American Legion Auxiliary
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Service is Purpose of Auxiliary Order   (Okemah Daily Leader, March 3, 1935)

The American Legion Auxiliary, a service organization, was formed in Okemah April 26, 1926 at the First Bapist Church.

The 28 charter members were Mrs. Ed Ball, Laurine Turner Baldridge, Mrs. Key R. John, Mrs. E. O. Carr, Mrs. C. O. White, Mrs. J. V. Crawford, Mrs. O. D. Buck, Mrs. Dale S. Henry, Mrs. Francis J. Williams, Mrs. C. D. Carnett, Mrs. L. J. Spickard, Mrs. Roy Younts, Mrs. W. L. Martin, Joanna Patterson, Mrs. Omer O. Payne, Mrs. Louis Hill.

Mrs. Gordon Gray, Mrs. T. T. Waul, Mrs. W. M. Collier, Mrs. Owen Pettit, Mrs. Glenn Dill, Mrs. F. C. Dooley, Mrs. O. A. Shaw, Mrs. O. C. Gaston, Jr., Mrs. Frank P. Douglass, Mrs. C. T. Nutt, Mrs. Earle M. Kennedy, and Mrs. O. O. Wilson.

The purpose of the Auxiliary is aiding with the American Legion program and caring for ex-service men and their families and aiding widows and orphans.

In September, 1927, Mrs. Payne went as a national delegate from Oklahoma to Paris to attend the American Legion Auxiliary convention.

The Auxiliary aids in sponsoring all movement for the betterment of the community, state, and nation. One project of particular interest locally was the opening fo the sewing rooms before the FERA took charge. Some 2000 yards of cloth and other material and articles of clothing were given out by the Okemah chapter of the Auxiliary. Food also has been given destitute from time to time by the members.

At the present time, the Auxiliary is sponsoring a citizenship contest at the junior high school...

1926     Mrs. Ed Ball
1927     Mrs. J. M. Pemberton
1928     Mrs. Omer Payne
1929     Mrs. Floyd Dooley
1930     Mrs. C. D. Carnett
1932     Mrs. Otho O. Wilson
1933     Mrs. C. A. Hope
1934     Mrs. Clarence Cochran
1935     Mrs. H. B. Webb
1936     Mrs. Floyd Masker
1937     Mrs. W. G. Strong
1938     Mrs. W. G. Strong
1939     Mrs. Edgar Turner
1940     Mrs. Harry Featherstone
1941     Mrs. Henry
1943     Mrs. Ralph Davis
1944     Mrs. Glenn Dill
1945     Mrs. Edgar Turner
1946     Mrs. Ethyl Smith
1947     Mrs. C. F. Whiting
1948     Mrs. Jo Bass
1949     Mrs. Mary Jane Reilly Parks
1950     Mrs. Mary Jane Reilly Parks
1951     Mrs. Darell Belcher
1952     Mrs. Darell Belcher
1953     Mrs. W. N. Barry, Jr.
1954     Mrs. W. N. Barry, Jr.
1955     Mrs. J. O. Smith
1956     Mrs. J. O. Smith
1957     Mrs. J. O. Smith
1958     Mrs. Nelle Bras
1959     Mrs. Nelle Bras
1960     Mrs. H. B. Webb
1961     Mrs. Tom Hall
1962     Mrs. Tom Hall
1963     Mrs. Tom Hall
1964     Mrs. Huie Harkey
1965     Mrs. Huie Harkey
1965     Mrs. Mildred Lowrimore
1966     Mrs. Raymond Jenkins
1967     Mrs. Raymond Jenkins

Beatrice E. Dill, President
Alice Turner, 1st Vice President
Juanita Biddy, Secretary-Treasurer
Bessie Manwarring, Chaplain
Chris Klutts, Sgt-at-Arms
Inez Hall and B. Dill, Historian

Nelle Bras, 1961-62, 1962-63
Inez Hall, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1965-66
Emma Mae Jenkins, 1966-67, 1967-68
Beulah Collins, 1968-69
Joyce Hurd, 1969-70
Chris Klutts, 1970-71
Virginia Webb, 1971-72, 1972-73

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