Jet – Eddie Miles Ackley, 78, Jet, died Sunday morning at Helena. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 PM in the First Christian Church at Jet with the Rev. Steven Sill officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery at Jet. Grapes Funeral Home of Cherokee is in charge of the arrangements.
Ackley was born on October 2, 1895 at Valentine, Nebraska, and moved to Jet at the age of four years. He attended Hillside rural school. On November 11, 1916, he married Cora Marie Strait of Nash and they lived on a farm near Jet. Later he drove a school bus for the Jet school system.
He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Survivors include his wife, Cora, of the home; five daughters, Mrs. Warren (Ruby) Rollston of Jet, Mrs. Steve (Juanita) Gleason of Jet, Mrs. Wanda Kenney of Kansas city, Missouri, Mrs. Calvin (Leona) Rhodes of Hardesty, Mrs. Ida Lee Cormach of Jet; one son, Eddie of Guymon; two sisters, Mrs. Amy Page of Cherokee, Mrs. Wilma Talley of Bentonville, Arkansas; one brother, Roy of Springfield, Colorado; 16 grandchildren and 11 great – grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, two sisters, and two grandchildren.
Jet – Eddie Miles Ackley, 78, Jet, died Sunday morning at Helena. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 PM in the First Christian Church at Jet with the Rev. Steven Sill officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery at Jet. Grapes Funeral Home of Cherokee is in charge of the arrangements.
Ackley was born on October 2, 1895 at Valentine, Nebraska, and moved to Jet at the age of four years. He attended Hillside rural school. On November 11, 1916, he married Cora Marie Strait of Nash and they lived on a farm near Jet. Later he drove a school bus for the Jet school system.
He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Survivors include his wife, Cora, of the home; five daughters, Mrs. Warren (Ruby) Rollston of Jet, Mrs. Steve (Juanita) Gleason of Jet, Mrs. Wanda Kenney of Kansas city, Missouri, Mrs. Calvin (Leona) Rhodes of Hardesty, Mrs. Ida Lee Cormach of Jet; one son, Eddie of Guymon; two sisters, Mrs. Amy Page of Cherokee, Mrs. Wilma Talley of Bentonville, Arkansas; one brother, Roy of Springfield, Colorado; 16 grandchildren and 11 great – grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, two sisters, and two grandchildren.
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