• FUNERAL HOMES

 

• LeFlore County

  • Clayton Funeral Home/Talihina Chapel, Hwy 271 S, Talihina, OK 74571
    • 918-567-4114
  • Dowden Funeral Home, P.O. Box 295, Hwy 271 W, Heavener, OK 74937
    • 918-653-2222 -- Fax: 918-653-2759
    • in business 1953-present
    • formerly Hall Funeral Home, 1925-1953 [perhaps earlier]
    • a fire destroyed records prior to 1931 and a subsequent fire on May 10, 1996 burned all records between 1931 and 1996
    • Book Dowden Funeral Home Records, Heavener, LeFlore County, Oklahoma, 1931-1936 by Gloryann Hankins Young (Wister, Okla: G.H. Young, 1989)
  • Drake-Jones Funeral Home, 204 2nd St., Talihina, OK 74571
    • 918-567-2666 -- Fax: 918-567-3371
    • listed in 1950 Funeral Home Directory
    • Book Drake Funeral Home Records, Talihina, LeFlore Co., OK 1938-1950, by Gloryann Hankins Young (Wister, Okla: G.H. Young, 1994)
  • Evans Funeral Home, 411 Dewey Ave, Poteau, OK 
    • 918-647-2238
    • listed in 1950 Funeral Home Directory
    • Evans-Miller Funeral Home in Poteau burnt in 1991
    • only known records are those printed in a book published by PVGS
  • Evans & Miller Funeral Home, Hwy 112, Pocola, OK 74092 
    • 918-436-2416
    • business over 100 yrs [1999]
  • Fisher Funeral Home, 300 E Broadway St., Spiro, OK 74959-3012
    • 918-962-2417 -- Fax: 918-962-2229 -- (800) 962-2417
    • listed in 1950 Funeral Home Directory at 111 N. Beech, Spiro, OK
  • Grace Manor Funeral Home, 82150 N 475th St., Poteau, OK 74953
    • 918-647-3000 -- Fax: 918-647-3052
    • online obituaries beginning July 2004
  • Hall Funeral Home, Heavener, OK 
    • see Dowden Funeral Home
  • Hall and Miller Funeral Home, Poteau, OK
    • listed on Aug 1937 and Jan 1938 death certificate
    • anyone know what happen to their records?
  • Jones Funeral Home, Talihina, OK
    • see Drake-Jones Funeral Home
  • Mallory Funeral Home, 112 N Main, Spiro, OK 74959-2438
    • 918-926-2555 Fax: 918-962-5496
    • established 1937 Haskell Co., 1976 in Spiro
    • serves Spiro, Pocola, Panama, Bokoshe, Keota, Porum, Quinton
    • Mallory Funeral Home - some current obits online
  • Miller Funeral Home, Pocola, OK 
    • also see Evans & Miller Funeral Home
    • 1950 Funeral Home Directory list a Miller Funeral Home, Poteau, OK
    • Book Miller Funeral Home Records, Poteau: September 1899-December 1926, Poteau, (OK: The Society, 1989)
  • Redwine's, Spiro, OK
    • c 1905
    • there were no funeral homes in the Spiro area during this time period
    • Redwine's was a general mercantile store that also sold farm implements 
      • Redwine's did undertaking and sold coffins
      • aka Redwine Brothers
      • early records are thought to be donated to the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
      • source: Tom [email protected]; March 2000
  • Talihina Chapel, Talihina, OK 
    • see Clayton Funeral Home
      -- I also found in a 1933 Talihina Newspaper, Talihina Undertaking Co.
      W. E. Ward, Prop., Funeral Director and Embalmer

   

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