This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cofer, Turner, Witt, Staafford, Grissom, Hammit, Cypher, Cooper, Everidge, Chesney Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2994 Message Board Post: Jim J. Cofer, 62, Elk City, retired Strong City farmer, died Thursday, March 9, 1961 in an Elk City hospital. Services were held Saturday, March 11, 1961 at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Aubrey Cowan and Asa Wickens officiating. Born April 1, 1890, in Torn, Glee county, Texas, he married the former Bertha T. Turner at Sayre in 1948. He recently moved to Elk City. Survivors are his wife, Bertha of the home; four stepsons, Joe E. Witt, Elsa, Texas, Roy C. Witt, Carmichael, California, Carl S. Witt, Oklahoma City, Wayne Witt, Roswell, New Mexico; one step-daughter, Arlene Stafford, Dallas, Texas; five sisters, Nannie Grissom, Elk City, Minnie Hammit, Fort Sumpter, New Mexico, May Cypher, Steadc, New Mexico, Della Cooper, Dallas, Texas and Francis Everidge, Oklahoma city; 14 grandchildren; one nephew, Roy E. Chesney, Dallas, Texas and a niece Ruth I. Chesney of California. Burial Strong City cemetery, Strong City, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK