This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monger Parker Thompson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/758 Message Board Post: Nellie Naomi Monger Graveside services for Nellie Naomi Monger, 87, were held Thursday, Jan. 2 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Edward Dale Parker of Healdton officiating. Interment was at the Oaklawn Cemetery under the direction of Cowley-Krien Funeral Home. She was born on October 6, 1915 in Woodford to Ben Parker and Nellie Viola Thompson Parker. She died December 30, 2002 in Sulphur. In August, 1935 she married Leonard Monger in Sulphur. She attended schools in Ardmore and Healdton. She moved to Sulphur in 1932 where she lived the remainder of her life. She wrote music and songs, several which were published and played on the radio. She also wrote poems which were published and one in particular "Neath Vet nam Skies" was read many times on the radio. She was the first female dispatcher for the Murray County Sheriff's Office and while her husband was Sheriff, she was also the cook for the prisoners. She is survived by one daughter, Treva Kerns and her husband, Gary, Sulphur; two granddaughters, Debra Jean Van Orden, Tulsa and Twilah Dawn Monroe, McAlester; three grandsons, Leonard Perry Van Orden, Erwinville, La.; James Anthony (Tony) Bowen, Dension, Texas and Charles Basile, Tuskaloosa, Ala.; eight great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, one daughter, LaWanda Jean Basile; two grandchildren, David Van Orden and Michael Scott Basile, one brother, William Edward Parker and one sister, Edith Lucille Collins.