 at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The funeral was held at the Apache Tribal Complex in Anadarko on Tuesday morning, and she was buried on Chief's Knoll at Ft. Sill that afternoon.
Poolaw was born an Apache on February 20, 1920 to Alonzo and Rose Maynahonah Chalepah. She met her future husband, Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Sr., at Riverside Indian School. The couple was married on March 15, 1940 at Rainy Mountain. Pascal Poolaw died a soldier in Vietnam in 1967, the most highly decorated Kiowa soldier in history. Poolaw Hall at Ft. Sill was named after him.
The Poolaws had four sons, all of whom were in the Army and three of whom served in Vietnam. Pascal enlisted in the Army in 1942 and won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in World War II, fighting off the Germans from a machine gun position he manned and refused to leave. He fought again, and was wounded and honored again, in the Korean War, and he came out of retirement to serve in Vietnam, hoping his sons would not have to go. Pascal was further decorated for his actions in Vietnam, earning another Silver Star on November 7, 1967. He had been wounded but refused to quit. He carried another wounded soldier to safety, but was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit him.
Two sons, Lester Gene Poolaw of Lawton and Donald R. Poolaw of Anadarko, and one adopted son, John Beatty of Brooklyn, N.Y, survive Irene Poolaw. Her brother, Alfred Chalepah, Sr., still lives in Carnegie. Irene had 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Copyright 2000 by the
Native American Times
Included with their kind permission
(Lisa Snell)
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