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- Della E. Stokes
Della Elzora Stokes was born near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, April 12, 1880 and died at the University hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Saturday, April 21, at the age of 48 years and 9 days. In February 1897 she moved with her parents to Herman, Nebraska. Here she attended high school and graduated with the class of 1899. The following year she attended the Penn State Norman at Peru, Nebraska, and fitted herself for a teacher, teaching in the schools of Washington County, Nebraska for one year.
She was united in marriage to Samuel J. Caskey on August 1, 1901 at Blair, Nebraska. They went to line at Clarinda, Iowa. She was united with the Methodist church wen a girl. While living at Clarinda, she attended the Presbyterian church and was an active worker, teaching a Bible class for a number of years. She moved with her husband to Beaver county, Oklahoma about 25 years later. They moved to Billings, Oklahoma where her husband was engaged in business. While residing in Beaver county she again resumed teaching and taught for seventeen years in that and Noble county, holding the position of eighth grade teacher for a number of terms in the city schools of Billings and Medford. It is said she held one of the highest first grade certificates ever issued to a teacher in Oklahoma. For the past few years she has been a resident of Perry, Oklahoma and was taken from her to the hospital at Oklahoma City on Monday preceding her death, where it was found she was suffering from pernicious Anemia. During those few days at the hospital everything possible was done to improve her condition but with no avail, and on Saturday, April 21 she was relieved from her helpless condition.
She is survived by four brothers, C.W. Stokes of Max Bass, North Dakota, L.C. Stokes of Hardy, Saskatchewan, Canada, P.M. Stokes of Ceylon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and J.R. Stokes of Tacoma, Washington; four sisters, Mrs. Dora Hilsinger, Herman, Nebraska, Mrs. Jennie Johnson, Battle View, North Dakota, Mrs. Maude Ballard and Miss Minnie Stokes of Bowbell, North Dakota.
Funeral services have not been arranged, waiting the arrival of relatives but it is thought she will be taken back to her girlhood home at Herman, Nebraska and buried beside her father.
Her sister, Mrs. Johnson of North Dakota who has been with her the past two weeks was on her way home and failed to receive the message, which accounts for the delay in arrangements.
Beside the relatives she leaves a number of friends of Perry and various parts of Oklahoma, who are left to mourn the loss of an honest, generous and true neighbor and friend.
The Perry Journal, Perry, Oklahoma. Monday, 7 May 1928.
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- Mrs. Della Stokes
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Della Stokes, 48, Perry, Okla., who died here Tuesday, will be announced by the Perrine Funeral home. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. M.K. Johnson, of Battle View, N.D.
The Oklahoma News, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Wednesday, 25 April 1928.
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- LKH note:
Della Stokes’ obituaries and tombstone record her surname as Della Stokes.
In the 1920 census, Perry, Noble County, Oklahoma she is listed as Della Caskey, living alone, head of household, widow, teacher.
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