Myrtle, the daughter of James Freddie and Sarah Abigail {Beach} Beeson, was a resident of McLoud, Oklahoma. She graduated from McLoud High School in 1938. She retired from civil service at Tinker AFB, Midwest City, Oklahoma.
She was a member of the BYKOTA Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church of McLoud, the McLoud Order of Eastern Star, the Silver Thimble Quilting Club, the Cheerful Workers Extension Homemaker Club and the McLoud Senior Center.
Food was an important part of her life. She loved growing, preserving, preparing and sharing food with family and friends and won numerous awards for her baking. She especially loved baking pies and feeding shut-ins, no one who knew her never went hungry. Her hospitality knew no bounds nor did her charity. Myrtle cooked for everybody in town. Her specialties included hot rolls, pies, jellies and jams. She was very caring, giving and loving.
Myrtle was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Oburn Cochran; two brothers, Elmer Beeson and James Beeson; four sisters, Cecil Beeson, Thelma Petricek, Nettie Large Basinger and Irene Beeson.
Survivors include four daughters and sons-in-law, Deborah and Danny Price of McLoud, Denise and Harold Anderson of Harrah, Oklahoma, Deanna and Jeff Myers of Tulsa and Dedria and Shannon Hancock of Harrah; one brother, Edgar Short Beeson of McLoud; one sister, Maurine
Aitken of Del City; nine grandchildren, Shawn Miller, Dennis Scarberry, Dana Taylor, Dawn Wilkinson, Alex Myers, Kristin Hancock, Mason Hancock, Kyle Anderson and LaDonna Goering and eleven great grandchildren, Matthew and Jack Miller, Lacey and Baxter Scarberry, Deigh Ann, Daniel and Dylan Taylor, Seth and Evan Anderson and Rebekah and Danielle Goering.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
Services will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 2004 at the First Baptist Church of McLoud with Dr. Dan Campbell officiating. Interment will follow at Jamison Cemetery, Jacktown, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Smith-Parks Funeral Service in Harrah, Oklahoma.
A guestbook is available to share your memories online at www.parksbrothers.net.
Myrtle, the daughter of James Freddie and Sarah Abigail {Beach} Beeson, was a resident of McLoud, Oklahoma. She graduated from McLoud High School in 1938. She retired from civil service at Tinker AFB, Midwest City, Oklahoma.
She was a member of the BYKOTA Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church of McLoud, the McLoud Order of Eastern Star, the Silver Thimble Quilting Club, the Cheerful Workers Extension Homemaker Club and the McLoud Senior Center.
Food was an important part of her life. She loved growing, preserving, preparing and sharing food with family and friends and won numerous awards for her baking. She especially loved baking pies and feeding shut-ins, no one who knew her never went hungry. Her hospitality knew no bounds nor did her charity. Myrtle cooked for everybody in town. Her specialties included hot rolls, pies, jellies and jams. She was very caring, giving and loving.
Myrtle was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Oburn Cochran; two brothers, Elmer Beeson and James Beeson; four sisters, Cecil Beeson, Thelma Petricek, Nettie Large Basinger and Irene Beeson.
Survivors include four daughters and sons-in-law, Deborah and Danny Price of McLoud, Denise and Harold Anderson of Harrah, Oklahoma, Deanna and Jeff Myers of Tulsa and Dedria and Shannon Hancock of Harrah; one brother, Edgar Short Beeson of McLoud; one sister, Maurine
Aitken of Del City; nine grandchildren, Shawn Miller, Dennis Scarberry, Dana Taylor, Dawn Wilkinson, Alex Myers, Kristin Hancock, Mason Hancock, Kyle Anderson and LaDonna Goering and eleven great grandchildren, Matthew and Jack Miller, Lacey and Baxter Scarberry, Deigh Ann, Daniel and Dylan Taylor, Seth and Evan Anderson and Rebekah and Danielle Goering.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
Services will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 2004 at the First Baptist Church of McLoud with Dr. Dan Campbell officiating. Interment will follow at Jamison Cemetery, Jacktown, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Smith-Parks Funeral Service in Harrah, Oklahoma.
A guestbook is available to share your memories online at www.parksbrothers.net.
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