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Alford L. Tilley
© Okemah News Leader
From the collection of Oscar & Shirley Custar
Submitted by: Brenda Franklin


Funeral services for Alford L. Tilley, 71, were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Indian Nation Nazarene Church with Paul Jimboy and Louis Harjo officiating. Tilley died Jan. 11 at the Creek Nation Community Hospital.
He was born at Mason Aug. 7, 1915. He was married to Miss Ida Henneha and had lived most of his life in Okemah. Tilley was a veteran of WW II, having serving overseas in the United States Army. He was a retired welder and was a member of the United Pentecostal Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida Tilley, of the home; seven sons, Lester, George, Leroy, Emmett, Kim, and Roger Tilley, all of Okemah, and Tracy Tilley, Los Angeles, Calif.; five daughters, Mrs. Josie Lee, Paden, Mrs. Marilyn Simpson, Kansas City, Missouri, Mrs. Martha Harjo, St. Louis, Missouri, Mrs. Helen Leonard, Kellyville, and Miss Zelva Tilley, Okemah; two brothers, Jim Tilley, Okemah, and Joe Tilley, Mason; two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Bluford, Okla. City, and Mrs. Margaret Warren, Sapulpa; 33 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Interment was in a private family cemetery under the direction of the Parks Brothers Funeral Home.


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