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Alice Yost Garrett
© The Elk City Daily News
October 31, 1964
Submitted by: Leila Evett


Services Are Set for Mrs. Garrett
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice M. Garrett will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Central Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Garrett, who celebrated her 100th birthday in 1963, died on Thursday.
Reverend H. P. Elliott, pastor of the Eastside Baptist Church will conduct the servies and burial will be in the Kiowa Cemetery under the direction of Savage Funeral Home.
Mrs. Garrett was born June 20, 1863 in Bolivar, Missouri and was married to E. B. Blue in 1880 at Vinita, Okla. Later she was married to W. V. Garrett who preceded her in death four years ago.
Mrs. Garrett had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Shelton, the past 16 years.
She joined the Baptist Church at the age of 33 in Allen, Oklahoma. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Shelton, Mrs. Elverda Shelton, Hammon and Mrs. Goldie Melburn, Pacoima, California, nine grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren and 10 great great grandchildren.
From the Hammon Advocate, Thursday, 5 November 1964

Kowia News

Funeral services were held Sunday in Elk City for Mrs. Alice Garrett who passed away Thursday in an Elk City rest home, at the age of 101 years and five months. Burial was in Kiowa Cemetery. Those from a distance at the cemetery included Mr. and Mrs. George Williams and Bob Williams, Johnstown, Colorado, Bert Shelton from Missouri, several families from Amarillo, Texas and Leonard Hill, Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Garrett was an aunt of George and may Lacey.
Note: George Williams was son of George Silas Williams, brother to the deceased. George Silas Williams was born 28 Dec 1851 near Bolivar, Polk Co., MO. He was married to Ida Paola (who was affectionately called "Hoddy") Kelly, who was also from Polk Co. Mo. Children born to this union were:

Annis 10 August 1889
Sarah Frances 12 August 1891
George Washington 1 Jan 1893 md Edna Blanche Harrison
Bertha H. 28 Jan 1895
Abe 1 Mar 1897
John eleck 1 Feb 1901 died 19 Jan 1919
Robert Lee 1 May 1902 md Edith Harrison
Elizabeth 5 Jul 1905


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