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Contributed by: Earl Hearon
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Two of Shady Point's earliest citizens are Mike and Cora Pearl Stogner. Cora Pearl was born January 10, 1915. She attended school in Shady Point for eight years and graduated from Panama High School in 1932. Mike was born January 22, 1908, and came to Cameron from Mississippi in an ox wagon with his father in 1883. He later moved to Shady Point.
Cora Pearl Wilson married L. L. (Mike) Stogner on March 18, 1939. Their son Danny was born March 30, 1945. They rented their first grocery store in 1947 from the Strauns. It had been a drug store which Lucian Braddey had rented. They stayed in this spot until they built another store in the 1960's on the exact spot where Cora Pearl's mother taught at the first Presbyterian Mission School. Cora Pearl kept the store's books and sold groceries on the same spot where her mother taught her students. The Stogners ran the store until their retirement when they purchased a travel trailer and visited various parts of the country.
Mike passed away on October 8, 1982, and is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Poteau, Oklahoma. Afterward, Cora Pearl continued to live in the home they had shared, which was located next to their store. Eventually she sold the store, but continues to live in the same house. Cora Pearl is a past District Deputy of Eastern Star, Mosholatubbe Lodge No. 13, of Cameron. Their son Danny married Vonieta Gay Cowan on June 19, 1965. They have a daughter, Daneta Gay, and a son, Michael Todd.