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Virgie E Clower Fife

11 Feb 1889 – 11 Dec 1967

Birth	11 Feb 1889
Death	11 Dec 1967
Cemetery	Carnegie Cemetery Carnegie , Caddo County , Oklahoma , USA
Added by	Lillian on 02 Nov 2009
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43772240

Bio

Published in The Carnegie Herald, Carnegie, OK; Wed., Dec. 13, 1967 Services Held For Mrs. Virgie Fife, Carnegie Nurse Funeral services for Mrs. Virgie Fife, a long-time Carnegie resident and nurse for many years at the Carnegie hospital, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Methodist church with Rev. Larry Becker, pastor, officiating. Dr. Richard Yaple, Christian Church minister, assisted. Interment was in the Carnegie cemetery. Mrs. Fife died Monday night at her home at 118 East First after a lengthy illness. She had returned here a week ago from a Lawton hospital where she had been seriously ill eight weeks. Virgie E. Clower was born February 11, 1889, at Ladonia, Texas. She was married to Oscar L. Fife in 1904 and moved to Oklahoma in 1908. Ten children were born to them. She was a nurse at the Carnegie hospital for 22 years and a member of the Carnegie Methodist church. Three children preceded her in death. She is survived by three sons; Phonso Fife of Gracemont, Oscar Darold of Canoga Park, Calif., and Haskell Fife of Fort Worth; four daughters, Veta Herlong, El Monte, Calif., Fern Davis of Port Hueneme, Calif., Velma Rice, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Guinell Combest, Carnegie; 17 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Mitcham, Dallas.

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Family

Parents

• William B Clower 1847–1917
• Catherine Taylor Crowson Clower 1849–1902

Spouse

• Oscar Lee Fife 1883–1975 FaG

Siblings

• William Henry Clower 1868–1953
• Mattie J. Clower Peck 1873–1953
• Thomas Crowson Clower 1875–1952
• Daniel Morgan Clower 1877–1951
• George Lawson Clower 1883–1961

Children

• Cecil L Fife 1906–1965 FaG
• Phonso "Jack" Fife 1907–1981 FaG
• Jake D Fife 1914–1986 FaG
• Haskell Brooks Fife 1921–1995 FaG
• Catherine Guinell "Guinell" Fife Combest 1924–2005 FaG

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