Cherokee County Obituaries

Clara L. Jamison

©2024 Tahlequah Daily Press
August 02, 2012
Submitted by: Sabrina Anne Hitchcock

Services for Clara L. Jamison will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in the Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. John Rozell, Chaplain Kevin Webster and Brian Cook officiating. Interment will follow in the Tahlequah City Cemetery under the care of Green Country Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Clara Lovella Rozell Jamison became a member of the Horace B. And Myrtle (Knight) Rozell family on Sept. 8, 1924, somewhere in the Briggs-Robbins area of Cherokee County.

Clara attended elementary school at Welling. To continue her education, she rode the first school bus in Cherokee County that belonged to her father at Bagley High School in Tahlequah, graduating as Salutatorian of her 1942 class. While at Bagley, she was a member of the Drum and Bugle Corps.

While growing up in Welling, she attended church at Welling General Baptist, where her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents founded the work, not realizing that would become a major theme of her life. She especially liked her Sunday School 'card' class while sitting on her teacher, Grandma Knight's lap for the lesson.

While attending many General Baptist Association meetings in the area, she met her soulmate, Leon L. Jamison. They were married on Christmas Eve, 1942. Shortly thereafter they left for Oakdale, Calif., looking for employment. While there, they became the parents of their three children; Alton, Ron and Brenda. She bonded strongly with her new Jamison family and they with her.

Clara and Leon worked diligently in establishing the Modesto and Oakdale General Baptist Churches, and the Central California Association of General Baptist gospel work in the state. The Oakdale church held its first service in the living room of their home. While Leon was co-pastoring and pastoring, Clara was active as a Sunday School teacher, women's ministries leader as well as leading the congregational music for many years at various church gatherings including singing soprano with the Gospel Echo's Quartet for the weekly Sunday morning radio broadcast, “The Church of The Air.”

Clara worked as a lab technician for many years at Hunt Wesson Foods.

In 1974, with their children raised, Leon and Clara returned 'home' to Welling, and began farming. They continued their spiritual journey, coming full circle returning to Welling Church, Leon pastoring, and Clara supporting in the same manner as in California.

Clara was preceded in death by her husband, Leon; son, Ronald; parents, Horace and Myrtle Rozell; and brother and sister, Judge Rozell, and Argie Green.

She was known as 'Mom' and 'Nanny' by her children and grandchildren.

Clara leaves her surviving children, Alton (Erna) Jamison, and Brenda (Fulton) Nash; her grandchildren, Ashley Jamison, Judd Jamison, Jessica (Kenney) Secratt, and Carrie Nash; great-granddaughters, Alyssa Nash, and soon to be born Ronnie Lee Secratt, great-grandson, Trey Secratt; Clara's siblings, brothers Delbert Rozell, Herbert (Carol) Rozell, J.D. (Francine) Rozell and sister Bobbie (Isaac) Christie. She also leaves many of her extended Jamison family, a host of dear nieces, nephews, friends and loved ones.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the General Baptist Women's Missionary Endowment Fund, 100 Stinson Drive, Poplar Bluff, Mo., 63901; or Camp Robertson Welling, 23478 E. 830 Road, Welling, Okla., 74471.

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