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April 7, 1988
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

COLE

Mr. Roscoe M. Cole, 80, Tulsa, died Wednesday at Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Bethel Baptist Temple, 4301 S. 45th W. Avenue, with the Rev. Wadie Smith officiating.

Burial will be at South Heights Cemetery under the direction of Owen Funeral Home.

Mr. Cole was born March 20, 1908, in Lexington, KY and had lived in Tulsa for the past 55 years, moving there from Bristow.

He also was a member of the Bethel Baptist Temple and worked for the W. C. Norris Company for 36 years as a heat treater before his retirement.

On Sept 7, 1929, in Sapulpa he married Helen Cramer.

Survivors include his wife Helen; sons Thomas Owen, Charles Edward and Roscoe Milton Jr., all of Tulsa; Daughters Barbara Jean Darden of Ft. Smith, Ark., Kaye Marie Lasson of Tulsa; 15 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.