Obituary for Zelva Mae Knox
Zelva Knox, age 96, died Tuesday, November 2., 1999 at the English Village Nursing Home following a lengthy illness. She was born on the Knox homestead in the Friendship community on March 13, 1903. She was the ninth of ten children born to Johathan Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Connor) Knox, early pioneers of Jackson County. She attended school at old Navajoe for eight years. Then when the Friendship School consolidated in 1921 she started there, she was one of the first graduates pf the high school.
She was a saleslady for several of the stores in Altus including F.W. Woolworth and the C.R. Anthony's . She retired from Anthony's in 1977. She was a lifelong Methodist, having joined the Methodist Church at the age of 16. she was very active in volunteering in the community.
She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, Leonard, Douglas, Frank, Floyd, and Jack; four sisters, Etta, Jessie, Pearl, and Gladys.
Services are scheduled for Saturday, November6, 1999 at 2:00pm in the Lowell-Tims Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ken Pate officiating. Interment will follow at the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of Lowell-Tims Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund.
Zelva is survived by five nephews, Know Harris of Baltimore, Maryland, Earl Douglas Knox of Media, Pennsylvania, Carter Know of Duncan, Oklahoma, Ray D. Knox of Longview, Texas, Roy Knox of Yukon, Oklahoma; eight nieces, Patsy Haught of Boise, Idaho, Jeanette Nipp of Midland, Texas, Betty Bates of Alamo, Texas, Bobbie Wells of Huntington Beach, California, Darlene Conrad of Shreveport, Louisiana, Doria Helen Prock of Houston, Texas, Faye Colhouer of Headrick, Oklahoma, Vesta Wilcox of Blair, Oklahoma, and June Taylor of Lexington, Nebraska and a host of other relatives and friends.
11/06/1999
2:00 PM
Funeral
Lowell-Tims Chapel
Altus
OK
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She was a saleslady for several of the stores in Altus including F.W. Woolworth and the C.R. Anthony's . She retired from Anthony's in 1977. She was a lifelong Methodist, having joined the Methodist Church at the age of 16. she was very active in volunteering in the community.
She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, Leonard, Douglas, Frank, Floyd, and Jack; four sisters, Etta, Jessie, Pearl, and Gladys.
Services are scheduled for Saturday, November6, 1999 at 2:00pm in the Lowell-Tims Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ken Pate officiating. Interment will follow at the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of Lowell-Tims Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund.
Zelva is survived by five nephews, Know Harris of Baltimore, Maryland, Earl Douglas Knox of Media, Pennsylvania, Carter Know of Duncan, Oklahoma, Ray D. Knox of Longview, Texas, Roy Knox of Yukon, Oklahoma; eight nieces, Patsy Haught of Boise, Idaho, Jeanette Nipp of Midland, Texas, Betty Bates of Alamo, Texas, Bobbie Wells of Huntington Beach, California, Darlene Conrad of Shreveport, Louisiana, Doria Helen Prock of Houston, Texas, Faye Colhouer of Headrick, Oklahoma, Vesta Wilcox of Blair, Oklahoma, and June Taylor of Lexington, Nebraska and a host of other relatives and friends.
11/06/1999
2:00 PM
Funeral
Lowell-Tims Chapel
Altus
OK
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