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Violet "Eva Jo" Elder, 89, of Poteau, passed away Thursday,
May 30, 2002. She was a longtime resident of the area and a member of
the Trinity Baptist Church of Poteau, graduate of Haywood Oklahoma High
School, NSU in Tahlequah, a retired school teacher, teaching five years
in Arizona and 29 in Oklahoma. She was very active in the gospel singing
convention serving as secretary of the Oklahoma State Singing
Convention.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Siguel Bea Elder; her parents;
and 13 brothers and sisters.
Survivors include three daughters, Violet Swift and husband Don of
Midland, Texas, Clemasue Volk and husband Jay of Red Oak and Wilma Latta
of Poteau; one son, Sherman Elder and wife Glenda of Muskogee; seven
grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Services were at 2 p.m. Monday, June 3 at Trinity Baptist Church in
Poteau. Burial followed in Mt. View Cemetery in Howe under the direction
of Dowden Funeral Home of Heavener.
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