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Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 13, 1975

Ruby Lee [Clift] Leighton

Service Held For Leighton

Services were held at 2 p.m. last Saturday in the First Baptist Church at Fort Cobb for Mrs. Ruby Lee Leighton, 44, of Fort Cobb. She died Wednesday in the Carnegie Hospital after becoming suddenly ill at her husband's store in Fort Cobb. Rev. Don Sebastian, pastor of the church, officiated, and burial was in the Fort Cobb Cemetery.

Mrs. Leighton was born Nov. 20, 1930 near Fort Cobb. She attended Broxton school, and had lived in the Fort Cobb area all her life.

She and Richard Leighton were married Aug. 21, 1940 at Burkburnett, Tex.

Mrs. Leighton and her husband owned and operated the M & L Drygood Store in Fort Cobb.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Fort Cobb.

Survivors include her husband of the home, one daughter, Mrs. Burl Mackey of Fort Worth; her mother, Mrs. Ellen Clift of Carnegie; three sisters Lula Wall and Edith Wilson of Oklahoma City, and Dollie Orrell of Apache; three brothers, Albert of Anadarko, Randolph of Fort Cobb, and Vernon of Lawton, and one granddaughter, Kathy Mackey

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