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Two of Shady Point's earliest citizens are Mike and Cora Pearl Stogner.
Cora Pearl was born January 10, 1915. She attended school in Shady Point for eight years and graduated from Panama High School in 1932.
Cora is the daughter of William Daniel Wilson and Myrtha Laswell Wilson.
Mike was born January 22, 1908, and came to Cameron from Mississippi in an ox wagon with his father in 1883. He later moved to Shady Point.
Cora Pearl Wilson married L. L. (Mike) Stogner on March 18, 1939.
They rented their first grocery store in 1947 from the Strauns. It had been a drug store which Lucian Braddey had rented. They stayed in this spot until they built another store in the 1960's on the exact spot where Cora Pearl's mother taught at the first Presbyterian Mission School.
Cora Pearl kept the store's books and sold groceries on the same spot where her mother taught her students. The Stogners ran the store until their retirement when they purchased a travel trailer and visited various parts of the country.
Mike passed away on October 8, 1982, and is buried at Oaklawn [Oakland] Cemetery, Poteau, Oklahoma. Afterward, Cora Pearl continued to live in the home they had shared, which was located next to their store. Eventually she sold the store, but continues to live in the same house. Cora Pearl is a past District Deputy of Eastern Star, Mosholatubbe Lodge No. 13, of Cameron.
Leslie Lynn "Mike" Stogner
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Funeral services were held at Evans Chapel of Memories, Poteau, Oklahoma, at 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, October 12, 1982, for Leslie Lynn "Mike" Stogner. Officiating were Reverend Phil Eskridge and Reverend B. F. Jones.
Mr. Mike Stogner was born on January 22, 1908, and died on October 8, 1982.
Surviving are his wife, Cora Pearl, one son and daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, one sister, and three brothers. Interment was in the
Oakland Cemetery in Poteau, Oklahoma, under the direction of Evans Funeral Home, Poteau, Oklahoma.
Cora Pearl Stogner
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Cora Pearl Stogner entered life on Jan. 10, 1915, and departed on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2001, at the age of 86 years and seven months. She was born Cora Pearl "Corky" Wilson to parents,
William Daniel Wilson and Myrtha Laswell Wilson in Shady Point.
She married Leslie Lynn "Mike" Stogner on March 18, 1930.
Her husband, her parents, two sisters, and one brother preceded her in death.
She leaves behind one son, Danile Lynn Stogner and wife, Vonieta of McLoud, Okla. One granddaughter, Danita Ortowski and husband Joe, and great-granddaughter, Katie Danielle of Gainsville, Texas. One grandson, Michael Todd Stogner and wife, Irish, and great-granddaughter, Isabel Maria of Oklahoma City; a nephew, Ted Johnson, a niece, Virginia McDaniel of Jones, Okla., and their families. A nephew, Cleo Meek and family of Raleigh, N.C., a niece, Phyliss Meek of Archer, Fla. a brother-in-law, Melvin Stogner and wife, Ev of Concord, Calif., along with other nieces and nephews.
She was a fifty year member of the Order of Eastern Star Mosholotubbe OES Chapter No. 170 at Cameron. She is a past member of the United Methodist Church in Panama where she had been pianist for many years, and a current member of the Poteau United Methodist Church. She had resided in Shady Point until moving to the McLoud, Shawnee area in November 2000.
Service will be 10 a.m. Tuesday in Evans Funeral Home Chapel of Memories in Poteau with burial following at
Oakland Cemetery in Poteau. Pallbearers will be Frank Fox, John Brooks, Ed Pierce, Jessie Gibson, Clarence Blanton and Charlie Dunn. Bay Duong
