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The Cyril News Cyril, Oklahoma Thursday, December 1, 1977 Pete Henry Mathis Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church here for Pete Henry Mathis, 84, of Cyril who died early Saturday in a Chickasha hospital. The services were conducted by the Rev. Frank Fincher, pastor. Cyril Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mathis was born Aug. 21, 1893, in Nebraska. He moved to Cement in 1932 and worked in the oil fields. He and his wife moved to Cyril in 1962 when he retired. He was Baptist and a veteran of World War I. Mathis was married May 11, 1925, in Pauls Valley to Emma Zisman, who survives him. Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Betty Went of Apache and Mrs. Imogene Colder of Farmington, N.M. and two sisters, Mrs. Paul Folen of Kansas and Mrs. Agnes Cook of Beaver, and six grandchildren. Burial was in the Fletcher Cemetery with Art Brown, Orville Moser, Harry Claypool, Shirley Peggy, Paul Rhoads, and Don Swann serving as casket bearers. |
The Cyril News Cyril, Oklahoma Thursday, August 11, 1994 Emma E. [Zisman] Mathis Services for Emma E. Mathis, 94, of Cyril will be held at 10 a.m. today, Thursday, August 11, in the Cyril First Baptist Church with Rev. Travis Wollenberg, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Mathis was born March 20, 1900 in Indian Territory and died Monday August 8, 1994 in a Lawton Hospital. She grew up in the Fletcher - Cyril area. She married Pete Henry Mathis on May 11, 1925 in Pauls Valley and they lived in Cement and Texas. They returned to Cyril in 1957. Mr. Mathis died on November 26, 1977. Mrs. Mathis was a member of First Baptist Church, Cyril. Survivors include two daughters; Imogene Calder of Farmington , New Mexico and Betty Jane Witt of Apache; a sister, Julia Claypool of Fletcher, seven grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Burial will be in Fletcher Cemetery under direction of Robbins Funeral Home, Fletcher. |