Surname Index
Updated: 16 Apr 2009

Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
June 20, 2001

Velma Ethel Anderson Polk- Kouri, age 71, died June 17, 2001, in Oklahoma City. She was born on September 6, 1929, in Durant, OK. Velma moved to Oklahoma City in 1947. She worked as an abstractor and retired from Western Electric in 1982. She was also employed by Kerr-McGee. She was a member of the Crestwood Baptist Church.

Velma was preceded in death by her husband, Sam George Kouri in 1999. She is survived by her daughters, Anna Johnson of Bisbee, AZ, and Helen Ledbetter of Paris, TX; sons, Rocky Polk of Choctaw, OK, and Charles Polk of OKC; eleven grandchildren; 1 great grandson; sisters, Opal Gordon of Bokchito, OK, and Corene Emert of Klamoth Falls, OR, and Claudene Hardy of Marlow, OK; and a brother, Vernon Anderson of Bokchito, OK. Memorial gifts may be made to Crestwood Baptist Church, 2516 NW 16th, OKC, OK 73107.

Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, June 21, 2001, at the Crestwood Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Fairlawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends and relatives from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Wednesday, June 20, at Smith & Kernke Funeral Home.
 

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Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator, April 2009. Information posted for educational purposes for viewers and researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

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