This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ANTHONY, BARRY, PAYNE, SMITH, COTTER, MOSS, CLENNEY, MAJORS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/853 Message Board Post: >From a Hughes Co. newspaper, Sept. 20, 2001 Bernice Eloise ANTHONY Funeral services for Bernice Eloise (BARRY) ANTHONY, a former Holdenville resident, were held Sept. 19, at the Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Holdenville with Rev. Russell PAYNE officiating. She was born Sept. 12, 1909 in Lancaster, Tx. To Calvin and Mary Lou (SMITH) BARRY and died Sept 15, at the All Saints Hospital Hospice Unit in Ft. Worth, Tx. at the age of 92. She was reared in the Lancaster area living there until the age of nine when she and her family moved to the Big Springs community, south of Wetumka. She attended the Fairview schools, later graduating from Fairview. She married Ted Roosevelt ANTHONY on Feb. 11, 1928. They made their residence east of Yeager where they farmed where they farmed until the beginning of World War II. The couple followed the pipeline work living all over the United States and in Canada. After his retirement, they moved back to their home in Yeager where she remained until his death on Dec. 6, 1996. Mrs. ANTHONY later moved to Richland Hills, Tx. With her daughter where she remained until the time of her death. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, James BARRY, and her husband Ted Roosevelt ANTHONY. Survivors include one daughter, Geneva Rachelle COTTER of Richland Hills, Tx.; one son, Bobby B. ANTHONY of Prunedale, Ca.; one sister, Lois MOSS of Holdenville; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several other relatives. Pallbearers were Barry COTTER, Jerry COTTER, Dexter CLENNEY and Gary MAJORS. Interment was at Holdenville Cemetery under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home of Holdenville.