IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Cora Lee

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Coker

May 29, 1944 – June 14, 2010

Obituary

Cora Lee Coker passed away on Monday, June 14, 2010 in Oklahoma City, at the age of 66 years.

Cora was the daughter of George W. McCombs & Cora Belle (Harjo) McCombs, born on May 29, 1944 in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She was brought up and attended schools in Holdenville and Shawnee, and also attended Seminole Junior College at Seminole, Oklahoma. Wewoka has been her home for the past thirty-five years. She worked as a Stenographer for the Seminole County Department of Human Services, retiring after twenty-eight years.

Cora was baptized by Rev. Jimmy McCosar on April 7, 1958, at the First Indian Baptist Church in Shawnee. She was a member of Middlecreek Baptist Church #2. Her favorite things were sewing, doing beadwork and collecting antiques.

She is preceded in death by her parents, George & Cora Bell McCombs; one son, Barry Gene Coker; one brother, Eugene Raymond McCombs.

She is survived by five children: Sherri Gray and husband Christopher, of Salsbury, North Carolina, Terry Coker of Wagoner, Oklahoma, Jeri Boyd and husband Ben, of Seminole, Oklahoma, Edmond Coker, Jr. and wife Kim, of Wewoka, Oklahoma and Mollosey Hughes and husband Steve, of Barnsdall, Oklahoma; seventeen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren; one sister, Betty Mae Woolsey of Cromwell, Oklahoma, and one brother, George McCombs III of Jackson, Mississippi; her dear friend Virginia Easter of Ada, Oklahoma; numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends.

A wake service will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 17, at Lillye Chapel, Fisher Funeral Home in Holdenville. Funeral services will beheld at Lillye Chapel on Friday, June 18, 2:00 p.m. Rev. Frank Moppin is the officiating minister. Pallbearers are Edmond Coker, Jr., Terry Coker, Jericho Coker, Jesse Long, Charlie Harjo, Jr., Eugene McCombs, Dino McCombs and Fred Billye. Cora will be laid to rest in the Goate Family Cemetery east of Wewoka.
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