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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, May 21, 1975 Silas Harvel Boles 1913 ~ 1975 Boles Rites Held Here Funeral services for Silas Harvel Boles of Carnegie were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 21 at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Bill Dickover of Tonkawa officiating. Burial was in the Carnegie cemetery under the direction of Pitcher Funeral Home. Boles died Monday morning, May 19 at his home in Carnegie. He had been in ill health the past years and a half. Born April 5, 1913 at Healdton, Okla., he moved to Carnegie from Ada in 1956, and opened the Help-Yourself-Laundry. He retired five years ago and recently sold the laundry to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Baker of Carnegie. He was a member of the First Baptist church, a Veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include his wife, Rebecca, of the home; two sons, James of Carnegie and Randy of Houston, Tex., one daughter, Mrs. Mike Dane of Champaign, Ill.; three brothers, J.G., Maricopa, Calif., Shelton, San Antonio, and A.J. of Wison, Okla.; one sister, Mrs. Camilla Barnhill, Ojai, Calif.; and seven grandchildren. Silas Harvel Boles April 5, 1913 ~ May 19, 1975 |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Rebecca I. [Greer] Boles 1916 ~ 2005 Funeral services for Rebecca Boles, 88, longtime Carnegie resident, were held Monday, September 12, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Carnegie with Dr. Arthur Blount officiating. She was born October 6, 1916 at Konawa to Roy Oakden and Eva Cecil [Williams] Geer and died Friday, September 9, 2005 at the Carnegie Tri-County Hospital. She attended school at Summers Chapel School near Knoawa. She graduated from OBU in 1939 with a B.S. in Home Economics. She worked as a linotype operator at OBU and other places before marrying Silas Harvel Boles in Borger, Texas in 1940. Mrs. Boles worked as a teller for the Farmers Bank in Carnegie for many years. She was a long time member of the First Baptist Church in Carnegie. She is survived by two sons and wives, James "Hap" and Mary Boles of Carnegie and Randel and Marsha Boles at Catoosa; daughter and husband, Greer and Nick Rasheta of Lenner, LA; seven grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; one sister and husband, Martha and Ray Tassin of Edmond. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two sisters, Pearl Lamunyon and Genevieve Greer. Burial was in the Carnegie Cemetery under the direction of Ray and Martha's Funeral Home in Carnegie. Rebecca I. [Greer] Boles October 6, 1916 ~ September 9, 2005 |