Volume 13 , Issue 25

NW Okie's Ancestry Corner

The photo on the left is a photo taken around 1960 or so of my Dad, Gene M McGill when he was head of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. Gene M McGill was born 27 December 1914, in Alva, Oklahoma; graduated from the Oklahoma University Pharmacy school in 1937; married Vada Eileen Paris 24 March 1940 and raised four daughters in Northwest Oklahoma. McGill died 16 June 1986, Sunday, on Father's Day.

We heard from some Oklahoman's this week that another Northwest Oklahoma pioneer died 14 June 2011. Some of you might remember Velma Ruth Bloyd Ware as the wife of Artie Ware and the daughter of Arvilla M. (Maddox) and Boone Homer Bloyd. Velma was born 8 miles west of Alva on 20 November 1919 and passed away recently at the age of 91 years, 6 months and 25 days. You can read her obituary at Wharton Funeral Chapel

Is it getting hot and drier in Oklahoma? Hope the firefighters get some relief soon to all those wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico and NW Oklahoma.

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