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Submitted: 11/2/09 • Approved: 9/18/12 • Last Updated: 9/21/12 • R253819-G253818-S3
Born May, 1880, Wayne County, Illinois.
Died March 4, 1934, Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma.
Daughter of Edward & Charlotte Peer Trotter.
Married Alexander Stephen "Alex" Lackey, January 8, 1899, Baxter County, Arkansas.
(No obituary has been located for Cora May Trotter Lackey. This obituary was constructed from information from genealogical research by Mary Lee Lackey Nelson and from information Collected by Max Parnell.)
Cora May Lackey, 53, of Rogers County, Oklahoma, and formerly of Norfork, died March 4, 1934, at the Eastern Oklahoma Hospital in Vinita. Her remains were returned to Norfork, Arkansas and funeral services were conducted at the Galatia Church near Norfork with burial in the Galatia Cemetery.
She was born in May 1880, in Wayne County, Illinois, to Edward and Charlottie Peer Trotter. She married Alex Lackey on January 18, 1899, in Baxter County.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Curtis Lackey and Woodrow Lackey; one daughter, Grace Kilfoy; one sister, Zelda Emmett; two brothers, Henry Trotter and Charlie Trotter; two grandsons and two granddaughtes.
Mrs. Lackey was preceded in death by her parents; three sons, Shelby Lackey, Ernest Lackey and Eugene Lackey; and infant daughter; one granddaughter, Shelby Earlene Lackey; and a half sister, S. Eller Long Payne.
Funeral arrangements in Oklahoma were handled by Burckhalter Funeral Home, Vinita, Oklahoma.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)
(Picture courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 11/2/09 by maxparnell
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