Juanita Graham

© The Guthrie News Leader

Friday, February 14, 2003

Services are pending with Community Funeral Home in Guthrie for Juanita Graham, 83, of Guthrie. Graham died Feb. 14, 2003 at Cole's Nursing Home in Guthrie.

Juanita Graham

© The Guthrie News Leader

Sunday, February 14, 2003

Funeral services for Juanita Grace Graham, 83, of Guthrie will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2003 at the Community Funeral Home chapel with Pastor Art Bostic officiating. Burial will follow in McKinley Cemetery in Meridian under the direction of Community Funeral Home.

Graham was born Feb. 9, 1920 in Fallis to Howard and Phoebe (Newland) Lowery. She died Feb. 14, 2003 at Cole's Nursing Home in Guthrie.

Juanita attended school in Fallis and McKinley. She married Harold Graham on Aug. 13, 1941. After their marriage, they lived east of Guthrie on the farm. They moved into Guthrie in 1952, where she worked various jobs in the Guthrie area, including at the Oklahoma Furniture Factory and Furrow's Greenhouse.

She was a member of the Church of God and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

Juanita loved to dance, do crossword puzzles and marble board games and garden. She also like to feed and watch wild birds, and loved being with her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Harold, on Dec. 27, 1980, one son, two sisters and five brothers.

Survivors include two sons, Phillip and wife Rila Graham and J. R. and wife Lena Graham, all of Guthrie; two daughters, Charlotte Peak and husband Jim of Guthrie and Barbara Hastie and husband Barney of Gotebo; nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, one brother Danny Lowery of Edmond and one sister, Marvel and Gene Sipes of Kansas.

Viewing will take place Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m. and Monday beginning at 9 a.m.