Updated: 07 Sep 2009
The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
June 15, 1956:
O.M. COLE, 87, Dies at Luther
O.M. COLE, Former Luther banker, prominent farmer and oilman, died Thursday morning in his home north of here after an illness of 11 months. He was 87.
Services for COLE, Oklahoma county pioneer, will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the First Christian church. Burial will be in the Luther cemetery. Baggerly funeral home, Edmond, is directing arrangements.
COLE, born in Johnson county, Mo., made the run in '89, settling north of Luther.
For 20 years he was president of the Luther State bank. During World War I, he taught school here and was a representative of the army, buying and selling horses for the
cavalry. At the time of his death, he was a dealer in leases and royalties.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Cecil Lovell and Mrs. Opal Canada, both of Luther; five grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
Submitter's note: His first name was Otho, but he normally went by simply O.M. COLE.
SOURCE: OKBits