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October 16, 1991
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

Theodosha Durant of Slick, 101, died Oct 9, 1991, in Berkeley, Calif.

Services were held Oct 14, 1991, in Roger Chapel Baptist Church in Slick with Rev. Dewitt Nash officiating. Internment was held at Tuskegee Cemetery in Tuskegee with the Dyer Memorial Chapel in charge of arrangements.

She is survived by five daughters and three sons; Estella McGee of Kansas City. Mo.; Robert Durant of Wichita, Ks.; Leonard Durant of Kansas City, Mo.; Della May Gupton of Berkeley, Calif.; Ernestine Rex of Los Angeles, Calif.; Lillian Scandrick of Englewood, Calif.; Benjamin Charles Durant of Dayton, Ohio; Bertie Gupton of Pleasant Hill, Calif.

She is also survived by two brothers and two sisters; Thomas Aaron Leeks of Inlow, Calif.; Hobert D. Leeks of Wichita, Ks.; Nettie Ervin of Kansas City, Mo.; and Pearl J. Gaines of Wichita, Ks.

She was preceded in death by two sons and one daughter; Venon Durant, Thomas Durant and Wilma Steine Durant.

She was survived in death by many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.