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Updated: 12-04-2019 05:12:83.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Evelynne Maurine ARMSTRONG: Birth: 31 MAY 1926 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co OK. Death: 17 JAN 2017 in Hydro, Blaine Co OK

  2. Mansel Eugene ARMSTRONG: Birth: 6 FEB 1929 in El Reno, Canadian CO OK. Death: 26 JUN 1940 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co OK

  3. Person Not Viewable

  4. Dorsey Dean ARMSTRONG: Birth: 14 FEB 1937 in Hydro, Caddo Co OK. Death: 29 MAR 1976 in Clinton, Custer Co OK


Sources
1. Page:   p 100.
Text:   Hydro, Oklahoma, 1901-1998, Ramona Armstrong Duff et al, 1999.
2. Text:   Ethel Marguerite Light, delayed birth certificate no. 1604-082, filed 14 Feb 1961, Oklahoma State Board of Health-Bureau of Vital Statistics.
3. Text:   Charles Ross Shultz, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Michael Shultz. Privately published, 1943. In possession of Kathy Patterson.
4. Text:   Ethel Light Armstrong obituaries, undated clippings from unidentified newspaper.
5. Text:   Ethel Armstrong, funeral card.
6. Text:   Mary Ellen (Light) Dorsey's own Bible record. This Bible was in the possession of Ethel (Light) Armstrong and is now in the possession of Kathy Alvis Patterson. [Note: I need to get this Bible out of storage and add publishing data.]
7. Text:   Ethel Light Armstrong, death certificate no. 1317 (1991), Oklahoma State Board of Health--Bureau of Vital Statistics. Certified copy.
8. Text:   Masonic Cemetery, Hydro OK, transcribed by Katherine Patterson at time of death of each of her grandparents. Photos in Cemeteries File.
9. Text:   Caddo County Marriage Book 10: 403, Court Clerk's Office, Anadarko OK.
10. Text:   "Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Armstrong Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary Over Week-end," undated clipping probably from the Hydro Review.

Notes
a. Note:   N8 Mitochondrial DNA: H1n 1940 Caddo Co OK, Hydro Twp, ed 37, 42, Ethel, 29 [sic], Evelyn M, 13, Mansel E, 11, Ramona L, 6, Dorsey D, 3. 1930 Caddo Co OK, Hydro Twp, ed 36, p 7A 1920 Caddo Co OK, Hydro Twp, ed 60, 160-162 1910 Caddo County OK, town of Hydro, roll 1245, sheet 7, dist 65, 1-80 Memberships: Eastern Star, Worthy Matron (1949). Ms. Maple Lawn Manor, 1988.
  The life of Ethel Light is a chronicle of Oklahoma. She started life in a railroad family in territory days, her mother making a home in a sodhouse on a homestead claim, her father traveling with the Rock Island Railroad, later settling as station agent in Hydro; she grew up in the depot, married Mansel Armstrong in the waiting room, and lived in depots at Driftwood and Gracemont. Ethel represents the values and strength of the Oklahoma woman in service to her country, community, church, and family. An early photo shows her as a girl at the front of a Women's Christian Temperance Union parade in her town. A 1918 letter from the president of the railroad commends her for purchasing World War I Liberty Bonds with her entire salary. She attended the University of Oklahoma and taught for six years in a one-room schoolhouse. After starting a family, the Armstrongs moved to Fair Acres Farm in Hydro, where Ethel raised chickens, canned her own fruit and vegetables, and encouraged her four children to excellence. She was active in the Demonstration Club, a group of women who met monthly to share skills and activities. My grandmother taught Sunday School, emphasizing foreign missions; she was thrilled to visit my family at a mission school in Colombia in 1978. In her late 70s, Ethel wrote a book, a history of her hometown, Hydro Heritage. She continued her whole life winning ribbons at the Hydro Free Fair, writing articles for the local newspaper, and setting a standard of patriotism, education and service. Ethel lived and wrote the history of our State.
  US Passport, issued 2 May 1978.
  She treasured this poem by Leslie Pinckney Hill while Sunday School Superintendent at the Hydro United Methodist Church: Lord, who am I to teach Thy way? To little children day by day, So prone myself to go astray. I teach them love of all mankind And all God's creatures, yet I find My own love lagging far behind. Lord, if I'm still their guide to be May these little children see Their teacher leaning hard on Thee., , ,
b. Note:   Most of Hydro is in Caddo Co, but the nursing home and the cemetery are in Blaine Co.

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