AMERICAN VETERAN

Oklahoman Archives 
              Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
              July 14, 1959, pg 3

The Perkins Journal
              Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma
              June 22, 2004
 

Zelma Hurting Dearborn
              1903-2004

Zelma Harting Dearborn, 100, Stillwater, died Saturday, July 17. 2004.

Services were held Monday, July 19. 10:30 am. at the Strode Chapel. Paul Ander- son officiated. Arrangements made by Strode Funeral Home.

Zelma Harting Dearbom was born in Council Grove. KS in 1903 to her parents. Richard and Rosalie Scott They moved east of Glencoe in 1913. She attended Glencoe School and married Alfred H. Harting at Stillwater in 1922. They lived in Checotah, Wetumka and Bristow. Alfred Harting was district superintendent in the Sapulpa district for the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company. He worked for ONG for 26 years. He died in 1948. Zelma married Wallace Dearborn in 1953 in Bentonville, AR. They lived in Tulsa for a year and then bought a motel in Oklahoma City, where they lived till they retired. After they retired, they moved to the Lake of the Ozarks and south of Pawnee. Zelma was active in the Baptist Church until her health failed. She moved to Stillwater after Mr. Dearborn died in 1977. She has been a resident of Grace Living Center for 5 1/2 years.

Zelma is survived by two daughters: Wanda Eller of Tulsa and Betty Hart of Stillwater and daughter-in-law. Virginia Harting of Oklahoma City. Two sons preceded her in death: Kenneth M. Harting, east of Stillwater 'and Alfred Hurting, Oklahoma City and grandson, Keneth Harting Jr.. Also.precedingher in death were two brothers: Calvin Scott. Tulsa; Dale Scott, Payson. AZ; and sister Faye Davis, Pawnee, OK. She has eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and three great great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Heaven’s open gate is true iov for Zelma as she is greeted by the Lord, husband, sons and family.

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