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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, October 1, 1975 May 12, 1909 ~ September 25, 1975 Service Held At Sickles Funeral services for Henry Paul Bottom, 66, of Hydro, were held at 2 p.m., Sunday at the Sickles school gymnasium with Rev. Jess Haney of Eakly and Rev. Leonard Gillingham of Fort Cobb officiating. Burial was in the Poage Cemetery, south of Hydro. He was born May 21, 1909 in Fairplay, Ky. He died Thursday, September 25, after an illness of only two days. Bottom moved to Bogard, Mo., with his family as a small child. He grew up in Bogard, moving to Lookeba in 1920. He attended Southwestern Normal School, and upon graduation, taught at the Hopewell school, north of Eakly. He was married to Ruby Luekenga February 8, 1934 at Lookeba. They made their home north of Eakly until 1940, when they moved south of Hydro. Bottom attended and taught Sunday school at the Fairview Community church. He was a member of the Lookeba United Methodist church. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Floyd Horn of Hydro; three sisters, Mrs, Ruby Williams, Mrs. Clyde Stone and Mrs. Bill Ames of Oklahoma City; and two step-grandchildren. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, May 28, 1975 November 1, 1912 ~ May 22, 1975 Service Held At Fairview Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Fairview Community Church, south of Weatherford, for Mrs. Ruby M. Bottom, 62, of Rt. 3, Hydro. She died last Thursday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Ben Luekenga in Weatherford. Mrs. Bottom had been in failing health for the past 10 years. Rev. Jess Haney, a United Methodist minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Poage Cemetery under direction of the R.L. Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford. Mrs. Bottom was born Nov. 1, 1912 at Colony. She and Paul H. Bottom were married February 1, 1934 at Lookeba. Mrs. Bottom attended Five-Mile school and Southwestern Normal School at Weatherford. She taught school at Hopewell, north of Eakly, 13 years, and had been a Sunday School teacher at Fairview Community Church for over 30 years. Mrs. Bottom lived north of Eakly until January, 1940. Then she moved south of Hydro. Survivors include her husband of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Floyd Horn of Freeport, Tex.; her mother, Mrs. Ben Luekenga of Weatherdford; one sister, Mrs. John Mulder of Anadarko, and two brothers, Gene and Loy Luekenga, both of Colony. |