Margaret Lacey Ford

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Margaret "Maggie" Ford was born Margaret Catherine Lacey the 28th of December 1879 near Brownwood, Texas the daughter of George Valentine Lacey and Nancy Catherine Stewart. She died 13 August 1966 at the Midwest City Memorial Hospital at the age of 86 years, seven months and 15 days.

Mrs. Ford was 16 years of age when she came to the Kiowa Community with her parents. On the 30th of July 1902 she was married to William Alfred Ford, a widower whose daughter she and her mother had cared for after her mother's illness and death.

Maggie was a loyal and steadfast marriage partner who accepted the bad with the good and had so much love to give. She was a devoted mother to her step-daughter Georgia Alice as well as her own children, one of whom died of pneumonia while still an infant.

The funeral was held at the Hammon Baptist Church by the pastor the Reverend H. P. Elliott, assisted by Reverend Gilbert R. Brothers, a grandson of the deceased. Burial was in the Kiowa Cemetery.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William A. Ford and one daughter, Nancy Lula. She is survived by two sons, Dennis of Morton, Texas and Oscar of Oklahoma City; five daughters, Georgia Brothers of Fairview, Missouri, Miss Lena Ford, Laone Bartlett, and Leila Evett of Oklahoma City, and May Zelle Brothers of Wichita, Kansas. Also surviving are one brother, George H. Lacey and a sister Miss May Lacey of Hammon; thirteen grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.

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