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Eula Lee Grissom Kelley
31 Jul 1899 – 25 Jan 1993
| Birth | 31 Jul 1899 |
| Death | 25 Jan 1993 |
| Cemetery | IOOF Cemetery Norman , Cleveland County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | Arthur Allen Moore III on 17 Mar 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39025588 |
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Father: Andrew Owen GRISSOM Mother: Malinda Evaline "Eva" MOORE __________________________________ The Norman (Oklahoma) Transcript - Monday - 25 January 1993 Eula Lee Grissom Kelley of Norman died at Norman Regional Hospital on Sunday, January 24. Services are planned for 10 a.m. Tuesday in Westside Church of Christ, with Leon Dennis officiating, assisted by T. Roy Finley. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery, under the direction of Mayes Funeral Home. A native of Texas, she moved to Snyder with her family when she was a small child. After graduating from high school, she attended Central State College in Edmond, where she majored in elementary education. After teaching for two years, she trained to become a legal secretary. A civilian, she was employed as head of the purchasing and contracting department in the post engineer's office at Altus Air Force Base during World War II. In 1948, she moved to Norman. While she was employed as a legal secretary for Se. Joe Smalley and Judge Justin Hinshaw, Mrs. Kelley studied law via a correspondance course from LaSalle Extension University of Chicago. For three years, she was employed as a legal secretary at the firm of Luttrell and Luttrell, from which she retired. Mrs. Kelley was a member of the Westside Church of Christ, where she had taught Vacation Bible School and Fifth-Grade Bible Class.es. Since 1961, she had been a member of the Black Beaver Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, for which she had served as chapter and vice regent; program chairman of the American History Month; and public relations director and chairwoman for advertising of the DAR magazine, for which she won state and natiuonal recognition. In March of 1972, she was elected as state regent for the Oklahoma Society of National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, serving until 1974. She had been a state treasurer and was the first vice regent of the organization. State charman from 1964 to 1966, she won the George Washington Honor Medal in the Freedoms Contest during Constitution Week. From 1975-77, she served as national charman of the south central division Constution Week Committee. She also was a member of the NASDAR National Officer's Club, the OSDAR State Officer's Club; Hugenot Society of the Founders of Manakin, Colony of Virginia; Daughters of American Colonists; and Dahlia Garden Club. Mrs. Kelley also assisted in the promotion of Children of the American Revolution. She enjoyed traveling, having bisited 13 foreign countries and most of the United States. Preceded in death by her husband, Joel A. "Jack" Kelley, on June 27, 1987, and by her grandson, Craig E. Coleman, on November 24, 1992, Mrs Kelley is survived by her daughter, Helen Kelley Coleman of Dallas, Texas, and Clark L. Coleman of Charlottesville, Va.; four great-grandchildren; and by numerous nieces and nephews. Dr. Hal Belknap, Eugene Collins, Jeff Jennings, James Crowder, Coyt Feaster and John Taylor will serve as bearers. Honorary bearers include Tom Lambrecht, Dale Roberts, T. Roy Finley, Dalton Petty, Paul Crawford, Marty Edwards, Don Whitehead, pete Mattingly, Dwaine Rhodes and John Pickens. _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Wednesday, Thursday, Dec 20 - 21, 1978 - "Arthur and I leaving Los Angeles International Airport at 4:45 p.m. on T.W.A. flt. #96 and in Kansas City, Missouri, at 9:35 p.m. /// Picked up Arthur's new car, a 1979 Olds (Diesel) Station Wagon in Sedelia, Missouri. Leaving Sadalia at 11:30 a.m., Springfield 2:00 p.m., Tulsa, Oklahoma 4:45 p.m., Norman, Oklahoma 7:45 p.m. Visited my second cousin, Eula GRISSOM KELLEY, at Norman Community Hospital who had prepared our MOORE family book of riemberances. Then phoning my sister, Jeanne, in Oklahoma City, a 20 minute chat. Leaving and driving on I 40 and slepping in the back of the car at milepost 72, Cherokee Truck Stop." Source: Diary of Arthur Allen MOORE Jr. I took dad with me to pick up our new car in Sedalia, Missouri. He always liked to travel and I enjoyed taking him with me just to give him something to do. The visit with Eula Lee GRISSOM KELLEY was the first spark of my interest in genealogy. She was sick and in the hospital but we had a nice visit. She said she had done all the research she could do and gave me a packet of information and clues for further research on our MOORE line. 20 + years later I would take her material and expand it into 1000's of additional names of our relations. This research has taken hundreds and hundreds of hours and has been very rewarding with the many new living cousins I have met. Arthur "Art" Allen MOORE III
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