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Katherine Helen Smith Ledlow
14 Mar 1921 – 7 Apr 2017
| Birth | 14 Mar 1921 |
| Death | 7 Apr 2017 |
| Cemetery | Resthaven Gardens Cemetery Oklahoma City , Cleveland County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | Donna Stricklan Whitaker on 06 Jun 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179940986 |
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Graveside services remembering and celebrating the life of Katherine Helen Smith Ledlow were held at Rest Haven Memory Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is resting with family members there. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 14, 1921 and died in Granbury, Texas on April 7, 2017. She was 96 years old. She had a long eventful life. She graduated from Central High School in 1938. She was a wife and mother as well as having jobs such as photography or receptionist, office work and accounting. She worked at the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City. She retired from Tinker AFB in Midwest City, Oklahoma after working in the commissary office and finance travel office. She was a very good artist in her spare time but most important, she was a wonderful mother with a kind heart and great sense of humor. She was creative in many ways and raised her children lovingly. She was preceded in death by her parents: Franklin Joseph Smith and Ruby Genet McKee Smith; husband: Claude W. Ledlow; son: Larry Dean Ledlow; sister: Edna Viola Smith Batson; brothers: Frank Gene Smith and Luther Raymond Smith. She is survived by daughter: Claudia Kay Ledlow McWatters and husband William Robert; daughter-in-law: Diane Barrett Ledlow; brother-in-law: Clifford O Batson; grandchildren: David McWatters, Kenneth McWatters, Brian McWatters, Ricky Ledlow, Regina Ledlow Lechleitner, Kristen Ledlow Smith, Barbara Batson Cranford, Mark Batson, Debra Batson; great-grandchildren: Allison McWatters, Greg McWatters and Zachary Smith. Katherine was proud of her Potawatomi heritage through her mother’s line including the McKee, Letendre and back to our original Potawatomi grandmother, Keecheesqua.
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