Jessie Irene Tilton

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OBITUARY
Lawton Constitution
Wednesday, October 29, 1997
Funeral for Jessie Irene Greenlee, 81, Lawton, will be at 3:30 P.M. Thursday in Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with the Reverand Royce Littrell, minister of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, and the Reverand Ken Overturf, pastor of Paradise Valley Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. Greenlee died Tuesday in a Lawton nursing center. (McMahon Thomlinson)
Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. (Lawton, Oklahoma)
Mrs. Greenlee was born October 11, 1916, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She grew up in Anadarko, Oklahoma where she graduated from high school. She attended Cameron College. She married William Vernon Greenlee on September 15, 1938, in Lawton. He died May 7, 1977. She and her husband moved to Lawton in 1938 from Anadarko. She was a homemaker, but also worked as a seamstress in her home. She had sewn uniforms for both grade school and junior high cheerleaders as well as making costumes for the Storey and Barton School of Dance. She was also an artist. She was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church.
Survivors include four daughters : Jenell Keathley, Geraldine Bay, Harriet Ritter and Sharon Jones, all of Lawton ; nine grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Greenlee was proceeded in death by her husband William and Son Newton McClure Greenlee died June 12, 1976
Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Research Foundation, National Headquarters, 70 E Lake Street, Chicago, Ill. 60601

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In Memory of Jessie

God watched you as you suffered and knew you had your share.

Jessie married William Vernon Greenlee, son of Joseph James Greenlee and Elmira Edna Adams, on 15 Sep 1938 in Lawton Comache Oklahoma. (William Vernon Greenlee was born on 30 Apr 1919 in Stratford Oklahoma, died on 7 May 1977 in Lawton Comanchee Oklahoma and was buried Highland Cemetery in Lawton Comache Okloma, Find A Grave #5045853.)