Jennie Majorie Haight

© The Guthrie News Leader

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Submitted by: Tammie Chada

Graveside funeral services for Jennie Majorie Haight, 70, of Perry, Okla., will be held at Pleasant Valley Cemetery at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001, with Sam Jerome of Orlando, Okla. officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Mulhall, Okla., directed by Smith Funeral Home in Guthrie, Okla.

Jennie was born on May 9, 1930 in Mulhall to Ralph and Verna Griffey. She died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001 at her home in Perry.

She was a member of several Methodist churches: Marshall and Guthrie, Okla., and Joplin, Mo., during some of her moves. The last church she was a member of was the Baptist Church in Mulhall, until her health prevented her from attending.

She is survived by two sons, Ralph Foraker and Virgil Foraker, Perry,; two sisters, Ellen Cox of Ponca City, Okla. and Wallace Major of Mulhall; six brothers, Ralph Griffey of Carmen, Okla., James Griffey, Casper, Wyo., Wayne Griffey of Carthage, Mo., David Griffey of Edmond, Peter Griffey of Oklahoma City, and Roy Griffey of Lufkin, Texas, in addition to many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by both previous husbands, Harold Foraker of Baxter Springs, Kan., and Henry G. Haight of Guthrie; her daughter, Majorie Susan Foraker of Mulhall; two sisters, Rachel Burchart of Guthrie, Irene Speaker of Carmen, and two brothers, William Griffey and Paul Griffey, both of Marshall.