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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Vera Berry was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She has three sisters and one brother. Mrs. Berry married Jack Berry and had 15 children. She did not complete grade school; however she did attend school...

Holdenville OK United States

Betty Beck English

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Betty Jean Beck was born May 10, 1946 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. She is the second of fourteen children born to Charley and Rosie English. Betty attended Muskogee, Oklahoma Public School District. While sh...

Eufaula OK United States

Pamela Anderson

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Pamela J. Anderson was born on April 4, 1961, in Chandler Oklahoma. Four years later, she faced a life long challenge. Early one morning, Pam awoke and was unable to walk. After being rushed to the ho...

Chandler OK United States

Chalon Edwards Anderson

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Chalon E. Anderson is a native Oklahoman. She attended the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) receiving her B.S. and M.Ed, in health education and gerontology respectively. She is also a certifi...

OK United States

Monetta Quarles Devine

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

It was a windy day March 31, 1933 in Altus, Oklahoma that Mama, Beatrice Johnson Devine, shared the news with Dad, Purthy Devine, Jeannie and Lonnie that the baby was about to be born. But my father a...

Altus OK United States

Ms. Angela Monson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Angela Monson has been engaged in activities related to health care policy for more than 25 years. She is currently employed by the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center as Director of Health Pol...

OK Oklahoma City United States

Edna Smith

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Edna M. Smith was born in Wetumka, Oklahoma. She came from a large, loving family of nine children. Her parents were Lee Smith, a minister, and Nellie Quinn-Smith, a strong, Christian woman. Edna atte...

OK United States Wetumka

Willie Elizabeth Patterson Rose

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Willie is the youngest of three daughters born to William Robert Patterson and Florence Etta Patterson in Kingfisher County Oklahoma. Her grandparents had settled there during the second 1889 Land Run...

Kingfisher County OK United States

Violet Alford Patterson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Violet was born in Clearview, Oklahoma (Okfuskee County). She is married to Lee V. Patterson, Sr. and is the mother of 4 adult children and 4 grand children. She graduated from Clearview High School, ...

Clearview OK United States

Marilyn Murrell

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Mayor Marilyn Murrell was born and raised in Arcadia, Oklahoma. After leading a successful 4-year legal battle to re-establish the identity of Arcadia as an official town, Marilyn Murrell was elected ...

Arcadia OK United States

Ruthie Mae Murphy Forshee

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Ruthie Mae Murphy-Forshee was born on February 12, 1930 in Coyle, Oklahoma. Her parents were Paul and Magnolia Johnson-Murphy. She was the middle child of three daughters. Mrs. Forshee’s early educati...

Coyle OK United States

Mabel Vick Mukes

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Mabel Vick Mukes was born September 17, 1912 on her parent's farm located three miles north of Fallis , Oklahoma . Mabel was the 12 th of 13 children of Alice Brown Vick and Gaylon Vick. Mabel's fathe...

Fallis OK United States