Alva Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

Alva – Funeral services for Donald Bliss, 73, who died here Thursday morning after a brief illness, will be at 2 PM Saturday in the Wharton Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Torrey Curtis, pastor of the Otterbein United Methodist Church, officiating.

Bliss will be buried in the Alva Municipal Cemetery, with arrangements under the direction of Wharton's.

He was born August 18, 1908, near Lookout and attended the Coy rural school. Bliss farmed and ranched in the Freedom and Coldwater, Kansas, areas. He served with the United States Army during World War I I.

On December 28, 1949, Bliss and Nellie Knabe were married at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They made their home in Clarksville, Kentucky, and Ridgefarm, for a time and returned to Alva in 1958 where he was employed by the Buckley Knabe Construction Company until retiring in 1962.

Bliss was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.

He is survived by his wife Nellie of the home; four step daughters and a stepson, Lola Broome, Anacortes, Washington, Dona (Mrs. Lynn) Louthan, Enid, Vera (Mrs. Harry E) Ditton, Bonnie (Mrs. Wilbur) Province, Buckley Knabe, all of Alva; 12 grandchildren; 19 great – grandchildren; five sisters, Marie Lamb, Fresno, California, Mamie Brown, May (Mrs. William) Newkirch, Roberta (Mrs. Lloyd) Malone and Wilma (Mrs. Clinton) Cashwell, all of Coldwater; four brothers, Glenn Bliss, Enid, Jack Bliss, Montrose, Colorado, John Bliss and Kenneth Bliss, both of Coldwater.

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