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Submitted: 11/5/09 • Approved: 9/20/12 • Last Updated: 9/23/12 • R255172-G255172-S3
Born June 28, 1881, Hopewell, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Died July 1947, Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma.
Daughter of Dr. William Henry Harrison Lackey & Adaline "Addie" Simons Lackey.
Married (1) James Fredrick "Fred" Clark, December 27, 1896, Baxter County, Arkansas.
Married (2) William A. "Bill" Styner.
(No obituary has been located for Laura Bell Styner. This obituary was constructed from information from genealogical research by Mary Lee Lackey Nelson.)
Laura Bell Styner, 66, died in July 1947 at the home of her daughter, Dessie Chastain, in Pawheuska, Oklahoma. She was born June 28, 1881 at Hopewell, Arkansass, to Dr. W.H.H. Lackey and Adaline Simons Lackey.
She married James Fredrick Clark on December 27,1896, in Baxter County, and they were the parents of nine children. Fred Clark died in 1921. Her second marriage was to William A. 'Bill' Styner. Who is a Spanish American War veteran.
Her husband, Bill Styner, survives her. Other survivors include two sons, Ted Clark, of Norfork and Alfred Clark of Cabool, Missouri; six daughters, Dessie Chastain of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Ida Grigsby of Guion, Arkansas, Odess Cunningham of Norfork, Lois Whitehead Totten of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Lovera Johnson of Parkville, Missouri and Addie Wallis of Mt. Home; six brothers, Wall Lackey of Hopewell, Tom Lackey of Norfork, Alex Lackey of Oklahoma, Charlie Lackey of Davenport, Oklahoma, Sid Lackey of Oklahoma, and Jack Lackey of California; and 40 grandchildren.
Mrs. Styner was preceded in death by her first husband; her parents; one daughter, Stacy Railsback; one brother, Lee Lackey; and one half brother, William Lackey.
Funeral services were conducted at the Galatia Church near norfork with interment in the Galatia Cemetery.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 11/5/09 by maxparnell
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