IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Grace Ethel

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Ehmer

Aug 23, 1917 — Jan 20, 2010

Obituary

Age 92, Lawton - Funeral services will be at 12:00 pm Saturday in the Bethel Baptist Church with Dean Robinson, Pastor officiating. Mrs. Ehmer died Wednesday at her home. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born August 23, 1917 in Russellville, Arkansas to William Jackson and Minnie (Woodard) Freeman. She attended school in Pleasant Grove, Arkansas. She met James "Tiny" Ehmer at Fort Smith, Arkansas and they were married in 1950. He died in 1990. During Tiny's career in the US Army, they lived in Germany, Texas, Alabama, Virginia and Oklahoma. Grace retired as a Lawton Public Schools cook after many years of service. Grace was blessed with many friends as she always told everyone she met, that she had many friends and was so lucky to have them. Survivors include her daughter Julie Ehmer and husband Jerome Tracy and her granddaughter whom she loved dearly Reesa, all of New York and her son George Ehmer of Lawton. Two sisters, Erta Carroll of Newnan, GA, Norma Odle of Wichita, KS, nieces and nephews, Ron and Patricia Odle of Wichita, KS, Earlene and David Harrison of Wichita, KS, Bill Carroll of Newnan, GA, Mary and Bob Baptist of Newnan, GA, Doyle and Zada Freeman of Broken Arrow, OK, Gerald and Georgia Faye Freeman of Noble, OK, Wayne Freeman of Van Buren, AR, Cindy and Charley (Freeman) Willfey of Van Buren, AR, Lavoy Richards of Pecola, OK, sister-in-law Eleanor Freeman of Pasadena, CA, nephew Bruce Freeman of Sunland, CA, and niece Debbie (Freeman) Carson of LaCrescenta, CA. Also many cherished friends, Clarence and Evelyn Phillips, Anna Newton, Davena Dodd, JD and Juanita Jolly, Lester and Linda Ogan, Leon and Edna Rogers, Doyle and Blanche Rhodes, Bob and Pat Stewart, Patrice Daniels and Family, Bill and Ruth Hobbs and Family, and the Huffmasters. There are many more, and all of you know who you are as she loved all of her friends. Our family truly gives a blessed heartfelt love and can't say enough thank you to our Hospice of Indian Territory. God bless each of you that helped Grace. She was preceded in death by her parents, and brothers, Truman Freeman, Loyd Freeman and JH Freeman. Memorial contributions may be made in lieu of flowers to the Bethel Baptist Church, 1902 NW Columbia, Lawton, OK 73507.

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