>From: "Daryl Henderson" <dbhend@siscom.net> >To: "Charles R. Weese" <cweese@raex.com> >Subject: Obit >Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:57:39 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 > >Mr Weese Folks are asking for Obits to be posted, here is one I have >in my files. Don't know if it's to long for your site. You be the >judge. Daryl Henderson > >March 12, 1984 CITY'S CENTENARIAN DIES Tulsa >World newspaper > > Della M. (Henderson) Roberson, 106, and the Washington > County's oldest citizen, died at 3:30 p. m. on Monday in the Jane > Phillips Memorial Medical Center following illness since December, > 1983. She had been in the local medical center for four days. > Mayor Arch Robbins designated Friday, Dec. 24, 1982 as Mrs. Della M. > (Henderson) Roberson Day in recognition of her 105th birthday and she > was presented a plaque. > She was born on Dec. 24, 187 at McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio. She was > the daughter of the late Elizabeth Douglas Henderson and Alexander Henderson. > Miss Della M. Henderson and George E. Roberson were > married on May 19, 1907 in Salem, Mo., and the Robersons established > their home at Salem where he was a partner with his brother Jack > Roberson, in a saw mill. > The Robersons came to the Ramona area in 1916 and he was > employed with Tidal Gasoline Company until they moved to Caney, Kan., in > 1920 when Mr. Roberson joined the Union Gas Company for a 16 year > employment. In 1926 they returned to Washington County to live on > a farm northeast of Ramona until 1940 when the Robersons moved to Vera, > Okla., for a five year residence. > In 1945 they moved to Ramona to live. Mr. Roberson > preceded her in death at Ramona on Nov. 5, 1951. "Aunt Della", as she > was affectionately known, has continued her residence there until recent > months when she came to Bartlesville to make her home with her niece > and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer (Callie) Harel. The governor of Oklahoma > and the president of the United States have recognized her several times > as a lady of good service to her community and her remarkable long life. > Mrs. Roberson will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of > the Arnold Moore Funeral Residence for visitation until she is removed > to the Ramona Church, of which she has been a member for 67 years, for > final rites. > Funeral services for Mrs. Roberson will be held at 2 > p.m. on Thursday in the Ramona First Baptist Church where she was the > oldest member. The Rev. Charles Jackson of Ada, Okla., and her former > pastor, and Rev. James P. Beck will serve as the officiants. Committal > prayers and interment will be directed beside the grave of the late > George E. Roberson in the Ramona Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral > Service. Survivors include 16 nieces, Mrs. Elmer (Callie) Harel, 219 > N.E. Home Ave., and Mrs. Nora King Patrick, 313 S.E. Brookline Pl., both > of Bartlesville, Mrs. Amiee Mudd, Sacramento, Calif., Mrs. Elma Moser > and Mrs. Martha Plank, both of Salem, Mo., Mrs. Hazel Berg, Monrovia, > Calif., Mrs. Lottie Swan, Caney, Kan., Mrs. Daphene Garhart, Minniville, > Ore., Mrs. Dorcas Sherry and Mrs. Velda Smith, both of Stanberrry, Mo., > Mrs. C.H. (Lee Ann) Shults, Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Julienne Schuller, > Sacramento, Calif., Mrs. Wanda Jean Olson, Dixon, Calif., Mrs. Lois > Henderson, San Jacinto, Calif., Mrs. Elma Henderson, Seattle, Wash., and > Mrs. Opal Hawk, Broken Bow, Okla., 11 nephews, Glen Henderson, Arcadia, > Calif., Carl Henderson, Stanberry, Mo., Carl Swan, Edmond, Okla., > Virgil Swan, King City, Mo., Ross Henderson, Harrah, Okla., Edward Swan, > Seattle, Wash., Lester Henderson, Saint James, Mo., Fred Swan, King > City, Mo., Fred King, 312 Brookline Pl., Bartlesville, Jack Mudd, > Orangevale, Calif., and William Schuller, Sacramento, Calif. > >All knowledge is the outgrowth (PRODUCT) of obedience--everything else is >just information >"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most >intelligent about his beastliness."---Whittaker Chambers > > >This message scanned for viruses by <http://www.core.com/>CoreComm ======================================== Charles R. Weese, 4012 Pardee Rd., Stow, Ohio 44224 See http://web.raex.com/~cweese/weese/ and http://web.raex.com/~cweese/vance/ for my family info. I maintain the following USGenWeb county sites: Gallia County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgallia/gallia.htm Jackson County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjackso/jackson.htm Vinton County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohvinton/vinton.htm