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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, July 20, 1955 Mary Elizabeth [Dell] Ford 1867 ~ 1955 Final Rites Here For Mrs. M.E. Ford Aged Resident An 87-year-old Caddo county resident missed by two days seeing her great, great, great, grandson. A little boy was born early Sunday to add another generation to her descendants. Final rites for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dell Ford were in the Carnegie cemetery Sunday afternoon after funeral services were in the Fort Cobb funeral home at 3 p.m. Mrs. Ford died early Friday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence F. Steverson, in Anadarko. Mrs. Ford suffered a broken hip in a fall Feb. 16, and never fully recovered from the injury. She had been a member of the Baptist church all her life. Mrs. Ford was born Aug. 13, 1867 in Houston, Texas. She was married Sept. 5, 1883 to W.S. Ford in Milam county, Texas. The Ford family came to the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma in the early 1890's, and to the Valley View district in Washita county in 1898. Later the family lived near and in Fort Cobb for many years before Mrs. Ford went to Anadarko to make her home. Mr. Ford died Nov. 28, 1947. She is survived by two sons, Raymond W. Ford, Lower Lake, Calif., and Arnold D. Ford, Porterville, calif., and three daughters, Mrs. C.F. Steverson, Anadarko; Mrs. Gertrude Knight, Porterville; and Mrs. J.C. McDonald, Anadarko. Also surviving are 44 grandchildren; 67 great-grandchildren and 20 great-great-grandchildren. Mary Elizabeth [Dell] Ford July 20, 1867 ~ July 1955 |
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