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Dr. Hulon & Pearl
O. Mitchell
Kingfisher Cemetery
Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
Obit of Pearl
Enid News and Eagle 12-23-2005
The funeral for Dr. Pearl O. Mitchell, 88, of Enid, will be 11 a.m.
Saturday at First Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Robert Robinson
will officiate. Burial will be in Kingfisher Cemetery. Arrangements are
by Russworm Funeral Home, Enid.
She was born Feb. 20, 1917, in Kingfisher to George Leatherman Jr. and
Olive Julia Raysor and died Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, in Wichita, Kan.
She graduated from Kingfisher High School and attended a Colorado music
conservatory. She became a musical missionary, including service as
first lady and pastor’s wife to several churches in Pauls Valley,
Watonga, Perry, Westside and Antioch Church of God in Christ, Enid. She
was district missionary for the Church of God in Christ Southeast to
several churches including those in Pauls Valley, Watonga, Perry,
Westside and Antioch Church of God in Christ.
She was one of the first three African-ancestored licensed practical
nursing student graduates of the first nursing class at O.T. Autry
Vo-Tech. She worked at St. Mary’s and Bass hospitals and was museum
trustee for Southern Heights Heritage Center and Museum, Enid. She
received her doctorate from Aspen Theological Seminary in Colorado.
She was a member of First Church, Enid, recently being honored as past
district missionary.
Surviving are 15 children, Hulon Mitchell Jr. and Clifford Mitchell,
both of Florida, Leon G. Mitchell Sr. of Bethany, Palmor Jean Mitchell
Solomon of Oklahoma City, James L. and Oliver A. Mitchell, both of
Wichita, Milton L. Mitchell of Katy, Texas, Byron E. Mitchell of Tulsa,
Ramona Mitchell Nazario, Thelma Mitchell, Barbara Mitchell Finley,
Jefferson C. Mitchell, William Richard Mitchell, Leona Mitchell Bush and
Marvin Mitchell, all of Enid; and more than 300 grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bishop Hulon Mitchell Sr.
Memorials may be made to the funeral home or Southern Heights Heritage
Center and Museum, 616 Leona Mitchell Blvd., Enid, OK 73701.
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