Lois was the 6th of 10 children, all born in Oklahoma, to Walter Sims and wife Josie Robertson. Her parents and maternal grandparents had immigrated from Sevier County in East Tennessee to Oklahoma around 1900, when it was still the Indian Territory. Lois's birth certificate says she was born in "Ecantuska" in Pottawatomie County.
Lois's first marriage was to Floyd Worth Davis in Seminole, Seminole County, OK. Their first child was stillborn, and Floyd was killed in a car explosion three months after the birth of their second child, Eunice Irene "Renie." Lois' older brother Grady was injured in the same car explosion and another passenger died of burns like Floyd. Lois' stillborn child and first husband Floyd are both buried in the Little Cemetery in Seminole, OK.
Lois remarried a few years later to "Joe" Walter Raymond Miller, on 30 Nov 1934 in Seminole County, OK. Joe would adopt her and Floyd's daughter "Renie", who used the Miller surname until her own marriage to Bob White.
The little family of three is found on the 1940 Seminole OK census, with Joe working at an oil refinery. World War II found the entire family moving to Portland Oregon, with both Joe and Lois working in the shipyard industry for Uncle Sam. But Joe dreamed of striking oil, and with only a 6th grade education became a self-taught geologist. He had bought a farm near Ada, OK and in 1945 drilled his first oil well, naming it the Lois Miller No. 1.
Lois and Joe and teenage Renie move to the Texas Panhandle, where another daughter is born in 1947. There was a 16 year age difference between Lois' 1st daughter Renie and her second daughter Linda. Lois and Joe acquire acreage in Muleshoe Texas and settle in Brownwood, Brown County, TX. Joe dies at age 84 in June 1992, and Lois at age 82 passes away less than three months later.
Lois's first marriage was to Floyd Worth Davis in Seminole, Seminole County, OK. Their first child was stillborn, and Floyd was killed in a car explosion three months after the birth of their second child, Eunice Irene "Renie." Lois' older brother Grady was injured in the same car explosion and another passenger died of burns like Floyd. Lois' stillborn child and first husband Floyd are both buried in the Little Cemetery in Seminole, OK.
Lois remarried a few years later to "Joe" Walter Raymond Miller, on 30 Nov 1934 in Seminole County, OK. Joe would adopt her and Floyd's daughter "Renie", who used the Miller surname until her own marriage to Bob White.
The little family of three is found on the 1940 Seminole OK census, with Joe working at an oil refinery. World War II found the entire family moving to Portland Oregon, with both Joe and Lois working in the shipyard industry for Uncle Sam. But Joe dreamed of striking oil, and with only a 6th grade education became a self-taught geologist. He had bought a farm near Ada, OK and in 1945 drilled his first oil well, naming it the Lois Miller No. 1.
Lois and Joe and teenage Renie move to the Texas Panhandle, where another daughter is born in 1947. There was a 16 year age difference between Lois' 1st daughter Renie and her second daughter Linda. Lois and Joe acquire acreage in Muleshoe Texas and settle in Brownwood, Brown County, TX. Joe dies at age 84 in June 1992, and Lois at age 82 passes away less than three months later.
Lois was the 6th of 10 children, all born in Oklahoma, to Walter Sims and wife Josie Robertson. Her parents and maternal grandparents had immigrated from Sevier County in East Tennessee to Oklahoma around 1900, when it was still the Indian Territory. Lois's birth certificate says she was born in "Ecantuska" in Pottawatomie County.
Lois's first marriage was to Floyd Worth Davis in Seminole, Seminole County, OK. Their first child was stillborn, and Floyd was killed in a car explosion three months after the birth of their second child, Eunice Irene "Renie." Lois' older brother Grady was injured in the same car explosion and another passenger died of burns like Floyd. Lois' stillborn child and first husband Floyd are both buried in the Little Cemetery in Seminole, OK.
Lois remarried a few years later to "Joe" Walter Raymond Miller, on 30 Nov 1934 in Seminole County, OK. Joe would adopt her and Floyd's daughter "Renie", who used the Miller surname until her own marriage to Bob White.
The little family of three is found on the 1940 Seminole OK census, with Joe working at an oil refinery. World War II found the entire family moving to Portland Oregon, with both Joe and Lois working in the shipyard industry for Uncle Sam. But Joe dreamed of striking oil, and with only a 6th grade education became a self-taught geologist. He had bought a farm near Ada, OK and in 1945 drilled his first oil well, naming it the Lois Miller No. 1.
Lois and Joe and teenage Renie move to the Texas Panhandle, where another daughter is born in 1947. There was a 16 year age difference between Lois' 1st daughter Renie and her second daughter Linda. Lois and Joe acquire acreage in Muleshoe Texas and settle in Brownwood, Brown County, TX. Joe dies at age 84 in June 1992, and Lois at age 82 passes away less than three months later.
Lois's first marriage was to Floyd Worth Davis in Seminole, Seminole County, OK. Their first child was stillborn, and Floyd was killed in a car explosion three months after the birth of their second child, Eunice Irene "Renie." Lois' older brother Grady was injured in the same car explosion and another passenger died of burns like Floyd. Lois' stillborn child and first husband Floyd are both buried in the Little Cemetery in Seminole, OK.
Lois remarried a few years later to "Joe" Walter Raymond Miller, on 30 Nov 1934 in Seminole County, OK. Joe would adopt her and Floyd's daughter "Renie", who used the Miller surname until her own marriage to Bob White.
The little family of three is found on the 1940 Seminole OK census, with Joe working at an oil refinery. World War II found the entire family moving to Portland Oregon, with both Joe and Lois working in the shipyard industry for Uncle Sam. But Joe dreamed of striking oil, and with only a 6th grade education became a self-taught geologist. He had bought a farm near Ada, OK and in 1945 drilled his first oil well, naming it the Lois Miller No. 1.
Lois and Joe and teenage Renie move to the Texas Panhandle, where another daughter is born in 1947. There was a 16 year age difference between Lois' 1st daughter Renie and her second daughter Linda. Lois and Joe acquire acreage in Muleshoe Texas and settle in Brownwood, Brown County, TX. Joe dies at age 84 in June 1992, and Lois at age 82 passes away less than three months later.
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