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Submitted: 7/20/21 • Approved: 8/5/21 • Last Updated: 8/8/21 • R1383191-G1383190-S3
June 14, 1902 - August 22, 1972
Cherokee 12917
*Obituary (as written)
Northwest Arkansas Times
Wednesday, August 23, 1972
Mrs. Janie Belle (Janet) Wilson Shreve, 70, of Farmington died Tuesday night in a local hospital. Born June 14, 1902, on her mother's Cherokee allotment in Mayes County, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, the daughter of Claude and Nancy Catherine Witt Wilson, she was a descendant of the early settlers in the Farmington Valley.
She was a great-granddaughter of Deer-in-the Water, chief of the Deer clan of the Cherokees. She was a member of the Washington County Historical Society, a former genealogist for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the New Testament Chapel church.
Survivors are the husband, Ralph Shreve, of the home; two daughters, Mary Waurika Porter, of Booneville, and Nancy Catherine Foster, of the home at Shreve Farm, Farmington; two sons, William F. Shreve, of the home, and Ralph W. Shreve, of Dallas; two brothers, J. H. Wilson, of Fort Smith, and J. W. Wilson, of Oklahoma City; one sister, Carrie Lee Mason of Tulsa; 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Moore's Chapel with burial in the Farmington cemetery.
Contributed on 7/20/21 by wfields55
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