This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sprowls, Calver, Rhoten, Hyer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/3128 Message Board Post: Roy Fremont Sprowls was born July 20, 1892 at Lexington, Oklahoma to John C. and Lillie Sprowls. He passed this life February 22, 1968 at the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne, Oklahoma. He moved with his parents and sisters to the Square Top Community in 1902, where he farmed until his retirement in 1960. He waas united in marriage to Octavia Murriel Calvert in 1916. To this union were born four sons and two daughters, Betty Joe, preceded him in death in 1934. He leaves to mourn his passing; Mrs. Sprowls, of the home address; sons Fremont of Portland, Oregon; Memory of Oklahoma City; Charles of Phillips, Texas; Louis, of Cheyenne; a daughter, Honwea Rhoten of Phillips, Texas; and a sister, Edyth Hyer of Phoenix, Arizona. He leaves also thirteen grandchildren; three great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Mr. Sprowls helped to make the history of Roger Mills County and was vitally interested in recalling and retelling early historic events. Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Church in Cheyenne, Sunday, February 25, 1968 at Two p.m., interment was in the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK