Eli Gourd Tahlequah Daily Press
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
October 30, 2008Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Services for Eli Gourd, age 20, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31 at the Sequoyah High School Gymnasium. Interment will follow at the Keener Cemetery, in Lost City. Services have been entrusted to the Hart Funeral Home of Tahlequah. Eli Gourd was born Nov. 12, 1987, in Tahlequah to Rudy Leon Gourd and Kathleen (Fixin) Gourd. Eli was a musician. Eli departed this life on Monday, Oct. 27, 2008 with his father, Rudy, and brother, Russell. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Jonas R. Gourd; his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Eli Fixin; and his great-grandfather, the Rev. Joe Drywater.Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Kathleen and Ted Brown, of Tahlequah; one sister, Emily Gourd, of Tahlequah; stepbrother, Charles Brown, of Muskogee; stepsister, Susan Thompson, of Warner; grandmother, Vivian Gourd, of Tahlequah; and grandmother, Irene Fixin, of Muskogee; great-grandmother Lucy Sands Drywater, of Tahlequah; three nephews, Grant David Nugent, Barry Joe Nugent and Garrett Turn Nugent; two nieces, Lola Josaphine Gourd and Cierra Miranda Gourd; and many friends and loved ones.Hart Funeral Home, 1506 N. Grand, 456-8823.
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