Lloyd Lee Hogner
© Stilwell (OK) Democrat Journal
July 20, 1978
Submitted by: Annajo Cantrell Limore
Graveside services for Loyd Lee Hogner, 59-year-old Stilwell painter whose body was found last week in Evansville Creek, were held Wednesday, July 12 in the Tyler Springs Cemetery.
The Rev. Key Ketcher officiated.
Interment in the Tyler Springs Cemetery was under the direction of the Roberts Funeral Home.
Hogner, born Sept. 21, 1918, in Adair County, was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include: one daughter, Georgia Ann Hogner, Stilwell; two sisters, Maybell Bearpaw, Tahlequah, and Betty McKever, Pacific Pallisades, Calif.; and one brother, Floyd Hogner, Tulsa.
Officers said that Hogner accidentally drowned in Evansville Creek three miles east of Stilwell near SH 51, Sunday, July 9, but that his body was not found until the following Tuesday. Officers said he had been fishing with some other people and wandered off by himself when he apparently drowned. His companions said they thought he had gone home and made no effort to search for him, officers said.